Campuses that are grappling with history of slavery at their institutions are bringing their racially fraught histories into the classroom. Kirt von Daacke is one of 18 instructors who co-teach a course at the University of Virginia called "Slavery and Its Legacies.”
If an article by Todd C. Frankel in The Washington Post is to be believed, the official numbers on deaths and injuries due to gunfire is missing a lot of violence. In “This may be the best way to measure gun violence in America,” he cites public policy researchers, including Jennifer Doleac, a UVA assistant professor, as saying that a better measure would be to count total shots fired.
While the delegate math shows a Trump against Clinton general election matchup as the most likely scenario, some analysts caution the two frontrunners, particularly Trump, still have their work cut out for them. "If he doesn't carry Indiana, it is not gloom and doom for him. Though I doubt he will get the 1,237 in the primaries,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
The timing of the announcement is telling: GOP frontrunner Donald Trump swept all five states that voted in Tuesday's primaries, raising questions about whether the Cruz campaign has run out of steam. "Let's use a cliché: It's a Hail Mary pass right before a must-win primary [for Cruz] in Indiana," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
At a Transgender Health Symposium Wednesday at the Jefferson School in Charlottesville, a doctor discussed the struggles transgender children face. “They go to school and they don't use the bathroom all day. Or they are afraid to go in the bathroom or if they go in the bathroom they may be physically assaulted, or if they are using a stall, patients tell me that people throw things at them, make comments to them, bang on the door,” said Nancy McLaren of UVA Children’s Hospital.
Indiana now represents the best chance for the “Stop Trump” forces to do just that. “If they lose in Indiana, it’s all over,” Larry Sabato, a UVA political scientist who has long studied presidential politics and campaigns, predicted.
(Co-written by Bradford Wilcox, a UVA associate professor of sociology and director of the National Marriage Project) The standard portrayals of economic life for ordinary American families paint a picture of stagnancy, even decline, amidst rising economic inequality. But rarely does the public conversation about our changing economy focus on questions of family structure. This is a major oversight.
(By Rachel L. Wahl, an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations, and Policy in UVA’s Curry School of Education) Even if you're lucky enough never to have experienced them personally, police violence and racist remarks are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
UVA students and faculty members are being invited to a panel discussion dealing with reports of sexual assaults.
On a humid Wednesday morning, protesters gathered to hold a funeral for the James River in front of the Bremo Power Station in Fluvanna County. The group is upset Dominion Virginia Power is moving forward with plans to dump treated coal ash pond water into the James. Students from UVA and Virginia Commonwealth University joined Knitting Nannas of Virginia and Bremo Bluff residents marched with signs and a symbolic river to the front gates of the Bremo Plant in protest.
(By Phyllis Leffler, retired history professor) The current controversy in Charlottesville over Robert E. Lee and Lee Park is not unique to us. Discussions are occurring across the country over what to do with statues that venerate the Confederacy and its leaders. My dream is that Charlottesville become a model for addressing these issues with civic pride and responsibility.
The UVA Health System is offering a discount on driving evaluations for senior citizens and those with cognitive disabilities.
Jodi Smith, a UVA doctoral student in coastal geomorphology, has studied the island’s plight and fears for its future. “There are three main problems happening on Tangier: rising seas, a sinking island and erosion from the wave action,” Smith said.
Sex has been proven to help mental health thanks to numerous studies. James Coan, a UVA professor of psychology, says, "When you have sex, you release feel-good hormones, including oxytocin and endorphins."
Is Trump the huckster that Plato predicted would someday organize an angry mob into a proud army of anti-intellectual patriots inoculated to facts and reason? Why, yes! But don’t take my word for it. Consider instead the appraisal of UVA law professor Robert Sayler, who has co-written a book with Molly Bishop Shadel, “Tongue-Tied America,” as a template for would-be high school rhetoric teachers.
Barbara Perry, a UVA professor of ethics and institutions, said Mr. McDonnell’s behavior “is the very kind of thing that the American people hate about politicians” – and could be even more so if the justices ultimately approve it as perfectly legal.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the U.S. presidential nominating system could probably be improved in several areas, but noted the control wielded by party leadership usually becomes an issue only during tight races. "The popular vote overwhelms the rules usually, but in these close elections, everyone pays attention to these arcane rules," he said.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said the U.S. presidential nominating system could probably be improved in several areas, but noted the control wielded by party leadership usually becomes an issue only during tight races. "The popular vote overwhelms the rules usually, but in these close elections, everyone pays attention to these arcane rules," he said.
“The key moment is probably coming next Tuesday in Indiana. If Trump wins it, this race may effectively be over. If not, Trump still has a path, but he’ll need to scrape together every delegate he can,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics.
"The government's interpretation of the statute is so broad that almost any major politician could be prosecuted. And of course they're not," John Jeffries, a UVA law professor who is among legal experts who signed a brief backing McDonnell's legal arguments.