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Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing well, and thanks for tuning in

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to another episode of UVA Weekly.

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You’ve been hearing a lot from us this week,
and I appreciate your patience and your

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continued attention as we work together to manage COVID-19 in our community.

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It’s a bit of a grab bag this week, but
let me start with the headline.

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As you know, at the advice of health care
experts, we have instituted three updated

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guidelines that will be in place for at least
the next two weeks:

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First, gatherings should be limited to groups of 5 or fewer;

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Second, masks are required except when you’re eating,
in your room, or exercising outdoors or in

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accordance with IM/Rec guidelines; and third for students, we urge no travel outside of Charlottesville,

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unless truly necessary, and similarly discourage
inviting visitors from outside Charlottesville.

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I also hope you saw the email from Dean Groves
yesterday that clarified a few points about

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these new restrictions.

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I know the guidance on travel in particular
has led to a lot of questions.

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Here’s the basic idea: we understand that
our students have important reasons to travel

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– a major family event, for example, or
a job interview, or a trip to collect data

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for research you’re conducting.

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That is not our main focus with these new
guidelines.

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What we’re asking you to do is please stay
put in Charlottesville for the next couple

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of weeks if it’s at all possible.

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For the next two weeks, we especially discourage
making any new travel plans that can be avoided,

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and we ask that you consider making adjustments
in cases where a trip is easy to reschedule.

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More generally, for those of you who have
asked questions about the guidelines, thank

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you—it shows how much you are trying to
follow them.

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I will say that if you see a grey area or
some ambiguity, it is perfectly fine to ask

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for clarification.

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But you can also use your best judgment.

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We are not trying to trip anyone up on technicalities,
and if you exercise your best judgment or

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make an honest mistake, you aren’t going
to get in trouble.

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If you intentionally and repeatedly or egregiously
violate the guidelines, you will get in trouble.

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We understand these new guidelines will impose
even more of a burden than you are already

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bearing, and we do not adopt them lightly.

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We are following the advice of public health
experts, who have told us we need to take

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these measures for the next two weeks to slow
the spread of the virus, which is in the interests

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of all of us.

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In terms of additional efforts to promote
safety, as most of you have heard, we have

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also ramped up our testing programs over the
last week – including testing wastewater

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from residence halls and testing entire dorms
when we find signs of infection – more on

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that later in the program.

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Thank you again to all of you who have gone
through this testing process – and thanks

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in advance to those who will be asked to get
tested in the weeks ahead.

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Testing is a critical element of containing
the virus, and we appreciate your cooperation.

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As part of our effort to ramp up our testing
program, we have also created a saliva test

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that will allow us to expand testing in a
quick and non-invasive way.

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Earlier this week, I had a chance to stop
by a newly created saliva screening station

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on Grounds, and we’ll be rolling out more
stations in the coming weeks.

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I’m grateful to our Vice President for Research,
Ram Ramasubramanian, for leading the effort

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to get this program up and running.

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I also had the opportunity to visit O-Hill
dining hall on Monday, and I was really impressed

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with how the team has modified their operations
to serve meals safely to our students.

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Thank you to all of our dining hall staff
for everything you’re doing to keep our

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community safe.

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Finally, I’d like to answer a question from
our Charlottesville neighbors and reinforce

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a few things that Dean Groves shared last
week.

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Our neighbors in the Charlottesville community
had a question about wanting to know where

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our students are being quarantined and isolated
on and off Grounds, and some of the rest of

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you may be wondering as well.

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The answer is we have set aside housing on-Grounds
for both the isolation and quarantine of students

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who reside in University housing.

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A small number of students are isolating or
quarantining in hotels near Grounds as well,

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and I can assure you that all safety precautions
are being taken to avoid further spread of

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the virus.

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Two last things Dean Groves shared in an earlier
message that I’d like to amplify for students:

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Don’t forget to get your flu shot – which
is especially important this year.

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You can get a shot at Student Health and Wellness
or at a local pharmacy, and we recommend doing

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so before the end of October.

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More information is available on the Student
Health and Wellness website.

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Navigating university life during a pandemic
is really challenging, to say the least, and

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it’s especially important to take care of
yourselves.

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This includes maintaining a good sleep schedule,
eating right, getting exercise, finding ways

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to safely engage with new friends, and enjoying
time outside as best you can.

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I recommend checking out the University Programs
Council website for ideas about how to stay

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active and or the Contemplative Sciences Center
website, which identifies a whole array of

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mindfulness, yoga, and virtual retreat offerings
throughout the semester.

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And We will also continue to offer resources
for students experiencing added stress, anxiety,

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or other mental health impacts as a result
of the challenge and uncertainty of this moment

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– please check out the CAPS website for
more information on ways to get support.

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As always, if you have questions or comments,
please contact my colleague Matt Weber at

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mw2xy@virginia.edu.

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A couple of the segments on this show are
based on your emails from last week.

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Alright, thanks for listening, and for all
that you are doing.

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On with the rest of show… and over to my
very talented co-host, fourth year student,

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Davion Zeno.

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Wassup Guys, Zeno here and I’m back like
I left something.

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Coming to you with the #Youva team to talk
all things covid and news on grounds.

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As you know, last week several dorm residents
were tested after high levels of the virus

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showed up in their wastewater.

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Let’s take a look at how all that works.

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One of the things that we're doing on Grounds
to minimize the spread of COVID-19 is pooled

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wastewater testing.

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Testing individual residence halls.

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Sort of testing everybody in the building
at once.

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One of the biggest challenges that we faced
with COVID-19 is that people can spread the

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virus without having any symptoms and wastewater
surveillance is a great tool to detect some

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of those asymptomatic spreaders.

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We can detect SARS-CoV because it's shed in
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at pretty high rates especially early in infection.

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By capturing wastewater we can do a pooled
sample of everybody that lives in the building

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that use the toilet that day and detect if
there are new cases even before they have

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symptoms.

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This can provide an early warning system we
can then take further steps to test individuals

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once we detect that there might be new cases
and ultimately limit the spread in the residence

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halls.

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So the wastewater surveillance gives us
another tool to find cases early and minimize

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the chance of further spread

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So, what happens when someone tests positive
or is a close contact of someone who tested

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positive?

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let’s talk Quarantine and Isolation.

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Buckle up because we're on it again.

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Quarantine and isolation are different.

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Someone is asked to quarantine and separate
from others when they have been in close contact

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with a person with COVID-19 or are awaiting
their test results after a close contact.

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What’s a close contact you ask - being within
6ft of someone for more than 15 minutes.

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Isolation is the separation of people with
COVID-19 from others who aren't sick.

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Here’s a scenario: You have some symptoms
of COVID-19 so you call Student Health and

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Wellness.

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If you need to come in and get a test, your
results will get back to you quicker than

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a Jimmy John’s sandwich, eh not that quick
but usually within 48 hours of the test.

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While you’re waiting for a test or its result
you should be quarantining.

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If you live on grounds, the University will
find you a spot, if you are off Grounds, you

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should quarantine in your residence or back
home, if it is safe to do so.

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Your test comes back, yup, positive, so you’re
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Keep a journal--mark those calendars because
dates are key.

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Ready?

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Your isolation can end after at least 10 days
have passed since your symptoms first appeared,

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you have had no fever for 24 hours without
fever-reducing medication AND your other symptoms

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have improved.

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Otherwise, you should stay put until a doctor
says you're good to go..

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Ok, take 2: no symptoms, BUT you’ve been
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positive.

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Your best testing window is 5-7 days after
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incubation period.

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You’ll need to quarantine until it’s testing
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If you’re positive but still have no symptoms,
you may end isolation after at least 10 days

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have passed since the day of your test.

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See - jotting down your dates is helpful!

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If you have a negative test result with no
symptoms, you still quarantine because that

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virus can still develop.

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If you are still symptom free after 14 days
of quarantine, get outside!

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Another big difference between isolation and
quarantine is that you can isolate with others

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who have tested positive but you should avoid
quarantining together if at all possible.

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For example, say Sally lives with 5 other
roommates and they were all exposed and decide

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to “quarantine” together.

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But, it turns out, Sally is actually the only
one carrying the virus.

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Well, she may now have passed it to her other
roommates - get it?

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I know, living with roommates can be hard
on a good day, but if you must quarantine

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in a shared space, you should be doing your
best to separate as much as possible from

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others, and when you can’t, wear a mask,
practice social-distancing, clean surfaces

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often, especially those is a shared bathroom,
and avoid preparing food or eating together,

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For more information about quarantine in close
quarters, check out these resources from the

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CDC and Student Health and Wellness.

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Confusing, yeah, I know, but, the short answer
is this: test or no test, quarantining if

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you’ve been exposed or have symptoms and
isolating if you have a positive test are

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some of the most effective ways to keep your
friends healthy.

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It’s not fun, but it is SO IMPORTANT.

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For more information, check out the student
health and wellness website

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Also, don’t forget, testing positive doesn’t
define you or say anything about you except…

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you were exposed to COVID-19.

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This disease is highly contagious and you
could be doing all the right things and still

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get exposed or test positive.

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The most important thing is to take action
if you think you’ve been exposed, be cooperative

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with contact tracing (which might mean answering
your phone even if you don’t know the number

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- horror!) and isolate or quarantine if you
are asked to do so..

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In Uva News, last week the National Pan Hellenic
Council faced racist slurs from anonymous

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users during a program the NPHC led on Zoom
meant to encourage unity through social engagement

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in the black community.

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The National Pan Hellenic Council was founded
in 1930 and consists of historically black

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fraternities and sororities that formed decades
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What happened that Monday is an example why
the council and orgs associated were created

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in the first place: to form unity amongst
black people and combat overt and covert racism.

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I was there on that call and yes I am still
angry, but the NPHC was still able to have

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a successful program.

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I am sorry for the 46 members on that call
and even more sorry the first-year students

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were exposed to such racism in one of their
first attempts to build community on Grounds.

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We can and must do better.

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Ok.

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That was a lot of information.

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Let’s try to end with some good news.

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I’ll give you a hint, it’s about some
cute animals.

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We live in a small apartment complex and there’s
7, 8 of us on the team here, so when we came

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back in July, we had a lot of time and it
was just you come here, you play hockey and

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you go back to your apartment and we have
nothing else to do, so we decided it was a

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perfect time to start fostering animals.

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We had a kitten named Parker but we renamed
him Parkour because of the way that he would

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jump off of everything.

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And then three kittens; Queso, Quesadilla
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And then Oscar, who was 5-years old and he
was a Boxer-Pit mix.

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I actually still have one.

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This is the last one that’s not adopted
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We made an Instagram account for them.

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We’ve been posting all of the kittens and
now people are coming to us from different

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parts of Charlottesville with their foster
animals to post them to get them adopted,

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so we’ve actually done really well on it!

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I think Amber is going to be so sad when the
last one gets adopted so, I definitely think

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we will be having more kittens in this apartment.

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Our team, we’re friends on and off the field
all the time, that’s how it’s always been,

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that’s just the culture of our team.

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So I think COVID has really impacted us in
that sense of trying to still stay a team

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and stay together all the time.

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Having the animals here is, like, one of those
ways that we have found a bit of normalcy

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in everything, so I think they’ve been absolutely
so much fun and have given us another reason

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to get together and still follow these protocols
and follow all these rules that we have but

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still have a sense of normalcy with it all.

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That’s it for this week of UVA Weekly.

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Don’t forget to hit up the @YOUva team on
Instagram or email us at youva@virginia.edu.

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I'm out like a light.

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All across this place we call the Commonwealth,
you'll find we have a way about us, a particular  style.

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A certain way we carry the day on these broad
Blue Ridge shoulders.

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It comes from being unafraid of the hard things.

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Never losing sight of the little things and
when all is said and done

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coming together for the good things.

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Because every inch, every number, every call
we earn we write our own story inked in the

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sweat of today.

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And this story is far from finished so we're
going to keep pushing two a days, pulling

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double shifts hitting the books, hitting the
sleds and

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hitting our toughest challenges with everything
we've got.

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Because we cavaliers have a way,
to be both great and good

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for the salt of the coast.

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For the stones of the capitol.

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For the hug of Skyline Drive.

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For the playmakers.

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For the waymakers.

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For the daymakers.

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For all Virginia.