Will riots/demonstrations affect UVA reputation/applications?
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Anonymous
What about Chicago? Hmm. |
Anonymous
Yes, let's see them try to hold a pro-Nazi rally in Chicago. Let's see how that goes. |
Anonymous
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UVA students stood up to the Nazis on the main lawn of the campus Friday night. Plenty of reason to be proud of them.
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/896348510882287616/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2017%2F8%2F12%2F16139328%2Fcharlottesville-protesters-riot-violence |
Anonymous
This string of comments was about disavowing schools white supremacists attended - people disavowing places like UVA and VT because of it. My question was - if you're going to do that, surely you'll stay consistent and disavow UChicago too? |
Anonymous
Sure. Scratch that from the list, too. |
Anonymous
chicago is a very conservative school. chicago-school economics anyone? |
Anonymous
How about Harvard? Georgetown? Steve Bannon has degrees from both. |
Anonymous
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As someone who attended UVa decades ago, I was not surprised that the organizers chose to hold a march there. But I was surprised (and pleased) to see that there was a major counterprotest.
I still don't like Mr. Jefferson's University much, but this softened me. A little. |
Anonymous
And Harvard. He has a degree from Harvard. |
Anonymous
Chicago is a liberal school with a few economically conservative professors. |
Anonymous
| Both Kessler and Richard Spencer are UVA alums. The 2 most prominent nazis at the rally this wknd. pointing out that objectionable people have also attended Harvard, chicago, etc is logically weak. No one is saying all people who attend uva are nazis. What is being argued is that if you are a nazi, UVA appears to hold a lot of appeal to you and your ilk. Makes sense - it's super white, basks in a very preppy fratty white culture, is located in Virginia - capital of the confederacy and the campus looks like a genteel old plantation. None of that is really UVA's fault - I'm just pointing out why white supremacists might feel particularly comfortable there. |
Anonymous
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If you're a non-asian minority and you send your child to UVA, you don't love your child.
Despite concerted appeals from black student groups in 1968, 1980, 2007 and 2015 for a host of institutional overhauls at the university, from increased enrollment of black students to further investment in African American scholarship, black student enrollment remains below 10 percent — significantly lower than that of peer institutions. The student body has also been plagued with hate crimes in recent years, with racial slurs appearing on student property in 2003 and last year. McAuliffe and Signer now face the daunting challenge of not only acknowledging but also addressing the racial tensions that have always existed and have again ignited in Charlottesville Charlottesville has repeatedly found itself the subject of national conversation regarding police brutality, free speech debates and now, white nationalism. This not as a fluke — it is the tension their town was founded on. To act as though the events of this weekend are a “vicious irregularity” antithetical to the history of Charlottesville and its university is to overlook the fact that the city has been an ideological battleground since the time of Jefferson. Judging by the response of local and national authorities to the events of this weekend, the city’s fraught history of racial conflict will continue haunt its future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/14/white-supremacists-didnt-just-arrive-in-charlottesville-theyve-always-been-there/?utm_term=.efbecccee32a |
Anonymous
RIGHT! |
Anonymous
Have it! News flash, your Asian kid isn't white so when the nazis run over her with a car, try remember you saved money on in-state tuition. |
Anonymous
Yes. I'll take Cornell and Columbia for 1,000 Alex! |