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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.chronicle.com/article/Beyond-a-President-s-Worst/240914

Excellent article detailing the events from the UVA president's perspective. [/quote]

Yes, an excellent article and thanks for sharing. This really shows how unprepared the University was for these events.  The president planned for students on the lawn to be protected by one faculty member.  That's outrageous. Where was law enforcement? Dr. Sabato is an excellent professor and pundit, but he is no substitute for trained security professionals.  Then it appears she trusted Nazis and klansmen to keep their word on where and when they would march. These dispicabe human beings can never be trusted. You have anticipate that they will lie and deceive to get their way. As an alum, I am embarrassed that the University was so negligent in putting the lives of the students at such risk. [/quote]

Agreed. I suppose the key point is that she truly didn't realize they would ever be so significantly on the Grounds. There's a side of the Rotunda (the part I'm assuming she thought she'd gather) that's on the edge of the Grounds and is probably more a part of the town than the campus. She thought there would be 20-something non-torch yielding gatherers on that more "public" side. Instead there were hundreds of torch bearing and angry protestors marching through the heart of the Grounds. But I do agree that she was naive in thinking it would be such a small event when dealing with these despicable people. [/quote]Torch bearing, angry, AND carrying (open and concealed) weapons.[/quote]

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