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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent here who posted yesterday about my Black junior son. The bottom-line for him, and the bottom-line line for us, is that [b]he doesn't feel that he will feel safe or fully included and welcome at UVA[/b]. If we had no other choice, my advice to him would be to do what a previous posters's daughter does and avoid parts of campus.  But he has other choices, beginning with William & Mary, which is academically just as good, if not better. Particularly when UVA is supported by our tax dollars,[b] it should be doing a much better job of cleaning up its act[/b] and making sure that all Virginians feel welcome and fully included in its educational programs.[/quote]

I am not questioning how either you or your son feels but I genuinely want to know if there are specific, concrete things that lead you to these conclusions or whether this is just a general overall feeling?  Have you spoken with black students at UVA?  What "act" do you think UVA needs to clean up?  I am the poster with 2 sons at UVA and I have met many of their friends, which so far are very diverse racially, economically and geographically.[/quote]

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