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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what exactly is UVA supposed to do? Ban non affiliated people from assembling on non university grounds?
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[b]The tiki torch rally was non-affiliated people on UVA grounds.  I think the issue the university was not really ready for it, but I doubt that any Virginia college or small city would have been.  That was probably one of the reasons the organizers chose that location, along with visual effect.[/[/b]quote]

This is correct. I was there that day and evening.  Teresa Sullivan had no idea the protesters (alums or not) were going to march on the PUBLIC university grounds.  She and Board and lawyers had been informed about the protest in the town only.  The town had issued a permit.  Nevertheless, Sullivan issued letters to all parents (no students were on campus yet), students' emails, faculty and staff email warning of the protest and suggesting that everyone steer clear of the protest area if in the town.  I was even in the mall nearest the campus and didn't notice a single abnormality in late afternoon - certainly no rash of tiki torch sales at the Bed Bath & Beyond.  It simply wasn't known that the alt-righters planned to march the evening before on campus.  I think the school did what it could under very difficult circumstances.  Sullivan was told by the Governor that UVA is a public university so campus police could do nothing.  Charlottesville was not prepared for what happened, the police were not prepared (remember the two cops who also died the next day); the Governor of Va certainly was not prepared.  UVA had nothing to do with the protest and I think most people understand that.  Nevertheless, the University has taken many steps both to make the campus as welcoming as it can to black students (including the new memorial for slaves who helped build the university) and MANY security precautions taken for this last weekend.  I can post those lists but sense that there are bigots here who don't want to hear good things about the University which is a shame.  Sometimes it is just easier to wallow in ignorance and be critical rather than actually go and visit the University and walk the mall in Charlottesville and realize what good there is there.

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