Feb 16, 2012

St*ff U.Va. Students Say

Andy Mullins on February 16, 2012
There is no "s" in Foxfield! It's the Foxfield Races, not the Foxfields Races.
Taylor Harris on February 16, 2012
Um, where are the Black students in this? Totally feeling left out. Many of our experiences at the University are hilarious but different than those in this video.
Barbara Wells on February 16, 2012
Taylor- I was thinking the same thing too-- not much diversity at all in the clip.
Barbara Wells on February 16, 2012
oh and since the pep band is gone- nothing fun about that!
Anna Scott on February 17, 2012
It can, however, be "Foxfield's races" as in they are the host/it is their event, which then gets shortened to "Foxfield's." It's like saying "New Year's (Day)" or "I'm going to Michael's (Bistro)"
Kimberly Osagie on February 18, 2012
Taylor, my sentiments exactly. While this clip is funny and chock full of UVA-isms, I was sad that my experience wasn't captured here. Hate to have to rain on the hard work you put in, but I felt left out, both in the limited casting of people of color and in the limited content that pertained to my University experience.
Kelsey Kerle-O'Brien on February 19, 2012
This was so accurate, great job! The only thing I would have sugggested adding was more discussion of sports
R.O. on March 03, 2012
It's just a video put together by a group of friends. It's not a polling of students across Grounds, so it's not supposed to be representative of anything but themselves.
R.J.Wolfe on April 18, 2012
Very clear to me that the students in the video were not theater majors or even theater goers and diction is not important. To be brief, what the hell were they saying and in what language were they speaking?

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