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UVA Takes Down a Statue, Takes Up Free Speech
A series of Board-approved actions seeks to reclaim the historic landscape and the higher ground on civil discourse.
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Olympic spots, NCAA titles cap eventful spring season
Swimming, tennis, soccer, lacrosse and baseball had no shortage of electric moments.
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The Underground Refuge
How UVA’s first Black students, excluded elsewhere, found a community of their own off Grounds.
Summer 2021
Safe House: A place where UVA's Black students could feel at home; Telegramgate: The scandal that dogged the Alumni Association for years; Case Surge: As the COVID count swelled, so did the UJC's disciplinary docket
Table of ContentsMore from Virginia Magazine
- Game Show ’Hoos: Pressing their luck and testing their knowledge, clever Cavs take a spin on Wheel, Jeopardy!
- A Higher Law: One McIntire professor’s lessons extend beyond the classroom
- Born and Bread: Wahoo’s acclaimed NOLA restaurant has a slice of Charlottesville
- Making Old Dorms New Again: The spaces that defined us first-year are getting redefined.
Highlights
The Underground Refuge
How UVA’s first Black students, excluded elsewhere, found a community of their own off Grounds.
Moving forward with the Class of 2022’s student leaders
Next year’s leaders aim to make big changes and take advantage of lessons learned.
The Cost of a Telegram
To cool student unrest in 1970, the Alumni Association did a very uncool thing. People stayed hot about it for years.
Winning Pool
Women’s swimming and diving joined the ranks of NCAA title winners just as men’s basketball ended its reign.
Case Surge
As the COVID count swelled this spring, so did the disciplinary docket for the University Judiciary Committee.
UVA Takes Down a Statue, Takes Up Free Speech
A series of Board-approved actions seeks to reclaim the historic landscape and the higher ground on civil discourse.
Starvation for wages
The decadeslong battle for a living wage reached a crescendo in 2012, when 26 students went on a hunger strike.Video
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Ryan, Magill discuss the COVID Crisis
Our interview with UVA’s president and provost—from a distance.
Making the Shots
Go behind the scenes with longtime UVA sports photographer Matt Riley, from a day of fun studio shoots to an exciting men’s basketball game at JPJ.Photo Gallery
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The Stacks come crashing down
‘Hitting the Alderman Stacks’ used to be just a figure of speech. Here's a look inside the beginning of the 3-year renovation.
The camera sees what we can’t
Charlottesville photographer Andrew Shurtleff in late March made these dramatic photographs of Grounds under quarantine using infrared technology, which captures wavelengths of light outside the spectrum of what the human eye can see. The result is a high-contrast image with a nearly dreamlike look.
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Read MoreNancy Borges Barnes (Col ’78) about must-have fashion items during her time on Grounds
