We used to get 150 dozen doughnuts delivered every weekend, and by Sunday they would all be gone.
It's very different from living in an off-Grounds apartment. You have to not just live for yourself. You have to actually think about others every day, because if you don't, they'll remind you.
The fact that the core of the University was a remarkably intact architectural masterpiece, one designed by a Founding Father, made the ahistoricism of modern buildings especially worrisome.
Once [Paul Saunier] locked into a belief, he didn’t let go. His belief was that UVA was going to be a better place because of the results of the efforts to diversify our student body.
[Streaking is] a tradition. We get that. But technically we remind them that it is still against the law, and that we want them to go put their clothes on and move on.
[Jefferson] was, like almost all humans, a complex person and very much of his own time and society. At the same time, he sometimes had a rare capacity to think beyond that time and society (while often falling short in promoting the changes that his insights demanded).
I plan to continue quoting Thomas Jefferson but will also defend the civil liberties [of those who disagree].
UVA graduates talk about their school in a multifaceted, multiplatform sense. UVA is not just about sports. It is about Honor; it is about architecture; it is about history, academics and student self-governance; it is Charlottesville; it is Mr. Jefferson; and more.
I think it’s a sin that there are people who have graduated from the University in the last 70, 80 years, who have never set foot in the [Rotunda].
Costumes are an opportunity to express something you would never actually be. They create a way for us to literally hide behind a persona that we’re creating.
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