Activist Zyahna Bryant announces bid for Charlottesville School Board

Local activist Zyahna Bryant has spent more than a decade fighting for monumental causes, beginning in 2012, when, at age 12, she organized a rally for Trayvon Martin. In 2016, she wrote a letter to Charlottesville City Council calling for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from a downtown park that was then […]

Deaf Literature Festival offers stories beyond sound 

Eighty attendees gathered to celebrate Deaf literature at the University of Virginia on February 8. The festival, which started as a student project for fourth-year Molly Rathbun, brought attention not only to the vibrant Deaf literature community, but the importance of accessibility. The festival first took shape last spring, as an independent project under Rathbun’s […]

UVA fraternity rush increases, despite termination of five chapters for hazing

By Merrill Hart Formal fraternity recruitment at the University of Virginia concluded on Saturday, January 25. There are 28 chapters in good standing at UVA, but that didn’t stop some Hoos from rushing groups operating outside the Interfraternity Council system. The red-bricked estates lining Rugby Road’s Mad Bowl briefly went silent last spring when the […]