This story is part of our ongoing coverage in the wake of the Rolling Stone story on rape at UVA. There’s more: A Q&A with Board of Visitors member Helen Dragas on her reaction to the story, responses from the Rolling Stone reporter and women she interviewed as well as two women who reported their own rapes while students, […]
This story is part of our ongoing coverage in the wake of the Rolling Stone story on rape at UVA. There’s more: A Q&A with Board of Visitors member Helen Dragas on her reaction to the story, responses from the Rolling Stone reporter and women she interviewed as well as two women who reported their own rapes while students, […]
Before this past Wednesday, Emily Renda was well-known at UVA as an outspoken advocate for sexual assault victims and for policy reform at the University. Back in April, when she was a fourth-year serving as co-chair of the Sexual Assault Leadership Council, she wrote a piece for the Huffington Post detailing her rape by a […]
This story is part of ongoing coverage of the impact of Rolling Stone’s story on rape at UVA. Pick up the paper on Wednesday, November 26 for a more in-depth look, including interviews with the story’s author and students involved in the reporting. It’s been 48 hours since the publication of Rolling Stone’s scathing and […]
Venture into the American Midwest as UVA Drama presents The Rimers of Eldritch. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson peels back the motives behind a Missouri murder and assault, uncovering the murky morality of a small town in 1966. Director Doug Grissom’s production takes a haunting look into the Bible Belt during one of the most […]
A mobile app billing itself as “the modern-day digital Van Wilder” has landed at UVA, and the creators want students here to help it take off. KickOn is designed to hook partygoers up with party hosts, said company rep Kate Talbot. Unsurprisingly, college students are the target demographic, and Talbot said the company ID’d several schools […]
The city built it, and still they come. A 7-foot metal fence now stretches along more than 1,000 feet of railroad track from the 14th Street train trestle on the Corner north beyond the end of Elliewood Avenue, a barrier built with $385,000 in Federal Highway Administration funds. That is, it would stretch that length, […]
It’s just before midnight on an October Friday at UVA, and deep in the bowels of a stately brick mansion on Rugby Road, throngs of undergraduates in cutoffs and cowboy boots are packed shoulder to shoulder in a dingy room with a sticky floor, watching one drunk classmate after another mount and then be flung […]
If UVA third-year Sara Surface has to write a “how I spent my summer vacation” essay at the start of this semester, the gist would be something like this: Helped my school end rape culture. Surface, a global development studies major from Northern Virginia and a student leader with the University’s Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, […]
This week marks our first-ever pride issue—just in time for Charlottesville’s Pride Festival this weekend. Check out our other feature stories on deciding whether to marry as a gay couple, on what it was like to be gay at CHS in the ’90s, and on the festival itself. The dorms at the University of Virginia became […]
The crash of a garbage truck into the railroad trestle on the UVA Corner was a jarring sight on August 5, but it was hardly an unfamiliar one. Large vehicles cram themselves into the gap between bridge and road with a regularity about equal to the appearance of streakers on the Lawn. The height sensor […]