 Patrick Rave |
Age: 23
Year: Senior
Hometown: Orange County, Virginia
Major: Civil engineering
What’s in your backpack? TI-89 calculator, agenda, specs for a washer/dryer combo, a DVD of El Viaje Entretenido: Historia Virtual del Teatro Espanol, keys, wallet, Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood’s CD Out Louder, an e-mail print-out about Charlottesville vegetation, microbiology notes, notebook full of graph paper, pencil, UVA summer session 2008 bulletin, empty ziplock bag, matches, cell phone.
Sitting on the floor of his bedroom, Carter cracked like an egg. It was December 1, 2020, the doldrums of a Covid year; technically Carter was in a Zoom class, but attending his sophomore year of Charlottesville High School from home had long lost its novelty, so Carter was scrolling through Instagram when a simple […]
Delayed vote The Charlottesville School Board voted on Thursday, May 30, to delay a decision on reinstating School Resource Officers in city schools until 2025. Now referred to as “Youth Resource Officers,” SROs (YROs) have not served in Charlottesville schools since they were replaced with Care and Safety Assistants in 2020. Several teachers, students, parents, […]
Few people get into politics for the salaries, but for local and state representatives this rings especially true. Whether they’re on city council, serving in the House of Delegates, or a longtime member of the state Senate, most of Charlottesville’s legislators have a second job. To find out more about compensation for elected officials, C-VILLE […]
