The Sunday edition of The Washington Post featured Charlottesville not once, but twice. The Style & Arts section featured a two-page spread on the new visitor center at Monticello. The Post praised the $43 million center for its subtlety.
"The design firm isn’t trying to make any bold statements," noted staff writer Philip Kennicott. "But it is scrupulous about not making any mistakes." For more on the center, check out C-VILLE’s Green Scene post from December.
The second Charlottesville-related article in the Post was an opinion piece written by Karin Agness, a UVA Law School student and founder of the Network of Enlightened Women, a national organization for conservative college women.
The editorial responsed to UVA students’ efforts to challenge the selection of J. Harvie Wilkinson III as a commencement speaker. Wilkinson is a conservative-leaning judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
"That a conservative judge does not fit within the definition of diversity on campus reveals how far we have to go to achieve diversity in the academy," she wrote. "Unfortunately, we have settled for descriptive diversity, such as race and sex, rather than reaching for intellectual diversity."
