There was the whole shanty on the Lawn thing--a la Dartmouth. I knew one of the guys who tore it down and he was an incredible racist. We tried to pledge a black girl to my sorority and he went bananas about it. (Not that it made a difference!) Yuck.
But I don't remember anything overtly racist like this.
I know there is talk this is fake, but knowing that guy makes me think anything is possible.
There is a conservative bent in a lot of the students which I loved, but some good old boys could take it too far.
There may have been a few tensions here and there, but my husband seems to talk of his days at UVA as if he enjoyed that time. He was offered a full scholarship to a university in PA, but he turned it down to go to UVA - that's how badly he wanted to go there. It's my understanding that it was among one of the best colleges for engineering.
What do you mean by "shanty on the Lawn?"