It's a beautiful campus . I didn't attend,my daughter did. But now it seems ot be more wll known for a rape story that was a hoax and demonstartions to keep soem staues that were hijacked by the left. Oh, and I despise the current chancellor.
Posted on 05/02/2019 8:05:24 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architecture of the university’s founder, Thomas Jefferson. I flew there with two friends, the talented photographer Jonathan Becker and the Vietnam Special Forces Silver Star winner Chuck Pfeifer, all of us close buddies of the deceased. It was the memorial service for Willy von Raab, scourge of drug dealers and illegal immigrants while commissioner of customs for eight years under Reagan. The humorist P.J. O’Rourke and I were the two speakers, and after a rousing ‘America the Beautiful’ we retired for an afternoon of southern hospitality and University of Virginia co-ed watching.
This is not woke, I know, but neither are heterosexuality, beauty or grace — or Christianity, for that matter. Charlottesville brought back memories of careless sunlit days lounging around the frat house drinking mint juleps and writing love letters to Sweet Briar girls: Mary Blair Scott, Ellen Hurst, Natalie Farrar, three beguiling sultry southern belles, now in their late seventies or even early eighties. Believe you me, as they say in the Bronx, jejune Oxford evenings à la Sebastian Flyte had nothing on us — zero, zilch.
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It's a beautiful campus . I didn't attend,my daughter did. But now it seems ot be more wll known for a rape story that was a hoax and demonstartions to keep soem staues that were hijacked by the left. Oh, and I despise the current chancellor.
*ping for later read*
Honor codes in schools? Politeness, tolerance, non-judgmental
classmates?
No rape hoaxes? No phony nooses hung from trees? No shouting down guest speakers?
Amazing...
Let’s face it. Our institutions of higher learning have been destroyed.
For later
It was an adventure and I misspent the next 41 years with just one beauty from New Jersey that I met at "The University of Virginia".
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
This is especially true at UVa, which until about ten years had resisted almost all the left wing nonsense. So today at cavdaily.com we are treat to articles like this:
Central Americans for Empowerment at U.Va. utilizes film series to educate students(I wonder if there are any Virginians calling for empowerment at any Central American schools.)Kevin G. McDonald appointed vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion
Arab Student Organization holds its eighth annual Layaleena event
ML/NJ
I took my highschooler, interested in polysci, to UVA to appraise it, but after attending an invitational lecture by Larry Sabato, we got the hell out of there. Never trust the honesty of an expert in a toupée.
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