January 21, 2014

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Vol. 124, Issue 32

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...to beat them is really special.”--Senior forward Akil Mitchell

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Senior forward Akil Mitchell watches his shot elude the outstretched arms of North Carolina defenders.

Balanced Cavs destroy hapless unc 76-61

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Zack Bartee

Senior Associate Editor

North Carolina kept the game close for the opening 15 minutes, but the Virginia men’s basketball team ended the first half on a 12-2 run and never looked back.

The Cavaliers dominated the second half en route to a 76-61 win and are off to their best ACC start since the 1994-95 season.

Virginia (14-5, 5-1 ACC) now sits second in ACC play behind undefeated No. 2 Syracuse (180, 5-0 ACC), while the Tar Heels (12-7, 1-4 ACC) have fallen into a four-way tie for last place. All five of Virginia’s conference wins have come by double digits.

Freshman guard London Perrantes catalyzed Virginia’s offense early, dishing out eight of his career-best nine assists in the first half. Perrantes, whose previous career high was six assists, also recorded eight points,

including a 3-pointer to end the first half with a nine-point lead.

“Going into halftime, it was a one-point game and they scored off of both turnovers there,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. “London Perrantes made that big three before the half and it was a dagger.”

Though Virginia has made a habit of coming out fast in ACC games, North Carolina took an early lead. Senior guard Joe Harris singlehandedly kept the Cavaliers in the game, scoring the team’s first nine points on a perfect 3-of-3 from long distance.

Harris finished with 16 points, tying redshirt sophomore guard Malcolm Brogdon for the game’s high.

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Continued from page 1 son said. “They’re really good when they can pack it in and use their length. We wanted to look for the open guys. Joe got really hot from the start and that was a beautiful thing to see. He got us started off on the right foot and it was a great collective win.”

Virginia shot a stellar 51.9 percent from the field in the first half, including 45.5 percent from 3-point range, but the Tar Heels managed to stay in the game by grabbing nine offensive boards and exploiting Virginia’s post trap for easy dunks and layups.

“I didn’t think we came out and played Virginia basketball in the first half,” Brogdon said.

“In the second half coach [Tony] Bennett made adjustments and told us to slow down and play

our game, and I think we did.

We got stops and limited their second chance opportunities and we started playing Virginia basketball.”

Sophomore center Mike Tobey, who played just six minutes in the first half after picking up two early fouls, paced Virginia to a double-digit lead to open the second half. The sevenfooter scored all six of his points in the first 2:16 of the period — along with a Brogdon 3-pointer and a Harris free throw — to take a 15-point lead.

North Carolina would not get closer than 12 points the rest of the way. Virginia amassed a 23-point lead with 2:13 left to play, prompting Bennett to empty his bench with less than a minute to play. All 15 Virginia players saw the court Monday night.

The Cavaliers spread the ball evenly among the offense, with

Harris, one of the team’s leading scorers, going more than 34 minutes between field goals.

Anderson, who scored four points on 1-for-5 in the first half, finished the game with 13 points.

“It’s good to beat any team that good,” senior forward Akil Mitchell said. “When Justin [Anderson] is out on the floor and playing great, we turn into a different team.”

Freshman forward Kennedy Meeks led the Tar Heels with 15 points and nine rebounds — including four offensive boards — while senior guard Leslie McDonald and junior forward James Michael McAdoo also scored in double figures with 10 and 11 points, respectively.

But North Carolina could not keep up with Virginia’s hot shooting pace throughout the game, shooting 41.3 percent from the field and 26.7 percent

from 3-point range to the Cavaliers’ 48.1 and 40.0 percent, respectively.

The Cavaliers were outrebounded for the second straight game, 39-38, but Mitchell continued to dominate the paint. The senior led the team in rebounding for the seventh straight game with 11 rebounds, including seven in the second half.

Though Mitchell’s scoring average has fallen from 13.1 points per game last season to 6.7, he has ramped up his post play recently after a slow start to the season, averaging a career-best 9.3 rebounds per game in ACC play. While some of Mitchell’s offensive production drop-off is due to playing 24.5 minutes per game compared to 30.5 last year, much of it also comes from his new role on one of the conference’s deepest teams.

“We keep telling him to get

on the glass, take what the defense gives you, and get the ‘XFactor’ baskets and plays,” Bennett said. “That’s when he is at his best. Manufacturing offense is not his strength. He made a nice play, and I have been proud of how he has fallen into his role to help us and help himself. I like where he is going.”

For Mitchell, one of four Cavaliers who hail from the state of North Carolina, the win against the Tar Heels during his senior season was particularly meaningful.

“It’s definitely nice,” Mitchell said. “My old AAU coach was a big Carolina fan and I always had friends on the team and guys I played with. To be able to play them is a dream come true and to beat them is really special.”

The Cavaliers conclude their three-game homestand Saturday against Virginia Tech at 3 p.m.

trimmed that lineup down.

Sophomore forward Anthony Gill has been relegated to a situational bench role, and classmate forward Evan Nolte has played just 12 minutes in the past three games. The starting lineup has been solidified, and that seems to have paid dividends.

Against the Tar Heels, the team’s most prominent advantage was its fluidity; every player on the court seems to know his role and how to best execute it. Senior Joe Harris, often the team’s workhorse last season, hasn’t been called on as much. He scored the team’s first nine points and was hot in the first half, but he had a stretch of more than 30 minutes when he didn’t make a field goal — and the team didn’t lose a beat.

“Joe is playing efficient games,” Bennett said. “It is rare to have a player of his caliber with his unselfishness, who really doesn’t care if he takes the shots or not. The other guys give us the balance and better chemistry.

The guys are more shot discerning and they are making plays.

To see Joe have four assists and no turnovers, he is unique in that way.”

Brogdon still remains one of the team’s primary ball handlers

— he has scored in double figures in every ACC game — but Perrantes has firmly established himself at point guard. His nine assists against North Carolina is the culmination of an impressive run of play for a freshman playing beyond his years. Virginia is still relying on its depth when it brings in Gill or sophomore Justin Anderson off the bench, but the duo know their role as reserves. All in all, it adds up to a sense of cohesion that has driven the team in the new year.

“I think it’s starting to balance,” Anderson said. “The year that I got here, a lot went through [Harris], but we still had great defense. Now, it’s like myself, [Brogdon], [Harris], [Perrantes].

We have guards that are really effective, and our bigs are very effective with [Gill] playing like a guard at the high post and making plays and finishing. It’s tough to handle when it’s that way.”

Much of the early season for Virginia was spent trying to find the team’s identity, understanding how to fit a bunch of talented players together. If the team’s recent stretch of play is any indication, the team seems to have found it, and at exactly the right time.

All in a day’s work Monday’s win for the Virginia men’s basketball team was utterly workmanlike. The Cavaliers’ opponent never truly troubled them in the second half, and looking up and down the score sheet, there was no clear star — just a coordinated, complete win. It was just another win for a team on an impressive roll, a cutand-dry affair to send the crowd home happy.

The game had the feel of an early-season non-conference win, but Monday’s win was not against some patsy team. This was not how a game against North Carolina — the North Carolina with two national titles in the last 10 years — has traditionally unfolded. That Virginia made a 76-61 win against the Tar Heels seem unsurprising shows how far the Cavaliers have come this season.

Three weeks ago, Virginia looked like it had lost its way.

An 87-52 loss to Tennessee sent the Cavaliers reeling into the new year with three losses in five games, including an embarrassing home loss against Wisconsin that saw the team score just 38 points. The Cavaliers certainly didn’t look like the team that had started the season ranked in the

Top 25, and the team’s looming teams traded leads for much of ACC schedule offered little hope the first half — but Virginia took for a turnaround. the lead with just more than five But to poorly paraphrase minutes to play in the half and Mark Twain, the reports of the never relinquished it. The second Cavaliers’ demise were apparent- half was much more to the Cavaly greatly exaggerated. Virginia liers’ liking, as they tightened up kicked off its conferand cruised to a blowence schedule with a out victory. road win at Florida Coming into the State before blowing season, much of the out Wake Forest and analysis focused on North Carolina State. coach Tony Bennett’s A close loss to Duke deep lineup, with eight was a minor setback, or nine players posbut the Cavaliers sessing a legitimate bounced back to beat case for a starting the Seminoles for job. Bennett routinely the second time and fiddled with his starthead into their game MICHAEL EILBACHER ing lineup, initially SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR against the Tar Heels starting sophomore on a hot streak.

Malcolm Brogdon at Something had point guard before clearly changed — a team that moving him to shooting guard in had routinely struggled to break favor of freshman London Per50 points was suddenly hanging rantes, and using four different scores of 74, 76 and 78 points on frontcourt players. conference opponents and playEach of the players showed ing as well as it had all season. flashes of their ability, but they Virginia was winning and win- didn’t truly have defined, consisning emphatically, seizing con- tent roles on the court. Bennett trol on early leads and holding even admitted early on that he on. was struggling to find the exact Against North Carolina, the mixture that the team needed to story was more of the same. The succeed.

Tar Heels battled early — the Recently, Bennett has

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Point guards jostle for minutes Boyle explores several ballhandling options to lead guard-heavy Princeton offense Matthew Morris Associate Editor

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Senior guard Kelsey Wolfe has started all 18 games for the Cavaliers but primarily serves a shooting guard in coach Joanne Boyle’s offensive scheme.

Who starts at the point?

The Virginia women’s basketball team has yet to definitively answer the question. Virginia coach Joanne Boyle, however, is not concerned with the Cavaliers’ revolving-door at the position.

As Virginia showed during an 85-68 win against No. 17 Florida State Sunday in which the team tallied 22 assists to 10 turnovers, the lack of a consistent presence at point guard is far from debilitating.

Last season, then-senior China Crosby started every game for Virginia, playing 34.6 minutes per game and handing out 59 more assists than then-junior guard Ataira Franklin, the Cavaliers’ second-leading dime-dropper. Boyle recognized from the start this year would be different.

“It might be a little bit by committee,” Boyle said before the season. “Obviously, with the Princeton [offense], it’s a two-guard front in some situations, and, you know, like anything else they’re going to fight for it.”

Freshman Breyana Mason, the 2012-13 Gatorade Virginia Player of the Year, started at point guard

against Florida State. She knifed into the lane for Virginia’s first bucket against the Seminoles and nailed a 3-pointer with 16:08 to play to push Virginia’s lead to 19 points. Fellow freshman Tiffany Suarez, however, played 18 minutes to Mason’s 17.

Suarez, a three-time All-State selection at Miami’s Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, started the previous five games at the position but did not score with any regularity, putting up a total of 10 points and going scoreless against No. 2 Notre Dame. Suarez moved into the starting lineup after a 16-point, six-assist performance against Coppin State Dec. 28.

“Tiff did well for so long, and then she started feeling tight,” Boyle said. “And again, we have the luxury of having another point guard out there to get some experience, so who’s to say it’s not going to change again or whatever. But [whatever] works for us now is what we’re going to go with.”

Raeshaun Gaffney, a redshirt freshman who missed all of 201213 with a stress fracture, has also been used in a reserve role and is shooting 27.3 percent from the field.

Senior Kelsey Wolfe has played major minutes for the Cavaliers,

starting all 18 games, and leads the team in assists. More often than not, however, she operates as a sharpshooting and slashing two-guard in Boyle’s offense.

Sophomore Jaryn Garner has played sparingly and appears to be the odd-guard-out in Virginia’s crowded rotation.

Boyle implemented the Princeton offense this year to take advantage of the team’s glut of guards. Against Florida State, redshirt senior guard Lexie Gerson was the team’s power forward, but she dished out eight assists off drives, out of the high post and on routine swing passes.

“Everyone was just making shots,” Gerson said. “I was just trying to get them easy layups or swings. They were making me look good, honestly.”

For this Virginia team, setting up teammates may be the work of the whole lineup, not the job description of a single floor general. Boyle was certainly pleased with the Cavaliers’ improved ball movement against the Seminoles.

“We talked about coming out of the Duke game, [a 90-55 loss], with eight assists,” Boyle said.

“So, we just talked about it; we’ve been working on it ... I think any time you can tell this team a little nugget, it helps them.”

sight about the game. Sherman is everything we should be celebrating about sports: a gifted athlete and smart citizen with the persistence to make his dream a reality. Instead, you want to tar and feather him for having emotions.

JUROR ONE: So because this guy graduated from a good school and works hard, I’m obligated to support him? Even though he constantly provokes his opponents and picks fights with second-rate ESPN personalities, I should laud him because he has a sense of humor? He is a — JUROR TWO: Thug?

JUROR ONE: Beg your pardon?

JUROR TWO: You were going to say thug. Neanderthal. Animal.

The kinds of modifiers people have used these past few days that they would not apply to, say, Johnny Manziel. Along with other, even less polite terms. Catch my drift?

JUROR ONE: Look, I acknowledge that a few Internet trolls exacerbated the racial undercurrent here. But we can condemn Sherman’s behavior without be-

ing racist. Team sports matter because they crystallize larger truths about how to live life properly, and about how self-improvement is only worthwhile in the service of a larger cause. Peyton Manning understands that; Russell Wilson understands that; Champ Bailey, the best corner of the last decade, understands that. If his self-fawning farce of a column Monday afternoon is any indication, Sherman does not. Richard Sherman’s triumphs are all about padding the legacy of Richard Sherman, as the media pandering and trashtalking constantly remind us. We can and should denounce his actions.

JUROR TWO: That you referenced that Sherman column and left out some pretty important tidbits is illuminating. In that article, he credited his success as a corner to his front seven before criticizing Seahawks’ fans for pelting food at NaVorro Bowman and the scattered shrapnel that was once his right knee. He

Three angry men Scene opens in an austere, windowless white room, a small round table situated in the center. The JUDGE’s voice booms off-stage.

JUDGE: Jurors, I now come to your final instructions. The ultimate assessment of Seahawks cornerback and human megaphone Richard Sherman is a matter of gravest import to the Court of Sports Public Opinion, and you must deliberate honestly and thoughtfully. There are only three of you, since I need to get home soon to catch up on “Archer” and this court isn’t real, anyway. You will deliver your verdict via Twitter.

Three jurors enter the room and sit down. Aloe Blacc’s “The Man” plays on repeat in the background as they begin to discuss the case, or else is merely playing in each juror’s respective head.

JUROR ONE: I’ll begin so we can get this over with as quickly possible. To put it bluntly: Dick Sherman embodied the “me-first” culture that consumes sports with his conduct after Seattle’s 23-17 NFC Championship win against San Francisco. Sure, his deflection

of a late Colin Kaepernick pass ship, and that some people expeto set up Malcolm Smith’s game- rience similarly visceral reactions winning interception was impres- when they win the peg game at sive. But as he has throughout his Cracker Barrel. Or that Crabtree, career, Sherman used his on-field according to a Fox Sports report skills to justify his self-obsessed, and Sherman himself, accosted brutish behavior.

Sherman at a golf tournament last Notice his impulse offseason and has in the post-game interbelittled him in the view was not to thank media ever since. his team or the people Consider last who helped him, but night against the to taunt an opponent, backdrop of what he gloat about his own has already accomworth and holler like a plished. A native of maniac in front of poor Compton, he graduErin Andrews. The guy ated from freakin’ possesses less class than Stanford with a dea North Carolina stuFRITZ METZINGER gree in Communident-athlete attends. He cations, where he SPORTS EDITOR is guilty of disgracing excelled under Jim the game’s integrity.

Harbaugh before JUROR TWO: Wow, look what slipping to the fifth round in the we have here: a take hot enough to 2011 draft. Two years later, thanks melt a block of dry ice in 2.8 sec- to his talent but more so to his onds. Unfortunately, your pomp- superhuman work ethic, he is exous argument collapses when actly what he described himself as infused with the teensiest bit of to Andrews: the best cover corner context. Nevermind that Sherman in the league. Along the way, his was commenting seconds after columns on Peter King’s Monday making the decisive play to send Morning Quarterback website his team to the world champion- have offered nuanced, honest in-

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No. 12 matmen throttle Duke, survive Monarchs

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Redshirt senior Stephen Doty won both his matches at 174 pounds this past weekend.

The No. 12 Virginia wrestling team picked up two more wins last weekend. The Cavaliers (13-2, 2-0 ACC) brushed aside Duke 30-6 Friday before outlasting Old Dominion 20-12 in a grueling, hardfought match.

Virginia won eight of 10 matches against the Blue Devils (3-7, 0-2 ACC) with five resulting in bonus points. Sophomore Nick Herrmann opened the contest with a technical fall at 125 pounds. Red-

shirt sophomore Joseph Martinez and redshirt junior Joe Spisak then tacked on three points apiece by way of decision. Duke took the next two including an upset win by redshirt junior Immanuel KerrBrown against redshirt sophomore Blaise Butler. The Cavaliers responded by winning the final five matches, four by major decision.

Sunday’s contest against the Monarchs (3-8, 0-2 MAC) was decidedly more evenly matched — eight of the day’s 10 matches were

decided by three or fewer points.

Redshirt junior Nick Sulzer continued his role as juggernaut as he steamrolled redshirt sophomore Devin Geoghegan with an 18-3 technical fall. Sulzer, the nation’s second-best 165 pound wrestler, improved his season record to 241 with 18 bonus-point wins.

Redshirt senior Stephen Doty, redshirt sophomores Zach Nye and Ethan Hayes and Herrmann all won by decision to compensate for redshirt senior Jon Fau-

sey’s surprising loss at 184 pounds.

After Old Dominion claimed three straight matches from the 133-pounds to the 149-pound divisions to pull within five, Butler put his loss to Duke behind him and sealed the victory with a 5-2 decision.

Virginia’s next match will be Friday against a Pittsburgh team fresh off an upset of No. 5 Oklahoma State.

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METZINGER Public opinion court hears case of Seahawks’ Richard Sherman Continued from page 3 even apologized for the Crabtree incident later Monday evening, acknowledging that the hubbub had shifted focus from his team’s accomplishment. Alas, those facts contradict your “Sherman-is-apunk” narrative since they suggest he may amount to more than a narcissistic, entitled black athlete. Not hard to read between— JUROR THREE: Oh shut up, both of you. This is all ridiculous.

We watched one of the most ex-

citing championship games in recent memory — a game that literally made the Earth shake — and all we can talk about is a cornerback’s bad Triple-H impersonation. Instead of talking about Sherman’s tip, Kaepernick’s unfathomable jump pass, a touchdown that incited Skittles hail or any of the other unforgettable moments from that game, people would rather wallow in their own false outrage. We can’t even talk about Peyton Manning, the league’s best player, closing in on the best quarterbacking season ever. The correct verdict is no ver-

dict, owing to triviality. Sherman seems like a cocky but all right dude who gave a ludicrous, funny postgame interview. Casting him either as a folk hero or a blackhatted villain is hyperbolic, and more than anything, it’s just annoying. Let’s talk about football.

JUROR ONE: This matters. If we can’t distinguish between right and wrong in the realm of sports, what’s the point?

JUROR TWO: I agree that it matters. No man of Sherman’s character and accomplishments should have to endure character assassination and racial abuse for

letting his emotions briefly get the best of him. Sunday’s aftermath shows how far we have to go.

JUROR THREE: You know, not everything in sports has to signify something larger. Sometimes football is just football.

A long, awkward pause, punctuated by Blacc’s repeated assertions that he is the man.

JUROR ONE: Maybe calling Sherman a disgrace and selfabsorbed is too strong, but I still don’t have to root for him.

JUROR TWO: Fair — I know he crosses the line sometimes.

He still deserved better than the

armchair moralizing of the past 48 hours.

JUROR THREE: And I admit this discussion is important, even if a little exasperating, and Sherman is a fascinating character.

Hell, maybe this Sherman subplot will even make the game more fun. Suppose we can’t come to a final verdict, though?

JUROR ONE: Suppose not. I don’t see Henry Fonda walking through that door.

JUROR TWO: Perhaps no one can reach a verdict in this court.

JUROR THREE: Perhaps no one should try.

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Last Thursday President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and others headed up a one-day summit at the White House to discuss how to increase opportunities for lowincome and disadvantaged students in higher education. The University featured prominently at the summit with University President Teresa Sullivan in attendance and Assistant Education Prof. Ben Castleman and Economics Prof. Sarah Turner invited based on research they have each done in the field. UVA Today, the University’s news publication, trumpeted the University’s involvement.

Last Thursday, Michael Drash wrote a brief news article for The Cavalier Daily about the education summit. Much like other news pieces I’ve written about in the past, there wasn’t

a lot of information, nor were there quotations or information apart from what was available to most anyone who paid attention to other media coverage of the summit. He did write about the involvement of Sullivan and the two professors. Overall, the information ended up being what amounted to a subset of the information available from UVA Today. That’s not to assert that Drash drew his information from UVA Today. But it is to point out that there is a different role for The Cavalier Daily to fill. This paper is the major independent news reporting organization at the University. Nowhere in the paper was there any mention of the fact that all of this participation in thinking through how to expand access to higher education for low-income students is coming while the Board of Visitors has fundamentally altered AccessUVa, the University’s major financial aid program.

Other pieces in the paper last week show that there are many

working for the Cavalier Daily thinking a lot about how to help increase opportunities and about the lives of those who have less.

Gray Whisnant wrote an inter-

about the futility and cruelty of requiring drug testing for those who would receive welfare benefits.

Regardless of whether you agree with the arguments, these were wellresearched and wellsourced columns.

Turning that kind of focus and effort to the AccessUVa changes Turning that kind of focus and effort to the in light of the UniverAccessUVa changes in light of the University sity promoting involvement with the White promoting involvement with the White House House in trying to inin trying to increase opportunities for lowcrease opportunities for low-income students income students would be a service to the would be a service to University community. the University community. How do those in esting piece on the concept of a the administration and on the universal basic income in place Board make sense of expanding of the patchwork welfare system opportunities while also increaswe currently have. ing the amount that low-income Though the comments sec- students will have to spend or tion was depressingly void of shoulder in terms of debt? What engagement despite Whisnant’s do those same professors who attempts, I found the piece in- were invited to the education triguing. Nazar Aljassar wrote summit have to say about loans

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versus grants in encouraging underprivileged young people to consider higher education?

For the same reasons I wrote last week that I hope The Cavalier Daily will turn some attention to how health care changes are playing out in the lives of those in our community, the editors and writers should focus on questions of access. The independence of the organization combined with the access to a range of people means that there are a wealth of stories and perspectives to be covered. The Cavalier Daily can do more than just inform us about what happened: it can also analyze the meaning of the events and give us a local context that no one else can offer.

Christopher Broom is The Cavalier Daily’s public editor. He can be reached at publiceditor@ cavalierdaily.com or on Twitter @ CDPublicEditor.

To be fair on welfare

Requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests wastes money and denigrates the poor Opinion Columnist

She has 80 names and 30 addresses, and she’s cashing out on 12 Social Security cards and veterans’ benefits from nonexistent dead husbands. She has Medicaid, food stamps, nine children and she’s raking in welfare money under each name.

She is the mythical “welfare queen”, the character constructed by right-wingers such as Ronald Reagan, who painted a sensational image of welfare fraud for Americans during his 1976 presidential campaign. And she’s still around, embodying negative stereotypes of race and gender.

She’s addled by drugs, fueling her addiction with your hardearned tax dollars.

She is the object of hatred from Americans who hold the view that life on the dole is comfortable — that poverty is

a choice and that a significant number of individuals on public assistance are living high on the hog, squandering their money on drugs, among other nonessentials.

manizing the poor.

Nobody is asking for congressmen whose salaries depend on tax money to submit to drug tests. Nobody is demanding CEOs of companies that receive corporate welfare to be subjected to mandatory drug testing. Steven Strauss from the Harvard Kennedy School writes, “Unless we ask our bank CEOs (and Forcing poor Americans to submit to drug other senior executives) tests in order to apply for public assistance is to ‘pee in the cup,’ how we know whether not about preventing tax money from going will they ‘deserve’ taxpayer to drugs. It’s about dehumanizing the poor. assistance’?”

In 2011, Florida In reality, the majority of the Gov. Rick Scott signed a law millions of welfare recipients requiring welfare recipients to are able-bodied people who are submit to drug testing. In addiworking or seeking work. Forc- tion to humiliating thousands of ing poor Americans to submit to poor Americans, the law proved drug tests in order to apply for to be fiscally irresponsible. Drug public assistance is not about testing cost the state an average preventing tax money from go- of $35 per screening, a figure ing to drugs. It’s about dehu- that does not include the cost of

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attorneys, court fees and policy implementation. The state spent approximately $120,000 to reimburse its near 4,000 TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) applicants who tested negative for drugs, resulting in a net cost of more than $45,000.

Fiscal conservatism, a tenet of the Republican Party, is inconsistent with such wasteful spending.

And while Florida taxpayers bore the brunt of the program’s cost, Scott enjoyed the wealth created by his $62 million investment in Solantic Corp., a chain of urgent care centers that perform drug tests, which he transferred to his wife in order to avoid a legal conflict of interest. Thousands of poor Americans surrendered their privacy rights to the state as a result of political graft.

In the end, the state of Florida found that about 2 percent of welfare applicants tested

positive for drugs, a proportion significantly smaller than the 6 percent of Americans who use drugs. The reality is that poor Americans who seek public assistance in order to stay afloat do not fit the drug-addled “welfare queen” archetype perpetuated by wealthy, aloof men such as Scott.

On Dec. 13, 2013, U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven ruled the Florida law mandating welfare applicants to submit to drug tests unconstitutional. But the fight isn’t over. Although the Florida law wound up to be disastrous, Republican lawmakers in other states such as Mississippi are working to enact similar mandates. Such efforts must be stopped: these laws serve only to marginalize the poor.

Nazar Aljassar is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

His columns run Fridays.

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A dream deferred We should remember Martin Luther King Jr. for his views on not just racial inequality, but also economic inequality Opinion Columnist

We are all familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.’s status as a national hero. With a federal holiday commemorating his birthday and celebrations each year praising his vision, King is as much a secular saint as any in our nation’s history. For many, he is inseparable from his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, in which he dramatically calls for an end to racism in the United States. Simple and unthreatening, the phrase “I have a dream” has come to represent King’s thoroughly uncontroversial public legacy: the inspirational African American who peacefully led the charge against the evils of racism.

This month, the University will hold its third annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.

Best-selling author, scholar and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson will give a keynote address entitled “Dr. King in the 21st Century.” Dyson is the author of the 2000 book “I May Not Get There Without You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.,” which discusses King’s radical views

on economic policy. The title of William Sullivan, head of the this year’s address suggests we FBI’s domestic intelligence dican expect a more controversial vision in 1963, to name him (and politically relevant) dis- “the most dangerous Negro in cussion of MLK’s legacy — and the future of this Nation from this perspective stands in sharp the standpoint of communism” contrast to the public’s simpli- (for the record, King advocated fied and sanitized King. a “higher synthesis” that “comThe MLK who famously bines the truths of both” capispoke to 250,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial also held strong convictions about American economic policy. Out of his concern for racial By rejoining these two Martin Luther King Jr.’s injustice grew a pre— the integrationist of 1963 and the radical occupation with the democratic socialist of 1968 — we challenge roots of poverty and ourselves to recognize the extent that our unemployment. An unsparing critic of national hero’s famous ‘dream’ remains the Vietnam War and unfulfilled.

American capitalism, King saw a need for a “radical redistribution of eco- talism and communism). In the nomic power.” He advocated a months before his 1968 assasnumber of progressive and so- sination, King shifted his focus cialist causes, including a guar- to decidedly democratic socialanteed income and universal ist causes, organizing a massive health care. We cannot forget Poor People’s Campaign to presthat the full name of MLK’s fa- sure the government into ecomous 1963 March on Washing- nomic reforms beyond those of ton was the March on Washing- Johnson’s War on Poverty. ton for Jobs and Freedom.

Dyson points out that MLK’s King’s opinions prompted current public image is mislead-

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ing and inaccurate. “In the last thirty years we have trapped King in romantic images or frozen his legacy in worship,” he writes. With King’s intellectual and moral brilliance so widely recognized, Americans should critique and apply his thought — economic as well as racial — even if it takes us to uncomfortable conclusions. Instead, we hold him up as a (often selfcongratulatory) reminder of how much we’ve improved.

By rejoining these two Martin Luther King Jr.’s — the integrationist of 1963 and the radical democratic socialist of 1968 — we challenge ourselves to recognize the extent that our national hero’s famous “dream” remains unfulfilled. Adopting the “real” legacy of MLK forces us to make connections that he saw 50 years ago. King, as usual, says it best: “questioning the whole society … means ultimately coming to see the problems of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are triple evils that are interrelated.”

Perhaps most representative of King’s convictions on the interrelatedness of racial and

economic injustice is his Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s demand for an “economic and social bill of rights” which includes rights for a job, a decent house and an adequate education. The letter proclaims that “[i]t cannot take two more centuries for it to occur to this country that there is no real right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for people condemned by the accident of their birth to an existence of hereditary economic and social misery.”

Unfortunately, to adopt a realistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.’s political philosophy would likely demote him from sainthood in many Americans’ eyes. But it’s safe to say that King would prefer that. If Dyson’s prior work is any indication of his keynote address this Thursday, he will attempt to convey a more complex, politically relevant MLK. But if King’s radical legacy is to affect political influence, it must spread beyond the academic sphere.

George Knaysi is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. His columns run Tuesdays.

Pre-kindergarten or pre-president?

Gov. Cuomo’s refusal to support Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tax proposal indicates his selfish motivations Opinion Columnist

Bill de Blasio, the newly inaugurated mayor of New York City, has made creating a universal prekindergarten system one of his top priorities. His program will be contingent on raising income taxes for the most affluent New Yorkers — those who make more than $500,000 a year. His main roadblock to implementing this tax program — and therefore universal pre-K — is the disapproval of current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Gov. Cuomo, who is more fiscally conservative than de Blasio despite being a fellow Democrat, has promised to lower taxes across the state; because of a projected surplus in the state budget, he recently announced a plan that gives $2 billion in tax relief to New Yorkers. It is very unlikely that Cuomo will grant de Blasio the legislative approval he needs to implement his NYC-specific tax hike.

Cuomo supports the idea of universal pre-K not just for NYC, but for the whole state of New York; however, he doesn’t support de Blasio’s tax plan and claims the money for pre-K will be found somewhere in the existing state budget. De Blasio has mentioned that carving money out of the budget for education

each year, making universal preK a somewhat more protected program.

This alone shows that Cuomo’s support is theoretical at best.

Given Cuomo’s expertise as a politician, he should know that a program like universal pre-K is practically unsustainable without raising taxes. Since Cuomo didn’t mention the cost of this new program or really address how it would be funded given his proposed tax cut, it’s hard to take his New Yorkers did not elect Cuomo in order to support seriously. supply him with a stepping stone toward higher If anything, Cuomo is just appeasing the office. They elected him to serve their interests, base of the Democratic Party. Cuomo and one way he can do so is by enhancing faces reelection this early childhood education programs. year, so he needs to maintain support from within also means that that money can the party, as well as support from be reallocated by legislators later moderate-to-right upstaters. So on, whereas once de Blasio’s pro- he can’t reject a progressive plan posed tax is in place, it would like universal pre-K, but he also not, like the budget, be contested can’t veer too far left by increas-

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ing spending. But more importantly, it is widely speculated that Cuomo has ambitions for the presidency — perhaps not as soon as 2016, but eventually — and he can’t come off as an overly progressive New York liberal in a national election. Tax cuts are generally more popular than tax hikes, so Cuomo’s new tax cut could serve him well in a national campaign.

Politicians sometimes work not in the best interests of their current constituents but in the best interest of their next campaign, and that seems to be what Cuomo is doing. He’s sacrificing a good and reasonable agenda purely for the sake of politics.

The tax hike de Blasio is proposing is specific to New York City’s wealthiest residents and would have no effect on New Yorkers who can’t afford to have their taxes raised or on non-city residents. The only consequence of this tax — besides perhaps some grumbling from the one-percenters — would be a universal pre-K system for city residents, some-

thing that, as Cuomo himself has noted, would be extremely beneficial to children of the city.

But, ever aware of how raising taxes negatively affects electability, Cuomo would prefer to serve himself rather than his state, which is grossly unfair to his electorate. New Yorkers did not elect Cuomo in order to supply him with a stepping stone toward higher office. They elected him to serve their interests, and one way he can do so is by enhancing early childhood education programs.

The benefits of the tax hike are obvious and there are no significant drawbacks for the citizens of New York City — just potentially for Cuomo’s future election plans.

But Gov. Cuomo’s job-title is not yet president of the United States, it’s governor of the state of New York. His work should reflect this title, not his own ambitions.

Dani Bernstein is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

Her columns run Tuesdays.

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Silencing the hecklers

Random acts of vandalism do not indicate that there is a larger race problem at the University Opinion Columnist

Students and faculty have rightly condemned the incident of racist graffiti that took place on Grounds last week. But we should not leap to conclusions about the motives behind the defacement of the Elson Student Health Center sign. Nor should we assume that the act of vandalism indicates brewing racial tensions at the University.

Our condemnations of virulent perpetrations such as these must be unequivocal and swift.

In condemning them and quickly brushing them aside, I believe that we do not reveal insecurities about the state of race relations at the University but instead express confidence in the strength of such relations.

Some students have remarked that the incident does not surprise them because of racial tension at the University. Yet I do not believe that this most recent event is indicative of high racial tension. First and foremost, it is currently unknown whether a University student committed this crime. And so it is both mis-

informed and irresponsible to blame the incident on perceived racial tensions at the University.

Racist incidents have occurred here in the past. Yet I must urge caution. Reinvigorating the debate about racial tensions at

sion within the entire University community. The University has come a long way in the past few decades in supporting a diverse, welcoming community for its students. In the past, such as during a string of incidents in 2005, the University community has united in opposition against such bigotry.

If the worst we have to worry about now is an insensitive piece of grafIf the worst we have to worry about now is an fiti, we underestimate the degree of progress insensitive piece of graffiti, we underestimate that has already been the degree of progress that has already been made concerning racial issues. To respond to a made concerning racial issues. random event such as this by amplifying the dialogue on race presupposes that racism is the University does not provide a a growing problem. Even though meaningful service. We must not we should continue to emphasize allow random acts such as these a standard of no racism whatsoto call into question the strength ever, the relative scarcity of racial of our community relations, nor incidents in recent years should permit petty expressions of hate serve to encourage us. We should to give us reasons to doubt the respond quickly and committeddegree of hospitality afforded by ly to these incidents. Respondour University. ing with doubt and uncertainty First, the indiscriminate and might create the wrong impressporadic acts of hateful individu- sion. als do not necessarily reflect tenTo give the incident itself

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more than a few minutes of attention is to satisfy the goal of the perpetrator: to give the issue notice. Yet we must treat such foolish crimes with the contempt and derision that they deserve. If the community is truly united, it should be strong enough to both condemn and transcend such behavior. In moving beyond events such as these, we do not disregard the issue of racial tension; instead, we surpass the spiteful instigators who may often take desperate measures to garner attention or to cause conflict.

Though more discussion about race relations may in some way prove to be productive, it may be an overreaction if it comes as an explicit response to this occurrence. Granted, students today and in the past have expressed dissatisfaction with race relations at the University, and their claims should be taken seriously. But to equate random acts of individual racism with significant racial tension at the University as a whole is misguided. Our collective commitment to strengthening the unity of our community should remain robust, regardless of rogue incidents.

To assume that racial tension is a growing problem at the University gives too much weight to the erratic, petty racial slanders that have been made over the years. The commonalities of past events, particularly their increasingly desperate and outlandish qualities, point to the community’s success in marginalizing racism. Isolated incidents are not in and of themselves worthy of extended attention; we must have the presence of mind to quickly surpass them.

It is understandable that some students may feel unwelcome in the face of such an event, yet I would simply caution them against giving it too much attention. The foolish action of a spiteful individual from time to time is not an indicator of broader racial tension. The conversation about race relations is one that is worth having, yet is one that should be undertaken with care and one that should exist independent of sporadic hateful crimes.

Conor Kelly is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. His columns run Tuesdays.

Vandal scandal

The “UVA Hates Blacks” graffitti is indicative of a larger race problem at the University Ashley Spinks Opinion Columnist

Last Monday hateful graffiti was discovered on the sign in front of Elson Student Health Center which read, “UVA Hates Blacks.”

Of course, the act of publicly saying something hateful, ignorant or defamatory is unacceptable. But this graffiti can be read two ways, and I think each interpretation has the ability to prompt important reflection on the University’s relationship with race and the practical implications of that relationship for minority students.

Some interpreted the message as one motivated by racism, i.e.

“U.Va. and its students do not like black people; black people are not welcome here.” If that was the intended message, what does that mean for our University? Many may try to understate the significance of the graffiti or label it a freak occurrence perpetrated by one hateful and misguided person; perhaps a person who is not even a student of the University. But to largely ignore the act is irresponsible. I had only two Facebook friends post the link to the local news story. Neither

of The Cavalier Daily’s tweets about it got any favorites or retweets. The subsequent news story on the website received only two likes and only three people commented. The lack of discussion or concern surrounding the incident was disappointing.

The University issued a response statement, but the student body at large did not receive an email or any other notification of the event or the response. It is said there will be a police investigation of the vandalization, but I doubt we will receive updates on the progress of the investigation.

According to Dean of Students Allen Groves, the University’s main objective was to keep the vandalism out of the limelight. He told The Cavalier Daily, “You don’t want to give more air time to something that’s ugly than it should deserve.”

But don’t the ugly, disturbing or offensive events that occur on our Grounds deserve extra attention, not less? Acknowledging our shortcomings and talking about how to improve is the only way we can grow as a University and as people.

Our response to the incident should be about more than condemning it. And importantly, we should realize that the significance

of the incident can not be gauged by white students’ reactions. I would go so far as to argue that the voices of the majority — specifically white students — are nearly irrelevant in the context of this vandalism. Sure, it may make white students feel bad or uncomfortable that their school has been associated with racial tension, but they are not the demographic which deserves our attention and our compassion in this situation.

When a local news outlet interviewed Ebonie Williams, a black woman who is a fourth year at the University, about the graffiti, she said that she was “disappointed, but not surprised” that it had happened.

When the default attitude of a person is to expect racist acts to be a part of their University experience and, more largely, of their lives, there is a problem. Williams also pointed out that often, when University groups attempt to spur conversations about race, the people who most need to hear the discussions are the ones least likely to attend. So we should make the talks mandatory. We could make “racial awareness” a topic of discussion during first year orientation, at dorm meetings during the first weeks of every school year, as a prerequisite to rushing, being the of-

ficer of an extracurricular group, being an RA or OL or working in the admissions office. We need to integrate approaches to healthier race relations into our University experience, whether that means holding workshops about being sensitive to charged language and differences in background and culture, teaching people to be mindful of their words and actions, facilitating honest discussions in open forums between racially different subgroups of your organizations, or promoting pride in diversity through special events.

As a final point I want to consider the possibility that the act of vandalism was carried out by someone of a minority race. If you read the graffiti from that perspective, “UVA hates blacks” becomes, “U.Va. does not treat black people the way that it should.” And that interpretation should also give us pause, perhaps even more urgently than the first.

Again, only one person wrote the message. But if one person was feeling marginalized enough and sufficiently motivated by resentment to send a message to the entire city, then it is not a stretch to assume that other people are feeling similarly.

I am not accusing particular

people — be it administrators, faculty, staff or students — of being racist. Of course the majority of our University population is not bigoted and would not think to openly express hatred toward any group. But that does not mean that there is not segregation, self-imposed or otherwise. That does not mean that some institutionalized practices of the University are not racist by nature. It does not mean that our appreciation of or respect for racial differences is sufficient.

Without being sensationalist, I would argue that the racist graffiti outside of Elson Student Health Center is indicative of a larger problem with assumptions and prejudices about race at the University, and it should have been given much more attention from both the local media and the University administrators than it was. Both administrators and student leaders have the responsibility of leading the effort to combat racial tension on Grounds, and that effort should begin as soon as possible.

Ashley Spinks is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. Her columns run Mondays.

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Committee creating Global Studies major

College aims to develop wider discipline, incorporate existing international programs Kaelyn Quinn Senior Writer

The curriculum for a proposed Global Studies major is still in the works, said Politics Prof. Jeff Legro, the vice provost for global affairs.

Friday, the Global Studies Curriculum Committee hosted an open forum to discuss the ongoing effort.

A growing demand among undergraduates for an internationally focused major — outside of the politically angled Foreign Affairs program — prompted the committee to draft their proposal, Legro said.

Philip Zelikow, association dean for the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, said the Global Studies major would have a more creative and expansive curriculum design.

“People who wanted to study

international stuff at U.Va … were … channeled into the Foreign Affairs major, which is a disciplinary major in political science,” Zelikow said.

The current draft of the Global Studies curriculum aims to avoid what Zelikow called “narrow channels,” or a focus on one particular discipline from a global perspective. “[The major seeks to] get students to have broad based core of how they understand the global, and then deepen and specialize,” Zelikow said.

The proposed major would offer five different tracts: Development Studies, Global Public Health, Global Sustainability, Arts and Humanities, and Security and Justice. Anthropology Prof. Richard Handler, the director of the Global Studies program, said two existing programs, Global Development Studies and Global Public

Health, would assimilate into the larger Global Studies program. “[It’s important] not to think of this as shutting down options, but opening more,” Handler said.

The various new tracks represent an effort to offer students more options and “bulk up” the Global Studies program to compete with international programs at the University’s peer schools, Legro said.

Zelikow described the program as “a high priority for the University.” Work on the draft began last summer, and is moving at a rapid pace, he said.

Committee members expect the program to be very popular among students.

“There is intense interest in this program,” Zelikow said. “[I]t’s not inconceivable this could be the largest degree program on the undergraduate side of the University within three years.”

Marshall Bronfin | The Cavalier Daily

At an open forum Friday the Global Studies Curriculum Committee discussed the University’s newly proposed Global Studies major. The curriculum is still in the works, said Politics Prof. Jeff Legro, pictured.

The committee deferred logistical questions of enrollment processes and prerequisites, as many components are still in the works, Legro said.

The committee is aiming for a “soft launch” of the program in the fall, on the condition the major can “offer a first rate product to students,” by that time Legro said.

University confirms Lawn closure for 2015 graduation Administration says construction schedule, Rotunda repairs makes closing inevitable; calls upon students for input Emily Hutt News Editor

University confirms renovations will close Rotunda during 2015 Final Exercises.

Administrators say $50 million project will affect Final Exercises

2015, potentially 2016.

The Rotunda will be closed during Final Exercises 2015, University officials confirmed at a meeting Thursday in the Rotunda Lower West Oval Room.

“We discussed it at length to figure out if there was any way the Rotunda could be opened for the 2015 Final Exercises period, and

there was no way,” Chief Facilities Officer Donald Sundgren said.

The confirmation follows earlier reports of a Monday meeting between student leaders and University administrators discussing the impact of the restorations upon Final Exercises for the Class of 2015 and potentially the Class of 2016.

“Every effort will be made to complete [the renovations] prior to Final Exercises 2016. It will depend on what we find while we’re in there,” Sundgren said. “Depending on what we find and what the weather will determine whether we’ll get it done before Final Exercises [2016].”

The next phase of expansive

Dillon Harding | Cavalier Daily

Due to Rotunda repairs, Final Exercises for the class of 2015 and possibly even 2016 will not take place on the Lawn. Administrators have engaged students to think of an alternative venue.

structural renovations will begin the day after Final Exercises 2014, and will continue for two years, according to a University press release.

“The University is poised to begin Phase II of what will be a $50 million renovation project,” University spokesperson Anthony de Bruyn said. “It now has been four decades since a major Rotunda renovation has been completed.”

De Bruyn said the timing is ideal, as the University turns it attention to its bicentennial celebrations just as the renovations are expected to reach completion in 2016.

The second phase of renovations will include modernizing the building’s mechanical systems, replacing portico roofs, installing a new elevator for increased access, upgrading infrastructure for the classrooms and Board of Visitors meeting room, and the addition of an underground mechanical room, according to a University press release. New marble column capitals from Italy will replace the deteriorating ones that are currently wrapped in black netting.

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State Senate election draws close competition Republican candidate, businessman Waye Coleman calls for recount after nine-vote margin Jan. 7 election Henry Pflager Senior Writer

Businessman Wayne Coleman, a Republican, requested a recount last week in the special election to replace Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam in Virginia’s sixth senate district. Nine votes separate Coleman and Democrat Del. Lynwood Lewis. The race is a key factor in determining the balance of power in the state Senate.

“It wasn’t supposed to be this close…[everyone] had written us off,” Coleman’s campaign manager Austin Chambers said.

“But we think once the recount plays itself out and every legiti-

mate vote that was cast at 7 p.m on January the seventh is counted you are going to have a different result and Wayne Coleman is going to be senator-elect.”

The Lewis campaign could not be reached for comment despite several attempts to contact them.

A combination of several factors should have led to Lewis winning the election by a wide margin — at least wider than nine votes — Center for Politics spokesperson Geoffrey Skelley said.

“Honestly Lewis should have probably put this away,” Skelley said. “It never should have been close, given that he was an elected official and in the House of

Delegates and should have been able to raise more money.”

Skelley said the special status of the election, rather than mistakes by the Lewis campaign, is one of the main reasons the election was so close. Republicans are more likely to vote in special elections than Democrats, though he added that voter turnout in both parties is usually low during these elections.

“People may not realize this, but oftentimes the final election result is not exactly what the votes said because of human error, miscounting — there can be a lot of explanations for this,” Skelley said. “But usually the margin of race is usually not close enough for that to matter.”

The Coleman campaign submitted a recount request to the court Thursday and expects to have a preliminary hearing with a three-judge panel sometime in the coming week.

“This thing is far from over and we’re going to let the process play itself out,” Chambers said. “We think it’s only fair to make sure the election of the sixth district is fair and precise.

That’s all we’re asking for.”

Courtesy Coleman campaign

Republican candidate Wayne Coleman expressed hope that the recount will swing enough votes in his favor sometime in the coming week.

Struggling student bookstore to close after two decades Longstanding Corner store faces financial difficulty as University students increasingly use online retailers Owen Robinson Senior Writer

After 20 years of business, the Student Book Store on the Corner will be closing this semester.

Competition from online vendors has forced the bookstore to shut its doors, manager John Kelm said.

Kelm returned to the store as manager six months ago, after a decade-long absence, in a last-ditch attempt to turn things around and prevent the store from going out of business. Kelm realized by August the bookstore wouldn’t be able to rebound. The decision to shut down was finalized last November, and the subsequent months have seen significant price cuts as the store tries to clear its inventory.

Kelm said there is now far less foot traffic than there was in 2003.

“Lines would be back to the stairs and an additional four or five registers would have to be set up [for the beginning of classes],” Kelm said. “[Back then] you couldn’t walk from one end of the basement to the other because there were so many books.”

Things started to change four or five years ago, however, as sites like Amazon and eBay grew in popularity, making it increasingly

convenient for students to order textbooks online and unnecessary for them to browse for books on shelves.

Bookstores around the country are struggling to stay solvent as a result and often are left only with the option of closure. Most notable was the case of Borders, a national bookstore chain that went under in 2011.

Although the trend of online book shopping has its conveniences, it also comes with some costs.

“When I heard the bookstore was going out of business I was disappointed,” first-year College student Chris Porter said. “It made me feel a little bad for getting most of my books online … There’s something special about a local bookstore.”

Furthermore, the closure of the store means one fewer venue where students can seek work. The bookstore frequently hired University students, Kelm said.

Though the bookstore was ultimately unable to remain solvent, Kelm said he was glad he had the opportunity to run the store for these past six months. In its final message to the University community, the bookstore prominently displayed “Thank You ‘Hoos!” on its website.

John Pappas | Cavalier Daily

Consistent with nationwide trends, the Student Book Store has faced decreasing profits during the past half-decade in response to mass online retailers.

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LAWN Renovations may affect Lawn residents, University traditions Continued from page 9 The underground mechanical room will house modern heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and electrical and fire alarm panels. Construction of the room will require a partial dismantling of the east colonnade to provide access for construction equipment. The colonnade will later be re-assembled.

“The support structure will be massive,” Sundgren said. “That’s going to be the structural steel that will raise the [column] capitals into place.”

Other modifications will be required to accommodate the construction efforts, including removal of the courtyard magnolia trees.

“Everything from the courtyards will be removed — that will include the magnolia trees,” Sundgren said. “That will happen in the next few weeks.”

The building will be closed to the public during this time. Individuals with offices in the Rotunda not involved in the construction project will be relocated to temporary spaces.

“Everybody who currently occupies the Rotunda will be out of there by May and will be moved to facilities elsewhere,” Sundgren said.

The 53 undergraduate Lawn rooms are still expected to be occupied at current capacity as the renovations are ongoing.

Student Council President Eric McDaniel, a fourth-year College student, said in an email to the student body that the renovations will ensure the Rotunda’s structural health for the next 50 years.

“There is no question that this work will be an inconvenience to our community,” McDaniel said.

“However, it is a minor sacrifice to allow for the best possible Academical Village as the University enters its third century.”

Third Year Council President

Will Laverack, a College student, said the council is in the process of forming a committee to address the challenges presented by the renovation, including its effect on Final Exercises.

“The renovation will undoubtedly have an impact on Grounds, and it will be our responsibility to develop innovative ways to make major events centered on the Lawn such as Final Exercises just as special and memorable to all of us,” Laverack said.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Love Connection:

Cam and Julie

Recently single third-year encounters “mature” Medical student Alexander Griswold

Julie

Senior Writer

Year: Third School: College Major: Biology/Foreign Affairs U.Va. involvement: Young Women Leaders Program, Madison House Tutoring, Vietnamese Student Association Hometown: Falls Church, Va. Ideal date (physical): Taller than me, athletic, looks good in a suit Ideal date (personality): Witty, goofy and compassionate Deal breakers? Liars and cheaters, smokers Describe a typical weekend: Study day in Clark, weekly Thai food dinner, then out with my gals.

Hobbies: Volleyball, reading, cuddling What makes you a good catch? My dimples and my silliness and my bubble butt.

Describe yourself in one sentence: I’m supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Julie and Cam met at the Rotunda at 7 p.m. Friday. They went to Basil on the Corner.

Julie: I had recently broken up with my ex; it was a really bad breakup so the next day my roommates thought I should sign up for Love Connection.

Cam: [I signed up because] I lost a bet with my roommate.

Julie: I was excited. It's been a while since I've been on a date. My roommates were jealous because they didn't get picked.

Cam: Never been on a blind date. I went in with zero expectations. [My reaction to being chosen was] "Well, here we are."

Julie: I was walking down the Lawn rooms and there was only one person sitting on the steps of the Rotunda, and it just happened to be my date. I was surprised because I thought it would be hard to identify him. We shook hands and he said he liked my gloves.

Cam: The first girl who walked by was carrying about 4 textbooks; she was disheveled and plainly unattractive. I got nervous thinking she was the one. Fortunately Julie walked up shortly after.

Julie: I thought he had a very nice smile, and he

seemed like he had a very mature way about him.

He's really cute. I'd recommend him to girls. He's a lot cuter than my ex. My ex was a jerk.

Cam: [I thought she was] friendly, nice and pretty.

Julie: We walked down the Corner a bit and talked about places we have been to and haven't been to.

We settled on Basil.

Cam: I initially thought she was a bit reserved, but pretty soon we struck a balance. I think we hit all the mandatory conversation topics for a blind date: school, background, travel, music, movies, etc.

Julie: [We talked about] getting to know you stuff... about school, about how swimming is an essential life skill (we both know how to swim). We talked about sports [and] different activities.

Cam: We both love avocados and we both have a crush on Joe Harris. We also swapped stories about travelling around Europe.

Julie: It was very good. He is a very good conversationalist; he kept the conversation going and it wasn't awkward or anything.

Cam: There was not nearly as much flirting as

there was between Teresa Sullivan and me at Coupes the other weekend.

Julie: He's more mature than a lot of the guys I've seen. He's such a cool person, but he's probably not super-duper into me. He's just a really cool person.

I feel like any girl would be lucky to date him, and I'm probably not his type.

Cam: [We will] probably not [have a second date] — too much of an age difference.

Julie: It would be really cool to be friends with him; I don't know if he'd want to be friends with me.

Cam: She gave me her number. I gave her a hug, and we went our separate ways. I have the board exam in two weeks so I went back to study (sweet Friday night, I know).

Julie: We parted, I gave him my number. He said he'd call to give me his number, and I swear I saw him press call but I guess it didn't go through.

Cam: [It was a] 7.

Julie: It was a fun date for just dinner. I give it an 8.5.

Cam Year: Second … actually sixth (back for grad school) School: Medicine Major: Human Biology (CLAS ‘11) U.Va. involvement: Med School Student Council Hometown: Waverly, Va. Ideal date (physical): Athletic build, blonde or brunette Ideal date (personality): Rachel McAdams in “Wedding Crashers.”

Deal breakers? Well I’m currently growing a mustache for November, so I don’t have much room to talk here.

But anyone younger than my sister would be a little weird. And for some reason bad handwriting has always been a turnoff for me.

Describe a typical weekend: Drinks with friends, sleep in, some studying, something active.

What makes you a good catch? Your grandmother would love me.

What makes you a less-than-perfect catch? I probably work too much.

What is your spirit animal? This is a stupid question.

Describe yourself in one sentence: I’m wittier than I am handsome, so I try to avoid loud clubs.

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The Cavalier Daily

‘Hoo runs the crew

University sports enthusiasts advocate school spirit

Margaret Mason Feature Writer

The night of every home basketball game, behind the large mass of orange tee-shirts, crazy wigs, and bright orange faceand body-paint, are a talented team of true fans.

‘Hoo Crew is a contracted independent organization founded in the fall of 2005, with a stated mission of enhancing the “game atmosphere at all home University athletics events, with an emphasis on Men’s Basketball,” according to its website. In short, the crew works to encourage students to attend athletic events.

Currently, the organization is spearheaded by fourth-year

Commerce student Haider Arshad, along with vice president Stephen Farmer, a fourth-year Commerce student. The duo, faithful members of ‘Hoo Crew for more than three years, dedicate themselves to bringing students and athletes together, inviting students to look past the uniform backpacks and sweatpants to see the individuals.

“We want students to have a good athletics experience, and bridge the gap between students and athletes,” Farmer said.

“Commonly people put athletes at a higher status, but the reality is they are just other students as well.”

Through the organization’s Facebook account, Twitter and email list, ‘Hoo Crew members organize several bonding events

for athletes and students alike throughout athletic seasons.

With activities ranging from trivia night with men’s basketball players Joe Harris and Justin Anderson to afternoon basketball with the team, the group gets students invested in their athletic teams.

“One of the reasons we are trying to do more events where students get to interact with athletes is the logic that if you have a friend that is an athlete you are definitely more inclined to go watch their game and go support them,” Farmer said. “That is our goal, to make students comfortable going out to support.”

Once they get students in the stadium, ‘Hoo Crew works to ignite students’ passion. From streamers to the infamous face

cutouts, simple and goofy ideas result in a stadium packed with spirit.

“One of my overarching goals was to change the experience for men’s basketball games specifically and really turn John Paul Jones into a place that was tough to play [for visiting teams],” Arshad said. “Last year we did a wonderful job — the Hoos didn’t lose a single ACC game at home.”

Beyond basketball, ‘Hoo Crew holds several “Orange Passport” events that encourage attendance to non-revenue sports games. During Orange Passport games the coaches, players and ‘Hoo Crew all come together, giving out free T-shirts, pizza and drinks. Covering roughly two events for each sports team, this alliance gives recognition to

many overlooked sports teams.

“There are a lot of good teams and it is unfair that just football and basketball get all the attention because they’re the moneymaking sports,” Farmer said. “All teams deserve support at their games and we are there to support everyone.”

Although anyone who signs up on the ‘Hoo Crew website is considered a member, a committee of roughly 30 to 35 students helps plan and brainstorm ways to improve game atmosphere.

“I like to say that every student is a member of ‘Hoo Crew,” Arshad said. “At the end of the day, we’re all students at U.Va. … I want people to have fun and enjoy the athletic experience, want to come back, and want to root on the ‘Hoos.”

All photos courtesy Haider Arshad

Established in 2005, ‘Hoo Crew plays a large role in the student athletic experience by organizing events surrounding all different sporting events, and places an emphasis on increasing attendance especially at men’s basketball games.

LIFE

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Spreading Kesem University students volunteer to help families affected by cancer Darby Witherspoon Feature Writer

Whether it’s falling off the monkey bars at recess or desperately scrambling to find a homecoming date, growing up can be tough. But for kids whose parents have or had cancer, the process is that much more difficult. That’s where Camp Kesem steps in.

Camp Kesem, founded in 2000 by Stanford University’s chapter of Hillel — the largest international Jewish campus organization — is an entirely student-run group with partnerships at 54 universities nationwide. Kesem, which means “magic” in Hebrew, works to ease

the burden for families afflicted by cancer, even if just for a week.

Each chapter holds a weeklong camp each summer, catering to kids aged 6 to 16.

The University’s Kesem chapter relies almost exclusively on student volunteers to work as counselors and fundraisers. It aims to give campers a place to have fun, where they can focus on being kids.

“Most of the activities at Camp Kesem are very normal camp activities,” fourth-year College student and camp codirector Nikki Tracy said. “We have slip ‘n slides, paint wars [and] s’mores.”

Still, Camp Kesem is special in that it gives campers a chance to speak about why they are there and vocalize the difficulties they’ve faced with their parents’ illness in a special program at the end of the week.

Fourth-year College student Alison Celello, camp co-director, finds the tradition to be incredibly important. “[Some of the stories are] more light-hearted, but still heartfelt, [while some are] very emotional,” she said. “It’s just a really great way to bring together the older and younger campers.”

Celello, known as “Pigtails” at camp, described how one camper, in particular, felt so touched by his experience he decided to spread the magic of Kesem himself.

“A mother on the board was telling me her son would make all of his friends sit and watch a 15-minute slideshow [with photos from camp] when they were having playdates, showing them people…and explaining what they were doing,” she said. “He helped his mom pass out brochures at the hospital, too. It was so nice to see what an impact camp made on him.”

To keep the organization running, Camp Kesem applies for grants from organizations such as the Charlottesville Community Foundation, and also hosts an annual cocktail party in the spring with a silent auction and a cappella performances. This year, the event will take place Saturday, March 29 at Paramount Theatre on the Downtown Mall.

Members of the chapter would like to raise $60,000 before camp begins in August.

The chapter will also soon begin taking applications from students interested in becoming counselors.

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Courtesy Alison Celello

Camp Kesem brings kids whose parents are battling cancer together for a weeklong overnight experience aimed at providing community and normalcy.

The University’s souls are awakening

Fourth-year Commerce student brings peers together on Grounds to meditate, seek spirituality, share experiences Kelly Seegers Feature Writer

Students in the Society for Awakening Souls do everything from read tarot cards to perform the Chinese meditation and martial arts practice chi gung when they come together for their weekly meetings. The group, founded in the fall by fourth-year Commerce Student Nick Lasky, aims to serve as a spiritual outlet and resource on Grounds.

After spending the summer in

California, Lasky said he wanted to bring his newfound spirituality and spiritual conversations back to the University.

“I just decided I was going to do it,” he said. “[SAS is] really a place for people to come and learn more about spirituality. The mission is just to [create] a little spiritual community for all those who are curious.”

The group assembles every Wednesday evening, beginning their meeting with a guided meditation Lasky leads. After the session, there is an open discussion

when people can raise thoughts about the meditation, share experiences they have had in the past week, or discuss anything about their personal spiritual journeys.

“It’s cool how it has become a community really fast,” fourthyear College student Navona Gallegos said. “A lot of us didn’t know each other before last semester and [we] are really good friends now, so that’s exciting.”

Last semester, the group had meetings focused on a variety of topics, such as astrology, and occasionally hosted guest speakers

to give lectures or share different techniques, including John Oliver, the owner of the Aquarian Bookshop downtown.

“Everyone in SAS is really welcoming and accepting so if someone is feeling sort of shy about it, or maybe they feel like whatever path [he or she] is on is sort of a private thing and doesn’t really want to share it in a group, that’s not necessary,” Gallegos said. “They can still come and hang out and engage in whatever level they want to.”

The group’s members come from a variety of different back-

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The Society for Awakening Souls stood outside Alderman Library during finals last semester giving out hugs to passersby in an effort to spread love and joy to the University community.

The Society for Awakening Souls is a CIO founded in the fall whose mission is to provide a community for those seeking spiritual awakening. The organization hosts guest speakers and lectures in addition to holding group meditation and yoga sessions.

grounds. Lasky reads tarot cards — an outlet for a psychic ability that he says all people have to a certain degree.

“They say that everyone’s psychic, so it’s just the intuition you get about other people,” Lasky said.

“When you meet someone, before you even talk to them, you are like, ‘Oh, I don’t really like that person, I am getting something weird from that person.’ That is just your psychic ability. You are picking up something about them energetically.”

Gallegos practices the bodycentered form of Chinese energy work chi gung. “[Chi gung practices] also affect other energies in your body, or at least that’s what I think about them,” he said. “It’s just a way of using body movement as a vehicle for changing your own energy-conscious balance.”

SAS does not have any particular religious affiliation, Lasky said, as religion and spirituality are separate realms.

Meditation and spiritual practices have long had a place in University life — the Medical School’s Mindfulness Center incorporates meditative practices into medical care to help improve patient healing and well-being — but have experienced a boom in the past several years.

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