Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Cavalier Daily Vol. 128, Issue 30

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Alderman’s next chapter page 5

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Five people arrested at Foxfield page 4

Explaining the tenure track page 7

Caring for LGBTQ patients page 11

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Interfaith group presents affordable housing ideas to City, County officials

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Second-year College student Natalie Romero has been named as the next student director of the Multicultural Student Center.

The University’s Multicultural Student Center, located in Newcomb Hall, aims “to facilitate a student centered, collaborative space that supports underrepresented and marginalized communities, while cultivating the holistic empowerment of all students.”

The MSC student director works to ensure that the center is providing programs that cover a wide range of topics and support the students involved. Romero will be serving for the 2018-19 school year.

Each year, prospective student directors undergo a series of applications and interviews in order to be considered for the role. After extensive review, the current MSC student director collaborates with faculty and deans to reach a final decision.

As student director, Romero said she wants to focus on collaborating with Contracted Independent Organizations on Grounds to build both productive relationships and friendships.

The parents of late University student Otto Warmbier filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the government of North Korea for the “hostage taking, illegal detention, torture and killing” of their son.

In their suit, Frederick and Cynthia Warmbier claim the North Korean government should be held liable for Otto’s wrongful death, intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery, and should additionally be punished under federal anti-terrorism codes. The family is demanding both economic and non-economic compensation for personal injuries stemming from the North Korean government’s actions against Otto.

“Kim and his regime have portrayed themselves as innocent, while they intentionally destroyed our son’s life,” a statement from Frederick Warmbier reads. “This lawsuit is another step in holding North Korea accountable for its barbaric treatment of Otto and our family.”

Warmbier died shortly after he returned to the U.S. in a comatose state last June follow-

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More than 1,000 community members from 27 local congregations gathered at Charlottesville High School Tuesday night in an attempt to secure policy commitments from local government representatives on the issue of affordable housing.

The event was led and organized by IMPACT — Interfaith Movement Promoting Action by Congregations Together — a local grassroots organization which focuses on developing policy solutions for community problems.

Reverend Albert Connette of the Olivet Presbyterian Church read IMPACT’s policy demands for Charlottesville City, which were to streamline the approval process for affordable housing developments and review current zoning regulations to identify areas for reform.

Fifty-five percent of city land is currently zoned for single-family homes, thereby restricting opportunities for high-density affordable housing construction. Developments on West Main Street, one of the only areas still zoned for highly concentrated dwellings, have thus far largely been geared towards students rather than low-income tenants.

All public representatives agreed to attend the 13th annual IMPACT assembly on Oct. 30 and update community members on

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Students and local residents gathered around the Lawn-side of the Rotunda Friday to request the Board of Visitors ban Jason Kessler — organizer of the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally last summer— and other white nationalists from Grounds.

The protest of around 50 to 60 individuals ensued as the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors held a meeting inside the Rotunda and after the University announced a four-year trespass warning to Kessler earlier that morning. The warning prohibits Kessler from entering University property.

“The warning was issued due to multiple reports from students that Mr. Kessler threatened them, targeted them through cyber-bullying and cyber-harassment, and targeted them based on protected characteristics,” said a statement issued by the University Friday.

The policy also indicates Kessler will be banned from Grounds for four years, though it makes exceptions for emergency care in the University Medical Center. Kessler can also appeal the warning to the University’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.

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Board of Visitors approves demolition of U-Hall The demolition could be completed as soon as 2020 Kara Peters | Senior Writer

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University President Theresa Sullivan attended Friday’s Board of Visitors meeting, where members voted on U-Hall’s demolition and the cost increase for the College at Wise.

Members of the University Board of Visitors approved the demolition of University Hall and other athletic buildings during an executive meeting in the Rotunda Friday afternoon.

The Board also approved a Master of Public Safety degree program in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and discussed the University’s Strategic Investment Fund report as well as increased in tuition and housing rates for the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

The meeting included approval of amendments to the 2017 Multi-Year Capital Plan — an annually updated, long-term plan for projects the University wants to carry out. Some additions included approved funding plans for the demolition of University buildings such as University Hall, Onesty Hall, the Cage and the Sports Medicine building.

The plans will begin immediately with utility work before initiating asbestos abatement in the fall in efforts to redevelop the Athletics Precinct and accommodate for future athletic endeavors.

Onesty Hall, the Cage and University Hall are located across from John Paul Jones Arena, between Massie and Copeley road.

University Hall originally served as the stadium for the men’s and women’s basketball teams until

2006 with the opening of John Paul Jones Arena.

Senior Vice President for Operations Colette Sheehy presented plans for the U-Hall demolition project, saying the demolition will proceed following results from an Intensive Level Survey under the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

The survey will be completed in July and will give the University permission to move further along in the demolition process.

If cleared, the demolition will be finished as soon as 2020.

University Hall’s outer ring currently serves as an important area for athletes, holding administrative offices and locker rooms for sports such as men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey and track and field. The arena portion on the other hand is no longer in use, as the building needs to undergo “significant repairs” such as new roofing, asbestos abatement and various upgrades.

The cost to demolish these buildings is expected to range between $12 and $14 million. All other projects, including the construction of temporary modular units and sports training structures, will also cost several million dollars.

The Executive Committee also approved a new degree program to be offered by the School

of Continuing and Professional Studies, specifically with a focus on obtaining a Master of Public Safety. Through online instruction and face-to-face sessions, this two-year program will prepare students to understand public issues and skills using evidence-based strategies and critical thinking.

The program is now pending approval by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

The Board also discussed the Strategic Investment Fund Report and upcoming finances for the University. University President Teresa Sullivan explained the report in detail.

The Board approved $5 million dollars from the Strategic Investment Fund and the Office of the President to be allocated for the expansion of undergraduate scholarships. The funding will specifically provide 50 additional Blue Ridge scholarships and 50 additional University Achievement awards.

In addition, $1.5 million from the fund will be allocated to the Bridge Project proposed by the Dean’s Working Group for increased diversity programming seeking to engage the University and community members following the events of Aug. 11 and 12. Sullivan created the Dean’s Working Group to assess the University’s response to the

events of Aug. 11 and 12 when white nationalists marched down the Lawn and hosted the deadly Unite the Right rally the following day.

Sullivan also noted the allocation of $80,000 for a campus climate survey.

“I am covering the cost of that survey, through presidential funds, the revised budget was $64,000, and it is actually in the field right now,” Sullivan said in the meeting.

A large portion of the board meeting was geared towards the tuition and housing rates of the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. After gaining approval by the Board Finance Committee in March, the University’s College at Wise decided to increase the tuition for both in-state and out-of-state students by three percent. Members of the Committee said they believe increasing the tuition will allow for a balanced operating budget, under the College at Wise’s Six Year Plan.

The College of Wise's housing rates stood at $6,202, compared to the average housing rate of $6,007 for Virginia public colleges and universities. After initially proposing to not increase the housing rates for the 2018-19 academic year, the committee decided to approve this plan.

Tuition rates on the other hand

will increase by two percent for in-state students, and 2.45% for out-of-state.

In an interview with The Cavalier Daily following the executive meeting, Donna Henry, Chancellor of the University’s College at Wise, said trying to increase enrollment is the school’s biggest issue.

The committee talked about the College relying more on the University for enrollment increases. Kathy Still, the director of Media Relations for the University’s College at Wise, said they have an existing recruitment plan in collaboration with the University.

“We already have a plan in place that allows waitlisted U.Va. students, if they like, to get immediate admissions to the College at Wise with the ability to transfer seamlessly to the University for their last two years if they maintain a good academic record,” Still said. “We hope that a comprehensive campaign to bring attention to the College at Wise and its programs will yield short and long term results.”

The Board of Visitors’ next series of meetings are scheduled for June 6 through June 8.

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Five people arrested at 41st annual Foxfield Races Lower number of people arrested in comparison to previous years Nik Popli | Associate Editor The Albemarle County Police Department released preliminary figures Saturday evening stating there were five arrests made at this year’s Foxfield Races. One of the five individuals arrested was a University student.

Virginia State Police made four of the five arrests on drunk-in-public charges, while Albemarle County Police made the other arrest for disorderly conduct. In addition to law enforcement issues, there were also 31 individuals who visited the medical tent with medical issues, 12 of which are known to be related to alcohol.

Three individuals were transported to the emergency room. It is currently unknown if the three ER trips were related to alcohol.

The races — which began in 1978 — are a popular tradition among University students and the local community. According to Albemarle County Police, this year’s annual Foxfield Races drew a crowd of 15,000 people.

These arrest numbers represent a decline in arrests compared to previous years. In 2016, there were 20 arrests made at the race as opposed to seven arrests in 2015, 18 in 2014 and 33 in 2013.

Each year, the majority of arrests were alcohol-related.

Albemarle County Police and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad were stationed at the Foxfield Races monitoring the event and ensuring safety.

“When you go to any event, you’re expected to abide by the law,” said Madeline Curott, a spokesperson for the Albemarle County Police Department. “[Officers are] looking for anything that is breaking the law, whether it’s underrage drinking, drug use, incidents like this where there’s disorderly conduct or [being] drunk-in-public.”

Last year, there were also five arrests at the Foxfield Races, two of which were of University students.

“I think we do a good job of educating,” Curott said. “Some of our officers go over to U.Va. and give a talk to students and just explain to them what they can do to make sure that they can have a good and safe time ...

We put stuff out on our social media and just try to remind people that we’re there to ensure that they have a safe, enjoyable time and we’re there if they need us.”

In the weeks prior to Foxfield, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team at the University has worked in conjunction with Albemarle County

Police, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Inter-Fraternity Council and the Inter-Sorority Council to talk to students participating in the events of Foxfield weekend about what to expect and how to stay safe.

ADAPT co-hosted two sessions of its annual Foxfield Education Session in Newcomb Hall April 16 with Albemarle County Police and representatives from Foxfield. The presentations focused on alcohol education and general information about race day.

The program emphasized information about medical facilities and law enforcement resources available at Foxfield.

Miranda Gali, ADAPT co-chair and a fourth-year College student, said that the ADAPT student safety tent handed out water, as well as sunscreen and snacks at the Foxfield Races, and that the tent was successful in helping reduce consequences of dehydration and unhealthy alcohol usage.

“I think it’s really effective, I know last year and this year as well, water is a really big part of our student tent,” Gali said. “Keeping students hydrated and safe is a big thing that we do and we think we’ve been doing better.”

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This year’s annual Foxfield Races saw a crowd of 15,000 and five arrests for disorderly conduct.

Campaign began 17 years ago when the University recognized a need for greater promotion of healthy behaviors during Foxfield weekend.

“Last year there were also five arrests so it’s kind of remained steady, but that’s pretty low in comparison to other years,” Gali said. “Overall I just

like to think that the continual messaging, not just from our Foxfield campaign but from all of our campaigns, is getting through to students so they at least know a few things they can do to stay safe.”

Delta Force Program cuts U.Va. carbon dioxide emissions The program’s success surpassed the cuts first promised in the Greenhouse Gas Action Plan Emma Bradford | Senior Writer The Delta Force Program — an initiative on Grounds which began in 2007 and has focused on a number of sustainability projects — has turned its attention to cutting down carbon dioxide emission at the University in the past few years.

In 2009, the University developed the first phase of the Environmental Footprint Reduction Plan which sought to reduce University greenhouse gas emissions and “enhance the sustainability of the University through specific environmental impact reductions.” The plan considered climate change one of the “most significant and widespread challenges facing our generation and those soon to come.”

In 2011, the Board of Visitors passed a resolution aiming to reduce University greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter of the level emitted in 2009 by the year 2025, from just below 350,000 MTCDEs — metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, often used to measure emissions — to around 250,000 MTCDEs. This

plan was reiterated in the University’s 2017 Greenhouse Gas Action Plan — by the end of 2017, the program saved over 20,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being released from University buildings, surpassing their initial goal of 15,000.

Greenhouse gases — such as carbon dioxide produced from burning fossil fuels like wood, coal and oil — trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to rising global temperatures which have extreme effects on local climates and ecosystems. Reducing greenhouse emissions can help minimize the adverse effects such gases have on the global climate.

Since the program began in 2007, Delta Force has worked on over 20 different projects.

“The program works like a revolving fund; we fund new projects from the energy savings generated by our past work,” Jesse Warren, the Sustainability Program manager and leader of the Delta Force Program, said in an email to The Cavalier Daily.

Delta Force’s has performed

energy retrofits on over 50 University buildings. The program’s success is best seen in Clark Hall, where the project significantly reduced energy use bytes. Delta Force is a result of the work of the Office of Sustainability, University staff and other external professionals, who collaborate to reduce the energy costs and carbon dioxide emissions in the most highly-trafficked buildings on Grounds.

The program has cost close to $14 million — a fund that comes out of the over $31 million the program has saved the University in energy costs. In Clark Hall, the program reduced energy use by half, saving the University over $600,000 a year with only a $2 million dollar project.

By installing new LED lighting, plumbing fixtures, carefully insulating windows and doors and more, the building is on its way to being certified as a “green building” this summer with a LEED EB O+M certification — a third party verification that records the sustainability efforts of

a building and checks that it is operating on “green” practices.

Delta Force is working on many other buildings, with some of the projects boasting large budgets. The current project with the largest budget is the Primary Care Center, a building in the University Medical Center, with a $600,000 budget.

The Primary Care Center used over 1,755 million Btus or a unit of heat named a British thermal unit, in the month of April alone.

A British thermal unit is part of the United States customary units — as opposed to a calorie in the metric system — and measures the amount of heat needed to raise one pound of water at maximum density through one degree Fahrenheit. This can be compared to the only 739 million Btus used in Clark Hall.

Other buildings the program is working on include the Chemistry Building, the Elson Student Health Center, Gilmer Hall and Observatory Hill Dining Hall.

Delta Force plans to work on Newcomb Hall, a building that

used approximately 2.365 billion Btus in April. A budget for the Newcomb Hall renovations has not yet been determined.

Warren said the program began with a narrower focus and later expanded outwards.

“The program started in 2007 with the retro commissioning of a large Health System building named MR-4,” Warren said. “The building was not performing as well as it could have, so Facilities Management underwent a process of returning the HVAC system for optimum performance … Today we focus on replacing existing lighting with LEDs, improving building insulation and retrofitting digital controls for heating and air conditioning.”

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Alderman renovation to be presented to Board of Visitors The renovation plan proposes structural and usability fixes Sophia McCrimmon | Senior Writer

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Upon approval, Alderman Library — originally built in 1938 — will be renovated to resolve longstanding structural flaws and increase access to usable study spaces.

After two years of preliminary planning, the renovation of Alderman Library is set to reach a critical milestone this summer. On June 7, the Board of Visitors Buildings & Grounds Committee will have the chance to review schematic design plans developed by HBRA, the architecture firm for the project.

This initial review sets the stage for a final design approval of the $160 million project in September.

Construction on the project is slated to begin in 2020.

Built in 1938, Alderman currently faces issues with architectural soundness and fire safety. The building has not been renovated since 1987, when an air conditioning system was added.

The “Old Stacks” area of the library — the section of books closest to the library’s main entrance — has an “extremely problematic” zero-hour fire-resistive rating, according to a 2007 Library Planning and Assessment Study conducted by the Office of the Architect. Additionally, Alderman is required to have two accessible exits on every floor, but currently has none on the third or fifth floor.

Improvements to these internal structural issues will likely require the complete or partial demolition of Old and New Stacks during construction. Because the bookshelves

in Old Stacks are used as building support, they cannot be rearranged without the demolition of the entire area. Similarly, remedying electrical wiring and safety problems in the New Stacks area is also difficult to do while maintaining the existing structure, according to University Librarian John Unsworth in a February interview with UVA Today.

If the project is approved and funds are allocated, some of Alderman’s over two million volumes could be relocated to Ivy Stacks, a facility located over a mile west of Central Grounds. An Ivy Stacks expansion project has been in progress since fall 2017 and is set to double the capacity of the facility to about 5 million volumes.

Beyond structural and safety issues, the renovation aims to improve study spaces, particularly for collaborative work and reorganize the way books and manuscripts are housed, according to the Planning and Assessment Study.

In November 2017, HBRA was selected as the project architect.

The firm has worked on libraries at various universities, such as Yale University and Northwestern.

They’ve been collaborating with the Alderman Renovation Project Working Group, a team comprised of representatives from the Office

of the Executive Vice President and Provost, University Library and Office of the Architect.

“The four of us are at every meeting to make sure we’re getting a real cross section of who the library serves,” said Kate Meyer, a senior project manager with Facilities Management and Construction.

Since November, HBRA and the renovation project committee have hosted eight focus groups to gauge student and faculty opinion.

One of the main points of contention to emerge from these sessions has to do with the volume of books housed on-site in the library.

Currently, architects and project committee members hope to distribute smaller collections throughout the building and implement compact shelving, which allows for high-density, mobile book storage which can be reoriented based on user need.

The planned decrease in shelf space prompted a petition managed by John Bugbee, a Ph.D. candidate in religious studies, which has garnered 307 signatures to date.

Bugbee argues that “a genuinely improved Alderman ought to include more shelf space for books, kept on-site in open, easily browsable settings.”

In response to the petition, Unsworth asserted the practical

benefits of a less concentrated collection.

“The maximalist collections position is ideological rather than pragmatic in nature, and while I generally subscribe to this ideology, I am faced with pragmatic decisions that must be made,” Unsworth said in a comment to Bugbee’s petition.

In an email to The Cavalier Daily, Unsworth reiterated the disagreement over shelf-space, saying it will not be a major issue in the long term.

“I don’t think there are any real philosophical differences between those planning this project and those planning to use the library in the future,” he said. “We agree that a humanities and social science library should have substantially and thoughtfully selected print collections … arranged for scholarly use.”

Taking these issues into consideration, HBRA architects are set to present their schematic design to the Board of Visitors in June. But before they do, the project must undergo a period of evaluation based on technical details and budgeting.

“It goes to our building code officials, gets sent around to tradesmen … we’ll get cost estimates and we’ll look for ways to save money,” Meyer said. “That way when we send it to the board we have to be certain we’re sending them a pro-

ject that is on budget and within our resources, so they don’t look at a gold-plated cup and say ‘we love it’ and then we hand them pewter later.”

If the schematic design is approved in June, the project will move forward into preliminary design. In October, the renovation plans will be sent to Richmond for a technical review and approval by the General Assembly in their spring 2019 term.

“At that point back here in Charlottesville there’s nothing for us to do but wait for them to tell us whether they’re going to approve it,” Meyer said.

If the General Assembly approves the plan and agrees to provide the requested $160 million, the University would receive the funding in the summer of 2019 and then be able to move forward with construction.

Though Meyer’s main focus is keeping the project on schedule, like many she also feels a personal connection to the renovation.

“I grew up in Charlottesville and I went to U.Va. and I’ve been in Alderman my whole life, so for me, it’s almost like renovating the Rotunda,” Meyer said. “For me, Alderman is right up there with the whole core of who we are.”

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Advertising accessibility after tuition hikes Examining how better publicization of financial aid packages can influence low-income student enrollment Claire Stemberger | Staff Writer

In early December 2017, the University Board of Visitors approved the following changes in tuition structure for the incoming undergraduate class for 2022 — a 2.5 percent tuition increase for most in-state students and a 3.5 percent increase for most out-ofstate students.

This new tution structure will also include the same increases for all students returning for the 2018-19 academic year. However, rates will remain unchanged for Virginia students who opted for the optional Guaranteed Tuition Plan, an agreement that fixes their base tuition rate upon entering the University so that it remains unaffected by annual increases.

As public funding for higher education has decreased in past decades, average national tuition rates have trended towards annual increases, imparting a greater financial commitment on the average degree-seeking undergraduate student. Despite this being the third-consecutive year of tuition hikes, the University claims to have kept costs for students as low as possible by trying to hold these increases at or below the rate of inflation for most in-state students.

Additionally, the University’s increased tuition seems to be on trend with other public universities in the Commonwealth for the 2018-19 academic year, with Virginia Tech seeing a tuition increase of 2.9 percent for instate students and 3.5 percent for outof-state students.

The University insists that its financial aid model offers an excellent and affordable education to all qualified students. However, a phenomenon called “sticker shock,” results when potential low-income students who lack knowledge of financial aid packages view the high price of the total tuition amount before financial aid and are subsequently deterred from accepting offers of admission.

This effect has made “sticker shock” a significant concern for many student organizations on Grounds.

The financial aid model The University is currently only one of two public universities in the country to meet the full financial need of both instate and out of state students, according to Melody Bianchetto, vice president of finance at the University.

With its financial-aid model, “AccessUVA,” the University offers full aid to all eligible students through customized packages which include grants or scholarships, work-study employment and need-based loans.

This program was implemented fully for the first time in the fall of 2005.

Students who meet the eligibility requirements — such as possession of a high school diploma, a valid social security number and U.S. citizenship or eligible non-citizen status — and

demonstrate financial need may apply for aid for all eight semesters of their undergraduate studies.

AccessUVA provides direct subsidized loans to low-income students.

Bianchetto explained that in-state students will only have $1,000 in loans every year for a total of $4,000 over four years. All other Virginians have about $4,500 per year for a total of $18,000 over four years.

As low-income students reach this $1,000 loan cap, they will receive additional aid in the form of grants, rather than loans, to at least equal in-state tuition fees. Unlike loans, which a student must eventually pay off, grants are usually need-based financial aid that do not need to be repaid.

This is the case even with the variance in tuition rates across the different schools at the University, with some schools requiring higher fees due to specialized research equipment or higher average salaries for faculty. “[Let’s say] you are a Virginian who’s not low income but you have need and you have $4,500 in loans, and then the next year you go to the McIntire School or the Batten School with a higher tuition,” Bianchetto said. “Most of that increased tuition cost is going to come in the form of grants because you are already hitting that loan cap — we don’t increase the loan cap for those programs.”

In late 2016, the University Board of Visitors announced another important measure to keep AccessUVA fully endowed. The Bicentennial Scholars Fund, an endowment voted on by the Board of Visitors in 2016 to support AccessUVA, plans to match a $100 million investment from the Strategic Investment Fund, a source of funding controlled by the BOV and the University president for various initiatives and research projects, with an additional $100 million from philanthropic donations to provide funding for scholarship programs.

Bianchetto named two additional need-based scholarships intended for high achieving students from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds — the University Achievement Award and the Blue Ridge Scholars Program. She explained that plans have been made to substantially increase the number of these awards offered to the incoming class of 2022.

“The President and Provost have authorized us to award an additional 50 University Achievement Awards [in-state tuition and fees] and 50 Blue Ridge Scholars Awards [$5,000 grant]” Bianchetto said.

Effects on minority enrollment Despite the University’s professed commitment to fostering a culture of inclusion and diversity, the recent events of Aug. 11 and 12 have led some students to question whether this event has particularly discouraged mi-

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A phenomenon called “sticker shock” results when potential low-income students who lack knowledge of financial aid packages view the high price of the total tuition before financial aid and are dissuaded from accepting offers of admission.

nority students from attending.

Alex Cintron, a third-year College student and Student Council president, ran on a platform in which he proposed an increase in merit-based scholarships, greater student input in the tuition creation process and regular meetings with minority and advocacy organization leaders.

“Just generally speaking, we are at a moment where this University … is struggling a lot with its past,” Cintron said in an interview with The Cavalier Daily. “When you do something to increase barriers of coming into this University you also make it so that … students who would not have been here 50 years ago, or 60, 70 years ago, you make it more difficult for … more students to come here who do not fit what has traditionally been a U.Va. student.”

In a email to The Cavalier Daily, Evelyn Wang, a fourth-year Commerce student and former chair of the Minority Rights Coalition, said tuition growth disproportionately impacts minority students at the University. She provided statistics and data from the research she conducted on the impact of tuition increases during the fall 2017 semester.

“UVA admissions suffers from low yield rates of students of color,” Wang said. “In fall of 2017, only 37% of black students and 31% of Hispanic students offered admission ultimately enrolled.

UVA Office of Admissions’ surveys to applicants who don’t enroll cite ‘financial need’ as one of the top reasons they fail to matriculate.”

The low yield rates, Wang said, represent the adverse effects of “sticker shock,” and her research suggests that even if financial aid is provided in proportion to the rising rate of tuition, high sticker prices may stil deter the enrollment of highest need applicants.

Francesca Callicotte, a third-year College student and president of United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity, said that she chose to attend the University specifically because of

its financial aid model, through which she was awarded the Blue Ridge Scholarship.

Although Callicotte recognizes the significant impact that AccessUVA has on making a University education possible for low-income students, she expressed concern that middle class students are often dissuaded by sticker shock, which makes it difficult for the University to achieve its mission of diversity and inclusion.

“I think that with tuition increases at 3 percent you see ... [that] it deters individuals who exist in the middle class … who don’t necessarily qualify for AccessUVA but can’t afford to pay $60,000 a year,” Callicotte said. “And there are a lot of people who are racial minorities, ethnic minorities, gender minorities, queer minorities, etc. who occupy that space.”

Moving forward while promoting accessibility In order to increase transparency in the tution creation process, Cintron has stated his intention to ensure regular communication between the Student Council and the administration to increase opportunities for student involvement in the proposal making.

Bianchetto explained that the University issued a public notification last year, offering students an opportunity to discuss the tuition proposal before it was finalized. However, she added that she would welcome additional student involvement under Cintron’s administration.

“I am happy to talk to Alex and see what he has in mind and how we would be able to include students, probably not just in the tuition setting process but also understanding all of the costs that we have to face and the decisions we have to make to build a budget,” said Bianchetto. “It would be good to have a student understanding a little bit closer to it.”

Additionally, Cintron is looking to undertake a multi-pronged approach to tackle tuition increases which would include a legislative lobby com-

ponent.

“I would love to see our legislative affairs team being a little bit more aggressive in trying to tackle that, in coordination with other schools such as Virginia Tech, William and Mary, JMU, George Mason and so forth,” Cintron said.

Contracted Independent Organizations under the umbrella of the MRC are also continuing efforts to improve recruitment efforts for minority students and increase awareness of the University’s financial-aid opportunities.

For those low-income students already attending the University, Callitcotte noted that UFUSED in particular will continue promoting its Income Accessibility Ally Program to waive the membership fees of certain clubs and organizations. UFUSED will also continue to host “Divergent Voices” events which allow low-income students to candidly share their experiences.

However, as tuition rates continue to rise, Callicotte raised the concern that prospective students who are not made aware of the University’s financial-aid model may be dissuaded from either applying or enrolling. She suggested that the University take active recruiting steps by hosting information sessions in low-income and rural communities to attract a more socioeconomically diverse applicant pool.

“We assume as a prestigious institution that people are going to come to us naturally and organically, but that's not the case especially if they’re low income,” Callicotte said. “We have to use the resources that we have on Grounds, the low income students that we already have ... to do this recruiting work for us, because I think no one better speaks to the experiences of low income students other than people being low income.”

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What does it actually mean to be tenured?

Exploring what it takes for University professors to achieve tenure and how it affects the faculty as a whole Reade Pickert | Senior Writer Across the country, there has been a recent rise in non-tenure track, or adjunct, faculty. Depending on the university, non-tenure track faculty can either have contracts with substantial employment benefits or just receive an hourly wage.

Despite this trend, about 59 percent of University faculty members have received tenure or are currently on the tenure-track, according to 2017 Census data collected by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

A tenured appointment is “without term,” meaning a faculty member who receives tenure at the University has a contract with no end date.

Tenured professors at the University are expected to teach, to conduct research and to give to the University or to the field more generally through service.

Examining the process The most common steps through

will have until the end of their contract to look for further employment as they will not be permitted to renew their contract. Despite these high stakes, tenure continues to be sought after by academics for its status and security.

The process varies across schools, but in most cases, it relies on a series of evaluations across the professor’s department and school before University-level assessment.

“It is long and detailed and an extensive amount of review and assessment,” Dean of Engineering Craig Benson said. “It’s rigorous.”

In the McIntire School of Commerce, the tenure process begins with hiring.

Whether the candidates are experienced professors or fresh out of doctorate programs, Carl Zeithaml, dean of the McIntire School of Commerce, said McIntire assesses applicants’ backgrounds and experiences to see

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Though there has been a recent rise in non-tenure track professors, University administrators say that tenure is a significant factor in recruiting and maintaining the most qualified faculty possible.

the professorial ranks at the University are assistant professor, associate professor and professor. After a faculty member completes their qualifying terminal degree and demonstrates potential as an independent scholar and teacher, they can be elected as a tenure-track assistant professor.

However, receiving tenure does not guarantee that assistant or associate professors will be promoted to full professorship during their time at the University.

Each year, a group of faculty members across schools are recommended to the Board of Visitors for promotion to associate professors with tenure.

If a faculty member applies for tenure and does not receive it, they

if they would fit with the school culture. This includes cooperating with other faculty members, being an outstanding researcher or possessing the potential to be an outstanding teacher.

“If you hire the right people and then invest in them, there shouldn’t be an issue about tenure,” Zeithaml said.

Upon hiring, tenure-track faculty in McIntire go through a strenuous series of annual reviews. Every year, all faculty in McIntire develop an extensive two-year review of everything that they’ve done in terms of teaching, research and service and develop a plan for the following year.

“As a result of that, each faculty member and again, particularly the

untenured faculty members, have a very clear idea of where they stand, whether they’re making progress, where they are excelling, and where they are having potentially problems,” Zeithaml said.

Typically, once a faculty member reaches the fall of their sixth year, they are required to submit a mass of historical information for promotion and tenure. Alfred Weaver, professor of computer science and chair of the Faculty Senate, said the combination of working full-time and collecting voluminous amounts of information is stressful. The Faculty Senate represents all faculties of the University in academic affairs and advises the University president and rector of the Board of Visitors on educational affairs affecting the overall well-being of the University.

Weaver said the application requires details like every conference attended, its location and date, and every publication down to the specific issue and page number.

In addition to internal review, the University requires tenure-track professors to be assessed by external reviewers in the faculty member’s field.

Eileen Chou, associate professor of public policy, received tenure in May 2017. Unlike most tenure-track faculty, Chou was asked to apply for tenure early. She said picking the external reviewers was the most stressful part of the tenure process.

“Tenure review is not just about how your colleagues and how your senior colleagues evaluate your work,” Chou said. “It’s also about how these anonymous reviewers in the field see your work.”

Depending on the school, there is a department-level consideration process. This may be a department-level Promotion and Tenure Committee or a department-wide vote by tenured professors. Upon approval, the candidate’s information is sent to the school level.

The school level Promotion and Tenure Committee will make a recommendation to the dean upon reviewing all of the candidate’s materials. The dean of the school will make their formal recommendation to the Provost after the Promotion and Tenure Committee assesses the candidate on a variety of criteria. In the School of Engineering, criteria include things such as scholarly independence and ability to effectively run a graduate program. This process occurs annually with the number of candidates varying each year.

At the Provost’s office, there is a separate Promotion and Tenure Committee made up of tenured, full professors from across the University.

Kerry Abrams, vice provost for Faculty Affairs and chair of the committee, said the main purpose of this step is

to ensure fairness and objectivity in the process at the department and school levels.

“I’m unlikely to know with a microbiologist or an astronomer or a German literature scholar whether the external reviewers are right or not . . . but I can tell and our committee can tell, whether the external letter reviewers said one thing and the faculty’s ignoring it,” Abrams said.

This committee makes a recommendation to the Provost, and the Provost makes a final recommendation to the Board of Visitors.

Although it is not common, Abrams said the Provost can and does occasionally reject tenure applicants at the University level.

Abrams does not know of a case where the Board of Visitors has rejected a Provost’s recommendation for tenure.

Behind the non-tenure track Forty-one percent of University faculty are Academic General Faculty, a collection of part-time and full-time employees who may be contracted annually or for multiple years depending on the school and past history of the employee. Academic General Faculty can be hired to teach, research, provide clinical service or incorporate their prior work experience into teaching or research.

The Provost’s Office created a new policy in January 2017 requiring Academic General Faculty to be eligible for promotion over time.

The policy also required three-year contracts after three years of working at the University. Abrams, who spearheaded this effort, said the new policy aims to increase stability and reduce churn.

“We want the Academic General Faculty to also feel like they’re a part of the faculty and that they can make a career for themselves here,” Abrams said.

These faculty members have contracts, receive health benefits and can even rise to the level of full professor all without tenure. According to the 2017 Census, approximately 10 percent of part-time and full-time Academic General Faculty at the University have the title of full professor.

William Shobe, professor of public policy and director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, joined the University as an Academic General Faculty member in 2004.

Prior to his time in academia, Shobe headed the division of Economic and Regulatory Analysis at the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget.

Shobe said in his experience there has not been much difference between the tenure-track and non-tenuretrack status.

“I have been involved in academic research, teaching, University governance and all the rest,” Shobe said

in an email to The Cavalier Daily. “I have had a chance to do some very meaningful work both before and after coming to the University.”

Shobe said the main downside to being an Academic General Faculty member is not having the academic status tenure provides.

“Achieving tenure at a university like U.Va. is [a] hard-earned honor that reflects a high level of academic achievement and earns the recipient a role in university governance that is not generally accorded to non-tenured faculty,” Shobe said.

Some professors have expressed concern over the rise in non-tenured track faculty at large. Weaver said increasing non-tenure track faculty leads to more churn in departments and schools.

“If you go to the trouble of building a relationship with a person, and you’re writing papers together and you’re doing joint research and you’re getting joint grants, but that person then gets a better job offer and goes away, that’s not good for anybody,” Weaver said.

However, Abrams said there is only slightly more turnover among Academic General Faculty than tenured positions.

The bottom line Despite the increased opportunities offered to the Academic General Faculty, the majority of professors at the University are tenure-track or tenured. Tenured faculty have more job security and more flexibility on a daily basis regarding teaching, research and service.

Chou said tenure allows a professor to explore larger questions that may take years of research to complete — something the job security of tenure provides.

“With tenure you get to do these big projects, you get to shoot for the moon, you get to make greater theoretical contributions that might be really risky and might not be something you want to do before you get tenure,” Chou said.

In the University’s efforts to build a staff, tenure is still a significant factor in recruiting and maintaining the most qualified faculty possible.

“We believe the most important thing that we can do is to recruit, retain and develop the very best faculty because they’re going to be the ones who have the greatest, most positive impact on our students,” Zeithaml said. “They’re going to be the ones that advance knowledge in their disciplines through their research, and they’re going to be the best people to create a culture of service and commitment to both the school and the University.”

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The Archer’s — Food and family in Charlottesville Looking into the creation of multiple Charlottesville businesses

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Grace Amorosi | Feature Writer

Life is about relationships. For Sandy and Rob Archer, many of those relationships began in Charlottesville.

The two met at the University, founded their first business in Charlottesville and have since raised a family here.

After the Archers graduated from the University, they made the decision to move back to Charlottesville.

Rob had been working at larger, more structured, corporate companies — at AT&T and IBM — but he and Sandy wanted the freedom to make their own decisions and do their own thing.

So, in 1991 they founded Arch’s Frozen Yogurt, which has since moved from Ivy Road to the Corner. This wasn’t the only change made to Arch’s since its opening —the frozen yogurt place wasn’t always self-serve soft serve.

“You would come up to the counter and order, and we had these things called Archer’s,” Sandy said. “There was the Crunchy Monkey, Strawberry Delight — we had 21 of them. You would order them and they would make them. It was about the service.

We waited on the customers; it was about taking care of the customers.”

The Archers ran Arch’s for 23 years. Rob agreed that a focus on people set Arch’s apart.

“We had so many connection points with the community because we employed so many of the young people,” Rob said. “We got to know so many people … You would go and hang out at the business establishments. You’re not sure what you’re doing one day, but you go could go to Arch’s and know you’re going to see someone.”

After starting Arch’s, Sandy opened 250 Central in Waynesboro.

The shop served coffee and sandwiches and was a place the community could mingle in the evening.

“When the food was good and people were happy, that was the reward in a way,” Sandy said. “It created revenue, yes, but [you’ve] really got to like what you do to do it for so many years.”

Their business later expanded to meal catering.

“We had a young lady who worked for us at Arch’s, Katie, who was having difficulty with [her sorority’s] food providing — she was in [Delta Zeta],” Rob said. “Then we met the house mother at the time and had a conversation about how we could do the

food service, and Sandy hit it out of the park.”

Sandy cooks and caters meals to many sororities at the University, in addition to other groups. She cooks for the orthopedic faculty once a month as well as for various women’s sports teams.

“We both ran track when we were here undergrad — that’s our tie to the athletic department,” Sandy said.

In the middle of business comes the Archer family. Rob and Sandy have four children and a Bernese Mountain dog, Fletcher.

“At first it’s about the business and the customers, but then you start having kids and it has to be about family and business,” Sandy said. “You have to be all-in.”

Rob is an executive lecturer for the business minor program within the Engineering School. Rob and Sandy’s oldest, Okleigh, is a first-year at the University.

The best part of teaching for Rob is the opportunity to engage with and inspire young people. The relationships formed back when he and Sandy first started Arch’s have continued today — Rob had a former employee turned Capital One executive come

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Rob and Sandy have four children and a Bernese Mountain dog, Fletcher.

and speak to his product development class.

Today, Charlottesville remains home for the Archer’s and their businesses.

“There’s a lot of cool energy [and] great people. The University is a great place; we met here,” Rob said. “We’re so relationship-oriented, we have all these great relationships here. The

community in Charlottesville is a great community. It’s unfortunate that the world saw something in August that had nothing to do with the people here — two groups of people who don’t live here fighting here and everyone who does live here said go away.

The reality is our community is a great place.”

How to DIY your own Roots bowl this summer Whether you’re in D.C. or lounging at the beach, here’s how to put together that perfect El Jefe Molly Wright | Food Columnist

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While it might not be quite up to par, a DIY Roots Bowl will ger you through the summer.

With summer quickly approaching, students stuck in Clem cramming for exams are dreaming about studying abroad this summer in Valencia or finally getting the chance to intern on Capitol Hill. Most of us will not be staying in Charlottesville over the summer, so un-

less you’ve got a local internship or are taking a summer class, the end of second semester means saying goodbye to Charlottesville and its most valuable treasure — Roots.

Coming from someone who stands in the mile-long Roots line at least twice a week to get one of

their signature bowls, the idea of going two whole months without Roots is incredibly daunting. Will I be getting enough kale? Will salads back home or at my internship even taste good compared to Roots?

If you’re just as upset as I am about the idea of not making a weekly Roots run over the summer, one solution to our problem is to make our own Roots salad. While it may not be as up to par as the real thing, a DIY Roots salad will be comparable for the summer.

Let’s start with the most popular bowl at Roots, the El Jefe. All of the ingredients in an El Jefe bowl — kale, brown rice, avocado, corn, black beans, red onions, feta and pita chips — are available to purchase at any local grocery store. The kale at Roots, however, is not just any ordinary kale, but massaged kale which makes it lighter and easier to chew. To massage kale, first, take the leafy parts off the center rib section of the kale. Then once you have all of the leafy bits in a bowl, pour several drizzles of olive oil on top, sprinkle on some salt and move the kale around the bowl

with your hands for a few minutes.

This method will keep the kale from being chewy and tasting so bitter.

Now that the kale is ready to go, I would heat up some microwavable brown rice. My favorite is wholegrain Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice. As an incredibly lazy cook, microwaving the rice is an easy way to make the meal fast and it allows you to focus more on the other ingredients.

While the rice is heating up in the microwave, put a pan on the stove at low to medium heat and drizzle a little olive oil in the pan.

Then put some corn that you can either shuck off a cob or buy canned and drain into the pan, and let it cook for several minutes until it starts to char.

Next, drain some canned black beans and dry them before putting them in the bowl with the kale, brown rice and corn. Chop up the red onion into small chunks that look like bite size pieces, and then sprinkle those chunks into the bowl along with the feta cheese and crumbled pita chips. Last but not least, halve the avocado and mash it up into several large chunks to put

in the bowl.

As for dressing, you probably won’t be able to recreate the Roots salad dressing verbatim, but there are some substitutes. You can get bottled Brianna’s creamy cilantro lime dressing or Stonewall Kitchen’s cilantro lime dressing. If you want to make the dressing yourself, mix together two tablespoons of fresh lime juice, one clove of minced garlic, half a teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, 1/8 of a teaspoon of coriander, two tablespoons of olive oil and one tablespoon of fresh cilantro. Then add the Tabasco and slice of lime to your Roots bowl and you’ve got a DIY El Jefe.

Any Roots bowl can be recreated through these methods using the different ingredients included in each bowl. So now this summer you can whip up a Mayweather, Pesto Caesar or El Jefe anytime you’re craving Roots on vacation or while you’re working. Hopefully this will hold you over until you can get back to Charlottesville for the real thing.

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Free sunglasses and a Roots bowl makes for a good date Sky Wampler | Love Connection Writer

Ashley and Jay met at Old Cabell at 5:30 p.m. and went to Roots to get food and chat.

Jay is a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Jay: So I met Ashley by the Rotunda, and we said, “Hi.” And there was the SpringFest going on, and we decided to take a look around. She seemed to like it, and I liked it, so it was a fun time. There were a bunch of different activities, and we got some free sunglasses … So we decided to go to the Corner, and see what was good for food.

Ashley: We ended up going to Roots and getting a bowl, and then sitting at one of those tables beside the Rotunda.

Jay: So we just sat there and talked for like 45 minutes — maybe like an hour total …

We talked about where we’re from, of course, and what we’re studying, so pretty basic … We talked about our ambitions for travelling — that’s something we had in common.

Ashley: He had a camera with him, so we talked about him taking pictures and apparently being like, a photographer which is cool …

We’re both new members of [the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union] that just got inducted so we’re in the same, like, new member class.

Jay: She’s in the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union, but we never talked once so it was just kind of funny. So I think it worked out. She was a very friendly young woman. I had an enjoyable time.

Ashley: So I had to leave right at 6:30, but yeah, I think we’ll talk more at meetings.

It’s just funny because we were both like, “Oh!” because we already knew each other.

And it wasn’t that much of a blind date. Part of it was awkward because he had a friend visiting that weekend, and he showed up for a little bit and it was just like, “Oh, hey!” and so I actually … talked to him a little bit.

Jay: I pretty much didn’t know anything about her

Ideal date in three words: Aquarium laser tag Hobbies: Drums, Parkour, WUVA News, Karate, Debate What’s your theme song? "It's Time to Party" by Andrew WK What is your ideal date’s personality like? Funny, adventurous, clever, kind but honest, and open to trying new things What makes you a good catch? My library of clever remarks to use

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Deal breakers? If she is a metalhead or an adrenaline junkie COURTESY JAY FISHER

Why do you embody your zodiac sign?: I am self-confident and cheerful in all that I do, like the Leo.

Ashley is a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences.

What is your ideal date’s personality? Edgy but really sweet. Goofy and cuddly, likes alternative music Ideal first date activity: Go exploring somewhere or eat food and look at memes Describe a typical weekend: Doing homework on the Lawn, going out with friends What makes you a good catch? Give great emotional support, I have memes, always there for people and open to try new things What’s your spirit animal? Cat

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Describe yourself in one sentence. I may not be the prettiest girl, but I'm also not the funniest.

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before, but now I know a lot more. So it went from a stranger to a friend, basically.

all it was a good time, and the weather was perfect, so that’s always a plus.

Ashley: I [would rate the date] a solid eight. Like, it was a fun time, we had our Roots bowls outside and had good conversation. I don’t know if it was like prime, like, date material in terms of like someone you’re kind of acquaintances with … But over-

Jay: I would rate [the date] a seven out of ten because she was a very pleasant girl to hang out with even though it was more of a general conversation that I would have with most people at the University, it was still nice to meet a new person. And we’re friends so

we’ll keep in touch I believe.

It was somewhat generic, and I was a little upset with that.

And so it didn’t really interest me as much as someone who was my dream date, for instance.

Ashley: I’d say [we will] probably [have a] friendship… because it’s the kind of thing where you, like, know somebody but you aren’t really

friends with them yet. It’s hard to, like, jump from like acquaintance, even. It would be different if it was like some romantic encounter with a random person, like out in a romantic context at first … but now we’re definitely on the way to being friends.

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S’mores cookies are the perfect treat to make with friends They only take 20 minutes, but fair warning — they leave 20 pounds Lindsay Smith | Food Columnist The weather down in Charlottesville is unpredictable. Oftentimes, half the week will be spent under piercing sunshine and half the week will be spent under a raincoat. So, when the weather flips out and decides to obstruct my path to the nearest spot where I can shamelessly purchase a cookie, I like to get creative.

This past Tuesday, when the sky wrung itself out like an overwatered sponge, I dug into my recipe box and pulled out instructions for the best warm treat I could bake without turning my dorm kitchen into a fire risk. It’s simple, it’s delicious — it’s s’mores cookies.

I grabbed a roll of Toll House cookie dough from my fridge, a box of off-brand cinnamon sugar graham crackers, three bars of Hershey's milk chocolate and a bag of marshmallows. Then my friends and I travelled downstairs to the communal stove, where we sat like predators waiting for the group of girls in front of us to finish up with their mini pizzas.

Using my brownie pan — which

has since been stolen, so if anyone finds a glass baking dish lying around please help a sister out — my friends spread out a layer of graham crackers. We placed the sugared side face down in the pan so we could plop the cookie dough on top without making too big of a mess.

Once we had covered the entire bottom of the pan with graham crackers, we spread on the layer of cookie dough. We made it wide enough to coat the entire pan and thick enough to obscure from view each and every graham cracker. In all honesty, there was a little bit of dough that didn’t make it into the pan — there is just something about the taste of raw egg and uncooked flour that I can’t resist.

Maybe it’s the risk of salmonella.

Once the dough was spread, I grabbed the chocolate bars. My friends set to work breaking them apart into the individual Hershey’s rectangles, and then together we covered the entire sheet of dough with a single layer of chocolate.

None of the squares overlapped,

but each bit of cookie was covered.

In my experience, I have found this to be the best ratio of chocolate to cookie to graham cracker.

We popped the entire tray into the oven as per the cooking requirements on the back of the cookie dough roll. Nestlé says to bake for 10 or so minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit, so this is what we did. I would trust Nestlé with my life.

While the s’mores cookies were in the oven, we set to work tearing the marshmallows in half. Then, when there was about one minute left on the clock, we pulled the pan back out of the oven.

Not a single one of my friends thought to bring oven mitts to college. Thus, to pull the pan out of the oven without burning ourselves, two of us were forced to remove our slippers. My roommate used hers to slide the sides of the dish off the metal grate, then I placed the plastic bottoms of mine under the pan to catch it. Teamwork really does make the dream work.

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Before the cookies could cool, we added the halved marshmallows on top, with the sticky ripped-open sides touching the melted chocolate. We laid them about one inch apart from each other, over the entirety of the pan.

Then we slid the cookies back into the oven for the final minute.

The trick with this last touch is to not count on the timer — in order to ensure that we neither burned nor under-toasted our marshmallow crust, we all sat on the floor with the oven light on and stared at the cooking marshmallows. We pulled the pan out again as soon as they had spread out and gone golden brown on top.

We let the cookies cool for about 10 minutes, and then they went under the knife. I cut them according to the graham cracker squares, so that when we all dug in we just had to grab a cookie, and the graham cracker base kept everything sturdy and easy to bite.

The marshmallow made a mess, so I would recommend cutting the pieces with a plastic knife that can

end up in the trashcan afterwards.

This was a perfect dish for a rainy afternoon. It only took about 20 minutes to complete, and there was more than enough to serve four people several times over.

There was even enough for my voracious appetite, which would have been left unsated by a measly two or three cookies.

In total, we got nearly 20 decently-sized servings out of the pan. And here’s a pro-tip for people who like leftovers — the cookies were even better the second day after an overnight chill in the refrigerator.

For those ambitious few who like having the best of two worlds — both cookies and s’mores — I recommend this innovative dish. I also recommend washing and putting away the baking pan as soon as the treat has been consumed, instead of leaving it outside your dorm room for two months. Otherwise, someone might steal it.

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The 2018 LGBTQ+ Health Care Symposium organized by University faculty seeks to advocate for inclusion and increase understanding of the diversity of LGBTQ+ identities. The symposium will be held May 10 at the Boar’s Head Inn and invites health care professionals, administration and public health officials to discuss recurring health care issues facing the population.

The symposium will promote inclusivity in health care practices and increase awareness of the various issues members of the LGBTQ+ community face. In particular, visiting faculty as well as those from the University’s School of Medicine and School of Nursing will teach attendees about terminology referencing differences in biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

The planning committee, comprised of faculty from the School of Nursing, Department of Psychology and Department of Medicine hope to discuss language regarding LGBTQ+ communities with staff members, patients and physicians — allowing reflection on personal ideas and stereotypes associated with people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or allied.

Alongside local speakers and organizers involved in the symposium, a few notable faculty will visit to contribute to the extended dialogue. Tari Hanneman, a representative from the Human Rights Campaign — a civil rights organization working to achieve equality for the LGBTQ+ population — will speak about the Healthcare Equality Index, which ranks medical facilities based on policies regarding inclusivity.

Additionally, Nursing Prof.

Kimberly Acquaviva from George Washington University, will visit to speak about transforming professional practices to promote LGBTQ+ inclusive care.

Visiting Prof. of Nursing Tommy Dickinson from King’s College London, will also be speaking about the future of the LGBTQ+ community.

Kenneth White, associate dean for Strategic Partnerships & Innovation at the School of Nursing, played an integral role in its organization and will direct the symposium. White spoke about the importance of increasing awareness of healthcare issues in the LGBTQ+ community and the agenda for the day-long symposium.

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Faculty work to improve LGBTQ+ health care LGBTQ+ Health Care Symposium promotes diversity and inclusivity Irena Kesselring | Senior Writer an open forum about best practices for organizational response and also for individual health care providers,” White said. “The morning half will be focused on what organizational policies, procedures and systems need to be in place to be inclusive of this

fessor of family medicine, medical staff often make assumptions about the relationship history of LGBTQ+ patients, which can lead to them receiving improper tests or failing to receive important ones. In particular, transgender adults and youth can face

people who don’t understand pre- and post-transition,” White said. “They feel disrespected because the right pronouns aren’t being used. I think others are may feel put down, made fun of and snickered at. And there’s a much higher rate of depression

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The symposium will be held May 10 at the Boar’s Head Inn and invites health care professionals, administration and public health officials to attend.

population. The second half of the day will be more focused on individual health care needs and what some of the specific healthcare issues confront people of this community.”

The symposium hopes to tackle the discrimination and stigmatization that the LGBTQ+ community faces. According to Dr. Catherine Casey, assistant pro-

lots of stress and trauma as a result of insensitivity and trauma, making mental illnesses like depression or anxiety worse.

White reflected Casey’s sentiment, speaking about the specific issues transgender people face within the healthcare system.

“I think the transgender population faces perhaps a lot of challenges with stereotypes and

and suicide, especially among transgender people because they feel like they’re abandoned by the healthcare profession.”

Casey said in an email that the prevalence of discrimination in the field of healthcare and the recent policy change may affect members of the LGBTQ+ community.

“I found the recent push by

[President Donald Trump] to allow discrimination by health care providers under the guise of religious freedom especially ironic,” Casey said. “If 20% of transgender patients have been refused care by doctors, and another 20% have faced discrimination in the healthcare setting already, the real problem is clear. Discrimination is rampant.”

As of April 6, the University opened a Transgender Health Clinic where providers specializing in endocrinology and general pediatrics are available to help patients in a positive, affirming environment. The University also offers free resources, brochures and guidance on issues like mental health and sexuality and materials, through the Teen and Young Adult Health Center for people ages 11-26 and Elson Student Health Center for those ages 12-24.

The 2018 Healthcare Equality Index uses five measures — “non-discrimination and staff training, patient services and support, employee benefits and policies, patient and community engagement and responsible citizenship” to rate health care facilities. The HEI seeks to improve LGBTQ+ inclusive care in hospitals around the nation. This year, the Medical Center scored 95 out of 100 on the HEI. According to White, physicians should not only be respectful of people in the LGBTQ+ community, but also consider the individual needs of patients.

“The other thing is to ask the question, what do I need to know about you to give you the best care possible, what do I need to know about you to be the best friend possible, or what are values and identities that you hold dear that I need to respect,” White said.

Casey echoed White, saying it is important to ensure the inclusion of people in the LGBTQ+ community as a significant and vital component of the healthcare system.

“Rather than think of the LGBTQ+ community as being a separate community … we can be considerate of the LGBTQ+ people in our own communities – and they’re everywhere,” Casey said. “We can think about our choice of words – what we say and what we don’t. We can be conscientious about including them, and speaking up when we notice unfairness in the system.”

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Unsafe sleep practices correlated with infant deaths Study finds babies are at high risk of fatal sleep positions when cared for by babysitters, relatives Anna Christou | Senior Writer A study co-authored by Dr. Rachel Moon, division head of General Pediatrics in the University’s Medical School, analyzed infant deaths, especially when cared for by people other than parents. The results, published in the Journal of Pediatrics in March, found that infant fatalities were highly correlated with being placed in unsafe sleep positions or places.

According to Mayo Clinic, sudden infant death syndrome is the unexplained death during sleep of a seemingly healthy baby. Moon said there are many risk factors related to SIDS, including smoking, soft bedding, formula feeding, sleeping on the same bed as the baby and sleep position.

“The recommendations are currently for babies to sleep on their backs at any time either at night or at naptime,” said Fern Hauck, an associate professor of family medicine and public health.

According to Moon, sleeping on the stomach is dangerous for babies because it decreases blood flow to the brain and inhibits oxygenation.

This position also causes the baby to fall into deep sleep and not arouse when in a dangerous position.

Ann Kellams, an assistant professor of pediatrics, said that babies cannot move around when in

such a position and sometimes even go into a deeper sleep. According to Hauck, this inability to arouse might also be due to an abnormality in the brain stem, particularly a deficiency in neurochemicals that affect the brain and respiratory system.

In the study, the researchers studied the differing risk factors — including sleep position and location — between parents and non-parental caregivers.

“We’re trying to better understand what happens when these babies die and what the risk factors are so that we can better educate families and provide better health messages,” Moon said.

Specifically, they analyzed statistics of sleep-related infant deaths from 2004-2014 on a database, the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention Child Death Review Case Reporting System.

“What we found was that the babies who were being cared for by people who weren’t their parents were more likely to be placed on their side or on their stomach, and we also found that if that person taking care of the baby was a friend or a relative, that the babies were more likely to be sleeping on a bed with somebody else,” Moon said.

Particularly, these babies not

cared for by their parents had a 61 percent higher risk of being placed on the stomach and a 35 percent higher risk of being placed on their side — positions that are dangerous for the baby.

“The take-home message from this study is that everybody needs to know about safe sleep and that parents can’t assume that other people who are taking care of their children are going to do the safe thing, so they need to make sure they have those conversations,” Moon said.

Moon said that this study showed the importance of education about SIDS and emphasizing to caregivers the importance of these recommendations for safe sleep. Specifically, she said that many people who take care of babies are not licensed.

Likewise, Kellams said that non-parental caregivers, who usually do not attend the baby’s doctor’s appointments, do not receive the same advice about safe sleep. They said that everyone — including non-parental caregivers — should receive the same education.

Hauck said that she is working on ways to talk with caregivers and advise them about safe sleep practices, while also respecting their cultural beliefs.

“What it comes down to for me

is talking to each individual family and finding out what they know, finding out what types of beds, equipment and sleep arrangements

they have at their disposal, and help them navigate — help them pick what will work best for them and be safest,” Kellams said.

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Rachel Moon, division head of General Pediatrics and co-author of the study, published the research in the Journal of Pediatrics in March.

Researchers recruit student volunteers in salt trial Scientists investigate the relationship between salt consumption and blood pressure Anna Christou | Senior Writer Researchers at the Medical School have been studying salt sensitivity — the disproportionate increase in blood pressure in response to eating a high salt diet — and are now focusing on the genetic basis by recruiting volunteers, including students, in clinical trials. Salt sensitivity is a large health problem, as it increases risk for cardiovascular disease and also predisposes people to high blood pressure.

The research team is led by principal investigators Robin Felder, professor of pathology and associate director of laboratory medicine and Professor of Medicine and Dean Emeritus of the Medical School Robert Carey.

“There’s a great debate out there as to whether salt is good for you or bad for you, so we’re trying to sort that out,” Felder said.

According to Felder, his lab has been funded for 12 years for this study on salt sensitivity and has been

studying this topic through a variety of techniques, including biochemical experiments, mouse models and human studies. He is now focusing on the genetics of salt sensitivity.

Brandy Patterson, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, said in an email statement that eating salt increases the amount of sodium in the bloodstream, which decreases the ability of the kidneys to excrete water.

“The result is extra fluid in the blood vessels,” Patterson said. “Ultimately, this increases the force or pressure against the walls of the blood vessels, which leads to high blood pressure.”

According to Patterson, if a person’s blood pressure increases by 10 percent in response to a high salt load, then that person is salt sensitive.

Moreover, Patterson said there are various factors that affect salt sensitivity, including gender, age, obesity, genetics and various health condi-

tions — such as diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

“Our hypothesis is, specifically, that there are two genes that work together to cause salt sensitivity,” Carey said.

The study focuses on two genes — G-protein-related kinase 4 and the sodium bicarbonate co-transporter SLC4A5. According to Carey, both these genes are associated with salt levels in urine.

“We have evidence from animal in vitro studies and also in vivo studies in animals, showing that these genes are important in the reabsorption of sodium,” Carey said.

As such, the researchers are taking people without high blood pressure and determining whether they have those at-risk genes through genetic tests. Carey said that the participants can be of any age, sex or ethnicity, as long as they do not have cardiovascular disease or high blood pressure.

Zunair Khocka, a research scien-

tist working on the study, said that they specifically target students, as they are consistent and easy to reach out to.

“We have a non-invasive sort of approach, so we table outside of libraries and we get our study out every week in the U.Va. student connection,” Khocka said.

According to Khocka, after the genetic screening, they put the participants on a two-week diet — including one week of high salt and one week of low salt. Then, the researchers measure changes in blood pressure over that period.

The researchers have to follow guidelines related to the ethics of their studies, particularly in advertising, handling privacy issues and recruiting and rewarding volunteers.

“Whenever you think about ethical considerations you have to think about the benefit and the potential for harm and weigh those two,” Carey said. “In this case, for this particu-

lar study, the benefit is very high, because of the very high prevalence of salt sensitivity and the bad outcomes that result from that ... harm is virtually none, all it entails really is high or low salt.”

The volunteers receive a $200 compensation at the end of the study.

According to Patterson, this research study will allow for personalized medicine, as clinicians can use results of the trials to prescribe medications that will be effective for salt sensitive patients. Patterson also said this study is crucial for learning about what kinds of patients are salt sensitive.

“For these patients, diet may have a big impact on the development of high blood pressure, as well as the risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure and chronic kidney disease — all of which can be life threatening,” Patterson said.

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SPORTS John “Parker” Staples, a nineyear-old with lymphoma and longtime baseball fan, has spent the past two weeks making memories as a member of the Virginia baseball team.

The baseball team announced the signing of Staples in a ceremony at Davenport Field at Disharoon Park on April 16. He signed a draft day letter during a press conference while surrounded by the entire Cavalier squad.

“Some of the leadership of our team talked to us this fall about being engaged in something like this … spearheaded by [junior right-handed pitcher] Chesdin Harrington,” Virginia baseball Coach Brian O’Connor said.

Staples and the Virginia baseball team were brought together by Team Impact, a non-profit organization based in Boston that arranges connections between children with serious illnesses and collegiate athletic teams.

“We made the connection with Team Impact that we wanted to be involved in the program, and then it was a matter of finding the right match,” O’Connor said.

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Baseball signs John ‘Parker’ Staples Non-profit ‘Team Impact’ also leads swim and dive to bring on six-year-old with cerebral palsy Colin Cantwell | Associate Editor nered on April 27 with the Virginia swim and dive team to make Cary Lynn Fields, a six-year-old with cerebral palsy from Bumpass, an official team member.

“Team Impact is a fantastic cause and our student-athletes have had a great experience being involved with Cary Lynn [Fields],” Virginia swim and dive Coach Todd DeSorbo said.

Staples, from Waynesboro, was matched with the Cavalier baseball team due to both his proximity to Charlottesville and his passion for the sport.

“The boy loves baseball, and he’s from just right over the mountains, so it was a terrific fit,” O’Connor said.

Harrington said that the team was thankful for the opportunity to take on Staples.

“We were fortunate enough to get Parker as a match … and we got some things in gear, got a couple guys to help out and make this thing special for him,” Harrington said.

Fields became a part of the swim and dive team for similar reasons.

“She … loves the water and music,” DeSorbo said.

Staples has attended every home game since his signing, though he cannot be in the dugout due to safe-

ty concerns. He was in attendance for the Cavaliers’ three-game home series against Clemson at Davenport Field at Disharoon Park this past weekend.

“He came into the team huddle after both wins … even though it was 9:30 or 10:00 at night, the boy stayed here,” O’Connor said. “He came out onto the field and called it up for our team when we say one-two-threeCavs.”

Fields was equally excited to sign with the Virginia swim and dive team on Friday.

"Her mother told me she was up at 5 a.m. this morning wanting to put on her orange and blue for the day's signing,” DeSorbo said. “To know that we are having that type of impact in her life is heartening.”

Though he has only been around the team for roughly two weeks, O’Connor has noticed Staples’ impact on his team’s players, as well.

“When you have a young person like that and has battled adversity … our players enjoy being around him, talking about baseball, and just being little kids around him,” O’Connor said. “His spirit, the energy that that young boy has, is pretty impressive.”

“The guys on the team have the

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Team Impact brought together Parker and the Virginia baseball team for a special signing day as part of its initiative to help ill children meet their role model athletes.

ability to impact one individual but a guy like Parker impacts the 34 guys on our roster,” O’Connor added.

The baseball season is almost over, but Staples has left an indelible mark on the team, and will hopefully continue to do so into the postseason and beyond. DeSorbo said he

believes Fields will do the same for Virginia’s swimmers.

“Our staff and student-athletes are excited to have [Fields] joining our program and we look forward to having Cary Lynn on the deck at future practices and home competitions,” DeSorbo said.

Recapping the NFL Draft for Virginia football alumni Kiser, Brown go in the fifth round while numerous graduating players signed as free agents CD Sports Staff After having no players selected in the NFL Draft last year for the first time in quite a while, Virginia football had two of its players drafted Saturday to begin a new streak of Cavaliers entering the pros. As happens every year, several other key Virginia players were given a shot at starting an NFL career as undrafted free agent signings.

Here are some highlights from draft weekend, and how some former Virginia players may fit into roles in their new teams.

Inside Linebacker Micah Kiser Drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in Round 5, pick No. 147 The first player off the board for the Cavaliers, Kiser saw his illustrious, hard-working career as a Virginia student athlete pay off. The 2017 winner of the Campbell Trophy — college football’s academic Heisman — is eager to get his NFL career started.

“I’m pumped. This is a blessing,” Kiser said. “I knew all along the Rams organization liked me as a player. I felt like it was a great fit and I’m so

happy to be a Ram and glad that they chose me.”

Kiser joins a Rams defense that figures to be a force in 2018. Already having former NFL Defensive Player of the Year defensive tackle Aaron Donald on the field, coach Sean McVay added All-Pro defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh to the front seven over the offseason to give his team a devastating presece up front.

Kiser looks forward to adding whatever value he can to the loaded defensive front. “[The Rams are getting] a really smart linebacker [and] leader on the field [in me],” Kiser said when asked what he would bring to the Rams. “I think I’ve been one of the more productive linebackers in college football the last three years. So, I’m just going to come in and do whatever they want me to do.”

With the Rams loading up on talent to make a run at the Super Bowl this year, Kiser has the chance to make an impact on team with its sights set on glory. His incredible poise and hard-working attitude will

be sure to aid him along the way.

Defensive End/Tackle Andrew Brown Drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in Round 5, pick No. 158 The second Virginia player taken in the NFL Draft, Brown was thrilled to have been selected in the NFL Draft.

“It’s been a very surreal day — it’s crazy,” Brown said. “I can’t even put the words together.”

After a college career in which he played below the expectations of some — coming into Virginia as a highly-touted five-star recruit — Brown struggled with criticism in college for his play.

“Everybody was saying I was a bust, and I wasn’t doing anything in college,” Brown said. “There were all sorts of things, calling me soft. Just for me to get drafted, period, is a blessing. It’s just amazing how God works.”

Brown credits the support and tutelage of Virginia Coach Bronco Mendenhall for his strong senior season and for the opportunity to play

in the NFL. Mendenhall instilled confidence in Brown, and entrusted him with significant responsibilities in his senior season.

Brown joins an aging Bengals defensive front and could instantly provide talent, aggression and power to bolster their defense. While he played in college as an end, Brown will most likely transition to defensive tackle in the NFL, as the Bengals look to make use of his power and strength in the defensive line.

Brown is excited to start off his NFL career and silence his college critics.

“They don’t even know the half of what is coming,” Brown said. “I am ready to go.”

Quarterback Kurt Benkert Signed as a free agent with Atlanta Falcons Although Benkert wasn’t selected in the draft like he had hoped, he signed as a free agent with the Atlanta Falcons.

In his senior year, Benkert threw for 3,207 yards, which made for a single-season, school-record. Ben-

kert also recorded 25 touchdowns in 2017, helping Virginia reach its first bowl game since 2011. Benkert’s arm strength is his greatest threat and throughout his last year of college football he showed tremendous improvement and increased confidence. However, he isn’t quite as athletic as some other quarterbacks and his accuracy has been questionable at times.

Benkert joins an Atlanta roster that already has quite a few quarterbacks. There is veteran starter Matt Ryan and backup Matt Schaub, a Virginia graduate who had a great career during his years in Charlottesville. The Falcons also have younger players in the position, with Trevor Knight signed on the practice squad and Garrett Grayson, signed to a future contact. It won’t be an easy road for Benkert to get action on the field, but if he continues to improve as he did in his senior year, there is potential for him.

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Support officers must be informed and receptive to multiple points of view given their role in the trial process

he Honor Committee is considering changes to its support officer system in an effort to make the Committee more representative of the entire student body. These changes present the Committee with an opportunity to shape their support officer pool into a body that represents a more diverse set of viewpoints and backgrounds, while still maintaining its quality. As the group most intimately involved with the Honor trial process, support officers must be informed and receptive to multiple points of view — implementing the proposed changes would help the body better accomplish this goal.

The process of selecting support officers each fall takes time and energy on the part of both the Committee and the applicants. In addition to being a time-intensive process, many aspects can be intimidating to appli-

cants. From those who pass the online exam, 180 are selected to participate in the first round of interviews. This interview includes a mock trial, in which interviewees must evaluate and present their case. Those applicants who make it through to the next round are asked to participate in a second interview that tests interviewees’ understanding of the Committee, and are also required to give a presentation on Honor to a University group of their choice. Finally, 30 to 45 students are selected to begin a 10- to 12-week training process, at the end of which they will be accepted as support officers.

Changes proposed by Committee representatives would focus on several elements of the application process to make it more open and accessible to members of the University community. One of the most intimidating aspects of the process is the interview setting, which often take

place in Lawn rooms. These interviews could easily turn potential applicants away — being surrounded by several veteran Committee members in a close setting like a Lawn room adds pressure to what is already an intense situation. One of the changes would move the interviews away from Lawn rooms and into a more open space, which would help interviewees feel more comfortable. While the shift in location would not change any of the content of the interview process, it is one of several important changes in helping the Committee be more accessible to the University community.

While the changes would not be implemented until the fall, the Committee should continue to have conversations over the summer about how to best include underrepresented communities. Another aspect of the process that could be further examined is the recruitment calendar. Currently,

recruitment takes place only in the fall and is a semester-long process — students who want to get involved in the spring have to wait until recruitment opens back up in early September.

Implementing a spring recruitment window would give students who would otherwise have to wait, such as spring transfer students, an easier path to get involved. Spring recruitment would also give the Committee more opportunities to recruit diverse applicants. The proposed changes outlined thus far are important steps towards accomplishing this goal, and through more introspection and discussion the Committee can come up with even better changes that would give all students an equal path to membership.

Maintaining the rigor of the application process is important for the continued quality of the support officer pool, so changes made should preserve the Committee’s ability to

evaluate the capacity of individual applicants. Increasing diversity should be the primary goal of these changes.

Committee members have acknowledged the need to open the organization to underrepresented communities. As an organization that has the ability to expel students, the Committee has a responsibility to mirror the composition of the student body at large. Making meaningful changes to the support officer selection process would demonstrate the Committee’s commitment to reaching this goal.

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TRUMP MUST ADDRESS WARMBIER LAWSUIT President Trump must demand North Korean recognition of Otto Warmbier’s murder and the release of remaining American detainees as a precondition to talks

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n a 22-page lawsuit, Otto Warmbier’s parents recently expressed their demand for both compensatory and punitive damages from North Korea for its “torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing” of their son. Though it is difficult under U.S. law for private citizens to sue foreign nations, President Donald Trump’s designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism this past November legitimizes the Warmbiers’ lawsuit.

While it is unlikely that North Korea will recognize the legal action, it is possible for the Warmbiers to receive compensation through the Justice Department’s U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund.

Despite the Warmbiers’ continuous fight for justice, Trump has failed to comment on whether he will address Warmbier’s death at all during his upcoming diplomatic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong Un. However, failing to do so would disgrace Warmbier’s memory and dishonor American values.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently commented, “Although this is a private legal action to which the United States government is not a party, Americans remain committed to honoring Otto’s memory, and we will not forget the suffering of his

parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier.” The White House’s half-hearted commitment to demanding justice for North Korea’s murder of Warmbier is disappointing to say the least.

Merely expressing support for the Warmbiers’ emotional distress is not enough. In order to truly “[honor] Otto’s memory,” Trump must demand North Korea’s recognition of his murder during his peace talks with Kim.

caused by botulism and a sleeping pill, neither of which serve as sufficient medical explanations for his death. After finally arriving to the U.S. in a comatose condition, Otto Warmbier tragically passed away June 19, 2017.

The Warmbiers’ statement includes vivid descriptions of Otto’s condition after being held captive in North Korea for 17 months. Not only was Otto discovered to be

While denuclearization of the region is of the utmost importance, Trump must also orient the discussion around the country’s inhumane treatment toward international visitors and its own citizens.

A third-year economics major at the University, Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor by a North Korean “kangaroo court” after “confessing” to the crime of tearing down a North Korean propaganda poster. The Warmbiers hold that this forced confession was simply a “façade of legitimacy to their lawless hostage taking of Otto.” To this day, North Korean authorities allege that his brain damage was

blind and deaf upon arriving to the states, he also “had a shaved head, a feeding tube coming out of his nose, was jerking violently and howling, and was completely unresponsive to any of their efforts to comfort him.”

While there was a noticeable scar on his left foot and a clear misalignment of his teeth, his vegetative state and long detention period suggest that North Korean authorities likely inflicted other torture methods

that did not leave visible signs on his body.

Despite Wambier’s fatal experience in the DPRK, Trump has said that he would be “honored” to meet with Kim “under the right circumstances.” While Kim has publicly made strides to denuclearize and make peace with South Korea, his proven record for violating international agreements suggests that this “progress” will likely be temporary. On the one hand, meeting with Kim may be beneficial if he follows through with his pledge to denuclearize and end the country’s human rights abuses. On the other hand, meeting with a leader who continues to deny the intentional murder of Warmbier sends the signal that the United States both excuses Kim’s human rights violations and legitimizes his authoritarian rule. This unfortunate reality indicates that perhaps it isn’t the right time for a diplomatic summit between an authoritarian despot and the leader of the free world.

Trump has held that the main goal for peace talks will be the discussion of North Korea’s nuclear program. While denuclearization of the region is of the utmost importance, Trump must also orient the discussion around the country’s inhumane treatment toward interna-

tional visitors and its own citizens.

In addition to the lack of comment on Warmbier’s death, it is particularly disconcerting that Trump has yet to call for the release of the three remaining American detainees — Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim and Kim Dong-chul — as a precondition to his talks with Kim. Casting aside human lives as a secondary concern to denuclearization raises questions about the Trump administration’s commitments to freedom and justice. Standing up for American victims of this regime should be the top priority of any peace negotiation.

While we can only hope that North Korea will one day close its political prisons, create a multi-party system and expand access to a free media — those demands do not currently seem to be within the realm of possibility. If Trump is to proceed with peace talks, he must first demand justice for the murder of Warmbier and North Korea’s current detainment of American citizens lest the country continue to engage in such behavior in the future.

AUDREY FAHLBERG is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at opinion@ cavalierdaily.com.

CAUCUSES ARE VOTER SUPPRESSION The decision to hold caucuses to select the Fifth District Democratic nominee flies in the face of a purported commitment to voter access

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ver the past few weeks, Democrats from across Virginia’s fifth congressional district came together to select the party’s standard-bearer for the general election against incumbent Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.). In February, local party leaders decided to hold a convention to select the Democratic nominee, with attending delegates to be elected by a series of caucuses across the district. Why party leaders decided to hold these caucuses rather than a standard primary is still somewhat of a mystery. What should be clear, however, is that the decision to hold caucuses was a mistake — both an undemocratic exercise and a missed opportunity.

Caucuses are voter suppression.

That much was abundantly clear to anyone who stood in the line that wrapped around Burley Middle School last Saturday afternoon, where the Charlottesville caucus was held. Caucuses are by design less accessible than primaries. They compress what would otherwise be a full 11-hour window for voting into an hour-long event — not including time spent waiting in line.

Furthermore, most caucuses do not allow absentee or write in ballots, which are bastions of voter acces-

sibility, especially for disabled and working class voters. With that in mind, the fact that turnout in the fifth district plummeted should come at no surprise. This year, turnout for caucuses in both Charlottesville and Albemarle plummeted to less than 10 percent of 2017 gubernatorial primary levels. Under any other circumstances, this absolute decimation of voter turnout would be subject to investigation and public outcry. Instead, hardly anyone took notice — it was par for the course.

As I waited in line and griped out loud at the Charlottesville caucus, a person behind me interjected, remarking that he didn’t think the process was so bad — “At least it inconveniences everyone equally.”

A glaring problem with caucuses, however, is that is simply not the case. While data for the recent fifth district caucuses is lacking, past research shows that on the whole, caucuses disenfranchise minority and low-income voters at significantly higher rates than primaries.

Ironically enough, these groups are the very same constituencies on which Democrats consistently rely in general elections. Rather than chiding these voters when they don’t turn out to vote — as was

common in the aftermath of the 2016 election — Democrats should reflect on how their own internal procedures systematically disregard and disenfranchise their voices.

The process that unfolded over the last week is so maddening not because of its undemocratic nature, but rather because of the profound hypocrisy it represents. Democrats consistently attack Republicans for

the issue of voter access.

What is particularly frustrating about the nomination process is that it represents a missed opportunity. Precisely because of its situation as a non-governmental entity, the local Democratic party could have set an example for what true voter accessibility looks like. The party has extensive latitude over the process through which it selects

What should be clear, however, is that the decision to hold caucuses was a mistake — both an undemocratic exercise and a missed opportunity.

their efforts to restrict voter access, and yet it seems they can’t hold themselves to the same standard.

Democrats are ostensibly the party of voter access, so it is doubly frustrating to see the local leadership disenfranchise voters. The effects of caucuses are common knowledge, yet the local party leadership decided to hold them anyway, eliminating any veneer of authenticity they might’ve touted when it comes to

its nominees, and it’s a shame that it decided to forego leveraging that power. In reality, it’s not caucuses themselves that are the problem, rather it is the party-determined rules that constrain them. Imagine if the fifth district committee decided to hold an unassembled caucus over a full day, complete with ranked choice voting and absentee balloting. The party could have made a statement, demonstrating

a tangible vision for what a truly representative democratic process looks like. There are so many ways the status quo could be improved, and it is disheartening to see the party knowingly move in the wrong direction.

Although the caucuses have already run their course, it is still worth noting how the process could be reformed. In the future, the party should think purposefully about what message it sends when it decides to hold caucuses. Rather than vacuously pandering to low-income and minority voters, Democrats should seek to actively remove barriers to engagement in the primary process. Further, it’s not enough to attack Republicans for dismantling voting rights, or talk in platitudes about increasing accessibility. If Democrats claim to be the party of voter access, they should put their money where their mouth is and actively pursue ways to make their elections more accessible. The fifth district leadership, and Democrats in general, must do better.

BRENDAN NOVAK is an Opinion Editor at The Cavalier Daily.

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To the only loser at U.Va.

HUMOR Have you ever caught yourself in a U.Va. humblebrag? Putting on a show for the sake of the masses? Like recounting your wild Thursday night to someone who stayed in or positioning yourself artfully in the window of Corner Juice. Don't worry! Everyone can see you sipping sipping that $10 smoothie like elite member of the Charlottesville Bourgeoisie you know you are. It’s a façade everyone can see through but you continue to try to charm the disinterested. And then the thought occurs to you, “Crap, I’m the only loser at this university.” And I’ll let you in on a little secret — you are.

Need to confirm this? All you have to do is look around. Even the usual easy bait has now become forbidden fruit that refuses to give you the juicy validation you crave. That frat boy

you just saw ride a scooter down three staircases and possibly rupture his spleen? He aced y’all’s Calculus test the next day AND made it onto Barstool.

That girl you just saw running for the bus? She’s literally just jogging, you’re the only one who runs for the bus, you idiot. And when’s the last time you jogged? But you know who does jog?

Every other person at this university.

They even do that little jog in place when they waiting for the light because they don’t want to lose their momentum. THEIR MOMENTUM, you pooh-bellied buffoon. You just lower your eyes and pray Sahal at Chick-fil-a doesn’t recognize your dumbass coming to the Pav for the fourth time this week.

Face it, every student around you is completely flawless. And you, foolish nincompoop, are the only dud on this entire campus. That’s right! You say campus, like a joke. I honestly shouldn’t even be writing about you, I bet you trip up the steps by Garrett Hall in front of the food trucks and all

of their devout followers. Not because the steps are definitely uneven but because you’re a disgrace. Even the Pie Guy doesn’t want to talk to you. And that’s just sad.

Don’t take it too personally, you can’t help but be the way you are. I’m just sorry you’re surrounded by superhumans who rock Jesus sandals and Alternative Spring Break sweatshirts like it’s their goddam job. They are public servants, and what are you? Some dweeb who got roped into venmoing Madison house because your phone was literally in your hand and apparently “Poverty: college versiontm” is no longer an acceptable excuse. I wish I could help you, but you can’t even help yourself. You stand at Thornton Hall at 2 p.m. like it’s not a night stop, and no one has the heart to tell you to shove off to Gilmer. I mean, heck, you probably go to Clem 2 expecting to get actual work done! Does your delusion know no bounds? Not even U-Guides could direct your ass in the right direction, and they know how to build

rapport with tourists. What I’m trying to say is that you’re the only one who has problems here. No one else could be insecure or flawed at this hallowed temple of knowledge? Right? ... Right?

I mean … It’s definitely not deeply ingrained into University society. It’s not like from the order of columns in the Academical Village to the terraced roofs of the Fratlands, everything at UVA exists on hierarchical scale to make you feel small and insignificant.

Like a wave meant for someone else or a shirt that isn’t Comfort Colors. It’s not like we have been bred at this university to compete with one another and accept nothing short of first place.

It’s not like this toxic mentality has led you to exacerbate your problems in your head and idealize other students based on their resumes, which they’re hiding behind as much as you are? It’s not like every student is secretly fighting these intrusive feelings of worthlessness based on impossible standards enforced by the faculty and the students themselves? No, that would be

crazy.

So let me confirm your suspicions you human equivalent of a cough drop.

You can try to be like all the pretty candy here, all wrapped in your bow, but never forget that deep down, you’re just medicine. So don’t reach out, don’t attempt to commiserate. Keep those feelings of inadequacy shoved down inside your miserable, squishy soul. Because otherwise you might see other people’s failures and doubts, the people behind the resumes. Because you might find the honest truth of the matter is that none of us are quite okay and nowhere close to perfect. Because otherwise you might find out you’re not the only loser at U.Va. and that everyone’s got a little bit of loser inside them too.

EMILY SUMLIN is a Humor Columnist for The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at humor@cavalierdaily.com.

A cordial invitation to my funeral Dearly beloved, If you’re reading this, it’s because I am “dead.” Yes, really and truly, I have “died.” Why quotation marks?

Because, if all goes to plan, all will suppose me dead as I live out the last* of my days with Ella Yelich-O’Connor on a deserted island. But for all intents and purposes, I am dead. Also, if you’re reading this, it is either because I love you deeply or because I want you to believe me dead and kindly leave my life. Don’t think about it too much, it will only make grieving my absence that much harder.

Anyway, if you care for my soul and want to help me pass Pharaoh-style into the afterlife — literally brainless and surrounded by money — please ensure that my funeral plays out exactly as I’ve planned it.

Guest list: Lorde, Stevie Wonder,

the ghosts of Amy Winehouse and Roald Dahl, either of the two lizards who freeload in my front yard, Hamburger Helper, my dogs, every last living member of the Rotunda Burning Society, Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen head and the last six people I texted. And, of course, you — unless, tragically, you are ugly. Absolutely no uggos are permitted to attend the party of my lifetime. I will not bend on this, and neither should you — just wait outside until the service is over.

Ambiance: Candle light emanating from antique bronze candelabras adorned with opals, subtle but notable wafts of Febreeze’s best attempt to recreate lavender and “Ribs” on loop.

Menu: Grapes of every color, slightly stale popcorn, scrambled eggs and sparkling water.

Venue: My safe haven, my para-

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dise, my Sun — the sixth table from the drink machines along the window-covered wall in the main dining area of Newcomb. 1 a.m. on a Wednesday (to narrow attendees down to true fans only).

Burial preferences: This is the most demanding part, so stay alert.

1. First, you need to order my tombstone. I envision a light pink marble or a neutral-toned granite. Engrave my instagram handle onto the tombstone, and beneath that, engrave ;( 2. Now, this part is tricky. I have a set guest list to my funeral (noted above), but you should also sell about 50 tickets for something like $100 a pop. Each friend and family member will have to pay in cash to say goodbye to me.

3. Before you go to place my empty casket in the ground, take all the

bills and place them inside my coffin.

Bury my coffin no more than two feet deep, and leave a shovel and keys to my coffin behind my tombstone. Do not, by any means, bury it deeper or retain the keys in the spirit of keeping my memory ~safe~. Dead people don’t need protection, but “dead” people need money.

Finally, just a few rules to enforce at my funeral: allow absolutely no one to converse with one another, place pilfered produce into the bags of the attendees and never tell the Government that I am dead so you can collect my Medicare and unemployment checks forever. Also, tell anyone who society might deem objectively more attractive than myself to place bags over their faces so that their beauty distracts no one from the crushing weight of my absence, nor from mem-

ories of my gleaming visage.

Also, and this one’s just a personal favor to me, but do not include a picture of me anywhere at my funeral and/or wake. If you feel so compelled, you may stick mirrors into frames and place those about the room.

Attractively, unawaveringly and mystically, Lucy? *I cannot say for certain that the last of my days will ever arrive. Until I die, there will be no way to know whether or not I even have the ability to die. Immortality is a waiting game.

LUCY HOPKINS is a Humor Columnist for The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at humor@cavalierdaily.com.

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Dan Goff | Arts and Entertainment Editor

PUZZLES

*THE SOLUTION TO THIS PUZZLE CAN BE FOUND IN NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE

Across 1. Wing actions, maybe

EVENTS

Tuesday, May 1 Sing Mr. Brightside after the last day of classes, Rotunda 7:56 p.m.

Free Popsicles on the Lawn, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Baseball vs. VCU, 6 p.m., Davenport Field Men’s Lacrosse vs. VMI, 7 p.m., Klockner Field Wednesday, May 2 Jazz in the Amphitheater, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Study Break, U.Va. Alumni Association, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Thursday, May 3 Evening Sunset Series, Carter Mountain Orchard, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 5 Charlottesville City Market, 7 a.m. - 12 p.m.

6. Long-barreled gun 11. Horizontal piece of timber connecting rafters — two words 13. Be deprived of a loved one, especially through death 15. Make someone lose confidence or courage 16. Imagines, conceives 17. Shabbier 18. Those who sit or do nothing 19. Narrow cut or opening 20. Abbreviation also known as ISIL 22. Colorless crystalline compound 23. Root word of first "I" in 20-across 25. Lemongrass serves this sort of food 26. Pink-colored, maybe cheeks 27. Moved along smooth surface 29. Viscous substance used as ointment

CORRECTION: In the April 26, 2018 edition of The Cavalier Daily, in an article entitled “Student Council adopts summer budget,” the article misstated that Student Council’s summer budget passed as it was originally proposed. However, the budget actually passed with an amendment to reduce the funding of the Coffee Chats program. Additionally, the article misstated that Student Council spent $844 of discretionary funds on a candlelit vigil this past summer. In actuality, Student Council spent a total of $844 of discretionary funds on various items throughout the summer.

31. May 2 is a ___ day 33. Some prefer "snuck" 36. Thin, narrow pieces of wood 40. News anchor and "Big Brother" host Julie 41. Length times width, for a rectangle 43. Most suitable

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45. British slang for bathrooms 46. With "Grand," apartment complex on 15th

57. Contemptuous smile or remark

you might have to write this

58. "Trunk" of the human body

21. Tremble convulsively

Down 1. They're coming after 31-across — are you ready?

2. Small, circular "pulse" plant that is a staple for meals throughout much of India — its green, red and orange varieties are common 3. The act of inciting someone to commit a crime — "aid and ___" 4. In Persian mythology, superhuman being — possibly a genie or fairy 5. Rescue, preserve 6. Plans something again 7. Angers

47. Solely

8. Distinctive attribute or aspect

48. Ornamental shoulder piece, often worn in a military context

9. Not now — two words

50. The other side of 37-down 53. Intervene in a dispute to foster agreement 54. Most college students are this — not permanent residents 55. With "out," tattled 56. Role many of us might have this summer

10. "Into Thin Air" mountain 11. Social class in Rwanda 12. What some scholarships are based on 13. Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice, meat and vegetables 14. Instead of one-down,

38. Frameworks on which fabric is stretched out to dry

24. Spanish word for "sight," among others

39. Italian port city known for Minerva's Garden

28. Alternate spelling of 10-meter measurement

40. Where you might study for one-down, or where you might write 14-down

30. Type of citrus fruit named for its unsightly appearance 32. Introduced air into something 33. Linear types of machines, similar to lathes 34. Carson City resident 35. Bedroom with an adjoining bathroom — two words

42. Taxon of arachnids containing mites and ticks 44. Strong washing solutions 49. Tardy 51. Blemish in a car, maybe 52. Moving aboard something

37. One who becomes a legal guardian *THIS IS THE SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE

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‘Shout my mountain music all night long’ Old Crow Medicine Show brings bluegrass to life

ENTERTAINMENT “Here comes Critter with the squeeze box,” announced Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor during the band’s first set at the Sprint Pavilion last week.

If the names Critter and Ketch and the reference to a “squeeze-box” weren’t indicator enough, Old Crow Medicine Show plays mountain music. They are the purest bluegrass band to achieve mainstream popularity in the 21st century. They unabashedly embrace the quirky traditions of the music they play, yet their act retains undeniable modern vitality — a tough balance to achieve.

First formed in 1998, Old Crow spent two years busking on street corners before being discovered by influential country guitarist Doc Watson. The group’s most famous song is “Wagon Wheel,” a modern campfire classic that Secor completed at age 17 from a rough-edged Bob Dylan outtake. Only a 17 year old would have

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Ben Hitchcock | Senior Associate been foolhardy enough to rewrite a Dylan song, but the track became the band’s breakout hit. “Wagon Wheel” has eclipsed the rest of Old Crow’s discography, but the group’s eight studio albums are filled with delightful, lively bluegrass music. Old Crow’s rollicking banjo-picking helped pave the way for successful folk-pop acts like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers. The group has been a member of the prestigious Grand Ole Opry in Nashville since 2013.

Like the bluegrass music they play, Old Crow has roots in the Blue Ridge.

Secor and guitarist Critter Fuqua met each other in middle school in Harrisonburg, Va. “Rockingham County I was born and raised / I’ll be a Rocktown rocker for the rest of my days,” sings Fuqua on the band’s new song “Dixie Avenue.” The group lived in Charlottesville during 2005 and 2006.

Secor emphasized the local connection while he was onstage. “Aw man, them Shenandoah County girls,” he

howled with a grin. “Ate a lot of potato-flour donuts,” Secor said of his time in Charlottesville, alluding to the famous downtown donut store Spudnuts that closed in 2016.

At the concert Thursday, Secor made the band’s intentions clear from the start, declaring that the band was “Singing some of that good ol’ timey music here in Charlottesville.”

Secor and the rest of Old Crow have long been focused on “that good ol’ timey music,” dutifully working to keep the traditional music of the mountains alive in the 21st century.

“The ‘Don’t trust anybody over 30’ [attitude] was really ‘Don’t trust anybody under 30’ for me,” Secor said in a New York Times interview this month.

Secor is optimistic about the genre’s future. “Fiddles and banjos won’t be denied,” Secor told the New Yorker in 2014. “I believe they’ll outlast most other American institutions.”

Bluegrass means more than just banjos and fiddles — Old Crow’s

songs tell the stories of flyover states and forgotten hollers, just as country music always has. Their latest album, “Volunteer,” released April 20, features a number of notable yarns. “Dixie Avenue” tells the bittersweet story of a young couple growing up and getting stuck in a small town; “Old Hickory” tells about Virgil Lee, a guitarist who “kindly mistook / the devil for a dear friend.” Other songs explore less wellworn territory — “A World Away” is a yearning tale told from the perspective of an immigrant.

Emphasis on musical preservation and deference to tradition are not generally indicators of mainstream success, but Old Crow has built a dedicated following while remaining committed to the fundamentals of their music. The secret to their balancing act was apparent on Thursday.

They temper their love for tradition with a healthy dose of rock-and-roll showmanship. Secor is lanky and lithe — bouncing around the stage he

looked like Jack Skellington in cowboy boots. The six-piece group never stopped shuffling and rearranging, sending a trio of fiddles to the front for a few numbers then later all gathering around the mic to sing a few traditional spirituals. A cheetah-printclad bongo player joined the group for “A World Away.” Keyboardist Cory Younts twice took the front of the stage to accompany the music with spirited tap-dancing.

Old Crow Medicine Show plays traditional bluegrass music, but they don’t play it traditionally. They don’t stand in a horizontal row and let the violins do the talking. Old Crow frolics and dances, hoots and hollers, and never stops smiling. This energy is their best defense against becoming an anachronism. They’ve convinced 21st century audiences to love bluegrass simply by loving it so much themselves.

Anderson .Paak puts on eclectic, enthusiastic show R&B, hip-hop group concluded SpringFest activities with spectacular concert Max Russ | Staff Writer For anyone who didn’t get to experience the wonderful event that was Friday’s SpringFest, here’s a quick depiction of what went down — a cloudless blue sky, arguably the best weather of the semester and an abundance of good eats and activities. These pleasant elements set the scene for the festival’s main event — Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals’ nighttime concert. Held at the Amphitheatre, .Paak and crew had an exciting and wonderful charisma, making for an excellent conclusion to the University Programs Council’s event.

As The Free Nationals came out on stage, the crowd was immediately greeted by .Paak’s intoxicating energy and happiness. The band has a knack for creating funky yet moving tracks, and the set bounced straight into “Come Down,” a crowd favorite. Accompanied by his pump-up DJ Callum Connor, .Paak wandered up and down the stage, encouraging all parts of the crowd to get their arms up in the air and bump to the music.

While the setlist was heavily filled with tracks from his 2016 release “Malibu,” the Free Nationals would occasionally dip into tracks from 2014’s “Venice,” as well as some of .Paak’s side projects and features.

“Suede” from his side project NxWorries was a hit with the crowd,

offering a soothing tune that really expressed .Paak’s soul. This was one of the many tracks where .Paak manned the drums and illustrated his sheer talent as a musician.

Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals have certainly had a successful last year. Aside from touring the world in length, the band has been featured everywhere, from Coachella to an iconic Tiny Desk Concert at NPR to soundtracking the newest Apple advertisement.

Back in February, the band unofficially announced their debut album, expected to come out in the summer of this year.

The Free Nationals became affiliated with .Paak almost nine years ago, when guitarist Jose Rios started playing with him, and bassist Kelsey Gonzalez coming to join three years later. DJ and backing vocalist Callum Connor helped in mixing and producing .Paak’s 2015 release “Venice.” Keyboardist Ron Tnava Avant would also join soon after, and together they formed the group that plays together today. .Paak’s ability as both a rapper and drummer is without question an impressive feat, but the way the Free Nationals came to play and illustrate their own individual talent was a great indicator for how good the band’s overall dynamic has become over the last few years

of touring. Guitarist Rios had plenty of charming guitar solos — namely his fun, jazzy noodling in “The Bird” — as did bassist Gonzalez, whose improvisations on basslines were downright fantastic.

But in their live rendition of “Lite Weight,” keyboardist and backing vocalist Avant stole the show with his autotuned solo and keyboard freestyle. Avant’s face full of pure happiness indicated that The Free Nationals were having just as much fun with their performance as the crowd was.

Another notable aspect of the show was The Free Nationals’ ability to diversify their setlist.

Moments of slowed-down groove in songs like “The Bird” and “The Season / Carry Me” were coupled with intimate R&B hits like “Luh You” and “The Dreamer,” ensuring the crowd with an ability to sway, jump and bump to the music. .Paak sang each line with such intimacy and care, releasing his fervor and dedication to making this show an enjoyable experience for all.

Though the atmosphere of the show was definitely different than a typical show for .Paak & The Free Nationals, mostly due to the fact that it was a free show for all students in an open amphitheater, this didn’t seem to affect the overall outcome of the show. With a quick

look around the crowd, it was rare to find anyone not dancing or enjoying the music. .Paak and company without a doubt brought soul

and energy to SpringFest, finishing the night with a wonderfully memorable performance for every kind of fan.

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As the closing act of SpringFest, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals brought a huge amount of energy and a wide range of tunes to the Amphitheatre.

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Margo Price takes her second album to the next level Price puts on a captivating, sold-out performance at the Jefferson Ellie Bowen | Staff Writer Margo Price put a powerful final cap on her “All American Made” tour at the Jefferson Theater at a sold-out concert April 28. As it was the last show before her return to her home state of Tennessee, Price made it obvious from the second she walked on stage in a bright red pantsuit that this performance was going to be bold.

Through her old-school tunes, Price was able to transform the Jefferson into a 1960s country hall for the evening. The stage setup catered to the usual country theme — simplistic, with just a few string lights to add ambiance. Appearance aside, the entire atmosphere of the theater was altered

by Price’s classic, sharp yet smooth vocals. Even her sarcastic stage banter reflected that classic, high-pitched Dolly Parton-esque voice.

On two different occasions, Price was able to prove her musical dynamism by ditching the front stage mic to take over the background drum kit.

Both of these performances couldn't help but feel like female power moves,

considering how rarely one sees a girl rocking out on a drum set. Seeing Price wham on the drums while the rest of her band sat in awe proved this musician’s spunk.

Adding to this female power dynamic, Price filled her stage banter with feminist quotes. Paying tribute to Marilyn Monroe, Price introduced her song “Don’t Say It” with the quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.”

In the closing minutes of the show, Price welcomed her opener Aaron Lee Tasjan back on stage for a duo performance of the Tom Petty classic “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.” The two artists voices’ intertwined naturally to create the perfect ending to a seriously well-constructed concert and tour.

Though her live performance begs otherwise, Price is a moderately new artist, having dived into the music industry in 2016 with her debut album “Midwest Farmer's Daughter.”

At 20, she began her musical career in Nashville, Tenn., performing with

her husband Jeremy Ivey. Between the years 2015 and 2016, Price went from teaching children’s dance at the local YMCA to performing live on Saturday Night Live, all thanks to the incredible popularity of “Midwest Farmer's Daughter.” The album made the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and was named an “amazingly vivid songcraft” by the Rolling Stones. Swimming in success, Price’s name has only continued to grow in the country music industry.

Her sophomore album, “All American Made,” deviates from her debut in terms of meaning. Tackling issues ranging from the gender pay gap to poverty, this is one of the most socially conscious records to hit the country music sphere. The majority of the songs on the album were written while Price was touring across America, which is clearly reflected in the record’s rustic Midwestern zeal. Songs like “All American Made,” which features a sample of Donald Trump's voice, explore the current political

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Margo Price’s sold-out show at the Jefferson Saturday had the artist showing off new tunes.

atmosphere of our country through a melancholic blues-like tone. This album clearly displays that Price is actually trying to create socially conscious music rather than just bland music for the soul reason of making money.

In “All American Made,” Price finds the ideal middle ground between jaunty old-school country and

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mellowed rhythmic blues. Her performance at the Jefferson was incredibly dynamic, flowing from upbeat rhythmic tunes to more melancholic songs such as “Learning to Lose” which features renowned country artist Willie Nelson. This dynamism made for an incredibly captivating performance that left the audience wanting more.

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