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A look at the class of 2020 Trend of increasing diversity continues, greater number of first-generation college students ALEXIS GRAVELY | ASSOCIATE EDITOR After a record-setting number of applications, 3,706 first-year students will be welcomed to Grounds this fall as part of the Class of 2020.

The Class of 2020 is slightly more diverse than in years past, which is consistent with a five-year trend in increasing diversity, Dean of Admissions Gregory Roberts said.

“We are thrilled that the incoming class includes so many students from underrepresented backgrounds, and I am personally excited to welcome so many interesting and committed leaders, innovators and thinkers to Grounds,” Roberts said.

The number of minority students has increased nearly 5 percent since 2012 and has increased 1 percent since last year.

The incoming first-year class consists of 31.9 percent minority students. The majority of these students are Asian, accounting for 14 percent of the class. This is a consistent trend, as Asian students have been the largest group of minority students who have enrolled since 2012.

Among other minority first years enrolled at the University, seven percent are African American, six percent are Hispanic and less than one percent are American Indian or Hawaiian. Four percent of incoming students are multiracial.

Seven percent of the Class of 2020 is composed of lower-income students, a slight increase from 2015.

However, while the number of lower-income students slightly increased, the total number of enrolled students who are receiving financial aid is slightly lower than that for the Class of 2019.

Students who are the first in their families to attend college comprise 11 percent of the class, with a total of 411 first-generation students.

While the percentage of first-generation college students has fluctuated over the past five years, the Class of 2020 saw an increase of over two percent from students who enrolled in 2015. This added approximately 81 more first-generation college students to the first-year class.

As a first-generation college student, first-year College student Ayesha Pasha said she was excited to have the college experience and felt the University was the best school for her because of its history of tradition.

Pasha also said having an increased number of first-generation college students on Grounds will be beneficial for the Class of 2020.

“We can all experience college for the first time together, while helping each other along the way,” Pasha said.

Roberts said the University has significantly increased the number of students who are first-generation college students while simultaneously increasing the number of underrepresented minority students.

“We continue to attract the best students from around the state, country and world, and these students bring with them interesting and diverse backgrounds, thoughts, beliefs, opinions and ideas to Grounds,” Roberts said.

The University had a record number of applications this year with a

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Orientation leaders welcome students in the new first-year class on the Lawn.

total number of 32,381 applications — around 1,200 more than were submitted for the Class of 2019. The majority of the applicants, 22,715, were out-of-state residents. Of the total number of applications, 9,680 students — approximately 30 percent — were offered enrollment.

Several admission statistics for the incoming first-year class are nearly identical to the Class of 2019, Roberts said.

This class size is consistent with class sizes in the past, increasing from last year’s first-year class by only

around 30 students.

In the incoming class, 2,467 students are Virginia residents, accounting for about two-thirds of all incoming first-year students.

The incoming Class of 2020 boasts a mean SAT score of 1346 and a mean high school GPA of 4.24, while 88.2 percent of enrollees were in the top ten percent of their high school graduating class.

“We are excited to watch these students make their mark on U.Va. over the next four years,” Roberts said.

Gooch renovations complete Construction comes to close as plans for Dillard begin MARK FELICE | SENIOR WRITER With the new academic year arriving, some first-year students will be moving into the newly renovated Gooch Dorm — the culmination of a six-year plan developed by the University for renovating the dorm.

“The renovations have been a part of the formal plans for the last six years, and that includes what building systems needed to be replaced and brought up to current standards,” Patricia Romer, director of business and facilities services, said. “We also looked at the first-year experience and what the students were telling us to incorporate into the project.”

The project includes the separation of Gooch-Dillard and the establishment of suite-style double rooms.

Student input was a crucial part in organizing the development for the new renovations.

“Everything we do across Grounds is designed to improve the living environment that students experience at U.Va.,” Assistant Dean of Students Andrew Petters said. “We are always open to student input on our projects, and we are looking forward to how the new Gooch will positively impact the way students [live] and learn within this residential community.”

One of the main plans for the Gooch and Dillard renovations was to emphasize the sense of community the dorms had to offer. This involved the remodeling of the interior as well as sprucing up the exterior of the buildings.

“We are trying to change and improve the exterior look of the community along with the air conditioning systems, flooring, removing walls to increase the number of double rooms, as well as overhauls to the bathrooms,” Petters said. “The community will remain suite-style, but it will feel new and be more of a home to our students.”

Housing and Residence Life has found suite-style living to be one of the best options for growing a strong community.

“Suite style has some of the most community-oriented living that we have on Grounds and we want to make sure that the environment is the best that it can be and that people enjoy the suite style experience during their first year,” Resident Staff Program Chair Jackson Nell, a fourth-year College student, said.

HRL’s decision to make the new renovations suite-style combats the stigmas of a lesser sense of com-

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The newly renovated dorm features updated interiors to foster a better sense of community among residents.

munity, poor air conditioning and lack of open outdoor spaces which have often been associated with the Gooch-Dillard living experience.

“Hall-style residence halls are like being in a lecture class and living in Gooch or other suite style residence halls is like being in a seminar class,” Countess Hughes, assistant director of assignments, said. “[With] hall style you may meet more people on

your floor, but in Gooch you have fewer people in your suite but know them on a more personal level.”

The Gooch Dorm will house 326 students all living in either a single, double or triple living space. They will also have access to a study lounge, outdoor patios and a full kitchen.

“The new building will have seven students living in singles, 12 students living in triples and 292 students liv-

ing in doubles,” Hughes said. “There will also be 14 Resident Advisors and one Senior Resident in the Gooch building.”

The Dillard renovations started over the summer and will be completed within the next year with similar updates. The dorms will now be separated as Gooch and Dillard instead of the originally jointed Gooch-Dillard dorms.

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All the news you missed this summer Lawsuit updates, the Strategic Investment Fund and other headlines from the past few months CAITY SEED | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

UNIVERSITY SENDS 18 TO RIO GAMES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT FUND CONTROVERSY The University’s Strategic Investment Fund has been the source of a lot of controversy this summer.

Former Board of Visitors member and Rector Helen Dragas left the board in June after serving two consecutive four-year terms.

After resigning, Dragas published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she accused the University of irresponsible spending, highlighting the existence of a $2.3 billion dollar reserve which she referred to as a “slush fund” created to support University “pet projects.”

The fund — formally known as the Strategic Investment Fund— was included in the University’s 2013 Cornerstone Plan and officially received its name from the Board in 2016, according to Chief Operating Officer Pat Hogan. Hogan said the fund was established according to procedural rules in order to improve infrastructure and hire new faculty.

Dragas, however, was later joined by several Virginia legislators with inquiries about the origin and transparency of the fund this summer.

In a letter addressed to President Teresa Sullivan and current Rector William Goodwin Jr., legislators requested a “fulsome response” be provided about the financial makeup and origin of the fund, which they claim was created prior to the Board’s approval. In the letter, legislators said they were disappointed with the amount of documentation provided by administrators and demanded recent tuition raises be canceled “not next year, but now.”

Sullivan responded to the letter by stating all relevant records were accessible and the University is cooperating with all inquiries.

The University sent 18 representatives to the Summer Olympics in Rio this year.

Two current students competed in events — fourth-year College student Leah Smith and fourth-year College student Filip Mihaljevic. Smith participated in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle as well as the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. She won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle on Aug. 7. A track and field participant, Mihaljevic competed in shot put.

Other University representatives include coaches and alumni.

FEDS OPEN NEW TITLE IX INVESTIGATION The Department of Education opened a new Title IX investigation July 22 about the University’s procedures handling sexual assault cases.

The DOE’s Office for Civil Rights said the investigation stems from a complaint filed by a male student who claims he was treated unfairly during a Title IX case.

The student — who remains anonymous — claims he was discriminated against on the basis of his gender and an unnamed disability.

The current investigation is unrelated to the previous four-year investigation into the University’s Title IX policies which concluded last September and resulted in an overhaul of the University’s policies regarding sexual assault cases, according to the DOE.

ROLLING STONE SUIT DISMISSED On June 28, a federal judge dismissed the defamation suit filed by three University alumni against Rolling Stone about the now-retracted article “A Rape on Campus.”

The alumni — George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler — were members of the University’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and claimed the details included in the article could lead others to believe they participated in the alleged rape depicted in the article.

Judge P. Kevin Castel, however, ruled that any details in the article were too vague to specifically incriminate the plaintiffs and dismissed the suit.

PROFESSOR FACES CHILD PORN CHARGES The University Police Department charged Assoc. Prof. Walter Francis Korte, Jr. with two counts of possession of child pornography on Aug. 2. Korte — who is also the Drama Department’s director of film studies — was denied bond by the Albemarle County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

He is currently being held at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail until further court proceedings, which are yet to be announced.

ERAMO’S DEFAMATION SUIT CONTINUES Former University Dean Nicole Eramo’s defamation suit against Rolling Stone, author Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Wenner Media is ongoing. Eramo filed a motion requesting partial summary judgment in July, to which defendants responded with a motion for summary judgment.

The judge has yet to respond to either the defendants' motion or the plaintiff ’s motion for prior judgment. The case is set to be heard in court in October of this year.

SYC PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES HE WILL STEP DOWN FOR THE FALL

Second Year Council President Ahmad Shawwal announced on July 24 he will be stepping down from the presidency for the fall semester and SYC Vice President Floyd Black will fill his position.

Shawwal, who is a second-year Engineering student, will be taking a semester off from the University for personal reasons.

Shawwal previously held the position of First Year Council President and was elected to serve on the Second Year Council in February.

Shawwal said he will return to the University in spring 2017, though his role with the SYC is yet to be determined.

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Students for Trump forms Group supporting Trump motivated by dislike of Clinton ANKITA SATPATHY | ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR As of the beginning of the fall semester, the College Republicans have not yet decided if they will be endorsing GOP nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Second-year College student Adam Kimelman, vice chair of campaigns, said the group plans to discuss the issue during their first or second official meeting of the semester.

“We’re kind of on the fence about whether or not to endorse Trump,” Kimelman said. “We will see if there is a consensus one way or another we’re going to do whatever our members want.”

While the current executive board of the College Republicans will take an official stance in the presidential election, this is atypical for the group, which normally makes its endorsements evident through the candidates for which it focuses on campaigning.

“We usually don’t have to endorse or not endorse any of our candidates, but this is an unusual circumstance,” Kimelman said.

Kimelman also said the College Republicans view this election as particularly divisive.

“I believe he says things that attract and have, in the past, mistakenly attracted people to the Republican message for xenophobic and prejudiced reasons,” said Ali Hiestand, vice chair of events for the College Republicans, in a recent interview with The Cavalier Daily.

Hiestand said she was not speaking on behalf of the entire organization, but noted that several members of the College Republicans are “genuinely worried about true conservative principles being confounded with the rhetoric of Donald Trump.”

The University’s College Republicans are not the only ones who have yet to endorse Trump.

In fact, some College Republicans

chapters have denounced him entirely, including those at American University and Harvard University.

Regardless of the group’s decision, the College Republicans will permit any of their members to use CIO resources to individually campaign for Donald Trump if they would like to.

“If individuals want to support Trump, if they want to chalk, knock on doors, make phone calls, that’s fine,” Kimelman said. “We give the resources for any Republican whether or not we choose to endorse them.”

Kimelman also said the College Republicans are focused on promoting conservative ideals as a whole, and will be focusing on congressional elections this year regardless of whom, if anyone, they choose to endorse in the presidential election.

While there is a possibility that the College Republicans will not campaign for Donald Trump, there is an organization on Grounds exclusively dedicated to this purpose.

Students for Trump is a student-led organization that appoints ambassadors at colleges and universities across the country.

These ambassadors lead grassroots campaigning efforts at their respective schools to encourage people to vote for Trump.

While the group is not officially affiliated with the Trump campaign, its website states its goal is to “to motivate and inspire students from across the country by informing them of Mr. Trump’s policies and ideals.”

Second-year College student Sabrina Kim is the Students for Trump Ambassador at the University. Because the semester has not yet begun, Kim said her campaigning efforts have been primarily social media based thus far, both on

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Members of the College Republicans have been on the fence when it comes to endorsing Trump, with some worried about the conflation of conservative principles with Trump’s rhetoric.

Facebook and Twitter.

“In that sense it’s like a publicity campaign,” Kim said. “But it’s also like a group or club in the sense that people can be as involved as they want them to.”

The group also plans to give interviews to discuss their reasoning behind supporting Trump.

Next Thursday, a French news organization called French Television will be coming to the University to speak to Kim and other students who support Trump about their decision to do so.

As an organization, Students for Trump at the University focuses on issues its members find relevant at the time based on current events and key voter issues.

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“[What we focus on] changes a lot and I would say it’s very dependent on what people are feeling and what’s happening,” Kim said.

Students for Trump and the College Republicans are not currently coordinated in any way; however, Kim said she hopes to work with the College Republicans in the future. Kimelman said that the groups’ memberships may overlap — though he cannot be sure until the College Republicans hold their first few meetings.

Both groups have expressed a strong dislike for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her candidacy.

“If we did endorse Trump, a big reason would probably be that we

are more frightened of a Hillary Clinton presidency than we were this time last year,” Kimelman said.

“As much as we may not like Donald Trump, we definitely don’t like Hillary Clinton, so it’s picking the lesser of two evils.”

Kim said she is motivated by both her like for Trump and her dislike for Clinton.

“My primary reason, it’s kind of a [combination], but one, it’s my immediate dislike for Hillary Clinton [and] her policies,” Kim said.

“In that sense my vote for Trump is a vote against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.”

Kim also said her key voter issues are foreign policy and military buildup, and she is motivated

by Trump’s strong stances in these areas.

University Democrats President Sam Tobin, a fourth-year College student, commented on the College Republicans’ current lack of endorsement for Trump and stance on Clinton.

“I think the difficulty College Republicans, and Republicans everywhere, are having with endorsing Donald Trump shows that he is unfit and unqualified to serve as president of the United States,” Tobin said in an email to The Cavalier Daily. “If groups loyal to your party have trouble endorsing you, that should speak volumes about your candidacy. University Democrats is fortunate enough not to have that problem as we have a fabulous candidate in Secretary Clinton.”

The College Republicans are expected to decide on their endorsement toward the beginning of the semester.

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Trove of school supplies off of Alderman Road ROSE program provides free school supplies to undergraduates MARK FELICE | SENIOR WRITER As part of the University’s effort to become a more sustainable Grounds, the Office for Sustainability sponsors the Reusable Office Supply Exchange as a resource to reuse school supplies.

The ROSE program is an initiative that works to keep reusable office supplies out of landfills and reintroduce them back into other office usage, Recycling Programs Superintendent Sonny Beale said in an email statement.

“It is offered, free, to our U.Va. students, staff and faculty, as well as local nonprofit organizations and schools with supplies that would normally go to a landfill,” Beale said.

While this program was started in 1998 and was based on a similar program at the University of Oregon, the University has added to its sustainability program in recent years and expanded programs like ROSE. “In U.Va.’s recently-launched Sustainability Plan, U.Va. committed to significantly reducing the amount of waste generated as well as the amount of waste sent to landfills,” Andrea Trimble, director of the Office for Sustaina-

bility, said in an email statement.

“We need everyone’s help in achieving these goals, to protect resources for this generation and generations to come.”

The program not only serves as a source of recycling at the University, but also has many supplies that students, staff and faculty might need for the upcoming school year. All supplies are free to take and are all donated to the program.

“Our shelves carry three-ring binders of many sizes, hanging file folders, desk organizers, pens, pencils, markers, staplers, paper clips, envelopes, sometimes paper, hole punchers and other reusable office supplies,” Beale said.

The sustainability department is striving now for more awareness about its programs to allow them to improve on the standard set by the green initiative from the University.

“The help ROSE needs or could use is increased awareness of material usage,” Beale said.

Every department, as well as all staff and students, can take part in sustainable practices by

either reducing what is used or reusing items until they are not useable, Beale said.

The Office for Sustainability also wants people to become aware of how they can buy and use supplies in an environmentally-friendly way.

“Some ways to help include purchasing new items only when necessary, reusing materials and products, reducing food waste, properly sorting recyclable and compostable materials and being an advocate to help others do the same,” Trimble said.

The office wants all students to take advantage of this opportunity and reuse old school materials.

The warehouse of supplies is located on Leake Drive on the left behind the Astronomy and ROTC buildings. It is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Virginia athletes shine in Rio BEN TOBIN | SPORTS WRITER In sending 18 representatives to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Virginia athletic department had much to be proud of prior to the games’ Opening Ceremony. Just eight years prior, Virginia only had nine representatives at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

However, not only did Virginia have a greater presence at this year’s Olympics, but several athletes made the school known on a global stage, as well, through their successes. Here is a list of the top three Virginia athletes from the Olympics thus far: 1. Leah Smith On the heels of a phenomenal 2016 season as well as an impressive showing at the Olympic Trials, expectations were high for senior swimmer Leah Smith. In fairness, to be mentioned in the same breath as Katie Ledecky is pressure enough. Thus, when competing in the 400- and 800-meter freestyle as well as the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, Smith not only had the Cavalier faithful watching her, but the eyes of a whole nation as well.

To say that Smith excelled under this pressure would be an un-

derstatement. In the 400-meter freestyle, Smith started strong by finishing second in her preliminary heat. Then, in the finals, she won the bronze medal with a time of 4:01.92 — just under .7 seconds behind the second-place finisher, Jazmin Carlin of Great Britain.

However, Smith’s most memorable mark came in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg of the race, Smith helped her team edge out Australia to claim the gold. With a bronze and gold medal to her name, Smith was the only Virginia athlete to make it to the podium during the Olympics.

2. Michelle Vittese A 2013 graduate, Michelle Vittese competed for the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) in field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics. While Vittese earned the honor of being the 2012 U.S. Field Hockey National Player of the Year, the 2012 USWNT squad performed abysmally. With a last-place finish and not a single win to their name, the players of the USWNT, including Vittese, left London disappointed.

However, the team rebounded

in Rio. With a full head of steam, Vittese was constantly on the attack for her team. As a result, through six games, she scored two goals. Beyond that, she had numerous shots on goal, which kept the pressure on the defense to defend against the onslaught.

While the USWNT exited in the quarterfinals on a 2-1 loss to Germany, ultimately taking fifth place, the team made its country proud.

Without Vittese at the center of the attack, it is hard to imagine the team could have achieved the same level of success.

3. Morgan Brian In her four years with the Virginia women’s soccer team, Morgan Brian was always a dual-threat: not only could she score at will, but she racked up assists as well, becoming the first Cavalier to ever score 40 goals as well as complete 40 assists throughout her career. Having seen this dual-threat prowess as a potential asset, the Houston Dash picked her first overall in the 2015 NWSL College Draft.

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Smith has won both a bronze and a gold medal during her time in Brazil.

National Team for soccer. While the United States met an untimely end in the quarterfinals at the hands of Sweden in a dramatic penalty kick shootout, Brian did not disappoint. With one assist through four matches and a crucial goal in the shootout against Swe-

den, the former Cavalier midfielder stepped up to the occasion as a leader. In fact, although the United States lost the match against Sweden, Brian was nevertheless named the Budweiser Woman of the Match for her stellar effort.

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Basketball leaves Spain with spotless record MARIEL MESSIER | SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Virginia men’s basketball team gained three things during their early-August tour of Spain: valuable playing time, new experiences and wins.

The Cavaliers swept their Spanish opponents, going 5-0 in the tour.

Virginia kicked off their tour against Madrid, where they played in Pabellón Felipe Reyes, a gym with seating for only 100 — including coaches and players on the court.

The Cavaliers got to see what their team looked like without key appearances from Malcolm Brogdon, Anthony Gill and Mike Tobey — and in game one, they liked what they saw, as they coasted to a 92-81 victory.

Some new faces made their mark as well in game one, as freshman guard Kyle Guy and junior forward Austin Nichols each recorded 17 points to lead the team.

However, there were no shortage of challenges for Virginia.

They played each of their games with a 24-second shot clock, which is consistent with FIBA rules. The Cavaliers also went up against a familiar face — forward Ivan Cruz Uceda, who played for Miami and played against Virginia three times in the 2015-16 season.

In game two, the Cavaliers faced the Generals once again, but this time they had to rally from behind to earn a 78-76 win. In this

game, Virginia played with a little less experience, as coach Tony Bennett elected to rest senior point guard London Perrantes, junior forward Isaiah Wilkins and sophomore center Jack Salt.

However, younger players got the chance to take the fate of the game into their own hands, as freshman guard Ty Jerome hit a three-pointer with just under two minutes left to give Virginia a 7573 lead. Jerome came up big again soon after, hitting another three to make the score final, 78-76.

And then came the new experiences. In Madrid, the Cavaliers were able to visit the storied Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the venue that Real Madrid calls home. Virginia also got to tour the Spanish Royal Palace before heading to Albacete with a detour in the holy city of Toledo.

The Cavaliers played game three against Arcos Albacete Basket, Albacete’s local professional club. Virginia did not have much trouble against the team, as they went onto beat the club 70-44 inside a gym with no air conditioning.

Younger players once again logged some minutes, as freshman forward Jay Huff, freshman guard De’Andre Hunter, Jerome and Guy got significant minutes. Huff led the team with 14 points and five blocks while adding on seven rebounds.

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The Cavaliers have had an overall successful record in their European tours since 1996.

The team then traveled to Sant Julià De Vilatorta, a small town outside of Barcelona. This time, the Cavaliers played in a 500-seat gym, against Sant Julià. Virginia faced off against the local team for another two-game set.

Virginia was coming off a few days of rest after leaving Albacete, and although the Cavaliers won 72-62 in their first contest, Sant Julià threatened with a late six straight points. Perrantes took over the game in the final minutes to secure Virginia’s lead, and the senior tallied 14 points to lead the team. Sophomore forward Jarred Reuter followed close behind with 13 points.

In the fifth and final game of

the tour, Virginia dominated Sant Julià with a 85-49 victory. As was the story of the entire tour, fresh faces got plenty of minutes on the court.

Nichols led the team in scoring with 14 points. Three other players earned double digits — as Hunter scored 11 — and Reuter and junior guard Marial Shayok tallied 10 each. Hunter, who was the only Cavalier to play in all five games, added four points in the contest, two of which came from an emphatic dunk with just minutes left in the game.

After the Cavaliers capped off their last bit of competition in the tour, they traveled to Camp Nou — which offered a contrast to the

few-hundred seat gyms Virginia had been playing in over the week with its 99,000 seat stadium. There the Cavaliers got another taste of Spanish culture, as they watched a match between Sevilla and FC Barcelona.

This isn’t the first time Bennett has taken his team to Europe.

Virginia visited The Netherlands, Belgium and France in 2012 where they went 2-3.

Overall, the Cavaliers are 15-7 in European tours since 1996.

While the teams they challenge overseas may not stack up against who they will face in the regular season, not much can compare to the new things the Cavaliers got to experience in Spain.

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Swanson said while he thinks the team has great potential, he recognizes there is still a lot of work to be done.

High expectations breed high pressure, but there was something calming in coach Steve Swanson’s voice as he looked forward on the coming season. His tone and manner neither exuded arrogance nor placed pressure on his team.

“The goal every year is to win an ACC championship and then a national championship,” Swanson said.

It would stand to reason that when a team has been so successful for so long, its head coach would develop a sort of arrogance; but not so with coach Swanson, whose humility is reflected in the modesty of his players.

After being ranked No. 1 in the country before being knocked off by No. 9 Rutgers in a penalty shootout in the NCAA quarterfinals, the Cavaliers enter this sea-

son as the No. 4 ranked team in the country — a ranking of little importance to coach Swanson.

“The ranking really means nothing to me,” Swanson said, “we are not yet sure where our team is and for us, we need to start playing games to find out what we’re capable of.”

In their preseason games, the Cavaliers have certainly looked capable, defeating Michigan 1-0 and playing No. 6 West Virginia to a 1-1 draw.

Having lost a fair amount of talent from last season, the team has to rely on its younger players to step up and fill the void.

“We have a young team with a lot of first and second years,” Swanson said. “We all need to work together to get into the right habit and come together as a team.”

Swanson has not seen much of this year’s team yet, in fact, as he has been in Rio coaching the U.S. Women’s National Team in the Olympics. Associate head coach Ron Raab and assistant coach Kerry Dziczkaniec have handled the summer coaching in Swanson’s absence.

“Having just gotten back from the Olympics, I honestly haven’t seen too much of the team yet, but from what I’ve seen so far, we have great potential,” Swanson said. “I like the way our team is working, but we still have a lot to do and a lot to learn.”

It will need to be a quick transition from the international to collegiate play, as he and the team open the 2016 campaign this Friday. On Friday, the Cavaliers head to Lynchburg, VA, to take on in-

state rival Liberty in what should be a tense season opener.

“The first game is always difficult, and you don’t really know what the team is capable of doing,” Swanson said. “Liberty has a new coach this year and he did a great job at Western Michigan, and I admire how Liberty plays and competes. No doubt this game will be a great challenge, especially with it being away from home against a tough team.”

A new season of Virginia Women’s Soccer is set to kick off, and irrespective of whether Swanson is willing to admit it, this team is one worthy of the lofty expectations the national media has thrust upon it.

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COMMENT OF THE DAY “All of us desire the police, like the rest of us, be held accountable for their actions. The good news is today we mostly are. BLM does not seem to be held accountable for theirs, however.”

“MBG” responding to the Brandon Brook’s August 16th column, “Black Lives Matter’s mistake”

WHY I HATE ‘AMERICA FIRST’

Policies that allegedly put America first primarily hurt American interests

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hate the term “America First.”

To clarify: I don’t hate the idea of putting America first. On the contrary, the idea the American government should prioritize the interests of Americans seems so patently obvious I question the need for adopting an “America First” slogan at all.

And that cuts to the core of the issue with Donald Trump’s slogan: “America First” sets up a false dichotomy. It allows Trump to present himself as the patriotic defender of Americans striving to defeat a sinister cosmopolitan elite that believes the very concepts of the nation-state and nationalities are outdated. It’s this commitment to globalism that allegedly motivates the hated “establishment” to adopt free trade agreements, open borders and entangling international alliances, all to the detriment of the American worker.

This worldview offered by “America First” advocates has the benefit of being simple and easily understood.

But it is also ignores how the policies so derided by Trump and his cohorts benefit Americans.

Adopting the slogan “America First” implies our current policies do not serve American interests. The doctrine’s preachers are not short of perceived enemies in both parties.

Seen as opposing the “America First” advocates are the likes of President

Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan, castigated for their support of the not-yet-ratified Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Also indicted is the foreign policy establishment, for its steadfast commitment to NATO and other American allies, even if they don’t pay as much as Trump desires. Thus in the name of helping the average American, Trump and his like-minded compatriots rail against the previously bipartisan consensus of trade agreements such as NAFTA and the World Trade Organization, and against our security agreements which have helped ensure a relatively stable world order since 1945 but compel us to spend our own blood and treasure while our allies appear to duck the tab.

This rhetoric makes for a compelling narrative — “America should look out for Americans!” — as stories of factory workers now unemployed because their jobs were outsourced are easier to absorb than the intricacies of complex but beneficial trade and security agreements.

But this narrative only obscures the problem: the policy prescriptions offered by those who proclaim to put American interests first will undermine the very interests they want to serve.

Consider the issue of free trade.

Despite the vociferous hatred NAF-

TA inspires in Trump and his nationalist cheerleaders, it has contributed to vastly lower prices for American consumers. This has the practical effect of enriching Americans, as they now spend less money than they otherwise would for the same products. Moreover, scrapping the agreement could actually benefit Mexico to America’s detriment. Freer trade, just like automation, will result in some job losses. But politicians don’t pursue trade deals solely to benefit the global poor; they do so because, as Bloomberg News notes after discussing the possible costs of China’s entrance into the WTO, “UCLA and Columbia University concluded that trade increases the real incomes of those in the middle of the economic spectrum by 29 percent while raising it for poor households by 62 percent.” In what world is that not in the interest of Americans?

Trump and his cheerleaders also question our security agreements with Eastern European allies, sometimes shockingly hypocritically.

These qualms have some prima facie appeal: How does it benefit Americans to oblige them to die for Estonians if Putin decides to invade? As Trump stated at a rally: “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and

trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.”

Wait, my mistake; those are not Trump’s words, as the error-free syntax and relative eloquence probably make clear. That phrase belongs to Neville Chamberlain, uttered in September of 1938 shortly before signing the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler that carved up Czechoslovakia to appease the Third Reich.

While Russia today does not constitute the same threat as Germany did in the 1930s and 40s, I include the quote to illustrate a point. Refusing to defend democratic countries from revanchist and unfriendly powers — and especially reneging on our treaties with one of the few nations that actually adheres to its NATO requirements — is not in the interest of Americans. We commit so many resources to ensuring the relative stability of Europe not because of some utopian ideal of putting small Baltic nations’ interests above our own, but because deterring aggression in order to preserve Pax Americana is in the interest of Americans. As Council on Foreign Relations fellow Stephen Sestanovich recently explained in The New York Times, sowing doubt about America’s commitment to our al-

lies “encourages participants in an increasingly stable and legitimate political system to try confrontation rather than compromise,” creating a more dangerous world that would only further imperil American interests.

The term “America First” is not new. Originally the rallying cry of a group of isolationists, anti-Semites and crypto-fascists who hoped to prevent American entrance into World War II, the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor appeared to marginalize the phrase permanently. Now it’s back and espoused by a major party nominee. The phrase remains just as obsolete and dishonest now as it was then and should again be excised from political discourse. American policymakers should of course prioritize the interests of Americans, but the criticisms charged by the “America First” sloganeers are a combination of misguided and shortsighted, and their proposed solutions — tariffs and isolationism — even worse.

MATT WINESETT is a Senior Associate Editor for The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at m.winesett@cavalierdaily.com.

THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

In high profile cheating scandals, men earn redemption while women receive only blame

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hen we watch a criminal exit the courtroom on the arms of policemen or witness the expulsion of a student in the wake of an honor offense, we consider this question: How long should it take for someone to pay for their mistake? In the case of love affairs, as opposed to the criminal justice system, the answer varies depending on gender. I believe society is much harder on women than men when it comes to forgiveness in the wake of an infidelity scandal.

In 2001, Monica Lewinsky participated in a Q&A session for an HBO documentary on her affair with President Bill Clinton. A man in the audience raised his hand to ask the question, “How does it feel to be America’s premier blow-job queen?” Lewinsky waited several moments before answering the question, taken aback by its obscenity. She looked straight at the man who asked the question and

said, “It’s hurtful and it’s insulting… I don’t actually know why this whole story became about oral sex. I don’t… The fact that it did is maybe a result of a male-dominated society.” While Lewinsky made the poor choice of having a secret relationship with a married man, she took the majority of the criticism in the aftermath of the affair. He had the power to paint her as “that woman,” thus tainting her image. She firmly claims the relationship was consensual, yet “‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when [she] was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.” Clinton bowed out of the public eye for a brief period of time, yet he retained his position as president, while our nation had no problem plastering Lewinsky’s mishaps all over the media. We shunned Lewinsky’s efforts to regain control, yet welcomed any and all details of her affair. We stalled

her future while we sustained her past. Women like Lewinsky become social representations of “the mistress,” while the men bow out of the public eye temporarily, only to be welcomed back into the workplace with open arms.

Paula Broadwell and General David Petraeus both received unwanted attention for their affair.

These standouts in their respective areas of expertise fell hard in the wake of their exposure; however, one may have fallen harder than the other in this so-called consensual relationship. While Petraeus resigned from his military intelligence position and is currently serving his two years of probation, he is now a partner in a private equity firm in New York. For Broadwell, on the other hand, this affair “has become a lasting stain” on her career and life, forever tainting her previously celebrated accomplishments.

I am not proposing that men are at all fully to blame for these scandals, but I do wonder why women do not have defenders like men do in the wake of these situations. The balance is all wrong. Interestingly, Hillary Clinton partially blamed herself for her husband’s affair. Lewinsky explains she finds Clinton’s “impulse to blame the woman — not only me, but herself — troubling.” Jessica Bennett explains in an article on the Petraeus/Broadwell affair: “Mr. Petraeus had many defenders… Ms. Broadwell did not. She said she never heard from her best friend.”

At the heart of this inequality, it is clear we still have a problem with powerful women and their success.

We are still not used to women being in charge; with every crack in the glass ceiling, it is subsequently restored. In order to crack it permanently, men and women need to make a stronger effort in clear-

ing the path for other women to follow. When a love affair becomes public, the woman conveniently takes the fall; she is judged harshly and shunned for fear of controversy. Underneath this particular mistreatment of women exists the root problem of placing women into a box defined by some rather traditional ideas about a woman’s role in society. I ask that we focus on the equal treatment of men and women when lust comes into play in an effort to eliminate this double standard of public affairs and continue to chip away at the glass ceiling.

LUCY SIEGEL is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. She can be reached at l.siegel@cavalierdaily.com.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER’S MISTAKE

The advocacy group should adopt a more pragmatic approach

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ince 2014, stories of racial inequality and injustice have dominated recent news coverage.

This summer, the names Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were added to a growing list of African-Americans killed during encounters with the police. Their deaths have immersed the public in a contentious debate between social justice activists and counter-protesters concerning the relationship between local law enforcement and the communities its officers have sworn to protect.

While it is reasonable to assume most Americans desire a justice system that ensures each and every individual receives fair and impartial treatment under the law, the rhetoric used by “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter” protesters largely dismisses the complexity of the matter at hand and diminishes our ability to reform our justice system.

The Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter debate best encapsulates the current impasse in race relations. While Black Lives Matter is a broad inclusive movement that arose in response to the failure to hold individuals accountable for the deaths of unarmed African Americans, the latter are frivolous reactionary counter-slogans mainly uttered by individuals who do not appear to fully understand

the problems with which Black Lives Matter supporters take issue. This was most apparent at the Republican National Convention when thousands cheered as Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced Baltimore Police Lieutenant Brian Rice was acquitted on all charges related to

“violently reinforce American hierarchies.” Rhetoric without nuance and baseless accusations such as these deepen the divide between minority communities and local law enforcement, promote fanaticism and empower individuals seeking to exploit racial tensions for political gain.

Black Lives Matter could be a suitable vehicle to advocate in favor of reform if it centralizes its organizational structure and adopts a pragmatic charter.

the death of Freddie Gray. Ironically, Clarke immediately followed this announcement with remarks lamenting a loss in a communal “sense of safety,” a sentiment he is effectively perpetuating by dismissing concerns of police brutality.

At the same time, many Black Lives Matter supporters utilize divisive and inflammatory rhetoric to advance their own interests. The Black Lives Matter website accuses the government of conducting “genocide” against the black community, and Mychal Denzel Smith, a writer sympathetic to the movement, has accused the police of attempting to

Additionally, such rhetoric does not acknowledge ongoing attempts to improve policing practices. While some law enforcement organizations have intentionally exploited minority communities, others have instituted significant reforms to promote transparency and decrease police-involved shootings. The Dallas Police Department is one such organization. Following the shooting of James Harper in 2012, the Dallas Police Department was one of 53 agencies to voluntarily join the White House Police Data Initiative, a program established in 2014 to promote collaboration between law enforcement

and local communities. In the years since, the number of police-involved shootings in Dallas has decreased from 20 in 2014 to 1 in 2016. Instead of using rhetoric that demonizes law enforcement, Black Lives Matter should direct its criticism toward the lack of professionalism and discipline evident in many police officers’ interactions with minority communities.

While the actions of the Dallas Police Department are a step in the right direction, it is unreasonable to expect all police departments to voluntarily follow suit. As a result, the justice system must be reformed at the state and federal level. Black Lives Matter could be a suitable vehicle to advocate in favor of reform if it centralizes its organizational structure and adopts a pragmatic charter.

At present, local Black Lives Matter branches have endorsed multiple political platforms created by smaller civil rights campaigns associated with the movement, such as Campaign Zero and The Movement for Black Lives. While the latter’s platform includes a variety of demands that would benefit minority communities, these policies are undermined by impractical demands such as calls for the payment of reparations, which wastes valuable political capital on an overwhelmingly unpopular policy.

A Black Lives Matter charter should omit these infeasible demands but

incorporate some of the more pragmatic appeals listed in the Campaign Zero political platform, which includes several policies that have already been implemented in several state and municipal law enforcement agencies.

Comprehensive social reform is impossible without idealistic individuals willing to mobilize others and challenge the status quo. Today’s social activists have a rare opportunity to help drastically reform the current justice system; however, this cannot be achieved through inflammatory rhetoric and impractical demands.

How Black Lives Matter reconciles this dilemma will determine whether it becomes a passing social trend or joins the likes of such renowned organizations as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP. While some may consider moderation in the pursuit of justice to be morally abhorrent, one might ask how lasting change has occurred any other way.

BRANDON BROOKS is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at b.brooks@cavalierdaily.com.

THE FIGHT FOR THE 80S

The battle to define the Reagan era has huge consequences for us today

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ith the conclusion of their Philadelphia convention, Democrats concluded their battle over the political legacy of the 1990s. Outside of party politics, the past five years have witnessed an equally important war of position over the preceding decade, the 1980s. History is indeed written by the winners, and until recently, the Reagan-Bush landslides defined the decade in popular memory. In the past few years, that narrative’s dissenting voices have rewritten the period’s history, championing the conservative coalition’s victims rather than its stalwarts. Today, the 1980s increasingly belong to its losers and outcasts, even if in some larger sense, Ronald Reagan’s victories over the American conscience remain intact.

Time Magazine summed up the conventional wisdom in the period’s immediate aftermath, writing, “Doesn’t anyone have a kind word for Wall Street’s gilded ’80s? The new decade is barely six weeks old and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess.” Satirized in “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” the decade’s “greed is good” ethos was tagged as all but homicidal by Bret Easton Ellis in

his classic “American Psycho.” So intensely did Ellis revile the decade’s mainstream, he implied only a serial killer could find meaning in Phil Collins and Huey Lewis’s music. In the 90s, “Fight Club,” “Se7en” and “The Silence of the Lambs” made a definitive break from con-

Reagan’s was not. In both 2008 and 2012, a young, urban and proudly liberal electorate delivered victories over opponents who described themselves as “foot soldiers in the Reagan Revolution.” At the same time, the legacy the Republican Party left behind was too conse-

Today, the 1980s increasingly belong to its losers and outcasts, even if in some larger sense, Ronald Reagan’s victories over the American conscience remain intact.

servative 80s films like “Top Gun,” “Red Dawn” and “Back to the Future,” while Kurt Cobain pushed the music industry towards an anti-establishment pose, toppling Michael Jackson from atop the charts in the process. Later mythologized in “Donnie Darko,” “The Wedding Singer” and Bowling for Soup’s “1985,” the essentially conservative vision of the 80s survived for decades.

All of that changed with the rise of Barack Obama’s political coalition, which was everything

quential to forget altogether. As Obama himself said, Reagan “put us on a fundamentally different path” and “changed the trajectory of the country… in a way Bill Clinton did not.” Contemporary artists began to reclaim the period’s pop culture for themselves, as black people (“Straight Outta Compton,” “Creed”), gay people (“Dallas Buyer’s Club”), feminists (“Mad Max: Fury Road”) and leftists (“The Americans”) became our new ’80s heroes. After their tragic deaths, we are more likely to think of the

subversive David Bowie and Prince as the decade’s defining rock stars rather than Jon Bon Jovi or Bret Michaels. Occasionally, the likes of Donald Trump, the decade’s ultimate “greed is good” icon, will reemerge to remind us how ugly the decade’s politics were, but it is the progressive version of the era that is prevailing.

Recasting the decade is not without its perils. With “1989,” Taylor Swift rebooted the yuppie culture author Tom Wolfe so despised by giving it a hip, urban facelift.

Rather than chasing a house in the suburbs, today’s yuppie serves her hyper-individualism with a side of kale. In one of the cruder attempts to revise the ’80s, director Paul Feig attempted to drum up controversy around his all-female “Ghostbusters” remake by telling audiences, in Eileen Jones’s paraphrase, “If we didn’t all go see it as an act of feminist solidarity, no Hollywood movie would ever again feature several women in lead roles.” Disguising an ad campaign as a social movement, Feig offered feminists a commodified version of their own sense of justice.

Feig’s marketing strategy illustrates the extent of Reagan’s triumph — even when pushing for social

change, people now express that desire in consumerist, free-market language. Reagan of course didn’t invent American consumer culture, but after the cynical ’70s, his mission statement, “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” marked a hard stop to the eroding New Deal political economy. For all the left’s victories shaping contemporary culture, inequality today is dramatically higher than when Ronald Reagan was president, a trend Obama couldn’t reverse. There are some artists, most notably in the vaporwave movement, who recognize the disconnect between ’80s symbolism and lived reality, but winning representational battles over the period is cold comfort as an equitable society slips further out of reach. As long as this is the case, we will still be living in the America Reagan left for us.

GRAY WHISNANT is an Opinion editor for The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached atg.whisnant@cavalierdaily.com.

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Peer Advising Committee hosts Welcome Fair New event aims to unite peer-advising groups SARAH ASHMAN | FEATURE WRITER The University’s Peer Advising Committee will host its inaugural Fall Welcome Fair featuring information tables from various peer advising groups on Grounds. The fair, to be held Saturday, Aug. 27 in the Amphitheatre from 12-2 p.m., will also include free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Duck Donuts.

“The fair's main purpose is to expose first-years and transfer students to the plethora of resources available to them here on Grounds,” Sunil Narasimhan, third-year Commerce student and publicity and advertising chair for the Peer Advising Committee, said.

Members of the newly-created committee hope this event will create a lasting collaboration between the numerous peer advising groups across Grounds in order to better serve students.

“Many of our groups share the exact same mission, which is to improve the experience and ease the transition of first-year students

into their time at U.Va. by providing them with an upperclassman to answer questions and give advice,” Jason Carrier, fourth-year Commerce student and event organizer, said. “However, until this event, there has been very little communication or collaboration of any kind between these groups.”

Groups will be represented at different information booths by their members and peer advisors.

“The eight groups involved in planning are ULink, OAAA Peer Advisors, Middle Eastern Mentoring Program, Peer Advising Family Network, Peer Health Educators, Peer Mentoring Program, United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity and Peers are Listening Society,” Carrier said. “Each of these groups will have information on the opportunities they offer and the services available to incoming students.”

The Peer Advising Committee strongly recommends first-year

students and new students attend the fair to learn about and take advantage of the many services available to help them achieve success at the University.

“Almost every question that an incoming student has about their upcoming experience can be answered by another student who already has a year or two under their belt,” Carrier said. “By taking advantage of peer advising opportunities, a student can understand their options and make more informed decisions using the relevant advice from a student who has already been through it.”

As many new students enter the year unfamiliar with their new community and are possibly assigned to a faculty advisor in an area unrelated to their individual studies, older students can be an incredible asset.

“Our advisors are able to provide a student perspective on classes and academic issues to first-years, many

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The Welcome Fair will include many different peer advising groups so incoming students can find their best match.

of whom come to the University without knowing anyone they can turn to for advice,” Narasimhan said. “Plenty of students also report dissatisfaction with the faculty advising provided to them at the University, so we give them another resource they can take advantage of

to better prepare themselves for the rigors of university life.”

“Nobody has to take on school blind when there are so many upperclassmen eager to share their experiences and give advice,” Carrier said.

Greens to Grounds offers new dining options Student group provides access to locally grown produce KATE EDSON | FEATURE WRITER Look no further for your fresh foods, U.Va. This fall, Greens to Grounds is making healthy, organic products even more accessible and affordable.

A student-run community-supported agriculture organization, Greens to Grounds provides the University and Charlottesville community with fruits and veggies, along with other locally sourced products. Starting this year, students with meal plans can purchase

Greens to Grounds boxes of these healthy foods with plus dollars.

“U.Va. Dining has really shown our organization a lot of love and support over the years, and we’re excited that this new partnership will give meal plan students even more opportunities to explore local and sustainable food,” Chris Porter, a fourth-year College student and Greens to Grounds co-chair, said.

Porter said in previous years many Greens to Grounds custom-

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The new initiative adds a local, healthy option to the multiple ways students can spend their plus dollars.

ers have been of the upperclassmen, off-Grounds, non-meal-plan demographic. However, moving forward, the organization hopes to show that eating local can work for everyone. “[The agreement with U.Va. Dining was] actually surprisingly simple,” third-year College student Allie Arnold, who was involved in getting the plus dollars program off the ground, said. “We [met] around the end of spring and we talked about … our demands and how much we can provide, what our capacity is like, what our model is like and just how feasible it would be."

Partnering up with dining halls has been a dream of Greens to Grounds members since the spring of 2015.

"Now that it is actually being initiated, it is crazy exciting," Anna Dorsey, a fourth-year College student and the group’s marketing chair, said.

Greens to Grounds boxes start at $10 each, with add-ons available for purchase. While in the past students have normally used plus dollars for dumplings, pizza and other specialty foods, through this agreement they now have more affordable and healthy dining choices.

The organization seeks to inspire

students and other members of the community to pay attention to and care about where their food comes from.

“How we feed ourselves on a daily basis is … one of the most important decisions we make,” Porter said.

“As I think people are becoming increasingly aware, our food choices have not just nutritional, but economic, environmental, political and social ramifications.”

Porter emphasized the opportunity to build relationships with local food producers, making food all the more meaningful.

“The farmers we source from are people you can actually meet, talk to about their practices and their story at the City Market, and whose properties are close enough that you could go visit them,” Porter said. “A lot of the farms we work with are small … [and] that means it might be difficult if not impossible for them to connect with a market like college students who, honestly, are not always motivated enough to go beyond the dining hall or the shelves at Kroger in search of good food.”

Greens to Grounds intends to fill that void and serve as a connecting organization for students interested in, yet perhaps not knowledge-

able about local food and farmers without access to the student market.

In addition to selling food, Greens to Grounds’ mission has an educational aspect. The group’s fall plans include relevant film screenings and cooking classes to encourage others to think locally.

"A challenge we have faced in the past is getting people out of their easy meal comfort zones, and inspired to buy a box with more nutritious ingredients from the local area," Dorsey said. "We have adapted our marketing plan to show students that they don’t need a five-star kitchen to use our boxes … [because] eating local is just as easy as it is tasty."

Arnold said the organization sets an example for colleges everywhere for a broader local food movement and the sustainable agriculture movement in the United States.

“If you care about how your food is grown, [it’s] a more affordable, accessible option,” Arnold said. “I think it’s a win-win for everyone, for the community, for students [and] for farmers.”

Produce and snack boxes will be available weekly, via online pre-order and subsequent pick-up at Mad Bowl on Friday afternoons.

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