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Separate from the American Indian Student Union’s event, the Lorna Sundberg International Center matched 29 international students and their families with 19 host families for Thanksgiving.
American Indian Student Union criticizes myths surrounding Thanksgiving By Shannon Reres
Cavalier Daily Senior Writer President Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. Though it has since evolved to mean different things to different people, the first celebration supposedly went something like this: “In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought 90 of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food,” according to Linus van Pelt in “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” But the University chapter of
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City task force faces impasse Charlottesville City Council is deadlocked in deciding how to implement a Human Rights Commission in Charlottesville, with the December deadline for a proposed gameplan quickly approaching. Council launched a 10-person human rights task force in February to investigate instances of bias or injustice in Charlottesville following a request from local diversity advocacy group, the Dialogue on Race.
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The task force is split on whether the body would be endowed with the power to act as an investigative commission with enforcement authority — similar to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “Charlottesville has a pretty sordid history of racial discrimination, starting with slavery Please see Task Force, Page A3
the American Indian Student Union says popular culture such as Linus’ description of the first Thanksgiving perpetuates myths about the holiday. The organization’s members convened an “Anti-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving” potluck last Monday in Minor Hall to raise awareness about the true origins of Thanksgiving. “Natives had been celebrating thanksgiving for hundreds, if not thousands, of years before the European colonists came,” said fourth-year College student Katelyn Krause, president of the University chapter of the American Indian Student Union.
Students gathered to discuss the ways Native Americans helped European colonists establish agriculture, Krause said. “Many times the European colonists... arrived without any sort of agricultural knowledge...,” Krause said. “In many ways it was the native tribes that they encountered that enabled them to... survive the first winters and to be able to have food in the first place.” The Anti-Thanksgiving organizers did not intend the gathering to be negative, Krause said. Please see Holiday, Page A3
Juvenile jail system fails University professor-led report suggests U.S. confines too many adolescents By Matthew Comey Cavalier Daily Senior Writer
The current legal system incarcerates too many minors, according to a National Research Council report led by University Law Prof. Richard J. Bonnie. Scientific research into adolescent development suggests confinement is not advisable for minors, as juveWill Brumas | Cavalier Daily niles are less likely to reoffend if sentenced with community A University-led study found that jails, such as the Charlottesville-Albemarle service and other measures of Regional Jail, above, are ineffective for young adults. restitution instead of jail time. The legal system was founded the report. Instead, researchers recent scientific findings. on assumptions that do not are advocating for the juvenile apply to minors, according to legal system to be informed by Please see Jail, Page A3
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Tech downs Virginia ASHLEY ROBERTSON
I believe in Coach London When Mike London captained Virginia to an eightwin season and Chick-fil-A Bowl berth, I never imagined I would need to defend his job just one year later. After London butchered the Cavaliers’ closing sequence against Virginia Tech, however, many U.Va. students have called for his head. Today’s post-game comments ranged from, “This is ridiculous. Can we please find a coach who understands how to manage the clock?” to “Mike London is singlehandedly the worst coach in college football!!” London’s timeout use — or lack thereof — was admittedly an indefensible, inexplicable decision. During the game’s waning seconds, I futilely screamed at the television for a whistle. We may not have beaten Virginia Tech with an extra 45 seconds, but the team deserved an opportunity to try. Worse, the botched decision follows a series of boneheaded mistakes this year: a crippling quarterback controversy, 12-men-on-the-fieldgate, even the failed fake field goal against Tech earlier that game . Such critical errors raise red flags about London’s ability to manage games successfully. But that doesn’t mean London can’t be a successful — or even a great — college football coach at Virginia. The best college coaches often fail in the NFL. Steve Spurrier won five SEC Please see Robertson, Page A4
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Coach Mike London elected not to use a timeout while Virginia Tech ran down the clock to set up its winning 29-yard field goal as time expired. Brad Klodowski The Collegiate Times
Redshirt junior Cody Journell kicked a 29-yard field goal as time expired to clinch a 17-14 Virginia Tech win against Virginia and give the Hokies their ninth straight Commonwealth Cup victory. Coach Mike London elected against using either of his team’s two remaining timeouts as Virginia Tech (6-6, 4-4 ACC) ran down the clock to set up Journell’s winning field goal following a costly interception of Cavalier junior quarterback Michael Rocco’s pass. Virginia (4-8, 2-6 ACC) finishes with four wins or fewer for the third time in the last four seasons while Virginia Tech clinched its 20th consecutive bowl appearance under coach Frank Beamer. Hokie redshirt junior quarterback Logan Thomas powered the Hokies with 89 rushing yards, including 58 in the second half. Following a scoreless first quarter, Thomas
capped a nine-play, 55-yard drive with a 7-yard touchdown hurl to redshirt senior tight end Randall Dunn. Junior wide receiver Tim Smith, who finished with four catches for 79 yards, helped the Cavaliers respond later in the second quarter. After Rocco found him on a short out-route from the slot position, Smith shed a tackler and followed his blockers down the left sideline for a 42-yard touchdown to tie the score at 7-7 with 3:30 remaining in the first half. The Cavaliers struck first in the second half. Junior defensive end Jake Snyder dislodged the ball from Thomas and junior defensive tackle Brent Urban scooped up the loose ball and scampered into the end zone for the Cavaliers’ first defensive touchdown since November 2011. After a Hokie three-and-out,
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Rocco led the Cavaliers 35 yards to set up a 38-yard field goal attempt for junior placekicker Drew Jarrett. London opted for a fake, however, and senior holder Jacob Hodges fell short of the marker on fourthand-8. On the ensuing drive, Thomas bulldozed his way through the heart of the Virginia defense, leading a 15-play, 85-yard scoring drive bookended by the quarterback’s four-yard rushing touchdown run that knotted the score at 14-14. The Hokies appeared poised to vault into the lead with 3:38 remaining as the sure-footed Journell lined up for a 42-yard kick. But a strong Lane Stadium wind helped push his effort wide left. The next Virginia drive culminated in Rocco’s wobbly underthrow to Smith, which resulted in Hokie redshirt junior cornerback Antone Exum’s interception to set up the decisive score. —compiled by Fritz Metzinger
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An avoidable collapse FRITZ METZINGER In many senses, the Virginia coaching staff ’s collective brain fart at the conclusion of the Cavaliers’ 17-14 loss to Virginia Tech precipitated an unjust ending to a hard-fought game and season. Aping timemanagement strategy from the “Andy Reid School of How to Make Reading a Clock Seem More Difficult than Deciphering Hieroglyphics,” head coach Mike “Mr. Freeze” London’s ill-advised attempt to “ice” Cody Journell with not one but two timeouts before a game-ending 29-yard field goal attempt overshadowed a valiant Virginia defensive effort. Even more heinously, the failure to preserve time for a final Virginia drive robbed the team of a chance for its first Commonwealth Cup since “The Cat in the Hat” topped the box office — no, really — and giftwrapped a bowl bid for a hated rival whose helmet features a turkey that resembles a villain in a straight-to-DVD Disney movie. Yet as woefully egregious as such a development seemed Saturday afternoon, it tied a fitting ribbon on an arduous 2012 for the Cavaliers. The entire game, in fact, epitomized what has rendered this season so agonizingly frustrating: The loss, as well as Virginia’s failure to capitalize on a comically weak ACC Coastal field, was utterly avoidable. We’ll start with the gameending gaffe that has reduced Cavaliers fans to seething, blithering messes. London’s refusal to start dispensing Virginia’s timeouts when the Hokies faced a third and seven with just more than a minute remaining was more inexcusably inane than the standard Metta World Peace quote. Whether London consciously saved two timeouts to ice Please see Metzinger, Page A4
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