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Sullivan Announces Working Group to Assess Universitys Way Forward
Last edited Fri Aug 18, 2017, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Risa Goluboff
Dean, School of Law writes:
On Tuesday, President Sullivan asked me to chair a working group of the deans and other constituent leaders to identify the next steps in the University’s response to last weekend’s events. I not only accepted her call to service; I welcomed it. As a member of this community, and also a civil rights historian and legal scholar, I can think of no more important task at this moment.
I am appalled by the attempts of white supremacists to instill fear and provoke violence in our community. Acts of racial, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-immigrant intimidation and violence are criminal. White supremacy is a doctrine of terror, meant to insult, frighten, injure, and kill. There could be no mistaking those messages last weekend, from Friday night’s march with torches on the Lawn to Saturday’s loss of life and beyond.
I write to you today to describe how I see our mission and to tell you what we have already put into motion. President Sullivan’s charge to our group was one of recovery and response. That is exactly right. We must recover from violence, from bigotry, from vulnerability. We must heal.
I am appalled by the attempts of white supremacists to instill fear and provoke violence in our community. Acts of racial, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-immigrant intimidation and violence are criminal. White supremacy is a doctrine of terror, meant to insult, frighten, injure, and kill. There could be no mistaking those messages last weekend, from Friday night’s march with torches on the Lawn to Saturday’s loss of life and beyond.
I write to you today to describe how I see our mission and to tell you what we have already put into motion. President Sullivan’s charge to our group was one of recovery and response. That is exactly right. We must recover from violence, from bigotry, from vulnerability. We must heal.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/sullivan-announces-working-group-assess-universitys-way-forward