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...Five racial incidents were reported to officials in the span of only three days during the week of Aug. 22, and at least nine separate incidents were documented in the first few weeks of school...
...incidents have since stopped, but they have reawakened concerns about racial discrimination. The university continues to implement measures to promote diversity and fight bigotry that had been recommended after prior incidents, but some students and staff say the university must do more...
...Specifically, I ask teaching faculty to make a brief personal statement at the next meeting of each of your courses about your view of the unacceptability of racial harassment or abuse, indeed of any kind of harassment or abuse, within the University community,” Casteen wrote...
...three people attended a fraternity party with their faces painted black, provoking a university investigation, the Cavalier Daily reported. Then, on Feb. 26, 2003, Student Council presidential candidate Daisy Lundy, who is black, had her head slammed against the steering wheel of her car while her attacker shouted a racial epithet, according to the Daily. In response to the incidents, the university created a commission to investigate issues of race and college and community life in September 2003, Wood says. The Commission on Diversity and Equity issued a report in 2004 and its recommendations are posted on the university?...
...result of the commission’s work, William B. Harvey, the president of the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity at the American Council on Education, was appointed the first vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity on Sept. 13—after the series of incidents but before Casteen’s Rotunda speech...