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University President Jim Ryan surprised Liu with the news last week. “I was informed that I had been selected as a Truman Scholar following a meeting with President Ryan about my plans for Student Council over the next year,” said Liu, a third-year student from San Anselmo, California, who is double-majoring in economics and sociology. “I was surprised by my wonderful mentors and letter-writers in the lobby of Madison Hall. I could only repeat my thanks and shock and was essentially speechless until I left the building.” But that was not the end of his celebration. “I did a little d...

SR21-10 condemns “xenophobia, racism and violence against the Asian-American community” and calls on the University to do the same. 

SR21-09  asks all fraternities and sororities to comply with the University Judiciary Committee’s ongoing investigation and encourages the University to take action against Greek organizations under investigation.

Almost complete silence from student council on the policy The student government at the University of Virginia recently decided to hide public access to its video recordings after Young America’s Foundation used footage from a meeting to create a video critical of several members. The foundation had flagged a student government meeting in November during which its members voted to support the creation of a “strike system” for professors accused of making comments deemed “offensive.” “For the foreseeable future, and out of caution for the safety and well-being of student council m...