Senators are predicting there will be a motion to censure or to take a vote of no confidence in senior admin at Faculty Senate tomorrow, and saying they have to make space for it to happen or they'll get "hung out to dry for it"...
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btw this is the same Longo who felt 10/10 threatened by his community members (peaceful protestors) putting out a social media call for more of his community members (UVA folks) to join them... which is a weird thing to be threatened by, if you've spent a lot of time together
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Someone asked if Ryan, Longo, and Baucom would make the decision to call in state police again, having now seen the outrage. All three said yes.
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Senators seemed worried that just anyone can walk into commencement. One senator said people would not feel unsafe if snipers were on the roof, but UVA should notify people if they will be there, so people present at May 4th don't get 'emotionally triggered'
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"I don't think there is a leader who has built community as well as Jim has" -- if you think exec admin is starting to see the error of their ways, think again! They're surrounded by people who simply echo their own lies back to them
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Total vibe shift after Ryan, Longo, and Baucom leave the room. Senators worry that faculty are now stuck being tasked with keeping undergrads calm and moving on. Which is true. And faculty will have to refuse that role if we are to have any hope of justice here
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Shoutout to Brian Pusser, hero of the hour, not swallowing the narrative that students put up tents and therefore deserve pepper spray and arrest: "when there are asymmetries in power and you don't follow the rules, you will never get equality"
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One senator who attended the faculty-led Honest Town Hall today observed, verbatim, as if they were totally equal, that “people in power had one interpretation, people on the ground had another” GEE I WONDER WHY
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Shoutout also to Jennifer Greeson for having the courage to observe that post-May 4, exec admin is pushing a fear-driven narrative of being scared of students; needing protection; needing training to break up student protests...
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...Which is exactly the narrative you would use if you jumped to wildly excessive violence, everyone saw it, and then you needed to justify the extreme asymmetry
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This is now an appreciation thread for Brian Pusser's guts: "I don't know how you can be raised on the Boston tea party from the first grade and then told not to put a tent by your chapel in college"
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...so they're considering a motion to condemn the violence and ask for an apology from exec admin SPECIFICALLY "to stave off a vote of no confidence"
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In sum: upper admin is grossly out of touch, they're kept that way by only ever hearing compliments, and if you want to see any change at UVA, it's time to organize. Pledge to withhold your grades to demand amnesty:
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this has been a thread by your local neighborhood grad worker/union founder. Thank you and goodnight!
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