Balloon releases are illegal in Virginia. All that money wasted on not learning any common sense... sad sad sad

congrats!!!

They were all lied to….. Heck, we all were. It’s past time for the disclosure. Tribunals have started. CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!

Nice too see a campus without protest. Cingrats too all of u. Yall will go far. Bet ur parents are proud. Moving to the next phase of your lives. Best wishes.😊

Wow!! Beautiful ❤

44 yrs after my Class of 1980 walked the Lawn on May 18, 1980. Also, the same day that Mt St Helen’s erupted! Wahoowah!

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Any mention about who deleted the rule that recreational tents were allowed and then called in the SWAT team?

Congratulations my beautiful Paul in orange 🎉🧡

LARPers got mad when their actions had repercussions. They received an education on what the real world is after living in a cocoon for 4 years. Are you really “down with the cause”? Take a flight to Gaza and talk to them about all your noble ideas. If you’re a woman, don’t forget to let your hair down and wear a short skirt. If you’re a man, go and engage in conversation with a woman w/o a family member present. Come back and let us know how it went.

Yaay 🎉Congratulations my beautiful neice Rohey Colley.. we love u Roh 🎓🎓🎓

Always nicely done. I love all the balloons, each representing best wishes to the graduate from their loved ones.

Congratulations my grandson JONATHAN FRANÇA SWAP

Estou no you tube

É um professor falando?

Diz endereço errado

Não consigo abrir o Safari no endereço que a Tati mandou.

Estou assistindo um professor falar

"State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules." Mr. Jefferson. The same is obviousely true for Univerity Presidents.

Awesome! What an inspiring woman.

Keep up the good work. Break laws, suffer consequences.

Aggressive antisemitic and violent organized protesters play stupid games they win stupid prizes.

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where did bro get the helmet and mask 💀

This is a beautiful tree and I hope I can get into this collage some day!

300 Nazis with Tiki torches marched through the campus unmolested, but students cannot protest genocide 😢

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What a coward is Pres. Ryan... not taking responsibility and bending over backwards to fulfil the commands of donors and elites... runs 5k with students but avoids students when 15k children are killed..... resign..

When parents in the sun open umbrellas during final exercises and then retreat to tents for refreshments, I'm sure Ryan, Longo, Baucom, Davis, and Bonner will call in the SWAT team ... perhaps even calling for them over their amplified sound system.

So much that is deeply disturbing about all of this. Traumatizing students who are in your care and whose parents are giving you their trust and paying a lot for it is sort of addressed here (though I don't hear even an apology). If you send in militarized state troopers with pepper spray and riot gear to deal with students and community members, you're going to get a terrorized, enraged response like you got. In the way you address it, I hear an othering of the larger Charlottesville community that doesn't work. I'm a current UVA student and long time community member, and I've seen how UVA has been a very big part of this community and vice-versa, for better and worse (Main St, which was small walk-in friendly businesses like used bookstores now an impenetrable facade of upscale student housing, hotels, and breweries etc that cater to students; once black neighborhoods that are now student housing). The woman charged with striking an officer is someone who is widely beloved and known for her good work in community in this town. We are not outsiders, we are natives. More disturbing to me is your lack of address at all of the issues in the larger human community. You didn't accept the protestor's demands, and they didn't accept yours. I would like to see addressed here what investments the university has in the genocide of the people of Palestine. You talk about student dialogue; how is taking responsibility and actual change happening in those dialogues? I don't see it. I'm thankful that there are many good people inside the walls of UVA who are really working to make change from the old profit driven way of navigating this life (greed=power=racism=mysogeny=all the phobias -FEAR and it's a vicious cycle, duh), and for the small changes I see happening towards understanding for ALL people. I challenge you to more seriously examine what you did not respond to, and your harmful way of handling people who were trying to nudge you towards broader understanding this last weekend.

I missed the link to this meeting until seeing the report of the recorded version today. Regardless of my position AND whether or not I believe the protests should be occurring on any campus (with even some campuses' and federal officials' liberal invitations to protest), I do believe the use of teargas is indicative of UVA's and Officer Longo's leadership styles. I have observed a problem of lack of communication with the UVA departments or officers President Ryan and Chief Longo are responsible for supervising. As a UVA parent since 2022 it appears we have reached an impasse. I have lived in the Charlottesville community since 2004, with high degrees of community volunteering, cultivation, and rapport demonstrated. I repeatedly have asked since my daughter has been a UVA student for assistance by the administration in a highly reasonable manner, about a highly reasonably presented and serious matter. Every time its administration and assistants working for it has cited a technicality with absolutely no critical thinking about the problem, has escalated the timbre to the point of unfriendliness and shrillness, no offer of a supervisor's review when it is requested, and then forms of retaliation have occurred against our family. Whether this has to do with employees trying to keep their jobs, it is not at all a best practice when universities service families and students together, and i leadership has to know. The same has been true in our experience of other branches of the UVA brand name including the UVA Health System, and in several instances after presenting an issue our claim has been followed by flashy PR advertising on local news affiliates shortly after the claim. This style of non-review also mirrors my experience with all local Virginia police departments, Albemarle, Charlottesville, and UVA, and in our situation is highly discriminatory. I'm so happy no gun violence occurred as it did in the Fall 2022 murders on campus, but I still think tear gas is overkill. I also believe the suppression producing victimization and other predatory gestures with educated or non-educated people are not examples of positive leadership in town-gown relations.

u suck

Total sham of a pre-rehearsed "town hall". You all have rightfully lost trust and, after doubling down on your deranged course of actions, you will not be gaining it back. Good riddance

Longo was supposedly so afraid that undergrads brandishing umbrellas and shouting slogans would become violent that he had no choice but to bring in armed riot police. Is he lying or is UVAPD a bunch of overpaid cowardly babies that we can't trust with anything let alone keeping the community safe?

Dr. King spoke of nonviolence not peaceful. He also said that a riot was the language of the unheard. Don’t misuse Dr. King’s work and his words for your inexcusable and harmful actions.

Can you stop with using the word ‘peaceful?’ Protests are meant to be disruptive while nonviolent.

This virtual townhall is as much of a cowardly insult and disappointment as your actions on Saturday. As an alum, I’m embarrassed and dismayed. All involved need to apologize for such rash actions and now making it worse by trying to explain away your decisions. If what you’re saying had any truth, why are your faculty, students and others giving different accounts. Why weren’t you there, President Ryan?

Sending police to intervene because the situation MIGHT become “violent” is like extinguishing a microwave bc it MIGHT start a fire. It’s one thing to send police to observe. It’s another to send them there to break it up and cause a scene.

Well if you admit a third of freshman from out of state students you get radical students outside Virginia. Would have liked President Ryan explain the rationale of admitting a third of freshman from out of state of Virginia, when so many well qualified Virginia high school graduates are not accepted with parents with roots in Virginia commonwealth communities. My kid good example, graduating Loudoun County has 4.0 GPA, 4 years activities like Marching Band, 1520 SAT, did not even make wait list. You know some in-state parents would pay the out state tuition if needed and be local to state to control their student’s behavior. Parent and donor of new well behaved JMU Duke!

How could a settler colony ever condemn another settler colony? The most anti semitic thing is the establishment of a colonial project by white europeans that subjugated actual Semitic people. The hundreds of thousands of brave Jewish people who have fought against the Israeli colony get relegated to being non factors. One day the historians at these elite universities will be telling the story of the American-Israeli genocides, but based off of the American empires history, it’ll probably be told while it is committing another genocide.

Those protesters are just children trying to make a scene. All that crying about "free speech" as if they haven't been able to create 1000 propaganda events and flood every single student group chat with their whining. They think they can break whatever rules they want without any consequences. How difficult would it have been to just take the tents down? And then when they continued to refuse, what did they expect would happen? That police would just go away if they kept fighting back? Whatever punishment they got was too lenient.

I wouldn't say it was traumatic. It was expected- a whole lot of misguided young people doing what their peers from around the country are doing, with little attention paid to the fact that they support the annihilation of the Jewish people like the Brown Shirts of 1930s Germany. I applaud you all- shut down antisemitism where it crops up. There's no room for that bullshit.

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It's nice to see people gather for something good in this world. ❤😂🎉❤😂🎉❤😂🎉❤😂🎉

What an incredible human being

Amazing man 🎉