UVA vigil for Yeardley Love

By Hawes Spencer |
Published online 9:44am Thursday May 6th, 2010
and in print issue #0919 dated Thursday May 13th, 2010

As many as 2,000 turned out for the vigil

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An organizer prepares the candles.

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Cameras lined the amphitheater.

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Regional and national media came in abundance.

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Fourth-Year Class President Sarah Elaine Hart spoke of her fallen classmate.

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'Yeardley Love accomplished much in her too-brief life,' said University president John Casteen.

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Student Council President Colin Hood.

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The crowd was hushed.

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Candles were lit as night fell.

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Somber students, some weeping, listened silently

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Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mourners packed UVA's McIntire Amphitheater the evening of May 5 to celebrate and remember the life of Yeardley Love, the 22-year-old lacrosse player killed in her apartment two days earlier.

–original online headline: Thousands of students, candles for slain Yeardley Love

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4 comments

Restore the Republic May 8th, 2010 | 10:55am

Thanks for the link, MJ, that is indeed a powerful speech.

NancyDrew May 6th, 2010 | 10:04am

These are beautiful picture to commemorate a horrific event.

MJ May 6th, 2010 | 10:55pm

Here is the link to President Casteen's speech. Following one of the worst events in UVa's history and to commemorate, honorably, the very tragic life of the victim, I believe it is a poweful speech.

http://www.virginia.edu/president/spch/10/casteenvigil050510.html

justbeinobjective May 6th, 2010 | 11:24am

Beautiful pictures Tom, thanks. Now UVa...start to heal, prayers to you all.