June 28th, 2012 issue #1126

June 28th, 2012

This issue went to press right around the time on Tuesday, June 26 that UVA President Teresa Sullivan was reinstated by a unanimous vote of a 15-member Board of Visitors. Having blanket-covered this case for the prior 16 days, what we could include in the print edition of the newspaper was just a fraction of what we reported. To read the stories that didn't make it to print, check out the "Online Only" stories below.

–>CLICK HERE to read everything we wrote about the Sullivan ouster

Bob's mess: 'Please stop,' Governor McDonnell urges alumni, faculty, legislators

As many of you know, no major decision of this kind can be made at Virginia without the support and assent of the Governor. –Peter Kiernan

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Leadership fitness: Did Dragas engage in plus-sized bullying?

Given the lack of specific, convincing reasons that Rector Helen Dragas has given for forcing the resignation of UVA President Teresa Sullivan, what really motivated the decision has become a mystery. What if a visceral, even unconscious, prejudice against Sullivan's physical appearance, manner, or gender contributed to the undignified way in which her firing was handled? Recent • Dragas to Kington: 'Why we can't afford to wait'

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Sullivan oustermath: A timeline of UVA in tumult

Some believe that UVA's Rector needs to step down. Late May to early June - In the "why we can't afford to wait" emails later obtained by the Cavalier Daily, Rector Helen Dragas and Vice-Rector Mark Kington swap newspaper and magazine articles as wel

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4Better Or Worse

The week in review

Least surprising firing: Daniel Harmon-Wright, the Culpeper police officer who has been charged with murder in the shooting of unarmed Patricia Cook, 54, in a church parkin...

The Dish

Jeremiah Langhorne: From pizza boy to top chef

Albemarle High School graduate Jeremiah Langhorne, 26, has come a long way from being a pizza delivery boy. That was his first job in the restaurant business. Eventually, h...

Essays

The 'incrementalist': UVA President Teresa Sullivan, translated

"I have been described as an incrementalist. It is true. Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may...

Question of the Week

What are the real reasons the BoV fired Sullivan?

Real Estate - On the Block

Stribling student-plex going single-family again

4/27/12 Charlottesville Suman & Sunil Sharma to Craig E. & Nancy H. Despeaux, 192 Yellowstone Drive Unit 107, $90,000 Octopus Property LLC to KRSG Properties, Inc.,...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions

July 6 at 3:15pm at the Albemarle CourthouseProperty: 406 Burchs Creek Road, Crozet Debtor: Thomas P. and Diane K. Gaspia Original amount owing: $348,800 Bidder brings: $20...

Movie Reviews

Age of innocence: Youth rises toward a closing curtain

Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events, and is transformed into a world with its own...

Table of contents

COVERBob's messAs the University of Virginia entered its third week of crisis, and with a convincing explanation of the Board of Visitors' decision to oust President Teresa...

News

Big box bonanza: Hunter Craig lauded in Wegmans deal

Two and a half years after selling a 1,200-acre property known as Biscuit Run to the Commonwealth for use as a state park– and eight months after suing the state in a...
Doernberg's disgust: How bullied bus lady got Charlottesville boost

The 68-year-old bus monitor who was viciously bullied by a group of New York middle-schoolers has a Charlottesville native to thank for helping push the video viral, a medi...
Fluid debate: Citizens press experts on chloramine in water

Two weeks ago– before UVA President Teresa Sullivan's forced resignation roiled Charlottesville and beyond– the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority's plan to add ...
Kluge Fired? Not quite says husband

Following the expiration of a one-year transition contract, the once vastly affluent socialite Patricia Kluge will no longer be employed full-time at the vineyard that once...

Online only

'Strangely silent'? Republican lawmakers weigh in on UVA crisis

Nearly two weeks after UVA Rector Helen Dragas' June 10 announcement that President Teresa Sullivan resigned because of "philosophical differences," local Republican delega...
4 honor: Resinstate Sullivan rally brings thousands to Lawn

"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it." ~Th Jefferson A few thousand students, faculty, and friends rallied on the University of Virginia Lawn Sunda...
Alums for Sullivan: Dragas' top employee sends out emotional video

"Maybe it was a mistake," says Carol Wood, the spokesperson for UVA, who sent out a link on Saturday morning to an emotional video of alumni standing up in support of ouste...
Decision time: Zeithaml steps back, Cohen suggests reinstatement likely

Following a June 22 press conference called by Carl Zeithaml, the McIntire School of Commerce dean who was tapped by Rector Helen Dragas to be interim president after Teres...
Dragas' digs: Rector's new farm suggests plan to stick around

Even if Helen Dragas doesn't remain UVA rector into a second term, she'll have a place fit for a billionaire to entertain friends and colleagues near Charlottesville. Sourc...
Fast-moving day: Sullivan reinstatement could be happening

The people in the Hook newsroom were trying to write some thoughtful analysis for next week's issue, but then we checked around and realized that events are happening so fa...
McDonnell to BOV: Make a final decision or else

Gov. Bob McDonnell issued a statement today demanding a decision from the UVA Board of Visitors on who will be President of the University by Tuesday, or else he will deman...
Message to the Rector

A passerby gives two thumbs up to a statement painted on Beta Bridge.
Resignations begin: Esteemed computer science prof pulls plug

Professor William Wulf began his career at UVA in the early 1960s as the first Ph.D. student in the school's then nascent computer science department. On Tuesday, June 19, ...
Taking action: UVA faculty address McDonnell, launch social media sites

Cries for the resignation of embattled UVA Rector have been echoing for days, and they're only getting louder. On Thursday, June 21, 15 faculty members who are also UVA alu...
Unanimous: BOV votes to reinstate Sullivan

After two tumultuous weeks, UVA President Teresa Sullivan has been reinstated by unanimous vote of the Board of Visitors. Sullivan's words Her remarks to the BOV and to th...
Zeithaml in charge? Dragas pick embraces Simon, pans Sulli-sack

"I realize that some of you don't trust me," says Carl Zeithaml, the day following his selection by a deeply divided Board of Visitors that followed getting hand-picked to ...
Zeithaml suspends presidency: Will wait until BOV votes on Sullivan reinstatement

The man tapped as the interim president of the University of Virginia has decided to go back to work as the dean of the University's McIntire School of Commerce and cease f...