Looking Back At The Virginia Quarterly Review Tragedy In Charlottesville
An editor s suicide is still shrouded in mystery.
When I reflect back on the years that I spent in Charlottesville, Virginia, I remember feeling that there were a lot of disturbing things going on for such a small town. In 2009, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student vanished after being denied re-entry to a Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena and then attempted to hitchhike back to Blacksburg, which is 150 miles away. Three months later, her remains were found on a farm outside of town.
The next year, varsity lacrosse player George Huguely killed his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love in a late-night drunken rage after forcing his way into her room and banging her head repeatedly against a wall. And then, just a couple of months later, Kevin Morrissey, the 52-year-old managing editor of the University of Virginia s esteemed literary journal,
ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL December 11, 2020
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan announced to the Board of Visitors an additional investment of $30 million in strategic matching funds to support need- and merit-based student scholarships at UVA and UVA’s College at Wise.
The funds will be used to address two of the University’s priorities – recruiting top prospective students and increasing access and affordability for undergraduates.
This new investment provides additional institutional funds that will match private gifts supporting three scholarship programs – Bicentennial Scholarships, Blue Ridge Scholars and University Achievement Awards.
“Since late 2016, our alumni and friends have generously endowed 350 different scholarship funds through this program,” UVA President Jim Ryan said. “This new commitment will allow us to continue to recruit undergraduate students with exceptional promise who might not otherwise attend UVA.”