studies director at the university of virginia s miller center. i want to ask help you and your colleagues are doing a week after that shooting how you in your colleagues are doing a week after that shooting. guest: thank you for mentioning it. it is on our minds. we hope that people are able to be with family and friends, but our hearts are broken for families who will have an engager an empty chair. it was a hard time having been through what people call charles koch 2017, when neo-nazis descended on town. it is a beautiful from the usually peaceful college town, and that piece has been broken, but we are strong. host: you mentioned that 2017 is back in the spotlight. i wonder what stuck out to you this week between what is happening on campus and media attention back on charlottesville. is there anything that stuck out to you? guest: the first is that charlottesville, though it is seemingly a bucolic university town, we are not immune from the violence in our country.