Quiz 5

Question 1

CIO created for foreign-born Black students

Answer 1

Organization of African Students

Question 2

celebration of African students and culture, hosted by OAS

Answer 2

Africa Day

Question 3

Attempt to create an African Studies minor, began in 2007

Answer 3

African Studies Initiative

Question 4

Black and Korean StudCo presidential candidate who was assaulted by a white man in February 2003

Answer 4

Daisy Lundy

Question 5

organization run by students that has a huge influence on UVA

Answer 5

Student Council

Question 6

Student-response to Daisy Lundy’s assault in February 2003. Emerged from Law School, Runk, and the Rotunda

Answer 6

March Against Racial Hatred

Question 7

group of students responsible for hearings when a student has been accused of cheating; criticized for being racially biased against minority students

Answer 7

Honor Committee

Question 8

group of African people who were transported during the slave trade

Answer 8

Historical diaspora

Question 9

Group of African and African-descended people who arrived in the 80s and 90s as a result of colonization, decolonization, and structural adjustment

Answer 9

Contemporary diaspora

Question 10

restaurant on the Corner that introduced a racialized dress code, unfair implementation led to protest

Answer 10

Jaberwoke

Question 11

Began in 1960s; resulted in “Keeping Our Promise” that framed this as a diversity issue; battle continued in 1990s and resulted in demonstration; reinvigorated by Katrina in 2006, led to sit in at Madison where students were arrested

Answer 11

Living Wage Campaign

Question 12

report about Black workers’ mistreatment at UVA; criticized the over-concentration of Black workers in underpaid jobs, AA workers being written up at higher rates than white ones; reported glaring disparities in employment opportunities, performance evaluations, and disciplinary sanctions

Answer 12

Muddy Floor Report

Question 13

first woman selected as President of UVA

Answer 13

Teresa Sullivan

Question 14

Unite the Right Rally at UVA in 2017, organized by Richard Spencer, led to death

Answer 14

August 11th and 12th

Question 15

What were the BSA’s 10 Toward a Better University Suggestions?

Answer 15

• President and Dean of Students should promote acceptance and acknowledge UVA’s deeply troubled history
• Administrators and student media outlets should use existing communication channels to start, continue, and deepen our discussion of racism and ethnocentrism
• President Sullivan should order creation of mandatory online summer cultural competency training module and a fall orientation presentation.
• Required public comment period at BOV meetings
• President Sullivan should order an immediate and recurring in-depth study of the condition of Black people at UVA at all levels, similar to the “Audacious Faith Report”
• Students must be knowledgeable and conscious about history of racial oppression and discrimination in current and historic UVA and Charlottesville communities
• Deans should work with Department Chairs and Program Directors to incorporate minority perspectives and viewpoints in their coursework
• UVA should begin an immediate Capital Campaign to benefit construction of a permanent and proper slave memorial on Grounds
• Departmental Status for Carter G. Woodson Institute for AAAS
• Quality Assurance and Accountability for Administration

Question 16

report on UVA’s history of slavery

Answer 16

President’s Commission on Slavery and the University Report (2018)