Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Growing political storm for UVa - Editorial Roanoke Times

The sound you just heard was either a summer thunderstorm boiling up — or, perhaps a shot across the bow of the University of Virginia and maybe even other colleges across the state. Earlier this week, seven Republican legislators from Southwest Virginia (joined by an eighth from Southside) and two Democratic legislators from Northern Virginia sent letters to the university’s governing board to complain about its controversial $2.3 billion “strategic investment fund” and call for the school to freeze or roll back tuition. http://www.heraldcourier.com/opinion/editorials/growing-political-storm-for-uva/article_422fcbb6-5b55-11e6-8ef8-bff3a18648a4.html