Racist Incidents Unnerve U-Va.

Racist Incidents Unnerve U-Va.: "After class at the University of Virginia one night this week, sophomore Kyle Miller found a note attached to the windshield of his jeep. It wasn't a ticket; it was something hateful, racist, written in red ink, in all caps.

Just a few weeks into the school year, U-Va. has had at least nine racist incidents -- slurs shouted from cars, ugly words written on message boards, a racist threat scrawled on a bathroom wall. And students, parents and alumni are demanding change.


A sign on student Dom Genest's door addresses racist incidents at University of Virginia. The president of the school said yesterday that the incidents threaten the nature of university life.
A sign on student Dom Genest's door addresses racist incidents at University of Virginia. The president of the school said yesterday that the incidents threaten the nature of university life.
'It's got to stop,' said Miller's mother, Alice P. Miller, executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, who now tells her son to be careful and stick with friends if he's out late.

Yesterday, U-Va. President John T. Casteen III summoned students to the Rotunda, the heart of the historic campus in Charlottesville, and in a rare speech from the portico, he invoked the name of Martin Luther King Jr. and urged students to demonstrate unity against racial intolerance."