U-Va. board votes to remove Confederate plaques, ban open flames

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

U-Va. board votes to remove Confederate plaques, ban open flames

By Joe Heim September 15 at 7:11 PM

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted unanimously Friday to remove plaques honoring the Confederacy and to ban open flames, following student demands made after a torchlight march by white supremacists and Nazi sympathizers last month.

The vote will result in the removal of two plaques from the university’s Rotunda that honored students and alumni who fought and died for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The board also approved the students’ demand that the university revise the school’s open-flame policy and declare the Lawn, the university’s most prominent outdoor public space, a residential facility.

The board’s action means open flames, explosives and weapons will be banned from the Lawn. When white supremacists marched through campus Aug. 11, they paraded down the middle of the Lawn toward the Rotunda chanting “Blood and Soil!” and “Jews will not replace us!”

The revision of the open-flame policy clarifies the university’s ability to enforce existing laws that prohibit the unauthorized use of open flames, as well as state laws that ban the burning of objects “in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury.”

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[Demsrule86]

1. Good for them.

[MichMan]

2. Does that mean it permissible to pitch a tent on the "Lawn" and live on campus ? nm