It is the most beautiful and most sacred part of "the Grounds," as the University of Virginia calls its campus. In a white-columned gallery along the "Lawn" are arrayed 104 rooms reserved for the best and brightest students. On the night of Aug. 26, on a message board outside of one of those rooms, someone wrote two ugly epithets: N----R and I HATE JESUS. The incident was the sixth of its kind in one week at and around U.Va.'s Charlottesville campus. Black students also reported racial slurs shouted from passing cars and trucks and written on a birthday card attached to an apartment door.
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