In the study of psychology, physical and mental securities are found to be two of the main objectives of the human race. Physical security is emphasized to an overwhelming extent due to the wars and domestic strifes our country has had. Many philosophers maintain that the only real security man can have is the security of his soul. Man finds this real security in the belief of a supreme being, in our case the Christian God. Organizations are extensive throughout the world for the advocation of a belief in God. These groups deal with different beliefs and different types of people within sects or denominations. The type of person with whom this thesis is concerned is a college student who has had indoctrination and training in a home church. In college he is being exposed to a new type of environment and learning that, for the most part, will affect his physical security. The church is left with a small remaining part of the student's mind; with this, the church must try to develop a more mature person of the student. Many buildings are built for the advancement of religion. The purpose of this thesis is to show the need for a building to house the activities of a student group working toward Christian fellowship. The building shall be designated as a Baptist Student Center. The purpose of this Baptist Student Center is to provide a center for the religious, cultural, and intrafaith activities of the Baptist students of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. / Master of Science

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Virginia, 1933. / Bibliography: p. [101]-102.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Virginia, 1929.

The purpose of the study was to decide whether the present business curriculum of Lane High School, Charlottesville, Virginia, is adequately meeting the needs of its business students. In gathering the data for this study, the questionnaire method of research was used. A questionnaire, a letter, and a sheet, “Definition of Job Titles,“ were sent to the business graduates. Data compiled from the questionnaires revealed the following findings: 1. Lane High School, Charlottesville, Virginia, had 31 boys and 147 girls, a total of 178 business graduates during the five-year period 1945-49. 2. A total of 103 questionnaires were completed and returned, which makes a 57.9 percent return from the 178 graduates to whom these questionnaires were sent. 3. At the time of the survey 35, or 45.5 percent, of the 77 female respondents were married. 4. The business graduates who are employed at the present time are in four main fields: Stenographic, 20, or 19.4 percent; General Clerical, 15, or 14.5 percent; Bookkeeping, 6, or 5.9 percent; and Others Employed (outside business field), 23, or 22.3 percent. 5. A total of 39, or 27.8 percent, are now taking additional training, have married, or are unemployed. 6. The business graduates feel that typewriting is extremely important. Ninety-nine, or 23.7 percent, of the total business course enrollments were in this subject. 7. Of the 20 business graduates in the Stenographic group, only 15 took Shorthand I while in high school. The others secured their shorthand training in private business colleges. 8. The survey points out that 74, or 27.2 percent, of the business graduates who responded found typewriting as the most useful on the job. 9. The most frequent means of securing initial employment were through friends and relatives. Personal applications ranked second. Only 2.4 percent secured their initial position through the high school office; yet, 14.1 percent secured them through the business teachers. 10. Thirty-nine of the graduates, or 37.9 percent, have held only one position since graduation. Twenty-four, or 23.2 percent, have held two positions; and 27, or 26.2 percent, have not held any position whatsoever because they went on with their education or they did not desire employment. 11. Eleven of the graduates who gave reasons for changing positions did so because of promotion. Only 3, or 6.5 percent, changed because of dissatisfaction or ill health. 12. There were more graduates who received beginning monthly salaries within the low salary level of $75-100 than any of the other four brackets. A total of 25, or 24.3 percent, of the 103 respondents received their beginning salary within this bracket. The second bracket, $101-125, ranked next in the number of graduates with 17, or 16.5 percent, of the 103 respondents. 13. More respondents received current monthly salaries within the $126-150 bracket than any other bracket used in this table. 14. After graduating from high school, 46, or 44.7 percent, of the graduates took additional training. 15. When asked to rate their business and non-business subjects taken after graduation which proved to be helpful to them on the job, the graduates rated shorthand first in the business group with accounting and office machines as their second choice. English received the highest score as a non-business, followed by psychology. 16. When the business graduates were asked to check the subjects they wished they had taken in high school, shorthand ranked first. Office machines and accounting were their second and third choices. 17. Only a few respondents felt that any of their business subjects were of little value to them on the job. Bookkeeping ranked first, followed by business mathematics and typewriting. / Master of Science

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether there is an absolute right to freedom of expression with regard to hate speech, and more specifically, whether tolerance should be exercised toward speech even in circumstances where this speech presents a clear and present danger to the public. The author will use legal research methods to analyze this question. The paper will delve into four major Supreme Court cases in the case of hate speech, as well as the decision by the Virginia Court that allowed the rally in Charlottesville which ended with the death of 32-year old woman. The aim is to determine how the Supreme Court has looked at hateful expression over the years and the status of hate speech in America today. The four major cases are Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977), R.A.V v. City of St. Paul (1992), and Virginia v. Black (2003). Although the case of Kessler v. Charlottesville (2017) is not a Supreme Court case, its significance in relation to the right to freedom of expression is no less than those precedent four cases. This incident and related legal cases bring the concerns about hate speech and the constitutional right to freedom of expression directly into the public discourse.

In April 2015, the bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes- notorious mining magnate, archimperialist and champion of a global Anglo-Saxon empire- was removed from its concrete plinth overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. This came as a result of the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) movement, a movement that would see statues questioned and vandalised across the country. Two years later, fierce contestation over the hegemonic narrative told through the American South’s symbolic landscape erupted over the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, resulting in the deaths of multiple people in Charlottesville, Virginia. Increasing research on the removal of Rhodes and the removal of Confederate statuary has emerged in recent years. However, previous scholarship has failed to compare the wider phenomena of the calls for removal, from the memorialised figures to their change in symbolic capital, the movements’ inception and its outcomes. There is subsequently a gap in the literature understanding what the politics of statue removal tell us about not only the American and South African commemorative landscapes, but the nations’ interpretations of the past and societies themselves. Therefore, this thesis uses descriptive comparative analysis to compare two case studies where the debate over statue removal has surfaced most vehemently: Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town and Lee’s statue in Charlottesville. Ultimately, this dissertation finds that the calls for the removal of statues are part of a wider change in tenor towards understanding and disrupting prevailing hegemonic narratives of white supremacy, in both society and its symbolic landscape. The phenomena demonstrates that heterogeneous societies with pasts marred by segregation and racism are moving to reject and re-negotiate these histories and their symbols, a move that has elicited deeply divided, emotional responses. Despite waning attention to monument removals, the issue remains unresolved, contentious, and capable of re-igniting.

This project began as a desire for large open rooms, unrestricted by programmatic requirements; a realm where architecture, its meaning, and its purpose could be explored unhindered. I chose a winery and located it among the rolling hills north of Charlottesville, Virginia. Inspired by the beauty of vineyards, this winery facilitates the natural process begun in the growing of a grape. Sunk into the hillside, the earth provides the stable temperature and humidity necessary for wine maturation. Accounting for the technical aspects of winemaking, this project likewise addresses the aesthetic, creating not only a functioning winery, nor simply a beautiful building, but a marriage between the two. The winery consists of a series of rooms that house a singular process of winemaking. Architecturally, the rooms are likewise individual in character: centrally planned spaces described by sacred geometry. These rooms are linked by a series of axial relationships. The descent and subsequent ascent lie on axis, rotated 90° from each other. The entrance and exit halls lie on a separate axis, shifted 45° from the former, marking the transition between the exterior natural world and the submerged built world. Visitors follow a more circuitous path. Weaving in and out, the foot's path intersects the main axes at crucial moments, but is otherwise diverted. The vertical axis also heightens spatial divisions and interrelations. Submerged in the earth the rooms each open to the sky, marking their depth within the dark, quiet earth while reconnecting them to the realm of the vineyards. / Master of Architecture

This thesis is a history of social and political activism in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left as one of the most influential centers of new left activism in the South and asserts that this prominence was due to years of activism by local liberals, civil rights advocates, and students during the city's unique experiences on the front lines of the southern desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war struggles. It traces the evolution of social activism in the city and the university from the late 1950s through the early 1970s and demonstrates how local activists and issues interacted with regional, national, and global events during one of the most socially tumultuous decades in American history.

This essay analyzes destruction of cultural heritage, and its impact on future archaeological research. A qualitative case study on four different events of destruction on cultural heritage to evaluate whether it can be positive or negative. It explores if this phenomenon is new or old. Hopefully, the essay also contributes to the knowledge gap that exists in today's analysis of systematic destruction of cultural heritage. First, the concept of cultural heritage and systematic destruction is analyzed. Thereafter, a variety of cases are considered to finally arrive at four different events to be analyzed. In these four different events, a case study is made that aims to contribute to a deeper understanding on destruction of culture heritage. If it contributes to something positive or negative to the people in that society, and a possible outcome on how we look back on history. The events that form the case study are the destruction of the Baalshamin Temple, the demolition of the southern state statues, the transplantation of the Abu simbel monuments from Egypt and the destruction of the Sami drums. The results found that systematic destruction of cultural heritage is a complex issue and does not have an absolute explanation. Destruction of cultural heritage usually affects archaeologists negatively as it prevents future research and results in a less nuanced image of history. Destruction of cultural heritage is usually considered negative, however, moving objects is considered to be more positive.