Yes. The only exception is if someone REALLY doesn't look okay; if someone is crying on the ground or puking in a bush or something, then ask them if they are okay, if they need help, if there is anyone they'd like you to call. But yeah, all those other things? No.

Thank you. Sometimes, things are that bad. Or worse.

Again, whether or not a cat-call escalates actually doesn't have much to do with how you respond or don't respond. It'd be nice if it did, but sadly, it does not. I am not trying to attack you; I am trying to explain why so many women feel so strongly about this.

Ha! "Pay me five bucks, tell me to smile! 10, and you can tell me I should be happy! 20, and you can tell me I'd look prettier with my hair out of my face!"

Okay, well, you made it sound pretty different; when you KNOW a person's situation and they are in a place where they can reasonably be cheered up, there's nothing wrong with that.

1) Because that is the most common way for this to happen.

But did you know why these people were upset/having a bad day? Maybe it was a tiny thing that would work out. Maybe someone they loved just died. Maybe they just got a horrible diagnosis. Maybe they just got fired and now can't afford things they really, really need, like, say, rent, or medication. Maybe they just got…

Or, like, sometimes things happen in life that suck so you don't feel like smiling. Or it just hurts your cheeks to smile all the time. Or a million other things.

They're only 23!?!?

Oh man, I LOVE my meat charred. I know that's super-carcinogenic, but it's, I'll say it, really chingon good.

plus irritating young Republicans in bow ties condescendingly explaining that you're really a conservative and just don't know it yet).

Yeah, I think a lot of it is location. Charlottesville definitely seems (and more so now) like a difficult place to be black. Every time I go home (to DC), I realize all over again just how *white* it is here.

Yes, I think she acted very, very well and deserves credit for that.

Also — I have been trying all year to walk this line where I don't look at UVA as the emblem of all things bad because *nothing* — neither the things UVA was responsible for, like the horrific frats/utter mismanagement nor the things it was not responsible for, like Hannah Graham, the contagious nature of suicide, and…

I think that is 100% true of UVA as an undergrad institution. I don't know where UVA as a grad school falls on the spectrum of grad schools when it comes to race (and it probably varies by department?), and I am not black, so I can only speak from observation. But the people in my department are wonderful and…

Yeah. Sullivan's statement was lackluster, but her actions were pretty on point.

I'm a grad student here; before I knew about this, I heard two undergrads walking behind me talking about how UVA has been a microcosm for everything happening in our country right now. That sums up pretty well how I feel about it (I know you didn't ask me); I'm experiencing small-scale basically every fight I care…

Other than the eye-witness accounts of several students saying he was thrown to the ground immediately after his ID being rejected? That is, without a doubt, excessive force.

I was unclear if the Clark 108 thing was aimed at all concerned students or was meant to be more of a safe space thing for black students; if it's the former, I want to be there, if it's the latter, I don't want to intrude.

It seems like there are two events, both happening at 8pm.