University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with COVID vaccine mandate
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The University of Virginia removed more than 200 students from its rolls for not meeting the school's coronavirus vaccine requirement.
Of the 238 students disenrolled, only 49 were actually registered for fall semester classes, leading the university to believe that the majority of the students "may not have been planning to return to the University this fall at all," university spokesman Brian Coy said in an email to The Virginian-Pilot. The students were removed after "receiving multiple reminders via email, text, phone calls, calls to parents that they were out of compliance and had until yesterday to update their status," Coy said.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.