Editor’s note: This article is a humor column
A memo from the U.S. Department of Justice, mistakenly sent to Nau Hall Friday instead of Board of Visitors member John Nau III, has revealed the shocking truth about the University’s future Center for the Arts. According to the memo, the center was never intended to host galleries or performances — instead, in a move aligning with national trends of defunding arts and culture, it will serve as a state-of-the-art house for the Alpha chapter of the new Alpha Rho Tau fraternity.
On Sept. 11, the Board triumphantly approved the design for the 220,000-square-foot Center on Ivy Road — a facility meant to house the new Fralin Museum and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, in addition to the Tessa and Richard Ader Performing Arts Center and the University’s department of music. Students and faculty largely supported this move, an expected outcome given the University community’s recent history of complete, total and unequivocal agreement with the Board’s decisions…