Luke Fountain

The university has faced calls for change from its student body, faculty and many alumni in the years since then. With the same passion, the university has also been urged by other alumni and students to resist those calls for change and stop “rewriting” history.

In a Lexington City Council candidate forum where the main source of contention was over whether to elect or
appoint school board members, Republican candidate Collette Barry-Rec raised the alarm of what she sees as
misinformation and bad actors attempting to undermine the election. In a virtual candidate forum hosted by 50 Ways Rockbridge last week, Barry-Rec cited unknown forces attempting to divide people. “There is a lot of misinformation going around, and it’s very sad, because what it does is it pits one group against another,” Barry-Rec said. “I don’t want to be part of this. I want to step back and be a unifying force.”

Lexington voter registrar Jackie Harris is working to make sure elections in 2022 go on “without a hitch.” When asked what she sees as the biggest potential threat to the electoral process, Harris cited the essential need for voters to maintain confidence in the electoral process.