January 12, 2006 -- A story in the Wednesday, Jan. 11, edition of The Washington Post ran an op-ed piece — "Teaching the 'Good Kids'/With Consequences for Bad Behavior" — in which the author, John Feinstein, writes that "When a University of Virginia player was involved in an incident at Boston College this season that was just as ugly as Vick-Dumervil, it wasn't the school that suspended him for one game but the Atlantic Coast Conference." 

In fact, it was U.Va., that made the decision to suspend the player, a decision which ACC Commissioner John Swofford strongly supported. 

Swofford's statement, made on Oct. 10, 2005, said, in part: "The Atlantic Coast Conference fully supports the decision of the University of Virginia for issuing this one-game suspension. ... The league joins Virginia in taking a strong stand against this kind of inappropriate behavior and sending a clear and definitive message that the Conference and its member institutions will make every effort to exemplify the very best qualities of sportsmanship."


Carol Wood,
Assistant Vice President for University Relations