Campaigners meet Sullivan
Five Living Wage Campaign representatives met with University President Teresa Sullivan 7 a.m. yesterday as the campaign’s hunger strike entered its 10th day. Following the meeting, the wagers delivered a speech on the Rotunda steps in which Graduate Arts & Sciences student David Flood, one of the campaign representatives, said “no real progress has been [...]
Read moreThe man, the myth, the legend
Some students grow up knowing they will one day be Wahoos. But for one student, the path to college took a 48-year detour. At 67 years old, Jerry Reid may be older than the typical University student, but he doesn’t let age get in the way of pursuing his University degree. Reid first came to [...]
Read moreVroom elected Council president
Third-year College student Johnny Vroom, Student Council’s current chief of cabinet, defeated four opponents in a student-wide election last week to be named Council’s president-elect with 2,909 votes. Second-year College student Neil Branch was elected the incoming vice president for organizations, and second-year College student Ann Laurence Baumer, the current Second-Year Council president, won the [...]
Read moreCavaliers fall 3 points short
An undersized Virginia men’s basketball team constantly fought foul trouble and saw its best scorer suffer his worst performance of the season Saturday, yet it fell one shot short of taking No. 7 North Carolina to overtime. Trailing by three with six seconds left, senior guard Sammy Zeglinski slid into the corner for an open [...]
Read moreA different sort of V-day
I’m not going to lie, when I realized it was time to get off my couch and run to watch the Spectrum Theatre’s fifth annual production of The Vagina Monologues Friday, I was not happy. My friend and I complained the entire way to the Chemistry Building about how awkward it would be — and [...]
Read moreAsk Edgar
Dear Edgar, My sleeping schedule is completely off! I can’t fall asleep at night until 4 a.m., but I can’t stop sleeping during class. What can I do to get my sleeping schedule back on track and actually stay awake in lectures and discussions? Thanks, Sleepy and grumpy Dear Sleepy, I find it highly admirable [...]
Read moreCavs enter finale with tournament prospects at stake
When coach Joanne Boyle gathered her team for its first practice of a new era, she delivered a simple message: Do the little things every night and the rest will follow. The Virginia women’s basketball team looks to wrap up the regular season with a weekend pair as Wake Forest comes to Charlottesville today for [...]
Read moreAdministration, campaign still far apart on living wage
Third-year College student Brianne Pitts, a Living Wage Campaign supporter who had fasted for the past six days, dropped out of the campaign’s hunger strike after feeling faint and breaking out in a sweat in her economics class yesterday. The number of students participating in the hunger strike now stands at 17. Pitts joined other [...]
Read moreBREAKING: Jury recommends 26 years for Huguely
A jury convicted former University student George Huguely for the second-degree murder of Yeardley Love, as well as grand larceny, and recommended he serve a 26 year prison sentence. This sentence would include 25 years for the second-degree murder and one year for grand larceny. Huguely had faced first-degree murder and felony murder charges for [...]
Read moreThe Verdict
After nearly nine hours waiting for a verdict, former University student George Huguely stared straight ahead as a jury found him guilty of grand larceny and the second-degree murder of his former girlfriend Yeardley Love. Later the same evening, the jury recommended Huguely serve a 26-year prison term, comprising 25 years for the second-degree murder [...]
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