The Student Council Arboretum and Landscape Committee and the Office of the Architect Buildings and Grounds Committee announced plans to reconstruct the Student Memorial Garden between the Special Collections Library, Newcomb Hall and Clemons Library in order to fulfill the needs of the University community in times of grief and mourning.
Charlottesville City Council passed the 2015-16 fiscal year budget Tuesday evening. The budget adoption has been controversial throughout the budgeting process due to the proposed one percent increase of the meals tax, from four to five percent.
The University’s Women, Gender & Sexuality Program hosted a “Teach-In” Wednesday in response to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control’s March 18 arrest of third-year College student Martese Johnson and other events over the past year. Faculty members were invited to speak about how the recent events at the University relate to their own work.
Students United and University community members gathered outside of the Special Collections Library Tuesday to protest tuition hikes.
University Law Prof. Richard J. Bonnie addressed the Medical School Wednesday on the topic of marijuana prohibition.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed a new ethics reform bill Tuesday which tightens certain restrictions of the reform bill passed last year. The new bill sets a $100 cap on gifts for political campaigns and strengthens the independent advisory panel created in the 2014 bill.
The University was rated the best value public college by the Princeton Review in their new book released Tuesday. The University was ranked sixteenth in the top 50 “best value” colleges, private or public, and ranked eighth in terms of alumni network strength.
Albemarle County Sheriff Chip Harding said he wants to see an expansion of the Virginia DNA databanks. Harding said he believes that if Jesse Matthew had his DNA collected in 2010 when he was charged with a misdemeanor, the DNA would have matched the 2005 sexual assault case.
Attorney James Camblos requested a psychiatric evaluation of Jesse Matthew Friday in relation to a 2005 sexual assault case.
Student group Action Against Ebola is hosting Ebola Awareness Week this week to raise funds for and student awareness of the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
