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Nov. 28
The University was founded under Thomas Jefferson’s educational ideals, including his conviction that language study is an indispensable part of education. Today, however, the University’s approach to language learning — particularly through its diagnostic exam — risks reducing that ideal to a mere formality.
Nearly three years after Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., former University student and football player, shot and killed three University football players Nov. 13, 2022, Jones was given the maximum penalty Friday of five life sentences with an additional 23 years.
In this episode, Mona El Khafif, an Associate Professor of Architecture, explains biophilic design, which refers to the integration of nature into urban and architectural spaces. Through her work on the Biophilic Region Exhibition and her emphasis on the role of educational collaboration, she highlights the importance of shaping architecture and learning for an environmentally conscious future, even here in Charlottesville.
The Honor Committee voted unanimously Nov. 9 to pass a bylaw change that further specifies the time frame for when students can express admission of guilt during the Honor sanctioning process and retain expulsion protection.
Nov. 23
Editor’s Note: This letter was sent Nov. 21 via email to the Board of Visitors, Interim University President Paul Mahoney, Interim Provost Brie Gertler, the presidential search committee, the Faculty Senate and Wahoos4UVA before it was published as a guest piece in The Cavalier Daily. There are 181 University-affiliated signatories.
Saturday morning in Columbia, Mo. the Cavaliers took to the Gans Creek course for the second time this year — this time, for the NCAA Championships.
The Cavalier Daily elected editors for its upcoming 137th term Saturday, and in a contested election, chose Leigh Bailey, current operations manager and third-year College student, to serve as the paper’s next editor-in-chief. The 137th term of The Cavalier Daily will begin Jan. 12, the first day of classes in the spring semester.
For most University students, the end of the semester looks like a wind-down for Thanksgiving followed by an immediate gear-up for finals, perhaps intermingled with reminiscing on another semester gone by too fast. However, for some, the end of the semester signals something a little different — a cappella concert season.
Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan released an eight-page letter Nov. 13 recounting her perspective on the events leading up to former University President Jim Ryan’s resignation in June. This, in turn, prompted Ryan to send a letter to the Faculty Senate Nov. 14, which shared an account he wrote this summer of the circumstances leading to his resignation.
It has been over a month since Virginia volleyball has won at home. The Cavaliers (11-16, 4-13 ACC) hosted NC State in John Paul Jones Arena Friday, kicking off Virginia’s Senior Weekend with an energetic, tight-scoring game, with a crowd of almost 1,500 behind Virginia. While the Cavaliers opened the match with two gritty set wins, it fell in the final three sets to the Wolfpack (14-13, 7-10 ACC) in a reverse sweep, 25-21, 25-21, 19-25, 22-25, 9-15.
In a banquet hall turned basketball arena at the Greenbrier Resort, some 1,200 people filed in — mostly wearing Virginia colors — to watch Coach Ryan Odom’s squad take on its first power-conference opponent of the season.
An entire campaign comes down to the postseason, where the lights are brightest and frigid temperatures blanket Klöckner Stadium. In these high-pressure conditions, one play is the difference between preserving championship hopes and the end of a season. Virginia made that crucial play twice Thursday in a 2-0 win over Penn State.
It would seem the University’s Board of Visitors Rector Rachel Sheridan finally found the time to talk with — or really write a letter to — the Faculty Senate about her role in both former University President Ryan’s forced resignation and the University’s agreement with the federal government. The impetus for this show of candor — a Faculty Senate resolution calling for her resignation — leaves much to be desired from this University administration. Yet, while Sheridan, and presumably Vice Rector Porter Wilkinson, tried fruitlessly to defend their roles as unauthorized University negotiators in writing, Interim University President Paul Mahoney actually showed up to the Faculty Senate meeting and gave senators a public account of the Department of Justice agreement. Unfortunately, this display of transparency is too little, too late.
Students who frequent the Lawn may have recurrently noticed an impromptu one-man show. For 15 years, Class of 1979 alumnus Todd Bullard, motivated by a love of music, serene weather and the Lawn, has made a habit of visiting to sing and strum his guitar.
Chloe Clayborne, Class of 2025 alumna, is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the transcendent, using her art to question what a human soul is and how it relates to the world. Her current exhibit “Decadent Dissolution” at New City Arts in the Downtown Mall explores these themes through sculpture, as well as oil and watercolor paintings.
Life as a University student can mean dressing for many occasions, from football tailgates to sorority formals and from thirty degree mornings to sixty degree afternoons. This fall, many students have increasingly found that subscriptions to Nuuly — an online fashion rental company — are a sustainable way to both expand their closets and find fun pieces for special events and everyday wear.
As the search for post-graduation jobs and summer internships heats up, Mona Sloane, assistant professor of data science and media studies, has created a new tool to explore how artificial intelligence is used in the hiring process.