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(04/17/07 4:00am)
BLACKSBURG -- A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the gunman found dead yesterday after murdering 30 students in Norris Hall. Ballistics tests confirmed that one of the two guns found at Norris Hall was also used at a shooting that took place two hours earlier in West Ambler Johnston dormitory yesterday morning. While police said it is likely that the two shootings are related and the work of Cho, the investigation is ongoing.
(02/26/07 5:00am)
Four years ago today, the University was rocked by reports that Daisy Lundy, then Student Council presidential candidate, had been assaulted in an apparently racially motivated incident. A wave of tension and confusion crested that night, leaving a transformed university in its wake. The alleged attack continues to cast a long shadow over the University as those affected by the alleged assault search for answers.
(02/02/07 5:00am)
THE CAVALIER Daily has been the defining experience of my time in college. I sat through a year of excruciatingly long Board of Visitors meetings, covered the arrest of the Living Wage protestors and culled through the minutiae of Honor Committee proceedings. I formed bonds with other staff members that are the product of shared experiences unique to the Cav Daily, such as sending the News page to the printer at four a.m., deliberately piecing together a delicate story or calling an advertiser to collect on a two-year-old invoice. Somewhere in between I found my place at the University of Virginia.
(01/26/06 5:00am)
Freshman are particularly at risk for death among college students attending four-year institutions, a USA Today analysis released yesterday found. The findings coincide with University administrators reporting that six University first years were involved in alcohol-related incidents Monday night.
(01/19/06 5:00am)
Architectural, engineering and design professionals rewarded the University's graduate program in architecture with a third-place ranking in the 2006 annual Design Futures Council survey published last November in DesignIntelligence. The Landscape Architecture program was also recognized with a fifth-place ranking in its field.
(11/18/05 5:00am)
There is a market in the business community for a commuter rail between Charlottesville and the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
(11/11/05 5:00am)
University students gathered on the Rotunda steps Tuesday night to tear down a mock Berlin Wall to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the falling of the real wall that used to separate East and West Berlin.
(11/08/05 5:00am)
The Special Committee on Planning of the Board of Visitors met yesterday for the second time to continue developing a 10-year financial plan.
(11/08/05 5:00am)
The Board of Visitors lent a stamp of approval to a management agreement yesterday morning that will be sent to Governor Mark R. Warner today and must be sent to the Virginia General Assembly by Nov. 15. Warner must approve the current draft before it can be sent to the Virginia legislature.
(11/04/05 5:00am)
The NAACP has announced its intent to oppose any management agreement under the Higher Education Restructuring Act that would create what the organization refers to as a 'two-tier workforce.' The organization objects to what it perceives as a lack of public input into the plan and the potential negative impact it could have on lower-wage employees in the future, according to a NAACP press release.
(10/31/05 5:00am)
College students are increasingly becoming victims of identity theft, prompting the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General to publicize the issue and crack down on crooks who use stolen information to fraudulently obtain financial aid.
(10/31/05 5:00am)
Is Splenda, also known as sucralose, a low calorie sweetener that allows people to consume soda and sweets without worry of weight gain? Or, as some contend, is it carcinogenic chlorine that causes weight gain and other health problems? Splenda is found in over 3,000 products, such as diet sodas, or yogurts, usually as an additive or used as a sugar alternative to coffee. Splenda is manufactured by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson.
(10/28/05 4:00am)
What would have been an open honor trial slated to begin Nov. 6 will now proceed as a closed trial at the request of the accused student.
(10/14/05 4:00am)
Administrators and graduate-school admissions officers alike acknowledge the increasing significance of what has become the new buzzword for aspiring MBA students, "an international perspective."
(10/07/05 4:00am)
An Academic Bill of Rights -- calling on universities to ensure students hear dissenting viewpoints from their professors and that students and professors are not discriminated against for their point of view -- is making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives.
(09/28/05 4:00am)
After years of gyrating state appropriations, it now appears that the University is safely on its way to getting the financial autonomy from the Commonwealth administrators say is necessary to compete among top-10 institutions.
(09/26/05 4:00am)
The full Board of Visitors gathered in Madison Hall before Saturday's home football game to approve the six-year institutional financial plan and delegate final negotiations of the University's proposed Management Agreement with Gov. Mark R. Warner to the University administration.
(09/19/05 4:00am)
The Board of Visitor's Special Committee on Diversity met Friday in a meeting that culminated with a hastily assembled address from University President John T. Casteen, III on the steps of the Rotunda.
(09/16/05 4:00am)
The Senate version of the Higher Education Act reauthorization was approved last week, which made broad student loan and grant changes, has been well received by the University administration and many student and institutional advocates.
(09/09/05 4:00am)
Promotion for a significantly expanded January Term began this week with a flurry of e-mails and advertisements after last January's successful pilot program.