Student leaders, deans gather to discuss diversity
Forty student leaders participated in the University's second annual Day of Dialogue on Race in the Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room yesterday.
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Forty student leaders participated in the University's second annual Day of Dialogue on Race in the Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room yesterday.
Larry Summers resigned from his post as president of Harvard University on Tuesday, preempting a vote of no confidence by Arts and Sciences faculty at the school.
With issues ranging from the wages of University employees and contractors to adding the word "triviality" in the Honor constitution, six spring referenda have been finalized and will appear on the ballot when polls open this Friday.
There are approximately 80 facebook groups at the University with the word "addict" or "anonymous" in the title. Take "Kimchi Addicts," for example, or "Alcoholics Not So Anonymous," whose group page boasts: "Our primary purpose is to stay drunk and help other alcoholics to avoid sobriety."
On last year's Bid Night, 15 of 16 members of the Inter-Sorority Council reported the sexual assault of at least one of their members, according to Michael Goldsmith, president of the IFC and ISC's Joint Committee on Sexual Assault.
Delegates Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, and William Janis, R-Glen Allen, are currently sponsoring a bill in the General Assembly that would protect criminal witnesses from liability whenever their testimonies or criminal identifications are made "with the good faith belief in its veracity."
For the fourth year in a row, the University of Virginia is the number one producer of Peace Corps volunteers among medium-sized universities, according to a Peace Corps press release, that came out yesterday.
I took one look at the pink ribbon-belt of Curtis Sittenfeld's "Prep" in bookstores last spring and cringed with the memory of so many shrieks and plaid kilts of my own prep school education. At the time I couldn't even bear to read my own diary from high school, much less a book that pays such unabashed -- such unnecessary! -- homage to the ribbon belt, oh silliest of prepster foppery.
The debate over illegal immigrants' access to higher public education continues this month in the Virginia Assembly. Tonight the Virginia Sub-Committee of Higher Education reviews Bill 262, which could bar illegal immigrants from any public institute for higher learning, while the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) announced Jan. 10 that it authorized its chair to endorse the admission of aliens.
Phi Delta Theta fraternity became the first member of the Inter-Fraternity Council to successfully apply for a Board of Visitor's loan to buy property Thursday, pending expected full Board approval on Feb. 3.
Freshly inaugurated in Williamsburg last Saturday, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will begin work with his new cabinet this session regarding issues in higher education.
The acceptance rates for black applicants at 14 of the nation's top-30 rated universities --including the University -- were significantly higher than for white applicants in 2005, according to a report by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education released Tuesday.
In the latest of a string of Charlottesville burglaries, an unidentified intruder assaulted a woman in her apartment on the 1500 block of Broad Avenue Monday night at approximately 9:30 p.m., according to the Charlottesville Police.
The Office of the Dean of Students called University Police to intervene when passers-by complained of disruptive behavior from religious demonstrators on Grounds Monday morning.
Is a cup of coffee the nation's No.1 source of cancer prevention?
Students under 21 may want to think twice the next time they use a fake ID at local establishments. Charlottesville restaurants and students face stiffer penalties for violations of state laws regulating alcohol consumption.