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(05/03/18 4:07am)
The lawsuit filed against the government of North Korea by the family of Otto Warmbier — a 22-year old University student who died last June after he was imprisoned for 17 months in North Korea — could have international repercussions, experts say.
(04/30/18 7:32pm)
Renovations to the Chemistry Building and Gilmer Hall are in the works and are expected to be completed in 2021. Construction on the Chemistry Buildings began last year and will be followed by work on Gilmer Hall. According to a major projects status report released by the University in September 2017, the total budget for the Gilmer and Chemistry Building renovations is $186.8 million. The architectural firm Perkins + Will was hired by the University to oversee the operations.
(04/30/18 3:54am)
The Day of Healing, the last event of the month-long “Take Back the Night” campaign promoting sexual assault awareness and prevention, took place Friday in the Amphitheater. This event was intended to provide self-care resources and an opportunity to de-stress as students reflected on the month of sexual assault awareness and dealt with the conflicts in their own lives. The event featured multiple interactive and informational tables available for students to engage with in the Amphitheater, as well as yoga and mindfulness sessions taking place at the 1515 studio during that time.
(04/24/18 5:25am)
Citizens gathered at Burley Middle School Saturday afternoon for the City of Charlottesville’s Democratic caucus to elect delegates to select the party’s nominee in the upcoming Fifth District congressional race. According to district-wide tallied results following the caucus, Leslie Cockburn has now won 134 elected delegates, which is more than half of the total 250 delegates needed to secure her the nomination at the Democratic convention May 5. Andrew Sneathern finished with 54 delegates and Roger Dean Huffstetler with 43.
(04/30/18 4:31am)
Paul Martin, an assistant professor of public policy, will be teaching “From Inequality to Action” this fall — a new course based around case studies of political mobilization.
(04/14/18 1:32am)
Silenced Voices, an event focusing on sexual assault as it pertains to the LGBTQ community, took place Thursday afternoon as part of the month-long Take Back the Night series at the University to raise awareness for sexual assault.
(04/06/18 2:49am)
The Take Back the Night vigil — the first of many University events being held throughout the month of April to raise awareness of sexual assault — was held Wednesday night at the Sprint Pavilion on the Downtown Mall. Featuring a list of student and community volunteer speakers that testified about their experiences with sexual violence, the event was accompanied by musical performances by the University acapella groups the Academical Village People and Hoos In Treble.
(04/12/18 4:02am)
University students are getting involved with two upcoming Fifth District congressional caucuses — the Charlottesville City Caucus April 21 and the Albemarle County Caucus April 16 — to select the Democratic candidate in the 2018 midterm election.
(03/26/18 5:13am)
Thousands of people filled the Charlottesville Downtown Mall Saturday in support of the “March for Our Lives” movement, joining the efforts of demonstrators across the country marching in solidarity against gun violence.
(03/19/18 4:48am)
Charlottesville citizens gathered for a debate between the four democratic candidates for the Fifth Congressional District nomination — Roger Dean Huffstetler, Leslie Cockburn, Ben Cullop and Andrew Sneathern — in the Buford Middle School auditorium Saturday afternoon. Hosted by Indivisible Charlottesville, a local progressive group, the event was one of several public gatherings featuring the four candidates before the nominee is selected by the Virginia Fifth Congressional District Democratic Committee in a convention May 5.
(03/16/18 2:00am)
Duo, a new and gently-worn women’s clothing store that has been a part of the Corner since 2007, has closed its doors. As of late February, the store has moved out of its Corner location and has transitioned to becoming a full-time, online clothing store based out of Charlottesville.
(03/02/18 4:12am)
The Board of Visitors Finance Committee met in the Board Room of the Rotunda Thursday afternoon to discuss and vote on new budget proposals for the University. Two notable issues on the table were the raising of both rates for student housing and meal plan prices for the 2018-19 academic year. The committee recommended the proposed rates for approval by the full board Friday.
(02/27/18 5:04am)
Panelists and citizens came together at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center for a public forum Sunday on the future of Charlottesville governance. The panel — titled “How might Charlottesville be governed differently in the future?” — was the second of two public forums scheduled for February to address community concerns about governance in the city.
(02/23/18 6:55am)
The Peace Corps released their annual list of Top Volunteer-Producing Schools for 2018 on Feb. 21, with U.Va. advancing to the No. 6 rank in the nation — tied with The Ohio State University — for the most students recruited from a university.
(02/21/18 6:30am)
A crowd of more than 30 people listened to a trio of panelists for a public forum entitled “Eyes on Racism in the Media & Activism” in the auditorium of the Small Special Collections Library Tuesday. The panelists — Carmentia Higginbotham, associate professor of Art & Culture in the McIntire Department of Art, Meredith Clark, assistant professor of Media Studies and Lisa Woolfork, associate professor of English — explored and considered the intersection of blackness and activism.
(02/19/18 7:30am)
This is a transcript of an interview The Cavalier Daily conducted with Jalon Daniels, a first-year College student and candidate for Student Council president. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
(02/21/18 6:30am)
DREAMers on Grounds is in the process of developing a collection of stories and testimonies of DREAMers at the University to share the experiences of DACA recipients with the local community.
(02/22/18 6:51am)
The Feb. 5 season four premiere of “Vanity Fair Confidential” — a television series on Investigation Discovery that delves into crime stories covered by the magazine — brought cases of sexual assault at the University once again into the national spotlight. The episode, titled “Shadows on the Lawn,” included voiced-over narratives and first-person interviews with University alumna Liz Seccuro, who was sexually assaulted during her first year at University in 1984 and received an apology from one of her attackers 21 years later. The episode also dealt with the repercussions of the now-retracted 2014 article in Rolling Stone Magazine that told the alleged story of a University student and the gang-rape she endured at a U.Va. fraternity.
(02/09/18 5:13am)
HBRA Architects and the Alderman Library renovation planning committees hosted two open forums for students and faculty Thursday to address the planned renovations. The two meetings represented the third and fourth of the eight planned public forums taking place between Feb. 7 and 22.
(02/07/18 5:35am)
The University School of Law held a commemoration Monday afternoon in Caplin Pavilion honoring the late Gregory H. Swanson — the first black student to successfully enroll at the University and the Law School’s first black student.