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(04/07/10 5:49am)
There are cogent arguments to be made for paying student athletes and creative proposals for doing so. Unfortunately, errors in fact and assumption get in the way of Hung Vu's argument in favor of paying football and basketball players "for their efforts and for the revenue they bring" ("Money madness," April 6).
(07/21/03 4:00am)
It's official. The Atlantic Coast Conference has opened its doors, and the University of Miami and Virginia Tech have walked in.
(07/21/03 4:00am)
In a case with national implications, the Supreme Court, in a June 23 decision, upheld the University of Michigan's right to consider race in admissions, but declared Michigan's system of awarding admission points for race unconstitutional.
(07/03/03 4:00am)
It's official. The Atlantic Coast Conference has opened its doors, and the University of Miami and Virginia Tech have walked right in.
(07/03/03 4:00am)
For the second time in four years, the city of Charlottesville was in danger of celebrating Independence Day without a fireworks display. A group of private and corporate donors has come to the rescue, raising the funds necessary for the fireworks display to take place Friday at McIntire Park.
(06/26/03 4:00am)
In a case with national implications, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the University of Michigan's right to consider race in admissions, but declared Michigan's system of awarding admission points for race unconstitutional.
(06/26/03 4:00am)
The Rutherford Institute filed suit in federal district court yesterday against the city of Charlottesville. The suit was filed on behalf of Harry Weinschenk, owner of Express Car Wash on Route 29 north, who, according to the Rutherford institute, was unjustly deprived of income when his business was shut down due to drought-induced water restrictions last fall.
(06/19/03 4:00am)
Charlottesville residents have seen their water bill changed six times in the last year, and City Council now is considering another change. Council voted four-to-one on Monday to increase water rates for the seventh time this year.
(06/19/03 4:00am)
Gregory Smith, Albermarle county resident and child prodigy, began working toward his PhD in mathematics last week. Smith, who is 14 years old, graduated cum laude from Randolph Macon College in May. Mathematics is the first of several degrees he plans to pursue.
(06/12/03 4:00am)
Following fifty years of athletic excellence, the Atlantic Coast Conference now finds itself at a crossroads. A crossroads that potentially could alter much of the college sports landscape. Following the lead of the nation's "super-conferences," the ACC is seeking to expand to 12 teams by adding the University of Miami, Boston College and Syracuse University.
(11/20/02 5:00am)
It's almost funny, the things people think it's acceptable to say to their co-workers -- particularly their female co-workers. What isn't funny is when judges -- not defense attorneys, judges -- try to use the First Amendment to excuse inappropriate and threatening comments.
(11/06/02 5:00am)
The changes to athlete eligibility requirements recently made by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) likely will be met with criticism. Opponents of the changes will argue that lower standardized test score requirements are symptomatic of the diverging standards by which athletes and the rest of the student body are judged. Those nay-sayers will be wrong. The NCAA's changes are meant to emphasize the "student" in "student athlete," and they do not harm universities unless the universities themselves allow them to.
(10/30/02 5:00am)
You wouldn't trust a general who'd never seen war to lead an army into battle, or a defensive end to quarterback your football team. The Securities and Exchange Commission, however, has given over its new accounting oversight committee to a man with no recent experience in the troubled world of corporate accounting.
(10/23/02 4:00am)
Using heroin is illegal, so it would seem self-evident that using academic grant money to fund your habit would be not only illegal, but also inappropriate. Evidently that was not clear to Ansley Hamid, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor.
(10/16/02 4:00am)
Last week marked the first time in the last hundred years that a woman has been brought up on polygamy charges in the United States. The arrest is valid and overdue and should be part of a broader investigation into polygamy in the United States, or at least into the abuse and neglect that attends it in a number of polygamist communities.
(10/02/02 4:00am)
It isn't quite that time of year yet, but in a few months, a swell of "prospectives," especially those considering early decision, will tour the Lawn and quiz University guides on the merits of new dorms versus old dorms. To most of us, these potential future students are nameless, faceless crowds to dodge on the way to class, but, at some schools, admissions officers are paying very close attention to just who these people are -- and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
(09/25/02 4:00am)
After a month in class, and with midterms rapidly approaching, the time seems ripe for a classroom etiquette Public Service Announcement. The following isn't of grave importance. It isn't about how messed up a world we live in. It isn't about saving the world. It is, however, an attempt to make life a little less annoying for those of us in the storied Academical Village, and to make chronic eye-rolling just a little less common.
(09/18/02 4:00am)
If you've spent anytime in a first year hall or suite bathroom recently, you may have noticed the helpful hints and thrilling reading known as the "Stall Seat Journal." If you're particularly lucky, you may also have received a rape whistle courtesy of the Parents Program. Both initiatives were designed to help keep you safe, either from the evils of alcohol or from sexual predators lurking in the shadows. Neither option, however, addresses a very real danger faced by a large number of undergraduates: sexual attacks perpetrated by a stranger and often involving alcohol.
(09/12/02 4:00am)
IN 1972 a total of 29,992 women participated in college sports. By 2001, the number of women athletes was more than five times that at 150,916, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education study ("Title IX at 30," June 21). No doubt such a dramatic increase in the number of athletes has had a positive effect on the quality of women's sports and, through also-growing scholarships, on the opportunities available to women in education. This increase is a direct result of Title IX, the federal law that dictates standards for gender equality in athletics and education for all schools, universities and organizations that accept federal money. Unfortunately, the way in which that law is enforced also has forced many colleges to cut men's sports in order to maintain compliance and avoid investigation.
(09/02/02 4:00am)
IT'S BEEN two years since the state of South Carolina finally decided to remove the rebel cross from the dome of the capitol. But the debate over the confederate flag's appropriate place is far from over. The debate now is in the private sector, and a Fortune 500 company has mandated that its employees must protest the flag. When the decision to support a symbol, even a much-detested one, is dictated by the threat of joblessness, that "decision" is rendered meaningless.