Former Dean dies, aged 82
John Augustus Herring, III, former director of Newcomb Hall, assistant dean and significant donor to the University's LGBTQ communities, passed away Friday at the age of 82.
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John Augustus Herring, III, former director of Newcomb Hall, assistant dean and significant donor to the University's LGBTQ communities, passed away Friday at the age of 82.
Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed amendments this week to a state Senate bill which aim to lessen the restrictions the bill would place on voters' proof of valid identification.
Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways announced his resignation Tuesday evening, effective May 31, to focus on his writing career. Donovan Webster, current deputy editor and University media studies professor, will serve as interim editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review starting June 1.
Former Gov. Tim Kaine last week became Virginia's sole Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate race after potential rivals Julien Modica and Courtney Lynch withdrew from the race before petitions were due Thursday. The Democratic Party will no longer hold a primary since Kaine is the only Democratic candidate still in contention.
Stanton Braverman, a retired lawyer who owns three properties in Charlottesville, filed a lawsuit Friday against the City of Charlottesville to protest the planned construction of a dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir near Fontaine Research Park. The complaint, filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court, alleged the City and Albemarle County illegally approved the project.
The Barack Obama reelection campaign opened a Charlottesville office on the Downtown Mall Sunday to provide a center for Obama's supporters to congregate and volunteer for the president's 2012 bid.
The Law School earlier this month began an $8 million redesign of Slaughter Hall in an effort to expand office space for the school's 20 legal clinics and create more accessible student spaces.
The Living Wage Campaign today enters the fourth day of its hunger strike, a protest effort urging the University to establish a $13 minimum wage for all its employees.
The Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates yesterday voted 64-34 to advance a 'personhood' bill, which would give full personhood rights to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception. The action sets the stage for a final House vote on the legislation today. If the House passes the bill, the Senate will review and vote on it.
Poor levels of college enrollment, disengagement, underachievement and low graduation rates rank among the most pressing problems facing black males in the United States. But a study released yesterday by University of Pennsylvania's new Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education emphasized instead the levels of achievement among black male undergraduates, which at times go unnoticed by education experts.
The Virginia Supreme Court remanded the review of the General Assembly's newly redrawn congressional district lines back to the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond Tuesday, claiming that the lower court had failed to adequately review the evidence.
After finding a woman's body at the Red Roof Inn on the Corner at 1309 West Main Street Sunday, Charlottesville Police yesterday identified her as 46-year-old Laura Daly.
Thomas Jefferson envisioned an “Academical Village” in which students and professors would live and learn together. At the very heart of this “Academical Village,” he placed the Rotunda as his library: “a temple of knowledge.”
About two-thirds of the increase in total college costs between the 1999-2000 and 2008-09 academic years came from non-tuition sources such as textbooks and off-campus housing, according to a study published yesterday by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
The University received 11,417 applicants for the Class of 2016 through the newly implemented early action process, which ended Nov. 9.
About 70 students and members of the Charlottesville community gathered yesterday at the University to rally for the creation of a living wage for University staff. Workers and Students United organized a march and a "lay-in" outside of the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library, where the Board of Visitors held its quarterly meeting.
A representative of the Jefferson Area Tea Party expressed concerns about Occupy Charlottesville at Charlottesville City Council's meeting Monday, saying Council should not allow members of the group to break curfew by staying overnight in Lee Park.
The leading cause of mortality in college and university students is suicide, a University researcher found in a study released Wednesday.
University researchers found that women are 47 percent more likely to sustain injuries in car crashes than men in a study to be published in the December print edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
Stephen Braga, partner in law firm Ropes & Gray's Government Enforcement Practice in Washington, D.C., and renowned white-collar criminal defense and innocence lawyer, began teaching a seminar yesterday at the University's Law School concerning his involvement with the prominent West Memphis Three Case. The course is available to second- and third-year Law students, and will run through Nov. 4.