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(10/29/18 1:22am)
Members of the University community gathered Saturday evening to hold a candlelit vigil in the Amphitheater for the 11 Jewish people killed in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh earlier that day. The vigil was hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace at U.Va. and the Hillel Jewish Leadership Council.
(10/24/18 2:47am)
Hispanic and Latinx student organizations released a proposal Monday to the University administration, which calls for increased support for Latinx students and increased Latinx representation among faculty and students. The document is titled “Our University to Shape,” alluding to the University’s bicentennial slogan, “Ours to Shape.”
(10/16/18 10:42am)
Electric scooters could be coming to Charlottesville, pending a City Council decision to allow companies to apply to bring their scooter rental service to the City.
(10/10/18 11:54pm)
The University announced last month the launch of its Democracy Initiative, a collaboration led by the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs and the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Democracy Initiative will fund research and curriculum exploring issues related to democracy around the world — including race, religion, immigration, women’s rights, the economy and the media.
(10/02/18 6:31am)
The U.Va. Community Food Pantry and University of Virginia Dining hosted a “Stock the Pantry” event in Newcomb Hall Monday.
(09/26/18 4:06am)
Demolition to the Cavalier Inn on the Emmet-Ivy intersection was originally scheduled to begin Monday, but has been delayed due to weather. Construction is now planned to begin sometime this week or next week, but road and sidewalk closures due to the construction in the area started Tuesday.
(09/18/18 3:55am)
The Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy hosted a panel of law enforcement and legal experts to discuss community policing for its annual commemoration of Constitution Day Monday morning. The panel focused on fostering trust and cooperation between police forces and the communities they serve.
(09/13/18 10:04pm)
Virginia Fifth Congressional District candidates, Republican nominee Denver Riggleman and Democratic nominee Leslie Cockburn, will debate Friday, Sept. 28 at 6:00 p.m. in Garrett Hall. Polls indicate the open VA-05 seat leans Republican and is one of the state’s most competitive races in the 2018 midterm elections.
(09/04/18 3:13am)
The Virginia General Assembly convened for a special session Aug. 30 to consider a House Democratic proposal to redraw 29 Virginia House districts. The proposal comes after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in June that the state used race in determining state legislative districts, a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
(12/15/17 5:11am)
Hearings were held Thursday before a Charlottesville General District Court judge for four men implicated in the violent events that occurred Aug. 12 in Charlottesville. James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year old Ohio native who police say killed Heather Heyer when he drove his car into a crowded street on the Downtown Mall, now faces a charge for first-degree murder, among other related offenses.
(12/04/17 7:04am)
Newly-formed plans to construct a softball stadium for the women’s varsity softball team at Lambeth Field have proven to be controversial, as some students and local residents say they believe the University has excluded them from the planning process for the proposed project. The University’s Board of Visitors will be discussing the plans — which are in the early stages of development — at a meeting Thursday.
(11/27/17 5:15am)
Living in Jefferson’s Academical Village is one of the most honored traditions at the University with notable former residents including Edgar Allan Poe, Woodrow Wilson and Katie Couric. Once undergraduate students are selected to live on the Lawn and graduate students are selected to live on the Range, a process of room selection follows.
(11/16/17 6:32am)
As students are in the process of selecting their courses for next semester, a popular class that has already filled for the spring is a Religious Studies course that requires students to volunteer with the refugee community in Charlottesville. The course, titled “The Passover Haggadah,” is listed under the RELJ designation in the Student Information System and focuses on practices in Judaism aiming to address the role of being a community of outsiders.
(11/13/17 5:49am)
Student Council hosted the dedication of the University Remembrance Garden Friday afternoon. The garden aims to honor the lives of students who passed away while attending the University.
(11/06/17 5:44am)
Translated by Yuchu Cui and Chenyang Xia
(11/06/17 6:11am)
Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) encouraged University students to “Get Out the Vote” on the Lawn Sunday night. The event was hosted by NextGen Virginia, a group working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot in Virginia.
(11/02/17 6:16am)
DREAMers on Grounds hosted a walk-out Wednesday afternoon to raise awareness to issues facing undocumented immigrants. The event titled “Walk Out for Immigrant Rights” took place on the first day of the 11th month at 11:11 a.m. to represent the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. The Latinx Student Alliance and Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society co-hosted the event.
(11/02/17 6:16am)
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee has been a controversial subject following the Charlottesville City Council’s February vote to remove it. City Council’s decision served as a rallying point for participants in the Aug. 11 and 12 white supremacist rallies. Though other Confederate statues in Charlottesville have a similar history, they have not received the same amount of attention — some say this is because they are not seen as widely recognized symbols of Confederate slave owners.
(10/20/17 3:27am)
The University is partnering with the Slave Dwelling Project in a four-day symposium to spark dialogue about the history and legacy of slavery at the University and other public institutions. The Slave Dwelling Project held a discussion Wednesday night on race and slavery at the University followed by an overnight stay in Pavillion Garden IX located behind McGuffey Cottage, an outbuilding of the Academical Village formerly used as a slave living and work space.
(09/28/17 6:07am)
This semester marks the piloting of the New College Curriculum by a cohort of the Class of 2021. Approximately 600 first-year students are enrolled in the New College Curriculum, which includes courses on Engaging Differences. Assoc. History Prof. Tico Braun teaches one of these courses titled “The Individual and Society,” which examines historical and contemporary issues and how they relate to and are shaped by both individuals and society.