Honor to remove UBE ballot question
The Honor Committee repealed its decision made Feb. 9 to place a question on the student elections ballot asking students’ opinions on non-proctored exams. The Committee will conduct a survey instead.
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The Honor Committee repealed its decision made Feb. 9 to place a question on the student elections ballot asking students’ opinions on non-proctored exams. The Committee will conduct a survey instead.
Second-year Curry student Hal Turner spoke Tuesday night at a Students for Education Reform event to discuss his time with the Teach for America program and address concerns many individuals have about the benefits of the program.
The debate about legalizing marijuana divides activists and legislators across the nation. At the University, marijuana usage is low, but increasing, in keeping with national trends. As the drug remains strictly illegal in Virginia, the University Police and University Judiciary Committee continue to enforce the law. For many, marijuana remains a taboo subject as the debate progresses.
The sound of chainsaws echoed across the Lawn Thursday, as workers cut down seven Magnolia trees surrounding the Rotunda. The trees ranged from 60 to close to 100 years old.
Del. Rick Morris, R-Carrollton, proposed a bill earlier this month that would give students at public universities the right to counsel and the right to an appeal in the circuit courts for certain college and university disciplinary proceedings and decisions.
The Honor Committee moved forward to create experimental working groups at its weekly Sunday meeting. The move is part of an effort to “work more efficiently towards our goals,” said Honor Committee Chair Evan Behrle, a fourth-year College student.
Across the nation, state colleges saw public funding increase by 5.7 percent in the past year, according to a report released Monday by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University. State funding for higher education in Virginia increased from $1.71 billion in 2012 to $1.77 billion in 2013, a 3.5 percent increase.
The curriculum for a proposed Global Studies major is still in the works, said Politics Prof. Jeff Legro, the vice provost for global affairs. Friday, the Global Studies Curriculum Committee hosted an open forum to discuss the ongoing effort.
After four years of stagnant production on the unfinished skeleton of the Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville City Council must determine the fate of the East Water Street building.
The Darden School announced Thursday the launch of the Darden Center for Asset Management, a center that will seek to sponsor research and educational opportunities in the field investment management. Darden Dean Robert F. Bruner said the center’s formation was in response to student interest in asset management and the growth of the industry in Virginia.
University administrators confirmed earlier this week that they have eliminated a proposal that would have established a separate fee for upperclassmen.
If elected, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe promised he would bring “21st-century jobs” to Virginia, when he spoke to students in Politics Prof. Larry Sabato’s Introduction to American Politics class Wednesday.
The University named Dr. Nancy E. Dunlap the interim dean of the University’s Medical School Monday.
Second-year Law student Ronald Fisher submitted a Virginia Freedom of Information Act request Feb. 25 for Honor Committee records concerning private funding for the Committee’s Restore the Ideal Act campaign.
Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, a Stanford computer science professor, spoke Wednesday at the Education School about the future of online learning and its humanitarian implications.
Anita Jones, University professor emerita of computer science, was selected earlier this week to receive the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s highest distinction for her work in her field.
An anonymous vandal took to Beta Bridge’s dedication of deceased fourth-year College student Casey Schulman Monday, scrawling in black spray paint: “If she weren’t white, wealthy, popular, etc … would this still be here?” The memorial had been in place for more than a month, following Schulman’s December 1 death in a recreational boating accident while on Semester at Sea.
The Princeton Review recognized the University as the “Best Value Public College” in the nation in its rankings released Tuesday. The University replaced the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the top ranked school.
In a ceremony held in the Rotunda Wednesday, President Teresa Sullivan and the Charlottesville Fire Department honored five people for their role in dealing with the fire that broke out at 1256 Wertland St. the morning of Jan. 21.
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, the University Library Wednesday screened excerpts from the William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers project, a compilation of 86 video interviews chronicling the legal battle against school segregation.