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(05/05/18 5:43pm)
Former journalist Leslie Cockburn was selected to be the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s Fifth District at a party convention in Farmville Saturday. Cockburn received 146 of the 236 votes cast, followed by 62 for Andrew Sneathern and 28 for Roger Dean Huffstetler.
(04/19/18 1:51am)
Residents of Albemarle County caucused Monday evening at Monticello High School to choose a Democratic nominee to run against Rep. Tom Garrett in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
(04/12/18 3:59am)
The University announced Tuesday the appointment of Gloria Graham as associate vice president for safety and security. She will begin work May 7.
(04/10/18 4:32am)
The City of Charlottesville announced the results of a public survey on the renaming of Emancipation Park and Justice Park Monday. City Council initiated the survey after receiving community feedback to rename the parks in February. Voters preferred Market Street Park for Emancipation Park and Court Square Park took the lead for Justice Park.
(04/04/18 10:10pm)
The University community received an emergency alert reporting a brush fire off of Emmet Street near Kerchof Hall late Wednesday afternoon. According to the Office of Safety and Emergency Preparedness website, Emmet Street was closed in the area of Stadium Road while the fire department responded to the incident.
(02/23/18 11:12pm)
Third-year College student Sydney Bradley was elected Student Council Vice President for Administration Friday, winning 66.7 percent of the University-wide vote. Bradley has served on Student Council since her first year as a committee member, a committee chair and a College of Arts and Sciences representative.
(02/16/18 4:48am)
Six months after the white nationalist rallies of Aug. 11 and 12, the University is considering policy changes that would limit the ability of individuals unaffiliated with the University to gather on Grounds. The Deans Working Group held a student feedback session Wednesday on the proposed policy changes.
(01/31/18 8:55pm)
An Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress and their staffs to a legislative retreat in West Virginia collided with a truck in Crozet Wednesday morning. One person is reported dead and six others were sent to the University’s Medical Center for treatment, with one in critical condition.
(01/31/18 5:43am)
President Donald Trump honored late University student Otto Warmbier in his State of the Union Address to Congress Tuesday night. Trump referenced Warmbier amidst condemnation of the North Korean government and describing the tensions between the two nations.
(01/30/18 12:58am)
Early Sunday morning, the Charlottesville Police Department was notified that a man displayed a firearm when prevented from re-entering Boylan Heights on the Corner. The man had been escorted out of the bar by bouncers earlier in the evening.
(01/03/18 2:58am)
Members of Charlottesville City Council elected Nikuyah Walker as Mayor of Charlottesville and Heather Hill as Vice Mayor Tuesday night. The council members elected Walker in a 4-1 vote with Councilor Kathy Galvin voting no. Walker will replace Mike Signer as mayor. Hill was elected by a 3-2 vote with Councilor Wes Bellamy and Walker voting no.
(01/02/18 2:00am)
Charlottesville Police located the body of Charlottesville resident Molly Meghan Miller in her home Monday evening after she was reported missing this past weekend. The police were notified of Miller’s disappearance on Saturday night and were told that Miller was last seen leaving her home Friday at approximately 8:30 p.m.
(12/12/17 5:17am)
More than 60 members members of the Charlottesville community met at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Monday night to vote on ideas developed during meetings held the past three months for the city’s Dialogue on Race. The votes will be tallied and evaluated then put into a “Roadmap for Action” to be revealed Jan. 22, 2018.
(12/04/17 10:27pm)
Two months ago, The Cavalier Daily published an article on new information related to a racial profiling claim made in 2011 against University Police officers by then-Law student Johnathan Perkins, who subsequently recanted the allegations. As a result of his recantation, Perkins was tried for an Honor code violation and acquitted by the Honor Committee. Six years later, Perkins told the The Cavalier Daily an aspect of his story he said was shared during his Honor trial but never disclosed to the public — he said the FBI was involved in the situation and pressured him to recant his claim.
(12/01/17 6:32am)
Thousands of members of the University and Charlottesville communities gathered on the Lawn Thursday night for the 17th annual Lighting of the Lawn. Guests were required to enter the Lawn from either of two designated security entrances on the South Lawn in order to enjoy the evening of speeches, performances and a spectacular light show beamed onto the Rotunda.
(11/17/17 5:16am)
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a tax bill Thursday 227 to 205 which would majorly overhaul the current tax code and have significant ramifications for higher education. Among other conditions, the bill would consider tuition waivers — tuition breaks graduate students receive in exchange for doing work for the University — part of their taxable income, and also eliminates tax deductibles on interest for student loans and on other expenses for higher education.
(11/03/17 4:30am)
The Multicultural Student Center, located in the lower level of Newcomb Hall, celebrated its one-year anniversary this week. The MSC held a series of events throughout the week to honor its first year, beginning with a tour, panel and reception on the history of prejudice and student activism at the University.
(10/27/17 3:34am)
Over 400 hundred students, faculty and community members gathered in Old Cabell Hall Thursday evening to listen to Shankar Vedantam, National Public Radio social science correspondent and host of the podcast “The Hidden Brain,” explain and discuss implicit bias.
(10/20/17 3:25am)
The University’s School of Law’s library is digitizing the 336 legal texts catalogued by the University librarian in 1828. The project, which began digitization in May, will create a virtual library where users can scroll through the “shelves,” view high-resolution images of the book spines and reach bibliographical essays about each text.
(10/19/17 5:39am)
For the first time in its history, the University offered a SIS module on implicit bias to first-year students. After piloting the module on Dillard residents, the University moved forward to require all first-years to take it.