Speakers discuss U. Michigan implications
University students gathered yesterday evening to discuss the relevance of affirmative action and the potential effects the University of Michigan's race-based admissions case could have on the University.
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University students gathered yesterday evening to discuss the relevance of affirmative action and the potential effects the University of Michigan's race-based admissions case could have on the University.
In the wake of a discovery that members of Student Council accessed the elections database during last week's University elections, Council agreed Sunday to allow a member of the Honor Committee to oversee the run-off election for Council president and to change the access code to the voting database.
To commemorate the anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Dubois's "The Souls of Black Folk," members of the University community participated in a panel discussion last night honoring the author.
Drunk drivers may face stiffer penalties in Virginia because of the passage of a bill that will require mandatory fines and jail time for those convicted of DUI offenses, pending the signature of Gov. Mark R. Warner.
The University of Michigan has gathered an increasingly diverse coalition of support in its effort to maintain race as an admissions factor -- a policy that soon will be challenged before the Supreme Court.
Both houses of the General Assembly passed budget proposals Thursday which attempt to navigate the Commonwealth's troubled financial waters.
The Department of Environmental Quality may find the University in violation of state air pollution regulations stemming from a series of boiler failures that took place Jan. 15 and 16. Emissions from the overworked remaining boilers left much of the Venable neighborhood covered in soot.
To facilitate the expansion of University researchers' current work with anthrax and other biological agents, the University plans to build a five-story Regional Biocontainment Laboratory on Lane Road.
This winter's cold spell has created a difficult dilemma for David Gilbert, director of the Salvation Army's Charlottesville branch. As temperatures have dropped, there has been an influx of the city's homeless seeking shelter.
A coalition of the five largest minority advocacy groups at the University proposed plans to University officials for a Diversity Resource Center last Friday, Jan. 24. The center would be located in the current informal lounge on the third floor of Newcomb Hall.
To help students navigate through the staggeringly diverse range of student associations and opportunities for cultural enrichment available on Grounds, the Office of the Dean of Students has created a program to encourage students to go beyond their cultural "comfort zones" by attending meetings of various groups on grounds.
The Inter-Fraternity Council's week long investigation of Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi fraternities, pertaining to the racially offensive costumes portrayed at a fraternity-sponsored Halloween party, may end today.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a group that represents immigrants and Mexican-Americans, is protesting a memo issued by Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore's office in September that says public colleges and universities should deny admission and in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.
Future first-year students may not have the option of suffering through the grueling Old Dorms vs. New Dorms decision. Tabled almost two years ago, Student Council again is debating a proposal to eliminate first-year housing choice in an attempt to promote diversity.
RICHMOND -- A predictable outcome for an unusual race occurred yesterday as Republican incumbent Eric Cantor defeated Democrat Ben "Cooter" Jones in the 7th District Congressional race.
RICHMOND -- A predictable outcome for an unusual race occurred yesterday as Republican incumbent Eric Cantor defeated Democrat Ben "Cooter" Jones in the 7th District Congressional race.
Money makes the world go round. But where it comes from is the important issue, especially if you are a candidate in this year's race for the 7th District congressional seat.
In an election year in which national issues loom large, the candidates for Virginia's 5th Congressional District say they are concentrating on local problems.
After months of acrimony, the University has received approval to begin construction of the Ivy/Emmet parking garage.
Earl Washington Jr., who spent nine and a half years on death row before being pardoned by former Republican Gov. James S. Gilmore in 2000, has filed a suit alleging that those involved in his 1982 conviction for the rape and murder of a Culpeper woman violated his constitutional rights.