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Petition to overturn Access UVa decision gains ground

A petition to overturn the changes to AccessUVa instituted by the Board of Visitors this summer has been circulating the state and currently contains 7,394 signatures. The petition, coined “I am not a loan,” is part of a larger campaign of students, parents and graduates across the nation to reduce student debt.


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Cornering the Market

The bright-eyed J.R. Hadley could easily be mistaken for a brother in a Rugby Road fraternity, with a baseball cap complementing his calculated 5 o’clock shadow. But Hadley is in a different sort of fraternity — a young corps of up-and-coming business owners on the Corner.


CIOs had to turn in final appropriations requests last week. Vice-President for Organizations Neil Branch, a fourth-year College student, and other members of Student Council finalized the amount on Monday evening. Only four CIOs received more than half of their appropriations requests.

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StudCo appropriates CIO funds for 2013-14

Student Council’s appropriations committee is in the process of allocating its semi-annual funding for the fall semester, the first of two processes through which the University’s Contracted Independent Organizations can gain access to funds this semester.


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New horizons for graduating class

Forty percent of May 2012 graduates from the College of Arts & Sciences had acquired full-time employment or were self-employed after Final Exercises this past May, according to a recently unveiled report that profiled graduates’ post-college paths.


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University commemorates March on Washington

Soulful music flooded the lecture hall at the Harrison Institute Special Collections library Wednesday as more than 100 people gathered to honor the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington. Deborah McDowell, director of the University’s Carter G.


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On this episode of On Record, we sit down with Layne Parker, First Year Players director and third-year college student. Parker discusses the importance of building community through an inclusive space for new students, and looks ahead to FYP’s upcoming musical production.