[caption id="attachment_44567" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students lined up at the food trucks located by the Amphitheater during lunch time.
[caption id="attachment_44561" align="alignleft" width="196" caption="After jockeying for the role of starting signal caller throughout training camp, sophomore Michael Rocco nabbed a vote of confidence from the Virginia coaching staff.
For many students, the call of the open road often remains just that, a call. But for fourth-year College students Margaret Montague and Abigail Lee, the dream of a cross-country road trip became a reality this summer. Last spring, Montague and Lee were awarded the Ingrassia Family Echols Scholars Research Grant, which provides funding for students to conduct a research project in a field of their interest. Typically recipients are students who put the research funding toward their fourth-year capstone project
When Ellen Bass, an associate professor in the department of Systems and Information Engineering, came to the Charlottesville in 2002 with her partner and son, she had to overcome a huge financial hurdle. “It cost me thousands of dollars to be a gay person,” Bass said, recounting, “I didn’t get moving benefits for my partner, I didn’t get help to find my partner a job, I couldn’t insure her or her son with my health benefits” – options that a heterosexual employee of the University would enjoy. The University’s current equal opportunity and affirmative action statement, which was updated as recently as January 6, 2011, includes sexual orientation on a long list of traits that the University disregards while administrating its programs, procedures and practices.
[caption id="attachment_44506" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Four or five unidentified males reportedly attacked a male victim on the 1100 block of John Street and fled with his wallet at about 1:35 a.m.
[caption id="attachment_44490" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="After tying for the team lead with four assists last season, junior midfielder Ari Dimas almost created the equalizer against West Virginia when his corner kick found freshman midfielder Eric Bird, whose header bounced off the post.
[caption id="attachment_44460" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The grant money will go toward research on dam removal and its effects on rivers to help buy equipment, fund field trips and bring in researchers.
[caption id="attachment_44453" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior forward Will Bates joins senior forward Brian Ownby and sophomore forward Brian Span to create a potentially lethal attack.
Students spent last year frustrated at the ubiquitous construction zones surrounding Newcomb inside and outside, and they returned to familiar-looking plywood barriers and newly blocked off areas.
When Tim Reynolds comes back to Charlottesville, he tends to avoid Miller's, the now legendary bar where he once met a young bartender named Dave Matthews.
When people ask Virginia coach Mike London who the ideal football player is, his answer is simple: Chase Minnifield. "On the field, off the field, in the classroom - you can point to Chase Minnifield being the model," London said. Minnifield's coach is not the only one, however, who is recognizing the All-ACC senior cornerback's exemplary efforts.
[caption id="attachment_44329" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="President Teresa A. Sullivan held a press event yesterday to announce the decision to employ John Simon as provost.
[caption id="attachment_44257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Coach Mike London enters his second season at Virginia hopeful that his much-ballyhooed 2011 recruiting class can adjust quickly to college football and push established veterans for playing time during preseason practices.
[caption id="attachment_44247" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students lingered outside the University bookstore yesterday after evacuating during the earthquake.
The Corner became a little more international July 22 when the "Fabulously British" clothing store, "Jack Wills University Outfitters," opened its doors.
[caption id="attachment_44191" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Newcomb Hall construction project will cost $33 million.
[caption id="attachment_44185" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="After earning all-ACC honors in 2010, senior forward Brian Ownby returns to the Cavalier attack after spending a summer working to build chemistry with junior forward Will Bates and sophomore forward Brian Span.
As students return to Charlottesville for the new school year, there are many reasons for celebration: reunions with friends, excitement for the upcoming year and a last "hoo-rah" before the end of summer.
[caption id="attachment_44147" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Michael Strine succeeds Leonard Sandridge to fulfill the second- highest position at the University.
[caption id="attachment_44137" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Freshamn David Watford, sophomore Michael Rocoo, redshirt sophomore Ross Metheny and redshirt freshman Michael Strauss all hope to be the one under center come fall.
