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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.
At about 2:15 a.m. March 1, 2011, a first-year College student arrived at Martha Jefferson Hospital seizing and foaming at the mouth.
As fourth-year students near the end of their undergraduate experiences, some already are committed to more time in the classroom - as teachers.
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Schools across the nation have been cutting traditional foreign language programs, while enrollment of students studying those languages has been climbing, according to two recent studies on the subject.
Employers expect to hire 7 percent more interns this year than they have in years past, according to a report released last Thursday by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
At about 2 p.m. March 11, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles off the coast of Japan. Within half an hour, a 33-foot tsunami came ashore and swallowed the entire port of Sendai, a city famous for its fishing industry.
College admissions nationwide have risen this year, prompting a record number of applications at many institutions, including the University.
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During the evening of Jan.
Two bills were introduced into the General Assembly last week calling for the privatization of Virginia's ABC stores, which are now operated by the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
The nonprofit organization WikiLeaks published the first of a large cache of confidential communications between the United States State Department and embassies in more than 250 foreign countries last Sunday.
At the living wage rally last month, students protested what they called the unfairly low wages of many University workers.
Although the University pays one of the highest entry-level wages in Charlottesville, living wage campaign organizers have said the administration is not doing its part to halt the United States' steadily worsening class inequality.
The issue of class inequality has risen to the forefront in recent weeks as the living wage campaign renews its push to improve the wages of the University's lowest-paid employees. At an event held two weeks ago, faculty and students rallied with chants - "one, two, three, four, no one should be working-poor" - renewing a debate that has long sparked conflict among students, administrators and staff at the University. The student campaign The living wage campaign is nothing new.
Crime is up in the University area - or so it may seem from the numerous recent safety e-mails. On July 20, the University Police Department announced that a student reported being sexually assaulted the previous night.
During the past two decades, state funding for the University has dropped from 20 percent to 6 percent.
Students on last year's Lawn Selection Committee are questioning the workings of the room admission process. Each year, the Lawn Selection Committee oversees a complex and controversial process to select which students will live in the University's original Academical Village.
