Student Council held a special session Wednesday evening on the resolution of the enforcement powers of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Students United and University community members gathered outside of the Special Collections Library Tuesday to protest tuition hikes.
The Board of Visitors took action Tuesday on a 3.9 percent tuition increase for all students, with additional tuition fees for students incoming in the fall of 2015 and the fall of 2016. The proposal was held to an official vote and passed by the Board in a closed session on Wednesday.
University President Teresa Sullivan discussed the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rating system for institutions of higher education with members of the Board of Visitors Educational Policy Committee during a meeting Tuesday.
The Black Student Alliance and the I.M.P. Society recently partnered to announce a social justice fellowship allowing students and organizations to use a grant to fund projects which will benefit the University’s and Charlottesville community.
The Board of Visitors’ Student Affairs and Athletics Committee met Tuesday afternoon and discussed the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services and new Athletics developments. Patricia Lampkin, the vice president and chief student affairs officer, said the administration is working to finalize an interim policy on sexual harassment and intimate partner violence, following the Rolling Stone article and its fallout last semester. "Student safety will remain a critical focus this spring," Lampkin said.
Lea Calvani, a child and adolescent advocate from the Shelter for Help in Emergency hosted a forum titled “The Confidence to Care” Monday evening.
Chief of the Chickahominy tribe of Virginia Stephen Adkins gave a talk called “Diversity Within the American Democracy” to students with the University’s Center for Politics’ Youth Ambassadors Program for South America.
A compilation of statements issued throughout the day Wednesday in response to the arrest of third-year College student Martese Johnson.
The Law school hosted Anthony Picarello, general council for the U.S. Conference of Bishops, for a talk about how the Catholic Church defines religious freedom and to debunk some of the misperceptions surrounding religious freedom in American society. The event was sponsored by the St.
The University chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms placed 1,100 black flags on the South Lawn Monday to represent the 1,100 college students who die by suicide every year.
The University Honor Committee elected its executive board for the 2015-16 academic term this weekend during an Honor Committee retreat at Graves Mountain Lodge.
Roughly 45 students and faculty attended Dr. Alfredo Artiles’s lecture Monday titled “Culture in Disability in the Global Era: Interdisciplinary Notes for New Research Programs.” The Curry School hosted Artiles as part of the Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Speaker Series.
Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) displayed an apartheid wall Monday outside of Newcomb to represent Israeli Apartheid Week — an international event at the end of February which raises awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In a hearing set for Thursday, Mar. 26 at 10 a.m. Martese Johnson will plea not guilty of two charges — obstruction of justice and public intoxication. Johnson was arrested around 12:45 a.m.
Following an investigation spanning several months and hundreds of police hours, Charlottesville police are suspending the investigation into the alleged sexual assault detailed in a November Rolling Stone article, finding no evidence to corroborate any of the article’s central claims pertaining to the assault.
Black Student Alliance President Joy Omenyi, a fourth-year College student, and BSA Political Action Chair Aryn Frazier, a second-year College student, sat down with The Cavalier Daily to reflect on the events of the last several days.
The altercation between third-year College student Martese Johnson and Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control officers early Wednesday morning brought lawmakers’ attention back to legislation proposed by Senator Creigh Deeds to remove law-enforcing powers from the ABC.
In an effort to combat the rising number of heroin-related deaths, Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Executive Order 29 last September, establishing the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse.
The Richmond chapter of Black Action Now — an organization promoting awareness of Black issues — held a protest and die-in on Wednesday in support of Martese Johnson drawing roughly 50 Virginia Commonwealth University students, who marched around campus.
