The first year class will vote this week to elect a class president and members of the First Year Council (FYC). The University Board of Elections (UBE) oversees the election, along with most student representative elections on grounds, said Krishna Korupolu, third-year College student and Chair of the UBE.
Democratic members of the Virginia House of Delegates elected Del. Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) as caucus chairman late last week.
The Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, a national non-profit organization, awarded Virginia’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit the 2014 “Honest Abe” Integrity in Government Award.
By Mairead Crotty & Amirah AhmadCharlottesville and Albemarle County hosted a voter registration drive on the Downtown Mall Tuesday in honor of National Voter Registration Day.The event, which was the first National Voter Registration Day to be held in Charlottesville, served to both register and educate attendees about the state’s new voter ID law.The 2014 mid-term elections are a little more than a month away, and 471 Congressional seats and 36 governorships are at stake, including 11 House seats and one Senate seat in Virginia.
Monday evening, members of The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at the University hung paper cranes and accompanying flyers displaying various troubling facts about treatment of children.
In a letter sent last Thursday, Virginia House Speaker William Howell (R-Stafford) sought direction from U.S.
Student Council held its weekly meeting Tuesday in Amphitheater ? its first in its “StudCo Comes to You Initiative.” At the meeting, Council addressed the continued search for Hannah Graham and approved the Student Activity Fund guidelines.
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control released its Fiscal Year 2014 sales statistics last Friday, posting a record-breaking year in sales revenue.
Charlottesville police have revised the charges against Jesse Matthew to include abduction with intent to defile, a class-two felony charge, in the investigation into the disappearance of second-year College student Hannah Graham, who has been missing since early morning Sept.
Police have issued a wanted poster for Charlottesville resident Jesse “LJ” Matthew who was seen walking with Hannah Graham on the night of her disappearance.
Approximately 400,000 people marched in New York City yesterday to raise climate change awareness leading up to the United Nations’ Climate Summit on Tuesday.
A Charlottesville based nonprofit organization is helping to piece together a mile-long quilt to cover the National Mall in Washington, DC in support of survivors of rape and sexual abuse.
The University ranked No. 2 on the Peace Corps’ Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities among medium sized schools, below Western Washington University.
After three years of growth, job levels in the Charlottesville region are now higher than they were before the 2008 recession.
Each language department approaches the competency requirement differently, however. Where some departments emphasize immediately teaching in the target language ? conducting the entire course in the language within the first semester ? many others focus on developing grammar before speaking.
The Fourth-year Trustees launched the Class Giving campaign last week. In the email to graduating students, the committee said tuition covers just 17 percent of total University revenue — though for exclusively academic revenue, the number is closer to 36 percent.
The White House announced the launch of a new sexual assault prevention initiative Friday: “It’s On Us” Public Awareness Campaign to Help Prevent Campus Sexual Assault.The campaign was driven by the White House’s Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, convened in January 2014.
Sam Kean, author of the “Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons” stresses the part neuroscience has in what it means to be human.
Many universities have struggled to reach their enrollment totals in recent years and are planning to increase recruiting efforts for the coming application season as a result, according to a Gallup study released last week.
The Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed a spending bill last Thursday to solve a $2.4 billion budget deficit that is the result of a revenue shortfall.
