Student Council recently released the list of 77 clubs requesting a combined total of $1,137,671.05 in funding for the Spring semester. The requests ranged from $500 to more than $100,000.
Charlottesville Judge Norman Moon heard arguments the morning of Nov. 21 concerning possible panhandling restrictions in the city of Charlottesville.
A recent legislative agenda approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in Northern Virginia proposes a new requirement in which at least 75% of University students be in-state in order to allow opportunities for more Virginians to benefit from a University education. “We have 30,000 people applying for 3,500 spots,” Dean of Admissions Greg Roberts said.
Honor at the University of Virginia has been anything but a static institution since its inception in the 1840s. Public opinion of the system has wavered through countless controversies, several of which challenged its very existence.
Fourth-year College students Evan Behrle and Charlie Tyson accepted Rhodes Scholarships on Saturday.
The Honor Committee released its state-funded and endowment-funded budgets for 2013 to the Cavalier Daily on Thursday. The Committee’s total budget is $179,031, with $117,446 coming from draws on the Committee’s Endowment and the other $61,585 from state funding.
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Council appointed Jarek Ervin to the University Judiciary Committee Sunday. The committee consists of two representatives from each undergraduate and graduate school of the University, except for the College of Arts and Sciences, which is represented by three members due to its larger size. Ervin will be one of two representatives for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on the 23-person committee.
Thursday the newly appointed Charlottesville Human Rights Commission met in City Hall for the first time. The Commission, an eleven-person committee formed by City Hall to work with the City Office of Human Rights, investigates potential human rights violations in Charlottesville, although the exact details of its work have not yet been established.
The Inter-Fraternity Council elected new leadership to its executive board for the 2014-2015 year Thursday. Among the chief concerns for the new executive board is continuing efforts to reduce hazing during the rushing and pledging processes.
Students, faculty and community residents gathered in the University amphitheater for a candlelight vigil Thursday evening in support of state senator Creigh Deeds (D-Bath County), who was stabbed Tuesday morning. The College Republicans and University Democrats co-hosted the vigil.
The University administration has big plans to restructure the student advising system over the next few years as part of The Cornerstone Plan developed through the strategic planning process.
Student Council adopted a symbolic resolution Tuesday evening in an effort to encourage fourth-year students to donate their class gift to AccessUVa, the University’s flagship financial aid program.
Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ condition was upgraded to “good” Wednesday afternoon after he suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted by his son in his Bath County home Tuesday morning. First responders pronounced Deeds’ son Gus, 24, dead at the scene.
The Living Wage Campaign hosted a vigil for Jarvis Brown Wednesday night outside of O’Hill dining hall.
Recent efforts to make the University a bicycle friendly community have gained traction, as the University was recently named one of 75 bicycle friendly universities by the League of American Bicyclists.
The University recently established the world’s first research Center for Automata Computing as a collaborative effort with Micron Technologies.
At its representative body meeting Tuesday, Student Council expressed condolences and proposed resolutions to recognize several recent local and state tragedies.
Police are investigating Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ (D-Bath) attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning as a possible murder-suicide, Virginia State Police said at a press conference this afternoon. Deeds was stabbed multiple times in the head and upper torso, but is in fair condition at the University Medical Center.
City Council met on Monday night to approve a list of “legislative requests and policy positions” to be submitted to the Virginia General Assembly, including local gun restrictions and bans on smoking in public parks. The requests and positions submitted to the General Assembly were presented by Deputy City Attorney Richard M.
A YouTube video created by students at the University of California, Los Angeles, has garnered massive online attention and is sparking debate across the nation about race at institutions of higher education. The Black Bruins, an African-American student organization at UCLA, posted the video last week to voice complaints regarding their university’s low minority enrollment. Junior and group leader Sy Stokes narrates the video with a spoken word poem addressing the school’s statistical gap in minority enrollment, saying only 3.3 percent of the school’s male student body is African-American.
