The Virginia House of Delegates passed an amended version of Senate bill 484 yesterday afternoon, which would require pregnant women to receive an ultrasound at least 24 hours before terminating a pregnancy. The original version of SB 484, passed by the Senate earlier this month, required the ultrasound to be conducted transvaginally.
The Board of Visitors Buildings and Grounds Committee discussed the upcoming North Grounds Recreation Center renovation yesterday. University Architect David Neuman said the project aims to create more athletic recreational space to match the growing student enrollment.
The University Judiciary Committee invited students to witness the body's third annual mock trial yesterday evening in the Newcomb Trial Room to educate the University community about the judiciary process. The hearing was part of the UJC's annual awareness week, which began Sunday and will end today. UJC Chair Victoria Marchetti said this week's events are designed to increase the transparency of the UJC process, as trials are usually kept completely confidential unless an accused student requests an open trial.
David Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, yesterday spoke at the University about the growth of Chinese-African relations during the past decade. Shinn said China is primarily interested in Africa for four reasons: access to raw materials, political support, markets for China's exports and decreased Taiwanese diplomatic presence. Shinn said China surpassed the United States as the leading trader with African nations in 2009.
Members of the Living Wage Campaign marched to Teresa Sullivan's office in Madison Hall yesterday afternoon to deliver a page from "The Social Organization of Work," a book she co-authored with Prof.
For the second day in a row, the Virginia House of Delegates yesterday delayed discussion of a controversial Senate bill which would require women to obtain trans-vaginal ultrasound imaging before having an abortion. Senate Bill 484 passed the Senate 21-18 Feb.
Student Council moved yesterday at its general body meeting to table a resolution sponsored by College Rep.
Belmont filmmaker Brian Wimer asked Charlottesville City Council members yesterday to consider a grant application for $150,000 to help fund a local bridge project which would better connect Belmont with the Downtown Mall. Project Gait-Way is the result of a contest hosted by Wimer which called for Architecture students to submit redesigns of the Belmont Bridge. The winning entry, submitted by 13 Architecture students, completely redesigns the location and replaces the bridge with an at-grade crossing at the railroad tracks. "This bridge really could change the City," Wimer said. The Council said further debate on the discussed issues would be needed before a decision could be made.
The Living Wage Campaign today enters the fourth day of its hunger strike, a protest effort urging the University to establish a $13 minimum wage for all its employees. Fourteen students, including two who joined the strike yesterday, have pledged to fast until the administration agrees to the campaign's demands.
Student Council presidential candidate Ed Jenkins has spent $2278.60 on his campaign at press time yesterday, exceeding the spending of his opponents by more than $2,000.
Student Council received a $22,000 grant from the Jefferson Trust to launch the Entrepreneurial Innovations Committee, which will be geared toward fostering students' entrepreneurial skills, graduate student and chair of the representative body Siddartha Pailla said in an email to Council leadership Saturday.
The University Board of Elections notified the student body in an email yesterday of a technical glitch which occurred with its website.
The prosecution and defense in the murder trial of former University student George Huguely rested their cases Saturday and presented closing arguments.
Today marks the third day of the hunger strike which 12 members of the Living Wage Campaign announced Saturday on the steps of the Rotunda.
It could take up to 100 more years before women professors in engineering and science disciplines reach a 50 percent gender balance in their fields, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. Cheryl Geisler, a Simon Fraser University dean, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mechanical engineering Prof.
Author Clarence Lusane spoke at the Miller Center of Public Affairs Friday about his book, "Black History White House," as part of the Miller Center's commemoration of Black History Month. When City Light Books approached Lusane, an associate professor at American University, to write a book about Barack Obama, he was initially hesitant because of the large number of already published works which talk about the first black president breaking down barriers. Lusane said he wanted to take a novel approach to the familiar narrative of the revolutionary black president which seemed to dominate the public sphere. "I wanted to talk about something that wasn't being covered," Lusane said.
The prosecution and defense in the murder trial of former University student George Huguely rested their cases Saturday and presented closing arguments.
Court proceedings ended early yesterday, as former University student George Huguely's defense attorney Rhonda Quagliana remained ill, and the defendant expressed discomfort at continuing without both his counsel present.
The Charlottesville City Planning Commission approved initial plans this week for a two-phase construction of a 300-unit apartment complex on the corner of Arlington Blvd.
Photographs displayed yesterday evening by photographer and University alumnus Andre Lambertson at the Newcomb South Meeting Room presented the untold stories behind the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Lambertson took the photographs featured in his most recent work, "Haiti: Reporting Beyond the Headlines," between 2010 and 2011 after traveling to Haiti a dozen times to document what he saw there.
