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.
Court proceedings for the murder trial of former University student George Huguely were delayed yesterday because defense attorney Rhonda Quagliana was ill.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs launched the Presidential Classroom this week, a website offering teachers, students and the general public free online resources about U.S.
Former University student George Huguely's defense team opened its presentation yesterday afternoon by claiming ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love died from suffocating while lying face down on her pillow.
Carrying signs calling for a "Living Wage Now!" and urging community members not to "take injustice lying down," Charlottesville community organizations held a press conference on the steps of Madison Hall yesterday to show their support for the Living Wage Campaign. The press conference is part of a series of weekly student, faculty and community rallies which have occurred the past three weeks demanding the introduction of a $13 dollar minimum wage at the University, said second-year College student Carl David Goette-Luciak, a member of the campaign. Charlottesville resident and former City Council candidate Brandon Collins read from a letter detailing the campaign's requests, which he then delivered to Nancy Rivers, University President Teresa A.
The Aurora Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to the Sheila C. Johnson Center of the Curry School of Education yesterday for the creation of a website to benefit student veterans at the University. The center's website aims to increase awareness of student veterans at the University and give them a forum for connection and support. Navigating the transition from military life to student life "can be tough," said Seth Hayden, a lecturer and research associate in the Johnson Center.
Democratic Congressional candidate Andy Schmookler spoke to about 80 students at the University Democrats meeting yesterday evening in Clark Hall about his campaign to be the House of Representatives from Virginia's 6th district. Schookler said he believes the state's biggest problem is its lack of transparency in dealing with current political topics. While acknowledging that the economic downturn, climate change and healthcare as important issues, Schookler said problems within the political system fuel all of these. "The crisis has to do with our incapacity to deal with any of these issues in a constructive and honest way," Schmookler said. Schmookler said he hopes his campaign can capitalize on the larger political audience during this presidential election year, and deliver an important political message. "I have made my campaign into as good an instrument as I know how to strike a meaningful blow," he said.
