The Obama administration proposed a budget Monday which could increase funding for educational arts and humanities programs, including those in higher education institutions, by more than five percent.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 502 yesterday by a vote of 72-28. The legislation seeks to redefine the "triggerman rule" by allowing accomplices of capital crimes to be sentenced with capital punishment. Delegate C.
Virginia consumers are more financially confident than they were a year ago, a survey released last week by the Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion suggests. IPOR surveyed 600 Virginia households about their financial situations, consumer expectations and business conditions.
Medical examiner Bill Gormley testified yesterday that Yeardley Love died of blunt force trauma injuries to the head and neck as George Huguely's murder trial entered its sixth day.
The Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates yesterday voted 64-34 to advance a 'personhood' bill, which would give full personhood rights to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception.
Hunter Rawlings, the president of the American Association of Universities, delivered a lecture yesterday evening in Cocke Hall which emphasized the importance of a classics education for the Founding Fathers, and by extension the shape of the nation. In his lecture titled "The Founders and the Classics," Rawlings, a former president of Cornell University, discussed how James Madison and Thomas Jefferson benefited from a strong classics education. Rawlings commanded the room and used humor to engage the audience.
Jurors viewed video testimony Friday, which was taken after the detainment of former University student George Huguely, showing his apparent shock at the death of ex-girlfriend and former University student Yeardley Love.
The Honor Committee voted 19-2 yesterday evening to dismiss informed retraction legislation which sought to revise the honor system's conscientious retraction through a bylaw change. Batten School Representative Michael Karlik proposed the legislation last month and was among the two Committee members in favor of passing the legislation. "There needs to be a cultural shift among students ... students are reluctant to engage in lengthy trials, but the new IR is an attempt to get at the reluctance by allowing students to approach their fellow peers who they think committed an honor offense without the long, lengthy process," Karlik said. The informed retraction would allow a student to avoid formal honor proceedings by allowing him to admit his mistake after it had been discovered by another party.
The Minority Rights Coalition hosted a debate for Student Council, Honor Committee and University Judiciary Committee candidates 6 p.m.
Faculty members at Friday's Faculty Senate meeting expressed concern with the transparency of the new internal financial model. The day after youth advocacy group Virginia21 marched to the steps of the State Capitol to encourage legislators to support Gov.
On May 3, 2010, at 2:24 a.m., Charlottesville police responded to a dispatch reporting an “alcohol overdose” at a 14th Street apartment, Charlottesville Police Officer K.W. Blackwell testified at the murder trial of former University student George Huguely yesterday. Huguely is charged with the first-degree murder of ex-girlfriend and former University student Yeardley Love.
The Lawn Selection Committee Wednesday notified 47 students selected to live on the Lawn next year, chosen from 255 rising fourth-year applicants. The committee selected next year's Lawn residents based on academic achievement, extracurricular involvement, demonstrated commitment to further involvement in the University community and an appreciation of the opportunities and responsibilities of living on the Lawn, as well as the ideals of the Lawn community, Head Lawn Resident Reedy Swanson said. Residents of seven endowed Lawn rooms, five of which are reserved for members of prominent organizations on Grounds, have not yet been announced.
The Virginia House and Senate Democratic caucuses came together yesterday morning to discuss what the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus described in a press release as "Republican overreach." "What's been going on for the past four weeks of the session is that Republicans are overreaching - the focus is on controversial extreme legislation and not [on jobs]," according to the press release.
University administrators heard preliminary reports from Board of Visitors consultants this week after the Board called for a comprehensive review of the financial aid system at its September meeting. The study aims to analyze the AccessUVa structure and the program's finances to create the best model to achieve the University's objectives. The Board's ad hoc committee in charge of the review hired a consultant from the Arts & Science Group to assist with the analysis. "The challenge for the consultants will be to balance the University's two competing priorities: the desire to attract and retain a diverse and high-quality student body, and the need to optimize the use of scarce unrestricted resources," University spokesperson Carol Wood said in an email. AccessUVa personnel are currently working to provide strong aid packages in light of the University's shrinking pool of available funds.
Prosecutors in the trial of former University student George Huguely yesterday read from email correspondence between Huguely and ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love, in which Huguely said, "I should have killed you." Huguely stands accused of the first-degree murder of Love. Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman introduced a series of emails between the pair, beginning Friday, April 30, 2010, when Love flew to Chicago for a lacrosse game against Northwestern University.
Living Wage campaigners presented a petition to University President Teresa Sullivan's office yesterday afternoon, which called for the University to introduce a living wage for all University employees. The University has until Feb.
The University has delayed plans to repair the Rotunda roof until after Final Exercises in spring 2012, Michael Strine, executive vice president and chief operating officer, said in an email yesterday. The original 12-14 month time frame for the project remains the same, however.
The University is ranked number two on the Princeton Review's 2012 list of best value public colleges, which was released earlier this week. After leading the ranking in 2011, the University relinquished its top spot this year to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The University has been listed in the top five every year since the Princeton Review first began ranking the best value public schools in 2009.
As former University student George Huguely's murder trial enters its third day, Commonwealth and defense attorneys have to reduce the 28 jurors they chose yesterday to the 15 people, including three alternates, who would decide whether Huguely is guilty of the first-degree murder of former University student and ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love. Huguely, dressed in a blue blazer and tie, looked calm and alert, while Love's family sat intently watching the jury selection process for the murder trial, which has sent ripples through the community and the nation. "One of our own allegedly taking the life of another of our own should never, ever happen," Student Council President Dan Morrison said.
