With more than a year-and-a-half to go before voters head to the polls for the 2012 elections, eight Virginia politicians - an unusually high number for this stage of the campaign season - are already vying to fill the seat of Sen.
[caption id="attachment_43858" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Two graduate students from the Education School created Military Veterans @ UVa, a group dedicated to helping student veterans transition to life at school.
[caption id="attachment_43801" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Thomas Jefferson Foundation received a donation from Douglas Kelley last week of more than 200 historical artifacts, including 90 newspapers from Jefferson's day and a rare French print of the third president.
University students teamed up last week with peta2, a young adult division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to draft a petition seeking the expansion of vegetarian and vegan options available through University Dining. The students exceeded their goal of obtaining 400 signatures the first day, receiving a total of 497 signatures.
[caption id="attachment_43797" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="University Police charged Anthony Daniel Landram with one count of obscene sexual display after two students and a library employee reportedly saw him masturbating on the fourth floor of Clemons Library Thursday.
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Student Council and four deans held a town hall-style meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss the restructuring of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and its effect on current graduate students. The two parties discussed the changes made in March to the fellowships program for entering Ph.D.
[caption id="attachment_43739" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="One of the 12 programs will restore Edgar Allen Poe's room.
Two University ROTC instructors, Maj. John Prather of the U.S. Marine Corps and Capt. Jared Hoover of the U.S.
The Barracks Road Shopping Center will undergo renovations starting this May, according to a press release by its property manager, Federal Realty Investment Trust. The renovations will last until 2012, and are intended to improve the main building and north wing.
[caption id="attachment_43676" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Students gathered outside Madison Hall and the Rotunda yesterday to protest the low wages of University employees and address the president's response.
[caption id="attachment_43674" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The bullet discharged on Chancellor street Tuesday struck the house occupied by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, No one was hurt in the incident.
There is little correlation between college seniors' self-reported gains in critical thinking and self-knowledge and their actual tested gains, according to a paper presented Monday, written by Nicholas Bowman, post-doctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame. The paper, released at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, is based on the findings of a study in which the subjects took critical thinking tests during their first years of college and then again during their fourth years.
[caption id="attachment_43671" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="70 percent of next year's Lawn residents are in the College.
Charlottesville's live music venues, such as the Tea Bazaar on the Downtown Mall, will be saved from the expensive Council fee.
Legislation introduced in the Senate last Thursday could broaden federal laws addressing sexual violence on college campuses. If the bill is signed into law, the University would have to expand its sexual assault policies "to include mandatory prevention education for all students," said Margaret Mikkelsen, executive director of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency, a community organization serving residents of Charlottesville and neighboring counties. That education would have to cover domestic violence in addition to sexual violence, Mikkelsen said. The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act was introduced by Senators Robert Casey, Jr., D-Pa., and Patty Murray, D-Wash.
[caption id="attachment_43624" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="In last night's meeting, the second of the term, Student Council planned an event to be held in the amphitheater toward the beginning of next semester.
[caption id="attachment_43622" align="alignleft" width="287" caption="Second-Year Council President Charlie Miller spoke yesterday at the Virginia Legends Award Ceremony.
[caption id="attachment_43484" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="A Charlottesville grand jury indicted former Virginia Lacrosse player George Huguely on six charges yesterday.
Gov. Bob McDonnell vetoed a bill Friday that would have set boundaries for redistricting in the commonwealth. The bill was struck down as a result of "several legal and other concerns" mentioned by McDonnell in a letter to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Third-year College student Lena Witek and fourth-year College student Colin Hood were selected as two of 90 university students across the nation to lobby on Capitol Hill April 9-13 for the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act, a bill that would allow not-for-profit student housing to use charitable donations for updates and additions. After their day of lobbying, Witek, campaign and party coordinator for the University Democrats, and Hood, former Student Council president, picked up 24 new House sponsors and five Senate sponsors.
