The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to provide health care to 32 million uninsured Americans in a 219-212 vote Sunday, with all Republicans in opposition.
[caption id="attachment_33862" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="President John T. Casteen, III will address students at the 181st Final Exercises.
[caption id="attachment_33860" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The University Judiciary Committee staged an open mock trial Monday evening in Newcomb Ballroom.
A local judge ruled last week that the City of Charlottesville does not have the legal authority to enforce a local ordinance that brings criminal charges against parties for not clearing their sidewalks of snow immediately, according to state code. After this winter's barrage of snow storms in the area - which ultimately cost the University $1 million in dealing with the aftermath - some local residents and businesses had been facing fines for not shoveling their sidewalks within 12 hours after the snow ceased falling, City spokesperson Ric Barrick said.
[caption id="attachment_33857" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Black netting at the top of the Rotunda's columns serve as a precautionary measure while the cracks are investigated.
[caption id="attachment_33826" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Crowds gathered outside Minor Hall and Monroe Hill last Friday, protesting John Yoo's presence on Grounds.
The recession may be easing in areas across the country, but unemployment figures in the Charlottesville metropolitan area from December 2009 to January 2010 showed a significant increase in the number of area residents looking for work. According to statistics obtained from the Virginia Employment Commission, unemployment rose from 5.4 percent in December 2009 to 6.6 percent in January 2010 in the metropolitan area.
[caption id="attachment_33823" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Amphitheater was stripped of its lawn last week to make way for new sod and a 10-foot wide gravel sidewalk.
The Charlottesville Park System will receive an additional 27 acres from local organizations to aid stream restoration projects and the city's trail development. Eighteen acres of land in the Meadow Creek Stream Valley were donated by Charlottesville firm Ja-Zan LLZ.
The No. 1 Virginia men's tennis team is set to come off bye-week with its second weekend of outdoor matchups against Maryland, Baylor and Gardner-Webb. Thus far, the Cavaliers have transitioned successfully from the indoor court to outdoor play, which began March 5 in a doubleheader against Old Dominion and Georgetown.
The Virginia Tech community remains on high alert after threatening e-mails were sent to students and university employees during the past week believed to originate from the same individual who threatened, via his YouTube page, an attack on the community in October.
[caption id="attachment_33778" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Placards on Copeley Bridge commemorate and also call for Morgan Harrington's murderer to face justice.
Charlottesville City Council held the first of two public hearings Monday night about the fiscal year 2011 budget, which likely will contain additional spending cuts in comparison to the current fiscal year budget. City Manager Gary O'Connell proposed the city budget, while Charlottesville City Schools Superintendent Rosa Atkins presented the proposed school budget, which is prepared separately from the city's and receives some of its own state funding.
[caption id="attachment_33766" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The package of bills will establish College Partnership Laboratory schools, which will link education schools at colleges and universities with students from across the state.
The Virginia General Assembly released its budget proposal Sunday with less drastic cuts to higher education than expected.
Gov. Bob McDonnell appeared yesterday for a question and answer session in Politics Prof. Larry Sabato's introductory U.S.
The Virginia General Assembly honored deceased Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington with a House Joint Resolution offered Feb.
The General Assembly passed a bill Saturday to allow college and university threat assessment teams in the state to access and discuss the criminal and mental health records of students deemed threatening to the public. Del.
[caption id="attachment_33712" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Virginia Commonwealth University student Jonathan Dorey, pictured right, was last seen March 2.
The Academical Heritage Review - a new, student-run undergraduate research journal for historical scholarship - will debut the first week of April. The University Historical Society, the newly formed contracted independent organization behind the journal, aims to provide students interested in history with a new outlet to display their work through the publication. "I think part of what makes the experience at the University so special is that students have opportunities for undergraduate research almost anywhere they could want to find it," President Thomas Howard said.
