The University discovered a glitch in its emergency preparedness plan following yesterday's tornado drill.
Last night The Colonnade Club played host to the formal transition ceremony for Student Council, during which President Matt Schrimper stressed his eagerness to begin his term and work with his peers. "I'm most excited about the individuals coming in and I think it's an indication of things to come for Student Council," Schrimper said, adding, "We'd love for any individuals in the community to join Council, to get involved and make an impact at this institution." Schrimper and his Executive Board, including Vice President for Administration John Nelson and Vice President for Organizations Kayla Wherry, formally took their positions last night when they where sworn in by former Council executives. "It's been a long month of getting ready," Schrimper said.
Students interested in combining their interests in arts and business may have more opportunities at the University in the future because of the possible creation of a five-year master's degree program for arts administration. The program, proposed by Art Department Lecturer George Sampson, is currently being deliberated by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Committee on Educational Policy and Curriculum, according to interim College Dean Karen Ryan. According to Sampson, the process for implementing a new program typically takes about 18 months, and not all of it occurs on Grounds. "Establishing a new degree requires approval of state authorities in Richmond," Sampson said, adding that "if everything goes very smoothly, we might have our first entering class of this program in the fall of 2009." According to Sampson, if implemented, the program would only include the five-year master's program; there are no plans to create an undergraduate major or minor in arts administration.
Research by a University student uncovered new findings about the effectiveness of local food markets. Fourth-year Engineering student Lauren Doucette is working with Ben Cohen, assistant professor of science, technology and society, to complete her senior thesis about the energy used in farmers market systems and its implications for society. Doucette explained there is a debate surrounding the effectiveness of farmers markets in terms of energy consumption.
With college student health centers across the country facing price hikes for contraceptives, the University branch of the group Voices for Planned Parenthood, or Vox, is starting a campaign to spread awareness of these cost increases on Grounds.
The comic artists responsible for the March 13 and 14 TCB comic strips decline to comment on their work at this time.
The University will conduct a tornado drill today in observance of Tornado Preparedness Day. The drill will serve to test both the University's emergency preparedness in the case of a tornado and the UVaAlerts text-messaging system, Director of Emergency Preparedness Marjorie Sidebottom said. The campus-wide drill is scheduled to start at 9:45 a.m., and students can expect to receive two messages over the course of the drill, one to begin the exercise and one to conclude it, Sidebottom said.
Clemons Library was evacuated at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday, after students complained about sudden sneezing and coughing, Head of Clemons Library Donna Tolson said.
Students involved in the University Law School's "Libel Show," a musical-comedy revue involving professor impersonations and satirizing law school culture, are celebrating the show's 100th anniversary this year in a production with more than 200 students. According to third-year Law student Patrick Byrnett, producer of the "Libel Show," the show began in 1903 as a hazing ritual for the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Taking their love of American history to the airwaves, History Profs. Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh and former History Prof.
The Cavalier Daily sincerely regrets any offense readers may have taken to two recent comics in the strip TCB published March 13 and 14.
A University professor is spearheading a project designed to evaluate a controversial immigration policy in northern Virginia. Sociology Prof.
The recent expulsion of a creative writing student at the University's College at Wise underscores the efforts of students and professors to pursue their creative work while negotiating the fine line between freedom of expression and protection of community members' safety. Steven Daniel Barber, a 23-year-old former student at Wise, was expelled from the school last week after a story he wrote for a creative writing class alarmed fellow classmates and his professor, and three guns were found in his car in violation of Wise policy. Barber's story was written in the first person, he said, and portrayed a narrator who, concerned for his own safety after the massacre at Virginia Tech, slept with a gun under his pillow and contemplated killing his professor and committing suicide. Barber said the project, assigned by Wise Asst.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced a change in its financial aid program, enabling students whose families earn less than $75,000 a year to attend MIT tuition-free.
The Cavalier Daily sincerely regrets any offense readers may have taken to two recent comics in the strip TCB published March 13 and 14.
The comic artists responsible for the March 13 and 14 TCB comic strips decline to comment on their work at this time.
Proposals aimed at increasing the efficiency of the honor system and preventing students from prolonging trials were deliberated during last night's Honor Committee meeting. Josh Hess, vice chair for community relations, noted the three proposals "are intended to [apply to] students admitting guilt and the incentive to delay [trials]." Based on the current bylaws, according to Hess, situations arise in which students accused of honor offenses would have an incentive to delay the trial into the following semester to receive credits they otherwise would not receive. There is also an incentive to avoid trial to temporarily maintain a "clean" transcript for employment interviews, vice chair for trials Brian O'Neill added. "The first proposal addresses concerns that there is not any incentive for students to LAG [leave admitting guilt]", O'Neill said. Currently, both students who LAG and those found guilty receive a notation of "Enrollment Discontinued," he explained, and the new proposal would give students who leave admitting guilt the notation of "Withdrawn," the notation given to students voluntarily withdrawing from the University.
