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In the closest race in the Student Bar Association history, third-year Law student Ryan Quillian was elected president, according to outgoing SBA President Brian Leung.
Making textbooks more affordable for University students was the main topic of discussion at last night's Student Council meeting. Student Life Committee Co-Chair Isaac Wood presented a piece of legislation to Council encouraging faculty to support the University Bookstore's buyback and rental programs, which could allow students to spend less money on required texts.
Changes in federal funding for higher education are one of the prominent aspects of President Bush's Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009.
As of 1:30 this morning, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had come out slightly ahead of opponent Barack Obama, while John McCain maintained an increasing lead throughout the night over fellow Republican contenders Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul in Super Tuesday's primary elections. Clinton took the majority of Democratic votes in Arkansas, New York and New Jersey.
After the kick-off of the Darden School's third annual Women's Leadership Week yesterday, a number of events are offering Darden students an opportunity to explore issues relating to women in the business world this week. Along with several businesses, Darden's chapter of the National Association of Women MBAs is sponsoring the week-long event.
Guanyu Lu and Baichuan Shu, the two second-year Engineering students charged with the kidnapping and extortion of a 20-year-old man in November, were brought to trial in Fairfax County Circuit Court yesterday afternoon.
Richmond -- At 6:30 a.m. yesterday, while most University students were still asleep, the University's Student Advocacy Day participants boarded a bus to Richmond to interact with legislators and learn more about Virginia's legislative process. According to Todd Eley, Student Council co-chair of legislative affairs, students were selected for the trip through an open application process. "The goal for [the day was] to bring students down to the capitol and have them interact with their legislators to both learn about the process and share their views," Eley said. Some of the main issues students discussed with legislators concerned improving higher education funding, reforming the commonwealth's redistricting process and increasing salaries of faculty at institutes of higher education.
If approved by the General Assembly, proposed state budget cuts designed to alleviate a bulging deficit could also negatively impact the efforts of the Virginia Foundation for Humanities' African American Heritage Program?
The alleged murderer of University graduate Jayne McGowan decided to waive his right to a preliminary hearing yesterday. According to Mary Trimble, Charlottesville District Court clerk, Michael Stuart Pritchett -- who confessed to the Nov.
The Office of African-American Affairs plans to establish new programs designed to promote graduate study among black and other minority students and to initiate more open interethnic dialogue among community members, OAAA Dean Maurice Apprey said last night during his "Student Affairs as Capacity Building" address. The OAAA, according to Apprey, will seek to promote greater black and other minority involvement in graduate programs and make the preparation such schools require more accessible.
The University's efforts to improve housing offered to future students also may have had the unintentional effect of creating a substantial amount of unrest.
Nine University students previously facing felony charges for involvement in the March abduction of a Hokie Bird statue in Blacksburg saw their charges reduced in court Friday. According to the students' attorney, James Turk, all nine students appeared in court Friday, and the prosecutor made a motion to have the charges against the students be reduced from felony destruction of property to misdemeanor destruction of property. "That motion was granted," Turk said.
SECTION A (Virginia is for ... automatic admissions?) In December, Del. David Poisson, D-Sterling, introduced House Bill 165 to the Virginia General Assembly, proposing automatic acceptance for qualifying in-state students to any state-run institution of higher education in Virginia. To become eligible for automatic acceptance, the original bill stated, a student must be a resident of Virginia, attend a public or private high school in the commonwealth, place in the top 10 percent of his or her class and complete 320 hours of community service the semester before applying to college. Poisson said he included the 320 hours of community service because there are 32 weeks in a typical high school semester, explaining that he believed 10 hours a week seemed sufficient. "What we intended to say to young people in Virginia is that if you do well and if you give back to your community before you're admitted, you have the right to get [into these schools]," Poisson said. Poisson said he amended the class rank requirement to include the top 5 percent of one's class and removed the University, Virginia Tech and the College of William & Mary from the proposal.
University politics professors Larry Sabato and Paul Freedman will contribute to the BBC and ABC networks
The Honor Committee discussed and updated committee members on the status of its flexible exam initiative during last night's meeting and also planned a continuation of its annual faculty update newsletter. According to College Rep.
University Information Technology and Communications will begin to transition student e-mail services to Google and Microsoft applications later this month.
The study abroad programs of several elite colleges and universities, including Harvard and Yale, are currently being investigated for potentially improper practices that could result in universities seeking financial gain at the expense of students' budgets and educational opportunities.
