A Georgetown Law professor criticized the Bush administration's abuse of executive power last night in the keynote speech for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Georgetown Law Prof.
As part of the University's efforts to preserve the historic architecture of the Lawn, steps are underway to restore the unique roofing structure that crowns Jefferson's pavilions.
If an influenza pandemic were to break out in Charlottesville, it could potentially kill 170 people per week of the 210,000 inhabitants of the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. This risk prompted the University to create the Pandemic Planning Committee in June 2006, which aims to combat the University's lack of preparation for a potential pandemic, said Committee Chair James Turner, who also serves as the director of Student Health. According to Turner, the Committee consists of eight subcommittees, each focused on a different aspect of University life: academic affairs, student support services, human resources, communication, administrative operations, healthcare and infection control, information technology and faculty and staff. "The impact of a pandemic on the University will be widespread across virtually all disciplines, and in order for the University to provide appropriate healthcare services, it's going to take an extraordinary amount of planning," Turner said. The Pandemic Planning Committee is part of a group of Charlottesville subcommittees that all work together to plan measures that would be necessary in the event of a pandemic, according to Lilian Peake, director of the Thomas Jefferson Health District and head of the Charlottesville pandemic planning subcommittees. Peake and Turner both agreed the threat of a pandemic is very real and according to Turner, the University is at an especially high risk. "We have hundreds and hundreds of faculty and students traveling internationally, so we are quite vulnerable to a pandemic -- if there's a pandemic it will most certainly hit Charlottesville," Turner said. In response to this possibility, the University's Pandemic Planning Committee has developed a plan to work with the University's existing emergency response plan that evolved after Sept.
After months of writing drafts, nine University Law students have successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to hear Watson v.
College students approved two referenda by wide margins in the recently completed special election.
At her first meeting as Student Council president, Lauren Tilton co-sponsored a resolution recommending the current pavilion selection process be reviewed and altered to include additional student input. "Our goal is to hopefully promote a meaningful discussion about the Lawn -- its ideals and what the Lawn represents today," Tilton said.
A new system for ranking graduate schools has appeared as a response to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Thousands of dollars each semester. Luncheons with esteemed faculty. Throw in a free trip to Europe and you've got the life of a Jefferson scholar at the University.
The Educational Testing Service announced Monday that it has canceled plans for overhauling the Graduate Record Examination.
Major players of the international diplomacy scene traveled to the University last weekend to engage in a conference on the current situation in Iraq and ongoing threats of terrorism. The three-day conference "Root, Stem, and Branch: Homegrown Radicals and the Limits of Terrorism," was sponsored by the Critical Incident Analysis Group and the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and began Sunday with a roundtable discussion among 10 panelists. George Gilliam, director of Forum Programs at the Miller Center, said the conversation aimed to discuss why terrorists "engage in acts of terrorism, what level of anger and humiliation makes them engage in acts of terror." This event marked the 10th year that CIAG has held a conference in Charlottesville and the second year that the Miller Center has co-sponsored the event. "It's one network getting together with another and the synergy that comes from those right entities working together," CIAG Executive Director Gregory Saathoff said. Panelists included Chuck Robb, former Virginia governor and U.S.
The outgoing Honor Committee finished its term last night by passing two amendments to its bylaws.
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., defended the use of certain surveillance measures in protecting national security and discussed topics such as the state of the military during his visit to Grounds yesterday. Warner, serving his fifth consecutive term in the U.S.
University police arrested a Greene County man on charges of phoning in a bomb threat to John Paul Jones Arena. Jarrett Dean Payne of Ruckersville, 22, was arrested for calling the Greene County Dispatch Center twice Feb.
Charlottesville City Council held the second of its public hearings yesterday to address more of the public's concerns about the city's new budget proposal. Since the first public budget forum on March 19, Council decreased its original figure for the city's real estate tax revenue.
While some of the University's professional schools received higher standings, others saw a drop in the rankings released Friday by U.S.
A University fraternity has admitted to stealing a $10,000 "Hokie Bird" statue from Virginia Tech this past weekend. The statue, a large-scale fiberglass construction sponsored by the Blacksburg Partnership, was stolen by a fraternity pledge class, according to University spokesperson Carol Wood. "We learned about it from folks in Blacksburg that suspected that it could have been some of our students so we obviously cooperated with the folks in Blacksburg to see if it was true and discovered it was," she said. The students have come forward and are currently working with University officials to rectify the situation, according to Wood. "Our students are working with one of our deans," she said.
Last Friday more than 92 percent of the University's 18,068 applicants clicked a button online to see if they were offered a spot in the University's class of 2011 -- 5,095 were greeted by the coveted message of "Congratulations." With a 10.5 percent increase in applicants over last year, the University saw the largest applicant pool in its history this year, Dean of Admissions John Blackburn said. He said it is difficult to know the true reasons behind the increase, but it is possible that the press the University received in past months concerning the abolishment of its early decision policy could be a factor in the influx. "We were in a lot of newspapers about this [decision], which increased visibility," Blackburn said. He added that he saw interest in this decision from European and Asian newspapers, which could be a factor in the 23 percent increase of international applicants. Other notable trends were increases in the number of minority applicants.
