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Search for College dean down to four

The search to replace College Dean Edward Ayers has come to a head this week as the four finalists are visiting the University for on-Grounds interviews. Since January a search committee chaired by Religious Studies Prof.


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Course proposals to be more flexible

Students bored by the same classes offered year after year now have an opportunity to shape their academic fate and more easily create new classes. Student Council's Academic Affairs committee, working in conjunction with Associate College Dean Gordon Stewart, created the Student Initiated Course Proposals program earlier this month to make proposing a class easier, according to Academic Affairs Co-Chair Kathryn Serra.


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Refugee depicts crisis

The genocide situation in Darfur is escalating, and American students are the only ones stepping up to stop the violence, according to Mohamed Yahya, a Darfur refugee who found political asylum in the United States in 2002. Yahya, who also founded the Charlottesville-based Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy, said he "believe[s] if our leaders in the superpowers were doing half of what you [students] do, we could have stopped the genocide years ago.


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Heavy e-mail traffic overloads mail server

Heavy e-mail traffic overloaded the Central Mail Server Tuesday night, inconveniencing University students and faculty until yesterday afternoon. James Jokl, Information Technology and Communication Office director of communications and systems, said Webmail experiences the highest volume of traffic around Thanksgiving and the end of the school year, adding that ITC was not expecting this sporadic downtime. ITC Lab Consultant Nader Raja, who was on duty in the Brown Science and Engineering Library, heard complaints from students throughout the morning about the difficulties with the server. "It's kind of hard to communicate without e-mail," Raja said.


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Mourners pack Tech after attack

BLACKSBURG, Va.-- In a day filled with a constant barrage of media images of the shooter who took the lives of at least three of her friends and 29 others,Behnaz Bonyadian took solace as thousands of people patiently filed into Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium yesterday afternoon.


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