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By Cavalier Daily Staff | September 29, 2006
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Education Sector, a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., released a report this week proposing a new system for ranking colleges and universities as an alternative to those used by U.S.
Internationally renowned architects Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton will be the Harry S. Shure visiting professors to the School of Architecture this fall. Architecture School Director of Publications Derry Wade said the goal of the visiting professorship is to bring working architects to the University to share their real world experience with the students. "The purpose is to select a prominent practioner of that discipline -- either architecture or landscape architecture," Wade said. Sauerbruch and Hutton run a design firm in Berlin and were invited to the University because they have been involved in projects that are aesthetically pleasing as well as pragmatic, Architecture Prof.
University students protested the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy outside the local military recruitment office yesterday.
A third-year College student has become the second University student in a week to contract mumps, leading University officials to respond to a possible outbreak. James Turner, director of the University's Student Health Center, said this recent case was probably not a result of last week's.
Yesterday, the Arts & Sciences Council held an open round table meeting with Edward Ayers, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
The U.S. House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness met Tuesday to discuss the prevalence of illegal downloading of copyrighted materials among college students and on college campuses. In the hearing, entitled "The Internet and the College Campus: How the Entertainment Industry and Higher Education are Working to Combat Illegal Piracy," subcommittee members were joined by higher education experts and representatives of the entertainment industry. According to Rich Taylor, Motion Picture Association of America senior vice president for external affairs and education, who was present at the hearing, the college students account for a large percentage of illegal downloading. "Forty-four percent of losses in the United States, around $500 million, can be traced to college students," Taylor said. Taylor also said that the purpose of the hearing was to communicate that illegal downloading is an issue with implications for higher education, as well as the entertainment industry, pointing out the strain on networks and security concerns for institutions of higher learning. "What we are trying to do as a recoding industry and a film industry is not to crush the ability to get entertainment online," Taylor said.
After raising nearly $49.5 million for construction, the College of Arts & Sciences invited University students, faculty and staff to a presentation of the South Lawn Project yesterday in Old Cabell. Initial fundraising for the South Lawn took place in congruence with the private phase of the Capital Campaign.
Two of the University's graduate schools have been named to the top-20 programs in their field. In its first-ever ranking of the nation's top-20 graduate engineering programs, The Princeton Review has named the University's Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science third in the country, while the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration was ranked 13th nationally on the Wall Street Journal's Guide to the Top Business Schools. The School of Engineering & Applied Science was the only Virginia school to be included in the Princeton Review ranking, falling just behind the University of California at Santa Barbara and Duke University. "It is great; every ranking considers different factors of a school's excellence," Assoc.
Both Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato and a former University football player are alleging that during his time as a student at the University, U.S.
Yesterday, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings formally announced plans for higher education reform.
With over 500 CIOs at the University, students around Grounds have many opportunities to get involved.
Beginning next year the University will no longer offer an early admissions program. The University's current early decision program will be replaced by a single admissions program, in which all applications for the class entering in fall 2008 will be due Jan.
Students and officials have expressed concerns about the recently reported crime incidents against students within the University community, and the administration is urging students to take extra precautions to ensure their safety. Since the beginning of the school year, University students have been the victims of at least nine separate cases of attempted robbery, burglary, and vandalism, most recently at the Lambeth Field Apartments. "Every year there are a certain number of criminal incidents that occur," University Police Capt.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be the "Distinguished Lecturer in Residence" for the next Semester at Sea voyage during the entire spring 2007 semester. Tutu is a South African cleric and Nobel laureate who rose to fame in the 1980s as a proponent of the struggle against apartheid.
Since a first-year Engineering student was diagnosed with the mumps, Student Health has contacted 1,149 students who were not protected against the disease by vaccination, or who have incomplete documentation of their vaccination history. According to University spokesperson Carol Wood, about 300 of these students received vaccinations yesterday at Student Health.
Bestselling authors John Grisham and Stephen King pledged support for Democratic Senate candidate and fellow writer Jim Webb in Charlottesville last night.
Second-year College student XB Cox, known to some as "Boone," died Friday after battling leukemia for more than nine months. Cox, an avid runner, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia Jan.
A female University student was involved in an attempted mugging Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 9:25 p.m.
