Given the recent media attention to intelligent design, it is important to critically evaluate the merits of this idea from a scientific viewpoint.
The Asian Pacific American Studies minor kicked off last night with an interest meeting in Newcomb Hall. Although the minor was approved by the College last semester, the program officially will be available starting this fall. Last night's presentation included a history of the program as well as the specifics and requirements of the minor. Asian Pacific American Studies has a long history with efforts to institute the program at the University dating as far back as 1995.
Two different representations of the feminist movement will offer University students wide discourse on women's issues this weekend. Last night marked the Network of Enlightened Women's first event of the semester.
Recruited athletes graduate from the University at one of the highest rates in Division I-A sports and the second highest in the ACC, according to 2004 NCAA data released recently. Student athletes who received an athletic scholarship and entered the University in 1997 and 1998 graduated within six years at a rate of 83 percent.
The Board of Visitors announced Friday it will request $124 million over the next 10 years for renovations and maintenance projects around Grounds. "At U.Va.
Student Council passed the final piece of the appropriations legislation Tuesday, which reformed the previous system of dispensing student activity fees to Contracted Independent Organizations. Council President Noah Sullivan said the former process was inefficient and unrealistic. "There is about a $100,000 of the student activities fee that was never used," Sullivan said.
The University's Board of Visitors has determined that President John Casteen, III will hold his position for an additional six years, and Executive Vice President Leonard Sandridge's contract has been extended until 2009. There was no official process through which the BOV renewed Casteen's appointment, only an ongoing dialogue in which Casteen expressed his wish to prolong his tenure.
Proposals for an amendment to the Virginia Constitution defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman passed both houses of the Virginia General Assembly earlier this week. On Tuesday, the final day before legislation had to be crossed over for consideration by the Senate 78 members of the House of Delegates voted in favor of the amendment, while 18 voted against it. "Marriage has and always should remain between a man and a woman," said Del.
The Observatory Hill dining hall, which feeds thousands of students every year, is moving to its new location later this semester. "Right now we're shooting to have the new O-Hill open after Spring Break," Director of Dining Eddie Whedbee said.
State colleges and universities moved one step closer to gaining more administrative flexibility and autonomy Tuesday.
The Board of Visitors voted Friday to change the Standards of Conduct of the University Judiciary Committee. The change, which was announced to the UJC Sunday, is mainly one of jurisdiction, UJC Chair Angela Carrico said. As of Friday afternoon, jurisdiction of Standards No.
Correction Yesterday's textbox accompanying the article, "Council passes tabled legislation," incorrectly claimed that Student Council passed a bill to place a referendum on the spring ballot to recognize the death of fourth-year College student Brian Love.
A ten-year controversy over military recruiting on campuses could finally end up on the steps of the U.S.
The co-chairs of the new Faculty Senate Development Committee will meet with the University's Senior Vice President of Development next week to lay the foundations for its first meeting, which is expected to be held in March. Faculty Senate Chair Marcia Childress said the new committee was created last spring based on a spring 2003 Senate statement that expressed faculty interest in having a voice in private fundraising. The committee's purpose is to provide a source of communication between the faculty and the University's development efforts, Childress said. "Ideally, it all ties in with fundraising," Childress said. English Prof.
It may not help with the morning walk of shame, but UTS is looking to implement weekend late-night bus service for partygoers and other night owls by the end of the semester.
The preponderance of cars traversing today's Grounds would no doubt surprise the University's founder, even given Mr. Jefferson's aptitude for technological innovation. The cars are here, though, and with the start of each new school year thousands of Wahoos with wheels return to Grounds and the surrounding neighborhoods. In competition for primo parking spots with faculty and staff, as well as Charlottesville's year-round residents, the struggle can often be Darwinian in nature. "Parking and transportation is not something that anybody is going to solve," said Clayton Powers, parking and transportation co-chair of the Student Council Student Life Committee.
"Are we really any safer today? Are we truly any smarter now than we were then?" Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo queried during his presentation on "Homeland Security and Domestic Preparedness: Keeping America Safe" at the Miller Center for Public Affairs last night. On the topic of preparedness, Longo questioned whether any locality, such as Charlottesville, could truly have the means and resources to respond to a terror attack. Throughout the evening, Longo focused on measures the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County have taken to prepare for a possible terror strike in the wake of the Sept.
At its meeting last night, Student Council passed seven pieces of legislation, including a bill that will send a ballot referendum to students asking their opinion on public records for Council members' votes. Council members debated the bill more than any other piece of legislation yesterday. "The only way we can be held accountable is by election or reelection," said Gavin Reddick, a representative from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Those opposed to the bill argued that it would politicize the process. "It would make it more an individual basis than Student Council as a whole," College Rep.
Politics Prof. James R. Sofka, who was dismissed from his post as director of the Echols Program last month, officially appealed his case to President John T.
