BOSTON -- While election results were seemingly in favor of a Bush victory in Ohio, and thus four more years of a Republican presidency, Democrats began to challenge several claims by news agencies that Bush won the state's 20 electoral votes. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said he and Sen.
Raising the ire of some local businesses, the City of Charlottesville recently began enforcing an ordinance requiring West Main Street merchants to remove all sandwich-board signs from sidewalks in front of their businesses. The move by the City, however, still did not please those who were hoping for the removal of sandwich-boards from all city sidewalks. In June, Gwen Beavers, representing the Virginia Federation for the Blind, expressed her concern regarding obstacles such as signs, chains and chairs placed without a clear pattern on the Downtown Mall at the City Council meeting, according to minutes from the meeting. "We are concerned with the signs sitting in the middle of the Mall," said Kathy Owen, president of the Blue Ridge Federation of the Blind, who went with Beavers to the June City Council meeting. In response to their concerns, City Council has decided to enforce the portion of the city ordinance banning movable signs from West Main Street.
The 9/11 Commission Report overseen by Philip Zelikow, University history professor and director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, is a nominated finalist for a National Book Award under the category of nonfiction. According to National Book Foundation Publicist Camille McDuffie, the book was nominated for the category along with 449 other submissions, and a panel of impartial judges whittled the selections down to five. "Basically they're told to pick the best books of the year," McDuffie said.
Student groups at the University are gearing up for today's election with a common goal in mind: They want everyone to get out and vote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To get an idea of how Democratic the District of Columbia is, one needs only to look at 1984, when Republican Ronald Reagan won 49 states in a nationwide landslide victory, but Democratic candidate Walter Mondale won here -- with 85 percent of the vote.Nevertheless, Republicans in the nation's capital say they are prepared and proud to support President Bush in today's presidential election, regardless of his chances of victory in the nation's capital. Wayne Estrada, the Republican chairman for Ward Six, was frank about the political atmosphere facing the Republican Party in the District. "It's pretty brutal," he said.
BOSTON, Mass. -- Located near the site where the Pilgrims landed nearly 400 years ago, and near many Revolutionary War events, one could argue that Boston has often been on the "frontline" of American history. But the city that also hosted the Democratic National Convention last summer and a parade Saturday to honor Major League Baseball's newest world championship team also may first witness the naming of a new American president tonight -- that is, if Democratic candidate Sen.
An increasing number of white students are enrolling at traditionally black universities, The Washington Post reported yesterday. The number of white students has risen 65 percent from 21,000 to 35,000 in the past quarter-century, driven partly by court order to desegregate and partly by the interest in these programs. The Washington Post reported that professors believe the increased number of white students will benefit the universities. "Boardrooms are not all black, and classrooms shouldn't be either," said Lee Young, admissions director at North Carolina A&T University, which actively recruits white students in The Washington Post. Some students attending the historically black universities said the changing atmosphere runs contrary to the purpose of these universities, reported the article. --Compiled by Sarah R.
The University's Miller Center of Public Affairs announced its acceptance of an unrestricted gift of $2 million from John and Rosemary Galbraith Friday. John Galbraith said in a press release that he hoped his donation -- the largest gift in the Center's history -- would play an important role in helping the Miller Center carry out its academic mission. The donation is "a vote of confidence in the fine work of the Miller Center," Galbraith said in a press release.
Greeks around Grounds are hoping for victory against Maryland for more than one reason this week.
While the University recently crowned its own "U.Va. Idol," the University of North Carolina at Charlotte now is offering a course called "Examining 'American Idol' Through Musical Critique" after two North Carolina natives, Clay Aiken and Fantasia Barrino, won fame on the show. Beginning in January, students enrolled in the three-credit elective course will watch the television show twice a week and create their own rating system to judge contestants.
The Course Offering Directory is out, and students are already preparing to grapple with ISIS and the perennial game of musical chairs that is class registration.
Disparate rates of case initiations against certain groups of students but an unbiased trial process still result in a disproportionate number of international students, African-American students, male students and athletes being dismissed from the University for honor offenses, according to a Faculty Advisory Committee report released by the Honor Committee last night. The two committees conducted a statistical analysis of honor initiations and convictions between 1998 and 2003 last spring.
Last week was absolutely ridiculous. With four exams in five days, by the end of the week, I was at my wit's end.
A bus route proposed by Student Council would run from 12:30 a.m. to 3:20 a.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The "Holiday Route" would service North Grounds, first-year dorms, JPA and the 14th Street/Rugby Road area.
Polls for the fall student elections closed Wednesday at midnight. Ten percent of the entire student body logged online to select representatives to fill vacant positions and approve a referendum on renewable energy. "The elections went smoothly this year," University Board of Elections Chair Steve Yang said. Voter turnout decreased slightly from that of last fall's elections.
University employees will follow in students' footsteps next semester with the establishment of a Sustained Dialogue group specifically designed to open lines of communication among diverse groups of faculty and staff. Instructional Technology Manager John Alexander established the group along with Rachel Saury, director of the Center for Instructional Technology, and Daisy Rodriguez, assistant dean for Asian/Asian Pacific American students.
In a last-ditch attempt to garner support for their respective candidates, both the University Democrats and the College Republicans are voyaging to the swing state of Pennsylvania, where the race for president currently is regarded as a dead heat. The University Democrats will be stationed in Pittsburgh, Pa., while the College Republicans first will arrive in Harrisburg, Pa., before "fanning out around the state," according to College Republicans President Ali Ahmad. The University Democrats, in conjunction with Cavs for Kerry, plan to bring about 50 students to partner with the organization PA Victory '04 in its get-out-the-vote efforts. "Pennsylvania has 21 electoral votes, and it's a really close election that's going to be a nail-biter no matter what," said University Democrats President Ally Gold.
The Virginia Film Festival began last night with the 17th annual Opening Night Gala at the University's Bayly Art Museum. The gala officially launches a festival for which ticket sales have dramatically increased this year. "Comparing Internet ticket sales from this year to last year, which was a comparable year, we have done twice as much," said Logan Byers, the Virginia Film Festival box office manager.
The Belly Dance Club performs in McLeod Hall last night at a concert benefiting Alternative Spring Break and the United Way.
