The University Board of Visitors' finance committee approved a proposal yesterday that will increase undergraduate tuition and fees by $636 for in-state students and $716 for out-of-state students next year. The Board also approved a 17.1 percent increase in tuition and fees for in-state graduate students to $9,200.
After days of heavy rain, planners of the local Dogwood Festival were forced to delay the commencement of the annual festivities until today.
The representative body of Student Council heard a second day of appeals from 11 Contracted Independent Organizations Tuesday night. Decisions on appeals from two groups, Agape Christian Fellowship and the Virginia Pep Band, were held over from the first day of appeals April 6. Agape's appeal sparked debate with its request for travel funds to Big Break, a national conference over Spring Break held in Panama City Beach, Fla.
College Student Cedric Odom joined other students, faculty and staff of the College of Arts and Sciences who were treated to a carnival in the amphitheater yesterday sponsored by the student-run Arts and Sciences Council.
Christie Key, a sophomore at the University of Missouri and the blood drive coordinator of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority chapter there, sent an e-mail to the chapter's 170 members April 6 demanding that they participate in the University's Greek Week blood drive, according to an Associated Press report. Key's e-mail encouraged sorority members to lie about health and recent tattoos and piercings in order to meet donor requirements and in turn earn points for the chapter in the campus's Greek Week blood drive. "We're not messing around," Key's e-mail read.
A female University student allegedly was assaulted near the Lambeth Colonnades Tuesday night, according to University Police, in the second such incident reported by students near on-Grounds residence areas in less than a week. University Police Capt.
Since the House of Delegates passed a compromise tax bill Tuesday, Virginia now has the opportunity to enact a two-year budget to ensure a fair tax system, fulfill existing state commitments and maintain Virginia's fiscal integrity, Gov.
The University of Virginia's College at Wise will have a new interim chancellor starting this May, University President John T.
Amid renewed efforts to strengthen diversity at the University, Honor Committee Chair Meghan Sullivan said the 2004-2005 Committee is one of the most diverse in the system's recent history. "This year we have representatives from a variety of age groups and backgrounds," Sullivan said.
The appointment of two drum majors Tuesday completes the leadership staff of the Cavalier Marching Band, who will make their debut performance at the first home football game of the 2004 season on Sept.
The ramifications of an indefinite state budget and the University's financial status were the major themes at University President John T.
In honor of what would have been Thomas Jefferson's 261st birthday yesterday, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation awarded its annual medals in Architecture and Law. The Foundation awarded the Architecture medal to Peter Walker, the winner of the competition to design the World Trade Center Memorial. J.
Since peer-to-peer file sharing became popular in the late 1990s, the music industry has been uncompromising in its opposition to network song swappers, maintaining that music downloads are illegal and hurt record sales. The draft of a study examining the effects of file sharing on record sales suggests otherwise. Harvard Business School Prof.
Student Council President-elect Noah Sullivan describes himself as a "work-hard, play-hard guy." A second-year in the College, Sullivan served as First Year Council President and will complete his term as current Council President Daisy Lundy's Chief of Staff before taking office as Council President. "I am a very passionate and energetic person about what I'm interested in," Sullivan said.
With tuition on the rise and books and beer not getting any cheaper, college campuses are brimming with students looking for ways to make an easy buck.
The Jefferson Area Libertarians passed a resolution aiming to check the efforts of the Charlottesville Police Department in its search for the area's serial rapist. The resolution, which coincided with a Monday meeting evaluating the search, calls for the Charlottesville Police Department to "refrain from branding innocent people as criminals" and "stop using intimidation tactics to coerce innocent people to give up those freedoms," according to a press release. Jim Lark, University systems and information engineering professor and JAL secretary, said the group issued the resolution to caution police officials in their hunt for the serial rapist. "We're sounding a warning bell that the police have to be very careful in their zeal to apprehend [the serial rapist] that they don't trod upon the rights of citizens," Lark said. Lark emphasized that citizens have the right to decline to take a DNA test, currently in use by the Charlottesville Police, if police do not have a search warrant or probable cause.
Racial disparities remain the most daunting challenge to equity in American education, according William G.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed a compromise tax bill yesterday, providing for a revenue increase of nearly $1 billion and marking the first step to end the budget impasse that has plagued this year's General Assembly session. The bill passed by a 52-46 vote, coming only after several Republican delegates joined Democrats to support the bill.
Unlocked doors, questionable fire alarms, unresponsive landlords. For some University students residing in off-Grounds housing, these features are typical of their living conditions. Recent fires in student housing, along with the continuing threat of the serial rapist, have drawn the attention of some University administrators. University President John T.
In response to increasing occurrences of grade inflation, Princeton University plans to limit the number of A's it awards to students, according to the New York Times. Currently, A's make up 46 percent of the grades awarded at Princeton.
