The University's Board of Visitors' educational policy committee approved reforms Saturday that will merge two graduate programs and dissolve the Applied Mathematics program over the next several years.
In response to brewing controversy surrounding the use of DNA testing in the search for a suspected Charlottesville serial rapist, City Police Chief Timothy J.
More than two dozen student organizations were honored last night at the second-annual CIO Awards Reception in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom. The half-hour event was attended by more than 50 students and faculty members and hosted by Eli DeJarnette, Student Council vice president for organizations.
Since elementary school, good grades have been important to me. High grades were a means to an end -- going to a good college, receiving an academic scholarship and getting into medical school.
In response to community criticism about the Charlottesville Police Department's months-long procedure of asking certain black men to voluntarily provide DNA samples in their search for the serial rapist, Police Chief Timothy Longo has temporarily stopped the practice. Calling it a "common sense decision," Longo said that due to the level of concern raised in Monday's Clark Hall community meeting, the police department stepped back to "re-engineer the process." "We decided to step back to look at our process to consider issues raised by the community and reach a common ground that is respectful of community values, but at the same time, allows us to continue our investigation," he said. Although the department has had the ability to use the DNA sampling procedure -- called the "buccal swab" -- since April 2001, the serial rapist case was the first chosen to include it. According to Longo, police have not acquired a buccal swab since Monday night. In a private meeting tomorrow, Longo will present specific future plans and changes for investigation procedure to a handful of community representatives. African-American Affairs Dean M.
Last Friday Darden held the first "Undergrad Day at Darden" in which all undergraduate University students were given the opportunity to learn more about Darden's M.B.A.
The Planned Parenthood "EC van" made its first visit to the University yesterday, offering the Plan B emergency contraception pill for sale to University students, faculty and community members. Members of the student group Voices for Planned Parenthood, or VOX, invited Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia to come to the University.
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.
