The Cavaliers defeated Virginia Tech 35-21 Saturday, snapping a four-game losing streak to the Hokies and recapturing the Commonwealth Cup.Fans stormed the field in celebration after the Cavs rebounded from an early deficit as QB Matt Schaub passed for 358 yards and RB Wali Lundy ran for 4 touchdowns
After officials announced Sunday that the Cavaliers will play in the Continental Tire Bowl, an unprecedented number of fans seeking tickets flooded phone lines yesterday, disrupting phone service throughout Grounds from 9 a.m.
University bus drivers received a pay increase yesterday, bringing their current starting wage to $8 an hour. The raise, a $0.39 boost, comes as University Transit Service officials struggle to recruit additional bus drivers to accommodate new route configurations. Driver recruitment has fallen significantly in the last year, said Asst.
A large majority of American undergraduates define themselves as spiritual, but the number of students regularly attending religious services declines sharply during college, according to a study by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The study compiled results from two sets of surveys gathered from 3,680 students at 46 colleges and universities across the country.
In a continued effort by the four Greek governing councils to strengthen the University's Greek system, Inter-Fraternity Council President Ryan Ewalt yesterday presented Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia M.
In an effort to promote adult education in the mountain border region between Virginia and Tennessee, where nearly 32 percent of adults do not have a high school diploma, education officials from both states are offering auto racing tickets to those adults who earn high school equivalency diplomas, according to an article printed in the Washington Post Saturday. Adults who pass the General Educational Development Test in 2004 will be rewarded with a ticket package to attend either Busch or Craftsman Truck series racing at the Bristol Motor Speedway in the spring or fall or a drag race at Bristol Dragway. Education officials announced the "Race to GED" program in a luxury suite overlooking the speedway, which will provide the program with ticket prizes valued at over $300,000. Eligible participants include adult education students in Bristol, Galax, Norton, Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Grayson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise and Wythe counties in Virginia and Sullivan County in Tennessee.
As a contribution to the University Cancer Center's ongoing research for a melanoma vaccine, the Seven Society announced its donation of $777.77 on Nov.
In response to retailer and customer concerns over the changing nature of Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, the City Council will vote on an ordinance next week that could add new restrictions to Mall vendors. The proposed changes, which include physical restrictions on vendors' stands, a new permit application fee and a requirement that vendors pay rent, passed a first reading at the Council's Nov.
The Housing Division has sent an e-mail to all students living on Grounds asking for their opinion on a possible laundry surcharge.
The percentage of under-represented minority students in University graduate and professional schools falls well below that of peer institutions, according to a report presented to the Educational Policy Committee of the Board of Visitors Friday. The report from the University-Wide Recruitment Initiative Task Force, led by Provost Gene Block and Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies R.
Departing from a career that has included everything from licensing and insuring vehicles to growing the University's endowment from $60 million to over $1.8 billion, University treasurer and UVIMCO president Alice Handy will step down Dec.
First year Engineering students (from right) Brad Uhl and Matt Saxton try out a robot they built in the "Free-shot" competition, part of a Robot Pentathalon yesterday in Newcomb hall.
Despite administrators' concern over the "fourth-year fifth," a yearly trend practiced by some fourth years during which they attempt to consume a fifth of liquor the day of the last home football game, both the University Medical Center and Police Department have confirmed that no serious alcohol-related incidents occurred Saturday. "Everything I have heard about the weekend was good, and I am grateful to the students and student organizations for that," University President John T.
Gov. Mark Warner unveiled the details of his plan to overhaul Virginia's tax code yesterday, proposing to garner an extra $500 million a year through extensive reform that would include tax hikes for cigarettes, sales and the highest income bracket while lowering income taxes for less wealthy Virginians. The initiative, arguably the largest of Warner's term, comes after months of secrecy.
Two reportedly unrelated armed robberies occurred last Saturday in Charlottesville. According to both Albemarle and Charlottesville police, no arrests have been made as of yesterday afternoon but the investigations are ongoing. In the first incident, the Charlottesville Police Department received a call at 7:24 a.m.
The story "City Council to consider new highway proposal" incorrectly implied that McIntire Park will be handed over to VDOT.
A Senate hearing on the nomination of William Haynes to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was decidedly lukewarm last Wednesday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. This less-than-inspired reception stemmed from continued controversy surrounding the Bush administration's treatment of those detained in the War on Terror. As the present general counsel to the Defense Department, Haynes has served as "a key architect of the treatment of detainees and the prosecution of enemy combatants," wrote Vermont Sen.
Fourth-year students participate in the 12th annual Fourth Year 5K, sponsored by the University Office of Health Promotion and Peer Health Educators.
Carrying signs and chanting slogans in protest of alleged racial remarks by a University Medical Center supervisor, over 50 students, staff and activists turned out to picket in front of the University hospital Friday. The hour-long lunchtime gathering attracted the attention of many bystanders but did not impede traffic or disrupt normal operations at the hospital. Elizabeth Coles, a member of the Staff Union at the University of Virginia and physical tech senior in the Medical School, said the purpose of the protest was to make people aware of racial problems at the University, beyond the widely publicized blackface incident last Halloween and the alleged assault on Student Council President Daisy Lundy during the election. Last week, the administration investigated allegations that a medical supervisor used a racial epithet in front of employees before a staff meeting Nov.
Student, faculty and staff computers throughout Grounds recently have come under attack from a mass-mailing worm, spread through e-mails claiming to be from the popular online billing service PayPal.com. According to Mark Smith, manager of desktop computing support for ITC, his office first announced the worm's presence through an online message posted Nov.
