Two students allegedly were assaulted early Sunday morning around 1:30 a.m. near the corner of 17th Street and Gordon Avenue shortly after leaving a fraternity party in the area. Third-year Engineering students Ricky Yau and Brian Welsh were walking on 17th Street when they were attacked by three men, according to a Charlottesville Police Department report.
The County will launch a three-week cleanup program tomorrow to assist residents with debris cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel. The program will begin tomorrow morning and run through Oct.
Students attending fraternity parties during the spring semester may have an additional beverage choice, after the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team secured funding last Tuesday to provide water coolers at fraternity parties. The Office of Health Promotion's Social Norms Marketing Division agreed to fund ADAPT's initiative, Social Norms Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Bauerle said. "What we're attempting to do is to have [the coolers] in a location to make water as prevalent as alcoholic drinks," ADAPT member Abigail Atwood said.
Although University classes resumed Monday, other Virginia schools remain closed in the wake of Hurricane Isabel. The College of William & Mary is closed until further notice and the administration encourages students not to return to campus until notified.
University history Prof. and College Dean Edward L. Ayers introduced a new, community-based perspective to the historical conversation on the Civil War.
In the wake of Hurricane Isabel, which struck the central East Coast Thursday and Friday, University and Charlottesville community members continue to regroup, as power slowly is restored and debris is cleared from roads and sidewalks. "The University will be on a regular academic and work schedule" today, University spokesperson Carol Wood said. Since the storm, which forced the closure of the University Thursday after 1 p.m.
Editor's Note: Opinion Editor Anthony Dick and Opinion Columnist Joe Shilling, two founding members of the Individual Rights Coalition, had no role in either the reporting or editing of this story.
Albemarle County Police apprehended an armed robbery suspect Saturday night who allegedly pocketed 75 cents in his criminal undertaking. Sgt.
After the racially tinged events of the past year, many students and faculty fretted over the state of race relations at the University and said they wished there was some way to organize a lasting dialogue between people of different races. Unbeknownst to many of them, a group that predates last year's racially-charged incidents, which included a fraternity blackface incident and an alleged assault on Student Council President Daisy Lundy, was trying to ensure that their wishes were not in vain. Sustained Dialogue was formed in the fall of 2001 as a means to get students from diverse backgrounds to talk about race. The group held its annual introductory retreat yesterday in Newcomb Hall, drawing nearly 100 students.
As Hurricane Isabel approaches the Eastern shore, evacuated residents from Virginia Beach and other coastal areas are packing Charlottesville hotels. Virginia Beach residents Herb and Alice Horst arrived Tuesday at the Red Roof Inn on Main Street with their St.
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors currently is discussing the merits of modifying its admissions policy, which limits the number of out-of-state students to 18 percent of the total freshman class. The Board's educational planning committee met Sept.
"After 30 years of making no comprehensive zoning changes, we thought that our zones were outdated," Charlottesville Vice Mayor Meredith Richards said.
The Senate voted 55-40 Tuesday to undo changes to media ownership rules that were mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.
University, City and County officials have been working together to prepare for possibly the worst storm to hit the Charlottesville area since Hurricane Fran in 1996. Meetings have been held for the past three to four days on potential consequences of Hurricane Isabel on University students and facilities.
A National Academy of Sciences report released last week proposed an increase in the excise tax on alcohol, specifically beer, as a way to reduce underage drinking. According to the report, underage drinking costs tax payers $53 billion a year.
Vice President Dick Cheney denies having any ties to the energy conglomerate Halliburton Co. Halliburton Co. won the contract to rebuild Iraq after America's attack on the country. The reconstruction contracts total over $1.7 billion. Cheney denied having any ties with the company that employed him prior to his vice presidential campaign. Democrats pointed out that Cheney still has unexercised stock options with the company, but in 2001 Cheney said he would donate profits minus taxes to three charities. Cheney's communication director Catherine Martin asserted in a statement the hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred salary payments the vice president still receives from the company are not ties to Halliburton.
The Center for Undergraduate Excellence has postponed the deadline for applications for its Rhodes Marshall Mitchell scholarship from Friday to 10 a.m.
Julian Bond, chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and University professor of American history, spoke out against California's Proposition 54 at a rally Saturday in Berkley, CA. The proposition, known by its proponents as the Racial Privacy Initiative, stipulates "The state shall not classify any individual by race, ethnicity, color or national origin in the operation of public education, public contracting or public employment." While at Berkley's city hall, Bond also signed a civil rights pledge that began 40 years ago with the March on Washington. California voters are set to vote on Proposition 54 at an October 7 election, although a recent federal ruling against the use of punch cards may force the state to postpone the referendum.
Transfer students applying to the University face virtually the same application as first years, save for one essay question, which asks, "Why do you want to transfer?" The question is one that transfer students may find themselves revisiting once they are accepted and decide to face the social, logistical and academic upheaval associated with switching from one school to another. Yet, in the end, most transfers say the rewards of being a University student outweigh the stresses of the process. Admissions, Take Two Perhaps the biggest challenge for potential transfer students is getting accepted. Though 39 percent of first-year applicants are admitted, the University only admits about 22 percent of the approximately 2,200 annual transfer applicants. Director of Institutional Studies George Stovall said he works in conjunction with the admissions office to determine the number of transfer spots the University will offer each year. "Based on past experience, the University knows how many qualified applicants we are going to get and then the Provost approves the number," Stovall said. He added that the University tries to accept as many students from the Virginia community college system as they can, but that group accounts for only a third of the transfer population. Housing Hurdles Because transfers receive acceptance letters even after first years get their housing assignments, housing slots are scarce until openings arise early in the school year. "Housing is the number one concern of transfer students coming in," said Virginia Barb, co-chair of the Transfer Student Peer Advisor program. Most transfers have their housing horror tales to tell, but with the closing of Bice and the incomplete status of two new apartment complexes, even more transfers were scrambling for housing than usual this semester. Housing does not guarantee accommodations for transfers. "Usually, we do reserve some spots for transfer students in the fall, but this year because Bice was closed our first priority was returning students," Chief Housing Officer Mark Doherty said.
