University Recycling employee GinaCasciano, a fourth-year College student,participates in the second annual Dumpster Dive, part of a nationwide America Recycles Day celebration.
It's Sunday morning and all along the streets of Charlottesville, from Rugby Road to 14th Street to McCormick, college students are slowly making their way home on the long walk of shame (otherwise known as the "stride of pride"). A girl in a wrinkled black shirt tries to remember the name of the fraternity brother she hooked up with last night.
This Tuesday, students will have a chance to vote on a referendum to give the First-Year Council president and the transfer student liaison a vote in Student Council next fall. Currently, new transfer students and first years do not have their own elected, voting representatives on Council, though the FYC president and the liaison both are allowed to participate in voting representative discussions.
This week marks National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week -- a week intended to recognize student participation in their local EMS squads, which consist of over 150 collegiate groups. The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad is participating in EMS recognition week because half of the active members in its organization are University students. The rescue squad answers calls for the University and much of Albemarle County and are the busiest all-volunteer rescue squad in the country, handling about 11,000 calls last year, according to rescue squad President David Starmer. Each year, several hundred of the calls handled respond to incidents at the University.
Three weeks after the acting president of Hampton University confiscated copies of a student publication following its editors' refusal to run her letter to the editor on the front page, a national association of newspaper executives has decided to discontinue funding a summer journalism program at the school. The American Society of Newspaper Editors previously had earmarked $55,000 for Hampton University to host its High School Journalism Institute, also scheduled at five other locations across the country, said Director Peter Bhatia, who added that after the incident, the group did not believe it would be appropriate to hold such an event at an institution that did not uphold the principles of free press. "We're an organization that exists to serve the newspaper industry," he said.
On an average day College of Arts and Sciences Dean Edward L. Ayers is not usually the center of media attention.
Following last Sunday's overwhelming majority vote by the University of Pennsylvania's undergraduate assembly to support on-campus coeducational housing, administrators at that school will continue to consider the possibility of offering such an arrangement. Coeducational dormitories are commonly offered as a way to avoid potential discrimination against transsexuals and other individuals who may feel uncomfortable in a same-sex environment. Brown University, another Ivy League school, currently offers cohabitation to approximately 315 students, and officials there said the policy has been generally well-received. --Compiled by Jason Amirhadji
Recent controversy surrounding the issue of raising the cap on out-of-state freshman enrollment at North Carolina's public colleges and universities likely will prompt the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to postpone its decision on the matter, which is scheduled to take place at a meeting tomorrow. After the Board's Committee on Educational Planning, Policies and Programs proposed increasing the cap from 18 to 22 percent early last month, other Board members have introduced at least three alternative proposals, according to Joni Worthington, UNC associate vice president for communications and special assistant to the president. In addition to the new policy proposals, public response to the cap increase prompted Board members to reevaluate the issue. "There has been a considerable level of concern and questions expressed by various university constituencies and by the general public," Worthington said. In light of the alternative recommendations, Board Chair Brad Wilson, in an official statement yesterday, said he will ask the Committee to accept a motion at its meeting, scheduled for today, to reconsider the original proposal, thereby moving the decision back to the committee level before final consideration by the full Board. "The Chairman wants to make sure the Board doesn't act prematurely before it can address the entire situation," Worthington said.
Following months of delays, the University's new 1,200 car Emmet/Ivy Parking Garage, had its first parking spaces filled by cars at 5:30 a.m.
At last night's Student Council meeting, Architecture representative Greg Moore raised an objection to ETA Lodge's qualification as a Contracted Independent Organization. ETA Lodge, not to be confused with the national fraternity Chi Psi also known as the "Lodge," was denied admittance into the Inter-Fraternity Council last Thursday. Vice President for Organizations Eli Dejarnette said ETA Lodge thus is not following the terms of their qualifications petition, which includes the group's purpose, to obtain Greek status. According to Council bylaws, ETA Lodge's status automatically is suspended until the next Council meeting at which time a hearing will be held to formally determine their status. If Council votes to revoke ETA Lodge's CIO status, Dejarnette said the group technically can reapply for CIO status with a non-discrimination clause.
Last night, mere hours before candidates began campaigning for fall Student Council elections at 12:01 a.m.
The University Medical Center's cardiology and heart surgery programs recently were recognized as being among the nation's best in 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success Study for 2003 produced by Solucient.
At the University, all academic departments are not created equal. Ask any politics or economics major about experiences getting into his or her classes of choice and even those he needs to graduate and he'll likely woefully share anecdotes of unpleasant time spent with ISIS at dawn's first light.
University President John T. Casteen, III announced yesterday that, after a 14-year post at Stanford University, David J.
Neighbors and acquaintances of Andrew Alston, the University student charged with second-degree murder in the Saturday homicide of Walker Andrew Sisk, 22, said there was nothing overt in his behavior that made them especially wary of him or made him stick out. A third-year College student who frequently studied for physics with Alston said she was shocked by his arrest. "I am so blown away," the student said.
It's no secret among college applicants that being a legacy can provide an edge in the increasingly competitive admissions process.
In response to concern over the adversarial nature of honor trials, the Honor Committee passed several changes to the trial format at a Nov.
A teaching assistant sees an obvious case of cheating, but wonders if it is serious enough to bring before the Honor Committee.
Eight months after a malfunctioning gasoline nozzle at UTS headquarters released over 50 gallons of diesel fuel into a local waterway, University Parking and Transportation has begun over $300,000 in facility improvements to protect local surface water from industrial pollution. Additions to the University's Motor Vehicle Maintenance Facility, located on Millmont Street near the Barracks Road shopping center, include canopies over fuel pumps, protective curbing around bus washing areas and oil-water separators in storm water drains. These improvements are part of a comprehensive Pollution Prevention Plan, developed by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety over the past two years as a University-wide approach addressing ecological issues. "It's not just us," Parking and Transportation Director Rebecca White said.
More than one week after suffering head injuries during an altercation with two Sigma Chi fraternity members, Carson Ward, a second-year College student and a member of the University football team, remained in critical but stable condition last night. The official definition of Ward's condition states that his "vital signs are stable but not within normal limits," said Brad Clore, a media relations officer at the University Medical Center.
