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New students arrive on Grounds for orientation

By Peter Cleary | July 3, 2003

Questions about course selection, how much spending money you need in college and how to get to the student health center filled the corridors of Newcomb Hall this week as four hundred students from the class of 2007 arrived on grounds for orientation. During the month of July, most of the entering first years and transfer students will come to the University to attend one of seven two-day orientation sessions.

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Warner announces Virginia Tech, JMU BOV appointments

By Mary Pumphrey | July 3, 2003

Governor Mark Warner announced appointments to Virginia's higher education oversight boards and various college and university boards of visitors, including those of Virginia Tech and James Madison, which both met with controversy this year, on Friday. The Governors Advisory Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments makes decisions on nominees based on "merit, experience, sound judgment and proven leadership," according to a press release. Warner expressed approval of the Commission's recommendations. "The outstanding men and women I am appointing today have demonstrated a commitment to work for the best interests of higher education in the Commonwealth," said Warner in a press release.

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JMU Board does not discuss contraception

By Christine Wallace | June 26, 2003

During the June meeting of James Madison University's Board of Visitors, the Board did not discuss the signatures students gathered in protest of the Board's April 18 decision to discontinue dispensing emergency contraceptive pill on campus. The April decision by the JMU Board came in response to pressure from State Delegate Bob Marshall, who also campaigned for the University and other state schools to stop offering the pill at campus health centers.

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VQR editor, University alumnus dies in crash

By Christine Wallace | June 26, 2003

On Monday, June 23, out-going Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review Staige Blackford died after his vehicle was struck broadside by another vehicle. "His wife was making a left turn onto Arlington Boulevard from Emmett Street when the car was struck by a vehicle moving south on Emmett," Secretary of the Board of Visitors and friend Alexander Gilliam said. Gilliam and Charlottesville native Blackford began a friendship during their undergraduate years.

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Court allows use of race in admissions

By Megan Moyer | June 26, 2003

In a case with national implications, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the University of Michigan's right to consider race in admissions, but declared Michigan's system of awarding admission points for race unconstitutional. The court split its decision on the two raced-based admissions cases.

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Jefferson letters sell for thousands at auction

By Mary Pumphrey | June 26, 2003

A collection of eight pieces of the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, ranging from a one-page note concerning payment to the contractor hired to build a greenhouse at Monticello to a letter discussing the Lewis and Clark expedition, was offered for auction by Sotheby's in New York June 20th. The papers were sold as part of a larger sale of fine books and manuscripts with an emphasis on Americana, Selby Kiffer senior vice president of books and manuscripts for the auction house said. The letters, which fetched between $2,700 and $48,000 were sold anonymously to private American collectors he said. The letters offer a valuable look into the diplomatic history of the young nation, History Prof.

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Sandridge, Ayers present construction plans to community

By Mary Pumphrey | June 19, 2003

Amid models and drawings of planned construction efforts, College Dean Ed Ayers and Leonard W. Sandridge Jr, University executive vice president and chief operating officer, met with community members Tuesday in the Newcomb Hall ballroom to preview the University's intended growth in the foreseeable future. The meeting was intended to offer community members a view of planned construction efforts at the "30,000 foot level," Sandridge said, emphasizing the continued need for individual communication with residents of affected areas before and during specific projects.

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