What's more daunting than streaking the Lawn, writing a thesis or raising your hand in huge lectures?
Support for death penalty not swayed by sniper The recent sniper attacks had little effect on public opinion about the death penalty, a new survey data found. Polls commissioned by the Gallup Organization during the three-week shooting spree in the Washington area showed support for the death penalty at 70 percent. After the sniper attacks, much of the debate over where trials for suspects John Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad should be held focused on which jurisdiction would be most likely to give them the death penalty. The public seems to separate current events from their overall opinion of the death penalty, Gallup officials said. For example, the Sept.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is rife with turmoil. Changes in leadership along with other agency reforms must occur in order to restore public confidence in the agency and strengthen the SEC as a regulatory body. The Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 created the SEC in response to the 1929 stock market crash.
Increased security screening of prospective international students by the State Department is keeping some out of school, a recent study found. The study, conducted by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and the Association of American Universities, found that hundreds of students and scholars have missed programs because of the increased scrutiny of those seeking visas for scholarly work. "It's never been like this before," said Richard Tanson, international students and scholars advisor at the University.
University scientists have found that a gene, RhoGDI2, could give scientists the ability to control the growth and metastasis of different cancers. "The gene may serve as a marker for aggressiveness and the cancer's ability to spread beyond its origin," Urology Prof.
Members of the Staff Union at the University of Virginia and their supporters staged a rally in front of the University Hospital's Primary Care Center on Friday. The roughly 45 participants at the rally criticized the University administration, saying officials refused to meet with SUUVA, and claiming University health system employees have unfairly lost their jobs as a result of employee realignments. "One hundred seventy-nine jobs have been eliminated through the hospital's realignment program, and this is while the University brags of 'no layoffs,'" said Elizabeth Coles, a hospital employee and a recruiter for SUUVA. University Health System employees have been transferred to jobs they lack the skill to complete and then have been fired when they fail to perform well at the new jobs, Coles said. University spokeswoman Louise Dudley said without the realignment plan layoffs may have been necessary, and that the plan was specifically designed to prevent layoffs. The Health System was "understaffed in some areas and overstaffed in others," Dudley said.
Third-year Engineering student Jack Chen died Saturday afternoon in a car accident on I-66 when the Honda Accord in which he was riding struck a tree on the side of the road. The car struck the tree shortly after merging onto I-66 from Rt.
Ask yourself sometime, what are the most intrinsic fears from which humanity suffers? Surely fears of rejection and solitude would have to be at the top of the list, and it is these feelings that Sam Shepard primarily explores in his new collection of stories, entitled "Great Dream of Heaven." The stories within the collection are generally brief, running no more than 10 pages in most instances, and most are a mere glimpse into the solitary lives of the characters.
Some readers would say that it's incredibly easy to label Pat Conroy as a Southern writer -- another Eudora Welty, William Faulkner or Margaret Mitchell.
It takes him almost 250 pages to get to the actual porno, but Irvine Welsh knows how to keep people reading: sex, drugs, vengeance and scam after scam.
I am from southwestern Virginia. And, in my opinion, anyone who isn't from this often-ignored portion of the United States cannot understand the essence of the place I call home.
There have been profound changes in the world over the past 100 years --a time span that amounts to just four generations.
"Dogwalker," a debut novel by Arthur Bradford, is an abrasively honest and original book. The actions and stories are absurd, but Bradford forces his reader to reflect upon and empathize with his characters and their situations. The book is a series of short vignettes.
Since the King announced his impending retirement, "Everything's Eventual" has gained a newfound significance -- it's probably the last collection of his short stories that ever will be published. But this doesn't change the fact that the work isn't one of Stephen King's best collections.
Stephen King -- it's a household name. From "Carrie" in 1974 to "From a Buick 8" in 2002, King is heralded the world over as the "king," so to speak, of fictionalized horror.
Frantically, the fans are riding the edges of their seats. Those who waited in line to be the very first inside, well, those fans are waving their arms frenetically behind the opponent's basket in a well known attempt to prevent scoring.
Described as the "poet laureate of the chemical generation," Irvine Welsh is perhaps best known for "Trainspotting," published in 1994 and adapted for film in 1996.
An archive of letters written by George Washington now will be available through the University Library's Electronic Text site -- the result of a collaborative effort between the University's E-Text Center and the Papers of George Washington, a modern scholarly editing project. The Web site will make thousands of George Washington documents available for the general public to browse. "We provide the technological expertise and guidance," said Matt Gibson, associate director of the Electronic Text Center.
Motorists can expect to see more traffic enforcement on the streets of Charlottesville in the coming months, Albemarle County spokeswoman Lee Catlin said. According to Catlin, the number of annual traffic fatalities in Albemarle County has reached an all-time high. "This year's number of traffic fatalities to date is 20, and the total fatalities last year were 10 -- this is very distressing," Catlin said.
Police investigate assault at Poolside Cafe University police currently are searching for a 5-foot-10 black male who allegedly attacked an employee outside of the Poolside Caf in the Aquatic & Fitness Center.
