The Commonwealth Transportation Board launched a project Tuesday to install traffic lights at seven city intersections and synchronize the lights on Emmet Street. "This is something we've been planning and requesting for a number of years," Charlottesville Vice Mayor Meredith Richards said.
College at Wise students plead guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery Two students at U.Va.
In the Charlottesville community, housing agencies are working together to implement new homeownership programs in line with President George W.
This year, students interested in on-Grounds housing will have to decide where to apply earlier than in years past, because of a change in the housing division's policy.
Charlottesville has been missing something over the last four years, something students at the University have just recently begun to notice.It is evident in the plastic silverware now used in the dining halls, and the thousands of pamphlets scattered about Grounds exhorting students to conserve water.
Third-year College student Adam Boyd will go to trial Saturday after the Honor Committee turned down a motion to dismiss Boyd's case early yesterday morning. Committee Chairman Christopher Smith, the trial chair for Boyd's case, announced the decision around 1 a.m.
Every year around this time University students are faced with the daunting task of choosing from an array of housing options for the next school year.
Though the General Obligation Bond has received a lot of attention in the past several months, three other issues that will appear on the Nov.
Gov. Mark R. Warner's Tuesday announcement of sweeping statewide budget reductions brought with it news of cuts of 7 to 12 percent at Virginia's public colleges and universities. The University received the largest percentage cut of any public college or university, with a $14 million reduction totaling 12 percent of this year's budget. James Madison University, Virginia's most under-funded college according to statistics from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, will suffer a 10.4 percent budget reduction of $5.4 million. Fred Hilton, director of university relations at JMU, says this cut will lead to the elimination of 275 sections -- equal to 7,000 classroom seats -- if a proposed mid-year tuition increase is not approved. "A reduction of that magnitude could extend graduation time by a full semester," Hilton said. Even with the tuition increase, Hilton said some part-time staff would have to be eliminated, and further spending on equipment, supplies and travel reduced. Rocky said he fears for "retaining the outstanding faculty members" in the college, who have not received raises for two years and are unable to travel. Although the average student with one major should still be able to graduate on time in the sciences, Rocky said he is not confident this will remain true should more cuts materialize when the General Assembly convenes in January. George Mason University, which had the highest tuition increase of any public college for in-state students last fall with a 16 percent hike, might have to impose a mid-year surcharge to accommodate its 10.1 percent, $9.5 million cut. Daniel Walsch, director of media relations at GMU, said although "everybody is feeling pain in all departments," students should "still be able to graduate in four years." He added that it was likely the school's pool of adjunct faculty will be reduced and some courses dropped or combined. At Virginia Tech, Virginia's largest research university, there is no truth to rumors of the elimination of entire academic departments, interim media relations director Jean Elliott said. Now faced with an additional cut of $15.6 million for this academic year, however, a potential 300 jobs, on top of 144 already eliminated, could be lost, according to Virginia Tech President Charles W.
In the wake of the recent sniper shootings, which included the Oct. 7 attempted murder of a 13-year-old boy as his aunt dropped him off at his middle school in Bowie, Md., Charlottesville City Schools have increased security during times when students are entering and leaving the school. According to Sgt.
Aside from midterms, it's next year's housing that seems to loom over many University students' heads first semester.
In recent months the Department of Defense has pressured law schools across the country to reverse their policies barring military recruiters from their campuses. Since August, law schools at Harvard University, Yale University, Georgetown University and the University of Southern California all have allowed military recruiters on campus rather than risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. Previously, these law schools prohibited military recruiters from their campuses because they viewed the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals as violating school anti-discrimination policies. The military unconditionally banned homosexuals prior to 1993, when Congress put into law a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
After months of acrimony, the University has received approval to begin construction of the Ivy/Emmet parking garage.
According to national crime victimization statistics, a woman in the United States is 10 times more likely to be raped than to die in a car crash.
Governor Mark R. Warner announced last week that Virginia retained its optimal AAA bond rating, a development Warner is using to make a case for the passage of the General Obligation Bond. Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, three major bond rating firms, declared Virginia worthy of the best possible credit rating in spite of the state's budget problems. A state's bond rating affects the interest rates it receives when issuing bonds. The AAA bond rating "is not just a status symbol; it has real meaning because the state gets to borrow money at the most favorable rate," Politics Prof.
The University Housing Division will shut down Bice House for renovations during the 2003-2004 academic year. One of the 10 on-Grounds housing options available to upperclassmen, the Bice House apartments on Brandon Avenue currently accommodate 286 students. Slated to begin immediately following graduation this spring, costs for the renovations total over $7 million, according to University Capital Budget Manager Tom Leback.
Nervous Virginians across the Commonwealth watched last night as Gov. Mark R. Warner made a statewide, televised address outlining the "painful" funding cuts he sees as necessary for meeting this year's forecasted $1.5 billion shortfall in state revenue. "A budget shortfall of this magnitude cannot be solved by sound bytes of cutting the fat," Warner said.
Bush pledges increase in minority homeownership During last Monday
A University student nearly was run over by a train in a possible suicide attempt under Beta Bridge yesterday. At about 4 p.m.
The Assembly of University Professors filled the Chemistry Auditorium last night to address the budget crisis.
