Editor's Note: Cavalier Daily Executive Editor Jeffrey Eisenberg is counsel for Adam Boyd in this case.
Main Street echoed yesterday with cries of "Hey hey, ho ho, poverty wages have got to go!" as students and Charlottesville residents marched to demand that the Courtyard Marriott Hotel at 1201 Main Street pay its employees what activists call a "living wage." The Labor Day demonstration was part of an almost two-year campaign by the local chapter of a statewide group called the Virginia Organizing Project to convince owners of the Marriott to pay its employees $8.65 an hour.
Editor's Note: Cavalier Daily Executive Editor Jeffrey Eisenberg is counsel for Adam Boyd in this case.
Following S. Vance Wilkins Jr.'s June resignation from his position as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Republicans have named William J.
This fall, the Inter-Fraternity Council says it will crack down on rush violations by enforcing restrictions on what many University students know as "dirty rush." IFC Judiciary Committee Chairman Zach Terwilliger describes "dirty rush" as an attempt by a fraternity to entice a first-year student to join a particular house.
Students seeking employment in the coming year might not face as dire prospects as they feared. Although many companies remain cautious about the economy's recovery, a little initiative does a great deal to ease the often arduous process of finding a job. The unemployment rate is one of the best indicators of economic wellbeing.
A 19-year-old Charlottesville man was arrested Aug. 29 for breaking and entering and burglary of three University area apartments. According to Charlottesville General District Court records, Lawrence Irving Roundtree is charged with three felony counts including two burglary charges and one breaking and entering charge.
University students can expect parking to get more difficult and expensive in the next year. In addition to the loss of space resulting from the arena project, parking demand among upperclassmen probably will increase because of changes in Charlottesville's ordinances on neighborhood parking. A new city ordinance took effect Saturday to rezone several streets in popular student neighborhoods as permit parking zones. "It's a slight expectation of ours that the number of people using on-Grounds parking will be rising," said third-year College student Will Sowers and Student Council parking and transportation committee chairman. Streets in the Jefferson Park Avenue and Venable neighborhoods, including Shamrock, Harmon, Wertland, Edgewood, Fendall, Old Farm, Cottage, Winston, Burnley and Wayside are among those being rezoned so that only residents may park on them. "This was done in order to reduce hazardous traffic and preserve the character of neighborhoods," Charlottesville Communications Director Maurice Jones said. The city treasurer's office also will issue yearlongpermits at a cost of $25, Jones said.
University students can anticipate renewed attention to the problem of drinking and driving when Virginia launches a new statewide campaign and local police programs take effect. Under the new plan, Virginia will step up its sobriety checkpoints and publicity efforts to deter drunken driving.
Yesterday U.Va. Vice President and Provost Gene Block froze the hiring search for three vice provost positions.
The blood supply across Central Virginia is dwindling, which could lead to serious consequences for patients needing transplants or elective surgery. Elective surgery is a non-emergency procedure such as hip replacement or knee surgery. Virginia Blood Services will ask its hospitals to cancel elective surgeries next week if donations do not increase over the weekend, said Wendi Snowberger, director of donor recruitment for VBS. "The current blood supply is not very good," said Pamela Clark, associate director for blood bank and transfusion services at University Medical Center and medical director for VBS.
As Charlottesville and Albemarle County prepare for September, typically the month requiring the highest water usage, city officials are hoping the rain won't go away and that area denizens will continue to follow the area's mandatory water restrictions. The rain of the past couple of days has not come close to relieving the drought, city officials said. "This little rainfall shows very little change," said J.W.
Residents of Brown College and the Gooch-Dillard residence area will feel the effects of the University's tightening budget in at least one very tangible way this year -- they will have to clean their own bathrooms. In response to looming budget cuts, the Housing Division informed residents it will no longer clean the bathrooms, Chief Housing Officer Mark Doherty said. "In light of the increasingly serious budget situation, the notion was to bring the service to the same level as what is in other upperclass apartments," Doherty said. In most upperclass dormitories, Housing does not clean the bathrooms. An example of the kind of arguments over budget-trimming that University students might come to expect in the next two years, many students have objected to the housekeeping change. In another cost-cutting measure, the Housing Division has also eliminated Saturday mail delivery, Doherty said. Housing is not planning to fire any workers but will save money by not re-hiring some workers who leave, he added. Housekeeping still will provide toilet paper and clean "common" areas, such as hallways, in Brown and Gooch-Dillard. Some students said they were angry because they signed their housing contracts with the expectation of housekeeping service in the bathrooms. "It's a definite breach of contract," said Aaron Silverman, third-year College student and Brown resident. Some students also complained they did not find out about the change until they arrived on Grounds, and found letters in their mailboxes. "We could have been given more warning," said Alexia Spanos, a third-year College student and Gooch resident. Other students pointed out the inconvenience of coordinating the cleaning of a bathroom shared by several students. A petition has circulated around Gooch-Dillard calling the cutbacks in housekeeping a breach of contract and demanding a refund for all residents of the $190 increase in housing fees that went into effect this year for Gooch-Dillard, plus additional money, Spanos said.
The West Nile virus is continuing to spread across the United States, even causing several Virginians to become sick.
While some students who landed summer internships were forced to spend hours in crowded offices, fourth-year Commerce students Emily and Sarah Beck, twin sisters, successfully completed a six-week internship program without leaving the comfort of their home. Fairness.com, which employed the Becks this summer, is a recently developed Charlottesville-based company that describes itself as a non-profit "clearinghouse Web site." The company provides information on various fairness-related issues, from professional ethics to consumer protection. People can log on to the Web site and search for articles pertaining to specific topics or organizations of interest to them. "We live in a world in which there is no shortage of issues of fairness," said Dan Doernberg, the company's president. The Beck sisters learned of this unique internship opportunity through the Commerce School.
As the commonwealth's financial condition continues to worsen, the University might be forced to cut its budget by upward of 20 percent in each of the next two years. By Sept.
SAT Math averages up two points to 32-year high National SAT scores rose this year on the math section but fell on the verbal section, causing total scores to remain steady. The average annual score on the exam, which many colleges use to evaluate applicants, was 1020 out of a possible 1600. The national average on the math section rose two points to a 32-year high of 516 out of 800. This year the average on the verbal section dipped to a six-year low of 504. In the past decade, math scores rose 15 points and verbal scores rose four points nationally. This year, Virginia students averaged a score of 1016 on the exam, a five-point increase over the previous year. Educators, including University of California President Richard Atkinson, are in the process of looking at alternatives to the SAT. To improve accuracy, the College Board plans to add a writing section and more critical reading passages to the exam by 2005. City, County residents cut back on water usage Prompted by tough water restrictions, residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County cut water usage by 10 percent over the weekend. Local officials said they are hopeful water usage could eventually be reduced by as much as 30 percent. The reductions in water consumption come on the heels of new water usage rules that went into effect last Friday. Local residents are forbidden from washing cars and watering lawns. First-time violators receive a warning, while second-time violators are slapped with a $500 fine. Despite the cutbacks by residents, water supplies in local reservoirs dropped by 2.3 percent over the weekend. -- Compiled by Josh Goodman
Exactly one year after terrorist attacks tore America apart, students and citizens alike will unite at the University to help bring the community together. On Sept.
University Democrats will be teaming up with the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., to host "2002 in 2002," a month-long voter registration rally beginning Monday. Organizers will man tables both on the Lawn and in Newcomb Hall through Sept.
University alumnus Leroy R. Hassell Sr. was elected chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday. Gov.
