The controversy surrounding two of the honor cases initiated by Physics Prof. Lou Bloomfield last spring ended Wednesday, Oct.
Presidents of the five largest minority advocacy student groups on Grounds have formed a coalition to strengthen their lobbying power and support a joint agenda. The group, referred to as the Coalition, began as an informal partnership of the five groups last fall.
Saturday's trial was the first open trial in two years, giving the University community a chance to observe a process rarely seen. Tickets were handed out for places in the trial room and the trial was simulcast to another room as well. "I think this trial was treated like any other trial, the only difference were the other people in the room," Honor Chairman Christopher Smith said.
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science met Oct. 10 with university officials from across the nation to discuss the implementation of a "sensitive" category for federally funded and government-owned scientific research. The sensitive designation would serve as a halfway point between classified and unclassified research. Sherwood L.
Students in grades K-12 across the nation will cast their votes online today in the 2002 National Youth Leadership Initiative Mock Election sponsored by the Center for Politics. Beginning today, the mock election ballots will feature candidates for the U.S.
During a time when budget cuts have led to frozen hiring and no raises for faculty or employees, Alan Cohn, former director of the University's Faculty and Employee Assistance Program, will have the task of easing the tension among University faculty and staff. At the end of October, Cohn will take the position of University employee relations director.
Long known as the producer of luxury cars and precisely engineered machinery, not to mention its fair share of David Hasselhoff's Greatest Hits albums, Germany boasts the largest economy in modern Europe. The nation, however, has been plagued by high unemployment rates and stagnating economic growth.
Enron. Tyco. ImClone. The list of companies involved in corporate scandal seems to be getting longer and longer.
Older Americans vote more than youths at polls The issues that dominate national politics will increasingly be geared toward older voters because fewer young people are voting, according to a study conducted by Harvard University, the Washington Post and the Henry J.
Third-year College student Adam Boyd was asked to leave the University on Saturday night after an 11-student random jury found him guilty of cheating. The verdict came on the heels of more than two and a half hours of jury deliberation that concluded Boyd's 12-hour open honor trial. "It's never a happy moment when a student is asked to leave the University," said Honor Committee Chairman Christopher Smith, who served as trial chair.
Six of seven teenagers accused in a September assault on a 16-year-old boy in McIntire Park pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony charges, according to Charlottesville police. The seven individuals and the 16-year-old student victim all were Charlottesville High School students. Assistant City Commonwealth's Attorney Elizabeth Killeen told the Daily Progress that two 15-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy pleaded guilty to malicious wounding by mob Tuesday and will be sentenced Nov.
The University is not alone in its budget woes. The 12 percent reduction in state funding the University will suffer next year is only a small part of sweeping cuts that will hit state agencies in Virginia over the next two years, affecting everything from community colleges to the parole board.
The debate is finally over: first-year students no longer will be permitted to bring their cars to Grounds during the spring semester, in accordance with an Oct.
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.
