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County enforces governor's water cutbacks

Albemarle County's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to make violating state water restrictions a Class 3 misdemeanor. The decision comes after new restrictions were issued August 30 to extend the existing measures to limit private well-water users, affecting approximately half the residents in Albemarle County. In the greater Charlottesville community, residents are being asked to run dishwashers and washing machines with full loads, and not to fill swimming pools or water lawns unless they are recently renovated or new. Restrictions on private well users, who are more likely to live farther away from town, are enforced by Albemarle County local government, Albemarle County spokeswoman Lee Catlin said. Although restrictions were enacted on the county, city and state levels, Catlin said Charlottesville residents will not be cited and fined on multiple levels. Gov.

Warner proposes security measures

Governor Mark R. Warner released yesterday a second round of recommendations from the Secure Virginia Panel that could impact the structure and depth of state security and emergency readiness plans. The recommendations also endorse more efficient funding for homeland security research at higher education institutions. "This is a second group of recommendations from a panel that continues to meet and issue proposals," Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said. The panel was formed in January of this year by an executive order from Warner.

ISC enacts new contact policy for spring rushees

As part of an ongoing effort to strengthen interaction with first-year women, the Inter-Sorority Council has enforced a new contact policy for this fall. The revisions allow the incoming female class to participate in sorority-sponsored philanthropic events that were previously off-limits to first-year women. The changed bylines, voted on last spring, arrive as the ISC launches a new campaign to improve first year's understanding of sorority affairs. "By opening philanthropic events to first-year women, they will have a firsthand experience of what sorority women plan and participate in together," ISC President Whitney Eck said.

University gets go ahead for garage

After more than a year of submitting reports to state agencies and six months of very public controversy, the University soon will break ground on a 1,200-car parking garage on Ivy Road. Virginia's Secretary of Administration made the decision Wednesday to allow the University to begin construction. The garage, to be located behind the Cavalier Inn, will hold student, faculty and staff parking.

New In Brief

The Virginia Department of Health announced yesterday that it has identified two more human cases of West Nile virus.

Graduate Labor Unioncriticizes library cutbacks

Daniela Bell, Graduate Labor Union president, sent University President John T. Casteen III a letter yesterday asking him to reverse library staff cutbacks and reductions in library hours. This fall the University library staff eliminated 80 student positions due to budget cuts. The letter, which Bell wrote on behalf of GLU and otherconcerned graduatestudents, lamented the effects the library cuts are having on graduate students and on the University in general. The letter mentioned particular concerns of graduate students who work at the libraries and have lost their jobs. In addition to making staff cuts, Alderman Library will close two hours earlier, at 10 p.m., and no libraries will be open on weekend mornings. The cuts, which University Librarian Karin Wittenborg announced last month, come as a result of the state budget crisis that has led to substantial cuts in the University's public funding. "Cutting the library really hurts the teaching mission of the University and the research mission of the University," Bell said. Library officials did not feel as though the library had been disproportionately targeted for cuts, library spokesperson Charlotte Scott said. "Everyone is in the same boat; this is a statewide budget crises," Scott said.

Sabato's Crystal Ball predictions shine online

Republicans will rule the House, while the Senate race looks like a tossup, according to the University's political soothsayer, Politics Prof.

University ranks ninth in diversity study The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has ranked the 26 top universities as to how successful they have been in integrating black students. Duke University was named the most diverse, and the University of Chicago was named the least. The top five schools were Duke University, Emory University, Princeton University, Washington University and Vanderbilt University. The bottom five schools were University of Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. The University of Virginia was ranked at number nine. According to its press release, the JBHE derived its data from "government sources and original research," which are "based on 13 widely accepted quantitative measures of institutional racial integration." Unlike similar rankings used by U.S.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Bookstore donates extra funds to Council

For the second consecutive year, the University Bookstore has donated $50,000 of surplus funds to Student Council. Bookstore Director John Kates said that, while the bookstore has left the distribution of the funds to Council, he hopes "that the donation will benefit as many students as possible." Last year, Council used $25,000 donated by the Bookstore to purchase a new van for Escort Service.

National study cites hospital's intensive care improvements

Continuing a long tradition of excellence, the University Medical Center has earned yet another accolade.

Casteen says tuition may rise again

As the Sept. 20 deadline approaches for University officials to send the 2003-2004 budget proposals to Richmond, President John T.

Goode visits University in campaign effort

Despite muggy conditions and overcast skies, about 50 University students and community members congregated on the Rotunda steps yesterday to show their support for Congressman Virgil Goode. Goode, a Republican who represents Virginia's 5th District, is seeking his fourth consecutive term in the U.S.

University to review, possibly change curriculum

In an effort to reassess and possibly revise curriculum, faculty members in each of the University's schools are completing the last leg of a University-wide review this year. "Each school will re-evaluate its curriculum," College Dean Edward L.

U.Va. partnership in Africa gains UN praise

After 25 years of collaboration with African universities, the University won recognition from the United States delegation to a United Nations summit devoted to international environmental issues. The Southern Africa-Virginia Networks and Associations, officially ratified by the University and four African universities in late July,2002, was designed to address environmental and health topics pertaining to southern Africa. In a special session of the World Summit on Sustainable Development held last Friday in Johannesburg, South Africa, the U.S.

William Clark

Also a native of Virginia, Clark was born Aug. 1, 1770, on a plantation in Caroline County. At the age of 14, Clark and his family moved to a plantation in Kentucky on the frontier.

Meriwether Lewis

Born Aug. 18, 1774, in Albemarle County not far from Charlottesville, Lewis was a boyhood neighbor of Thomas Jefferson.

Going West

Just as Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lt. William Clark embarked 200 years ago on the Corps of Discovery to learn about the great American West, the University now is undertaking an intellectual journey to research and teach the history and development of the West that these two historic figures first brought to the American consciousness. The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project is a multidisciplinary four-year endeavor begun in 2000 and funded by the President's Office.

Casteen joins students in bond rally

RICHMOND -- A busload of University students and administrators rallied with other schools and state government officials yesterday, encouraging Virginia voters to pass the higher education bond referendums this fall. The rally marked the beginning of a statewide bipartisan campaign to pass the referenda in the Nov.

Board looks at budget burden on education

Students and faculty alike are expressing concern over the state of Virginia's economic crisis and its effects on the University.