The startling revelations about WorldCom underscore thenecessity to restore trust and confidence in our markets, where over 60 percent of the American public invests.
An employee of the University Medical Center and member of the hospital's Ethics Consultation Board faces two felony charges related to solicitation of sexual activity and child pornography, according to Charlottesville police and Charlottesville General District Court records. Christopher W.
The Virginia Department of Transportation declared the University's first study of the traffic effects of the proposed parking garage at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road to be insufficient. The statement, which VDOT made in a letter to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, claimed the study failed to consider peak traffic times or pedestrian traffic. These latest criticisms echo similar critiques that the City of Charlottesville and local resident groups made of the study, which the University conducted last fall. VDOT became involved in the garage debate last week after U.S.
In reaction to Virginia's severe drought conditions, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County officials have declared mandatory water restrictions. The restrictions went into effect at midnight, Aug.
The July sun beat down an unmercifully humid 95 degrees on heaps of lumber, piles of stones and the frame of a uniquely designed house at a Crozet construction site. According to David Click, a project manager and second-year graduate Engineering student, other Engineering and Architecture students can be found in their "posh, corporate summer jobs making $20 an hour," but students participating in the University's chapter of the U.S.
The director of admissions at Princeton University has been placed on administrative lead following accusations that he entered a secure Yale Web site to access the admissions status of 11 Yale applicants. Princeton admission officers allegedly gained access to the private records on the Yale Web site by entering the birth date and social security numbers of students who applied to both schools.
In response to continued budgetary woes and statewide revenue shortfalls, University officials have imposed an indefinite hiring and discretionary spending freeze. With the Commonwealth's failure to meet 2002 expected revenue levels by $237 million, Gov.
Over 80 doctors, nurses and students from the University Medical Center brought much needed attention to the Appalachian region in a three day outdoor clinic head July 26-28. The volunteers, who set up make-shift examination rooms in army tents at the Lonesome Pine Airport in Wise County, saw over 2,600 patients, many of whom stood in line for hours. The trip highlighted the plight of the region's ill, who often do not receive the care they need because of the lack of locally available care in Appalachia.
After alleged drinking violations, the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control has threatened to revoke Foxfield Racing Association's liquor license at a hearing scheduled for early September. If the hearing panel decides to revoke Foxfield's license, it may have little effect on alcohol consumption, as the racing association itself does not sell drinks, but rather allows patrons to supply their own. Attracting thousands of University students each year, the annual spring steeplechase has come under heavy criticism for fostering excessive underage drinking and disorderly conduct, such as public urination and destruction of property, in addition to creating heavy traffic jams along Garth Road. Although this will be Foxfield's first formal hearing, it has drawn past criticism from both ABC officials and Garth Road residents. "Foxfield hasn't been heard [by a panel] before, but it received a written warning for the April 29, 2000 race for not maintaining peace and good order," said Becky Gettings, ABC director of public affairs. Gettings declined to comment on specific Foxfield abuses until the panel hearing. Foxfield has had "an ongoing conflict with the ABC," said Race Director W.
As part of the July 19 closing ceremony that concluded their six-week program, the Medical Academic Achievement Program, which prepares talented minority undergraduates from across the country for medical school, donated $512 to the Charlottesville Free Clinic. The donation, compiled from the personal resources of the participating students, was designed to represent the selflessness required of a doctor, said MAAP class president Nat Campbell, who is a rising senior at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa. "MAAP decided to commit the type of altruistic act that will be commanded as a physician," Campbell said.
The University will lose a valuable employee August 15 when Chip German, who has been responsible for the University's Information Technology program, will leave for Mary Washington College. Mary Washington, which is located in Fredericksburg, has been exploring the possibility of adding a graduate program in recent months, which would give it University status. Miller Center report investigates effects of government restructuring The University's Miller Center for Public Affairs has released the first study in recent years to review executive reorganization in the 20th century. The report's release is timely, as Congress faces the crucial task of considering action to restructure the federal government as part of President George W.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent fellow Virginians Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on a westward expedition that opened an era of drastic change. In memory of Jefferson's role in proposing the cross-country trek, the University, Monticello and the city of Charlottesville will kick off the opening events for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration in January 2003. The week's activities, from Jan.
About 350 of the Commonwealth's top political officers, staffers, reporters and pundits came together at the fifth-annual Virginia Governor's Conference held July 18 and 19 to honor former Democratic Gov.
The Board of Visitors recently approved a $5 million addition to Campbell Hall, home of the University's Architecture School, which primarily will be used to add office space for 36 faculty members. The four-story addition was approved to correct deficiencies in the amount of office and teaching space in the Architecture School, University spokeswoman Louise Dudley said.
S o it's the first day of college. A brand new computer is set up on the desk; the bed is made with clean, freshly pressed sheets.
They say, "Cash is king," but shelling out an extra $3 to withdraw money from a rival bank's ATM may not be worth the cost.
I think it was the fourth cup of coffee that finally gave me the courage to introduce myself. For the past 45 minutes I had been sitting on my broken bar stool - waiting, hoping some- one else would make the first move.
Charlottesville City Council members unanimously voted to name Maurice Cox the next Charlottesville mayor at a meeting held July 1.
Ten of the University Medical Center's 36 clinical departments made U.S. News & World Report's 2002 "America's Best Hospitals" list.
The Lewis Mountain Neighborhood Association, Charlottesville City Council and a potential gravesite all have impeded University plans to open a new parking garage at the intersection of Ivy Road and Emmet Street. Residents have objected to using valuable real estate property for a large parking garage, which will serve the proposed new basketball arena on Massie Road in addition to use for student parking.
