(This is the third in a four-part series examining the way members of the University view the honor system.) University faculty members initiate more than 50 percent of all honor cases.
Yesterday, the Dave Matthews Band official Web site posted the cancellation of the band's second Charlottesville show scheduled for Sunday, April 22.
Few may remember filling out those mind-numbing census forms that appeared in our mailboxes last year - maybe because many did not bother to fill them out at all.
Have you "ever been convicted of possessing or selling illegal drugs?" Starting with the 2001-2002 school year, the U.S.
As third-year Engineering student Brian Edmonds thought about what life would be like next year living at 15 West Lawn he quietly commented, "There's no way I won't be taking my rocking chair." Almost 35 years ago, Lawn room 15 was endowed in memory of Gus Blagden.
Nine months ago, College Dean Melvyn P. Leffler announced he would resign in August. Nine months later, his replacement still is unknown. But according to Gene Block, chairman of the search committee charged with finding Leffler's replacement, there are several "exceptional" applicants from which the new dean will be chosen. "We have interviewed a number of external as well as internal candidates," Block said.
It's official - University professors are interested in having an on-Grounds faculty dining facility in which they can enjoy lunch with one another, University guests and students. Faculty Senate members recently learned the results of a survey asking faculty about potential plans for an additional University dining facility.
At a meeting last night, the Honor Committee released its official case statistics for the 2000-2001 Committee term.
In a report presented Friday to the Board of Visitors, the Virginia 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force for the Department of Athletics recommended restructuring the University's 24 varsity sports into four tiers to combat an athletics program deficit that is projected to reach $47.4 million by 2010. The task force also recommended the elimination of men's indoor track and field and the addition of women's golf in order to address the budget deficit and Title IX concerns regarding equality between men's and women's athletics. If the changes are approved, women will make up 51 percent of the University's athletes, up from 47 percent.
With dot-com bubbles bursting and the NASDAQ nosediving, you might think that nobody's going to start a new company anytime soon.
At the April Board of Visitors meeting this weekend, members discussed a number of issues including proposed capital outlay projects, tuition and rate increases, and the University's 2020 commission reports. The Board of Visitors is composed of 16 members appointed by the governor, and a non-voting student member.
You've just gotten used to the disembodied and robotic voice that has replaced telephone operators.
Well, it's over. Tax season officially ended yesterday, as thousands of Americans dropped their 1040s in the mailbox and kissed significant portions of their income goodbye.
"I've been in many places where it wasn't okay to talk about what we are going to talk about tonight," Asst.
Last night, 1988 Democratic presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis addressed a crowd of about 500 students, faculty and community members in the Chemistry Auditorium regarding the state of the presidential election system. Dukakis's speech was part of the annual National Symposium Series sponsored by the University Center for Governmental Studies.
Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare at the Cato Institute, discussed the future of Social Security in the United States and actively endorsed privatization of the system last night in a forum hosted by Students for Individual Liberty. Tanner pointed out how the system now discriminates on the basis of both gender and race. "Social security under the current system penalizes married women who work and those people with shorter life expectancies," Tanner said. Under the spousal benefit rule, wives are entitled to 50 percent of the social security their husbands receive.
Pavilion X soon will have a new resident. Commerce School Dean Carl P. Zeithaml will move into the historic pavilion this summer.
According to a letter sent by Rector John P. Ackerly III to the prime minister of the Burmese government in exile, the Board of Visitors will not address a Unocal shareholder resolution when it convenes this weekend. The University now invests $2.1 million in Unocal, a Los Angeles-based oil company that built a pipeline in Burma in 1996.
Filling a role traditionally played by the Student Council appropriations committee, Newcomb Hall officials will assign office space to student organizations in the coming months. An executive decision by Council President Abby Fifer removed the appropriations committee's control over Contracted Independent Organization office space allocation.
Law enforcement officials following the case involving a top Republican's eavesdropping on a conference call between high-ranking Virginia Democrats are now considering a full grand jury investigation into the matter. Ed Matricardi, the executive director of the Virginia Republican Party, listened in on a conference call March 22 between 30 Democratic lawmakers and Gov.
