Some afflictions don't have scars, don't require the use of needles and have no effect on blood pressure.
There have been 434 cases of the foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom since the outbreak first appeared last month - the worst epidemic of the disease in the area since a devastating outbreak occurred in 1967.
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? For those speaking German, a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to the University Library's Electronic Text Center will enable the University to partner with the University of Trier in Germany to create a Web site titled "Middle High German Interlinked." A collaborative effort made by the universities will digitize about 100 medieval German texts and associated dictionaries.
Starting next fall, undergraduate English majors will have the option to pursue poetry as an established area of concentration within the department. The program will allow undergraduates to focus on poetry writing.
Jeffrey C. Walker, a University graduate with an interest in combining advanced technology and studies in the life of Thomas Jefferson, recently gave Monticello and the University Library's Electronic Text Center a combined gift of $1.5 million to begin upgrading information technology.
The University ranks seventh in the nation in sending graduates to the Peace Corps with 63 alumni now serving, according to statistics released yesterday. Last year, the University ranked sixth with 70 graduates serving in the Peace Corps.
Residents of Charlottesville soon will have a monument on which they can comment on politics, write poetry and draw for the community to see, thanks to a City Council vote Monday that approved construction of a chalkboard promoting free speech. Three council members voted for the proposal, Council Member David J.
In light of the controversy surrounding one of the most debated presidential elections in American history, a panel gathered last night in Jefferson Hall to discuss problems with and possible reforms to the election process. The panel, sponsored by the Center for Governmental Studies, included Ronald Klain, Al Gore's legal adviser; Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center; Robert Montjoy, assistant vice president for outreach and professor of political science at Auburn University; Trevor Potter, former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission; and George Terwilliger, lead attorney for President Bush during the election recount. The panel began as mediator Larry J.
A new organization on Grounds hopes to raise student awareness and encourage activism on issues concerning individual rights.
Black Student Alliance members elected Elisa Dobbins president of the 2001-2002 executive board in an election session last night in Gilmer Hall. Dobbins, a second-year College student, emphasized that "the BSA must take an active role in increasing diversity awareness at U.Va." in her election speech to the new executive board which will take office in the fall. "Mike Costa, the outgoing president, did an awesome job of working with Honor's Diversity Awareness Committee and other major student organizations," Dobbins said.
Student Council unanimously passed a resolution recommending the improvement of several hazardous areas on and off Grounds at its meeting last night. Each year, Council's Safety Concerns Committee conducts "safety walks" to inspect the status of the safety on Grounds.
Longtime Charlottesville residents Dave Matthews and his family have decided to give back to the community in memory of the music artist's late father and his contributions to the University. The family of the late John W.
The University tallied up the numbers of its six-year capital campaign last week, wrapping up the second-most successful campaign in the history of public universities. The key to the success of the $1.43 billion campaign was the huge drive to contact and encourage potential donors.
The University's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team, which began a year and a half ago, has received four national awards and began holding office hours in February.
No arrests have been made yet in a reported March 9 assault on a female University student near Lambeth Commons. Police have spoken with several witnesses and interviewed possible suspects, but there are "no suspects at this time," said University Police Capt.
University officials announced last Wednesday a final tally of the University's historic capital campaign results.
After an eight-month search, University officials think they have found the woman for the job. Yoke San L.
Virginia colleges and universities will have to discontinue work on several major construction projects to meet the requirements for the 2001-2002 budget proposed by Gov.
A student coalition at Brown University has become so incensed by The Brown Daily Herald, the school's student newspaper, that it has demanded the paper cease distribution on campus and remove the word "Brown" from its title. These demands, the newest added to a growing list, were sparked by the publication of a controversial advertisement denouncing the payment of reparations for slavery. "It is not the place of the editorial board to choose which opinions can run" in the paper, Herald Editor-in-Chief Patrick Moos said. Written and paid for by conservative author David Horowitz, the full-page ad is headlined "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea - and Racist Too." Among the reasons the ad lists, "Reparations to African Americans have already been paid ... in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences." The ad also states, "The reparations claim is a separatist idea that sets African Americans against the nation that gave them freedom," and "there is no single group clearly responsible for the crime of slavery." Many of the 47 school newspapers that received the ad rejected it, including The Cavalier Daily, The Harvard Crimson and The Columbia Daily Spectator. Three other newspapers, including those at Arizona State, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of California-Davis ran the advertisement but later published apologies. "We decided to run the advertisement because [it was] a business decision," Moos said. The ad ran in the Herald last Tuesday.
Summer orientation will be spiced up this year with the addition of a student arts video produced by Student Council's Student Arts Committee. The six-minute presentation will be viewed during the "Joining the U.Va.
