Two University students were held up at gunpoint while walking home on Shamrock Road early Saturday morning, police said. Charlottesville Police Sgt.
With the current phase of the Capital Campaign coming to an end, Bob Sweeney, University vice president for development, discussed the next move at this weekend's Board of Visitors meeting. "It was our expectation that at this phase of the Campaign, we would be planning a close-out strategy," Sweeney said.
There are those who would say that a revolution of sorts is inexorably transforming our domestic and global economies.
Forget Napster ... Bring on MTV's Campus Invasion! MTV continued its fifth annual Campus Invasion tour yesterday when it hit the University - one of 23 college campuses (er, Grounds) it will besiege within the next month. The tour transformed the northern end of the Mad Bowl into a personal Interactive Village, with six themed tents in which students could "see, feel and touch MTV," said Brooke Butler, the MTV representative in charge of Campus Invasion. "I think it is great that MTV decided to come here," second-year College student Jenn Friedman said.
At last, the University's night owls will be able to go somewhere other than Littlejohn's after 2 a.m. At yesterday morning's Board of Visitors meeting, President John T.
Visions for a new student center, complete with a mini mall-style food court and student-run theater, keep getting closer to reality. In an open forum late Wednesday night, Student Council leaders, interested students and administrators - emphasizing concerns about the current lack of adequate student space on Grounds - discussed possibilities for the proposed building. The idea for a new student activities building came to life in the spring of 1999, when Council passed a proposal to research the possibility of a new SAB.
After Phi Delta Theta national headquarters and its University chapter clashed over alcohol policy last spring, the University chapter lost its charter.
Library of Congress officials yesterday announced a $60 million gift from longtime University benefactor John W.
The Aquatic and Fitness Center will become even bigger and better with the Board of Visitors' approval of an $8 million expansion. The AFC now measures about 99,000 square feet; the proposed 50,000 square foot expansion will increase its size by about 50 percent. Three indoor basketball courts, an elevated indoor track and expanded free-weight and fitness space are included in the plans. The expansion will turn the AFC into a "comprehensive facility" housing an all-inclusive array of modern facilities, said Ed Rivers, senior associate director of the AFC.
Four years ago I came to the University with the same expectations as most first years - new opportunities, new people, a wealth of experiences waiting to happen.
The University is planning to implement a new managerial position - chief executive officer of the Medical Center - in an effort to strengthen leadership and oversight of University hospitals and clinics. Creation of the CEO position is part of a broader movement by the University to handle the increasing complexities facing hospitals across the nation, said Leonard W.
New York University is planning to demolish a building where Edgar Allen Poe lived from late 1845 to 1846.
The hazing of a sorority member - including dropping a freshman in a coffin so she could be reborn as a Chi Omega sister - and failure to follow nationally established principles led the Chi Omega national sorority to suspend the Sam Houston State University chapter last week. Sam Houston State University is located in Huntsville, Texas. The victim of the hazing, identified as "Becky Smith", alleged that some of her sorority sisters placed her in a coffin and covered her with a sheet to symbolize her rebirth in Chi Omega, said David P.
Five years ago James C. Turner watched five University students fight for their lives after contracting bacterial meningitis. "I was in intensive care with the patients," Turner said.
Property Leasing 101 will not be in the Course Offering Directory anytime soon at the University, but sooner or later first-year students will need to move out of the dorms, and find a new place to live.
Facing a Medical School space crunch, the University plans to ask Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) for $25 million to go toward construction of a new medical research building. The new facility would be built next to another medical research building on Lane Road behind the University Medical Center.
Until a national search yields a permanent replacement, George E. Culbertson will serve as interim chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, University President John T.
The University is known for its praiseworthy and highly gifted professors, and one faculty member in particular has found a chance to shine. Last Wednesday evening, Lisa Russ Spaar, poet and administrator of the University's Creative Writing Program, was one of six women writers nationwide awarded the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
(This is the first in a five-part weekly series examining issues in this November's presidential election.) As baby boomers everywhere begin suffering from the aches and pains of old age, presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the RU-486 abortion pill Friday, students will not find it at the University's Student Health Center. But David Nova, president and CEO of Blue Ridge Planned Parenthood, said its Pantops facility will provide the pill to the public, including students, within the next 60 days. The pill, which will be sold under the brand name Mifeprex, will allow American women to abort pregnancies within the first seven weeks of conception.
