Rising student concern prompted Student Council to create a new ad-hoc committee to research ways to stop students from chanting "Not gay" in the Good Ol' Song during football games. Council President Joe Bilby sponsored the bill along with College Reps.
College is the best four years of your life. This maxim is slowly becoming obsolete, however, since four years is no longer the amount of time most students spend in college, according to statistics released by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. At most of the state's 15 four-year public colleges, less than 50 percent of freshmen graduate within six years. But the University defies this trend, boasting a six-year graduation rate of 91.3 percent to top the list.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov. George W.
Will work for honor. The University's Alumni Association Board of Managers is campaigning for donations totaling $2 million to establish an endowment to support the Honor Committee. Although the endowment now is being raised as part of the University's Capital Campaign, fundraising for the Committee will continue past the Campaign's December deadline. Alumni Association Executive Director Jack Syer said he anticipates the timeline for raising the $2 million to be anywhere between a year and 18 months.
Biomedical projects to research diabetes and cancer may be underway at the University by the end of the year, thanks to $7 million in funding from a new independent foundation. The Ivy Foundation is dedicated to helping the University fund its top research priorities in biomedicine, said William Battle, chairman of the foundation's board.
In this age of cyber-communication, more law students are seeking classes in the growing field of Internet law.
As cool weather overtakes the long Indian summer, the Fifth District's congressional election has heated up.
(This is the second in a five-part weekly series examining issues in the 2000 presidential race.) As the weeks before the November presidential election dwindle, Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov.
As the 21st century takes flight with a global, interconnected world, the University hopes to increase participation in its study abroad program over the next 20 years to meet the changing atmosphere of our society. Currently less than 20 percent of University students study abroad as compared to 40-60 percent of students at peer institutions, said William Quandt, vice provost for international affairs. "We want students to get outside of their familiar environment and see the world through a different lens," Quandt said. The study-abroad initiative is part of the Virginia 2020 program, launched in March 1998.
Hoping to use that summer job money to break into the red-hot venture capital market? Maybe you should get some advice from the University Treasurer's office. The University reported a 43.7 percent return rate on its investments in the 1999-2000 fiscal year, led by a whopping 400 percent gain in its venture capital division. University Treasurer Alice Handy credited the bulk of the gains to the venture capital investments, which account for 20 percent of the University's portfolio.
Last week, the Board of Visitors submitted to the Virginia Department of Education a comprehensive and concise evaluation of the present status and future goals of every facet of the University. The agreement is designed to eliminate the need for state universities to lobby every year in front of the General Assembly, instead allowing them to better plan for the long term by increasing their state funding schedule from one year to six. The 43-page evaluation makes up a negotiable draft of the University's experimental Institutional Performance Agreement, or IPA, with the Commonwealth of Virginia. The IPA eventually will travel to the General Assembly, which will decide whether to approve the agreement. The IPA is one of the proposals to come out of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education, which was formed by Governor James S.
By 2010 the University's athletics program will be $44 million in debt, Carolyn Callahan warned the Board of Visitors at its meeting Friday. Callahan, the University's faculty representative to the athletics department, updated the Board on the University's 2020 Strategic Planning Task Force for Athletics. The Virginia 2020 initiative, established by University President John T.
As Election Day nears, the race between former Governor George Allen (R) and incumbent Sen. Chuck Robb (D) for a coveted U.S.
Such is the fire started by the net commerce revolution that even in defeat, the Internet creates business. As funds dry up, layoffs become second nature, and net businesses desperately scramble to raise capital or find rescuers to buy or merge them, failure voyeur sites such as Deathwatch.com and Dotcomfailures.com have emerged and picked up on losses from their doomed counterparts. Funded by sponsors and advertisers, these sites offer special features enabling visitors to make predictions, scan company rumors and lists of already failed companies, and browse through domain sales.
If the wrestling superstars have their way, there may be two new jabronis laying the smack down in the World Wrestling Federation ring. Hoping to mobilize young, uninformed voters, the WWF challenged presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov.
City Council is embroiled in a debate over the Meadowcreek Parkway, a controversial issue that has dragged on for over 30 years, pitting city transportation concerns against environmental activists and those opposed to "city sprawl." The Meadowcreek Parkway would be a two-mile road between Rio Road in Albemarle and Charlottesville's Route 250 bypass.
Observatory Hill Dining Hall soon will serve its last meal. The Board of Visitors unanimously approved a resolution at its Friday meeting to demolish the dining hall and the Tree House and build a new dining facility in their place. O-Hill, located at the corner of Alderman and McCormick Roads, serves as the primary dining facility for the first-year housing areas. Leonard W.
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.
