With its construction deadline rapidly approaching, the expansion of Scott Stadium at the Carl Smith Center is set to open before the Cavs kick off against the Brigham Young Cougars at the first home football game Sept.
After Clark Hall consistently was ranked as one of the buildings on Grounds in most disrepair, the building will undergo major renovations and gain a new four-story wing as part of a three-year construction project scheduled to start this summer. The new space will be used primarily for research facilities for the environmental sciences department.
University President John T. Casteen III is calling for increased funding to bring the University up to par with its peer institutions. At his annual State of the University address in Old Cabell Hall May 3, Casteen said many of the University's peer institutions receive more state funding to spend on in-state students. For example, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receives $23,089 per in-state student while the University gets only $11,149 per in-state student. Casteen said the University has suffered since the General Assembly withdrew 10 percent of the University's operating budget in 1990.
Before Newcomb Hall Director Eddie Daniels took his position in 1995, the University's student center lacked an outdoor plaza and its dining hall dated to the 1950s. In 1997, the University completed a massive overhaul of the building, and Daniels worked to reestablish Newcomb as a vibrant center of student life -- a task he names as one of his best professional experiences. As Daniels prepares to leave his post this summer and take a position as director of campus activities at the University of Connecticut, he remembers fondly the work he has done in the last five years. "I have had a really good experience at U.Va.," he said.
The Commonwealth has settled two of the five lawsuits that resulted from the Pavilion I balcony crash that killed a 73-year-old woman and injured 18 others during the 1997 Medical School commencement ceremonies. The two settlements, which totaled $790,000, go to the family members of Mary Brashear, who was killed when a section of the balcony fell during the ceremony.
The Honor Committee granted an appeal May 4 to second-year Engineering student Patricia Gonzales, who was found guilty of cheating on an organic chemistry exam and was subsequently expelled from the University. Gonzales now will stand a second trial, probably next fall, Committee Chairman Thomas Hall said. Third-year College student Matthew Sachs, a teaching assistant in Gonzales' CHEM 241 course, initiated the charges and Gonzales was found guilty in an open honor trial -- the first open honor trial since Sept.
With a fully revamped system set to govern the University's classified employees' pay structure, employers will have more authority over their workers' salaries and will be able to grant pay raises more easily if they so desire. Classified employees are paid a salary rather than an hourly wage and receive health care and retirement benefits.
Groundbreaking for a new library that will house unique relics of American history will take place tomorrow in front of Alderman Library. The new library, the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature and Culture and the Albert H.
Four Honor System Review Commission members met with about 20 students last night in an open forum in Minor Hall to discuss concerns about the system. Commission members said this feedback will be important as they head into the most intensive phase of their evaluation of the Committee's procedures. Committee Chairman Thomas Hall, Terra Weirich, former Committee vice chairwoman for trials, Amy Campbell, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences representative, and Neil Bynum, interim assistant dean of the Luther P.
Students from the University of Virginia's College at Wise now have the opportunity to spend their fourth year in a dual degree program taking classes at the University's Engineering School. The College at Wise is a University branch located in southwest Virginia. Through the program, selected students would study math and science at the College at Wise for three years, and then spend their fourth year in the Engineering School.
First years soon may be unable to choose between Old and New Dorms if University officials initiate a proposal to increase diversity in some first-year residence halls. Housing officials and deans are looking for ways to decrease the disparity between white and non-white students in first-year housing.
Admissions applications to Virginia Tech are up 12 percent this year, allowing Virginia Tech admissions officials to be more selective than ever before. Virginia Tech received about 18,400 applications this year - almost 2,000 more applicants than last year's 16,500.
The University faces $33,990 in penalties for not complying with Environmental Protection Agency codes concerning hazardous wastes and oil spill regulations. EPA spokeswoman Ruth Podems said the University has corrected the violations. "The University now has submitted an oil spill prevention plan and has certified they are in compliance with hazardous materials regulations," Podems said. Last fall, the EPA targeted higher education as an area for inspection and reform, making the University an obvious focus in the Commonwealth of Virginia, said Ralph Allen, director of the University's Environmental Health and Safety office. Upon inspection in June and September, the EPA noted the University was not in concurrence with two regulations - the Resource Conservation Recovery Act and the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Act.
Like sunny weather and flowers in bloom, the sight of students running around Grounds seems to be a rite of spring at the University.
Although the University's new basketball arena has not yet begun to be constructed, students and administrators already are discussing the role students will have in its development. "We want to assert ourselves early on so that our claims don't get pushed by the wayside," Student Council President-elect Joe Bilby said.
The proliferation of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria could nullify the effects of antibiotics, the miracle drugs of yesterday. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Zyvox, an antibacterial drug that is part of a first new class of antibiotics to be developed in 35 years.
Two of the 14 Contracted Independent Organizations that appealed for more funding from Student Council got what they asked for at Tuesday's hearing, which lasted until early Wednesday morning. Council's Appropriations Committee granted the Virginia Club Ice Hockey team and CAINE, a comic book and animation organization, more Student Activity Fee money than the Committee originally allocated.
Following criticisms of voting practices during this year's Republican presidential primaries, the U.S.
About 98,000 Americans are dying from medical errors each year. Such an appalling statistic is the equivalent of one jumbo jet plane crash per day. The blatant truth of the matter is that we never hear it in quite such harsh terms.
National College Scholarships For Second Years: *Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship gives outstanding natural science or math-majoring college sophomores and juniors up to $7,000 for a year of study. For Third Years: *Beinecke Memorial Scholarship for need and merit, covers tuition and expenses for about 12 college juniors to finish their senior year and pay for two years of grad school *Barry M.
