It's a Friday night, and you're tired of the Rugby Road fraternity scene. DC is only a two-hour drive away, but the question is, where to go and what to do? 1998 Commerce School alumnus Daniel Odio recognized this dilemma.
The Honor Committee elected second-year College student Thomas Hall as its next chairman during a weekend retreat at Graves Mountain Lodge located in Syria, Va. Hall is a history major and Jefferson and Echols Scholar from Shawnee Mission, Kans. "I'm excited," Hall said.
B. Keith Fulton, director of technology for the National Urban League, decried the disparity in access to technology between whites and minorities in a speech Saturday in the Chemistry Auditorium. About 25 students attended the event, which was sponsored by Brothers United Celebrating Knowledge and Success (B.U.C.K.S.). "There is an uneven distribution of technology and related know-how," Fulton said in his remarks on the "digital divide." He emphasized the need not only to provide minorities with access to computer equipment, but also to teach them the skills needed to succeed in today's technology-driven economy. There should be a support network for minorities in an increasingly complex technological world, he added. "Just because [the government] is dissolving welfare, people still need help," he said, calling for assistance and training for minorities in these fields. Minorities often do not receive sufficient education and training to compete in the job market and are "relegated to low-wage, low-skill labor opportunities," as a result, he said. Fulton also said the recent proliferation of high-paying jobs in technology-related industries provides a golden opportunity for businesses to hire minorities. Companies can "tap talent and enthusiasm to bring new wealth to [minority] neighborhoods," he said. He added that the technology industry would not succeed unless talented and skilled people fueled it. "Human capital is critically important," Fulton said. Because many jobs in the computer industry came into existence only within the past few years, young people are able to attain the same expertise as older workers in the industry. "We're all learning right now in this new economy," he said. Fulton highlighted the National Urban League's efforts to make computers more affordable for minorities. The National Urban League is the first organization to sell certified pre-owned personal computers to minorities. The National Urban League, founded in 1910, works to promote the interests of blacks through research, service and advocacy. Fulton stressed the difficulty of finding and retaining professionals who are committed to helping train minorities to use computers. But computer experts often abandon work with charitable organizations like the National Urban League for higher-paying jobs, he said. He added that it also is difficult to obtain up-to-date computer equipment for the purpose of training minorities, since many of the donations the National Urban League receives are of old or malfunctioning computers. "People want to give you their junk," he said. Ryan Coleman-Ferebee, University relations chair for B.U.C.K.S, said he felt Fulton's message was well-received. "He was very knowledgeable about the digital divide and gave some pertinent information for students," he said. Fulton advised students to use the skills they have learned at the University to teach younger disadvantaged students and encourage them to go to college. "It will take a bold approach - not just charity - to bring these poor kids along," he said. Minority neighborhoods need to make technology a priority to be more prosperous, he added. "They have to decide between high-tops and high-tech," Fulton said. More research needs to be done to prove that investment in technology leads to improvements in education, so that "people like Rush Limbaugh won't say that we should be building more prisons" instead of investing in technology, he added.
After the recent acquisition of Student Painters, the North Carolina-based Tuition Painters company has become the largest student-run company in the eastern United States. Tuition Painters bought Student Painters in early February because of Student Painter's financial difficulties. The acquisition "was totally unexpected," Tuition Painter President Barry Lake said. "We received an e-mail from the Student Painters mid-Atlantic division head, stating that he would like to sell his company.
Following the dismissal of their $1.05 million suit against the Honor Committee, the parents of Jonathan Cobb, a former University student expelled for cheating, have filed an appeal. Jonathan Cobb, along with his parents Darryl and Annette, registered an appeal of the dismissal with the U.S.
Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) soon will announce the appointments of U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thursday and Friday 40 business-minded students came together with a mission: to deal with a travel publication company's billing mistake. The students were involved in the McIntire Consulting Group's first ever case competition, in which a professional consulting firm presented a sticky hypothetical financial situation to to aspiring young business men and women. Navigant Consulting, which sponsored the event and awarded the winners prize money, gave the students a situation in which a travel publication company had overstated circulation figures to many of its clients. The students had to work through the financial data and present their case to a panel of Navigant consultants who then judged which group had the best solution. The competition began Thursday at 5 p.m., when eight groups consisting of five students each received a case for which they had to come up with a plan of action.
History Prof. Edward L. Ayers earned a presidential appointment to the National Council on the Humanities, which will hold its first meeting of the year next week. President Bill Clinton selected Ayers to serve on the Council, a 26-member group that advises the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S.
In 1959, Ralph Nader jump-started the consumer advocacy movement with a Nation magazine article entitled "The Safe Car You Can't Buy." In 2000, armed with the ideals of the environmental and consumer rights oriented Green Party, Nader is running for president. With a large blue and orange "U.Va.
Although Honor Committee members have said faculty discontentment with the honor seriousness clause was an impetus for their most recent constitutional proposal, some faculty members have expressed mixed opinions about whether the referendum will be effective. Related Links UVA Honor web site The proposal calls for removing the seriousness clause from the honor constitution for cases of academic cheating.
Cavalier Daily Staff Writers Virginia Military Institute cadet Erin Claunch has proved that the college's pioneer female recruiting class has adjusted to the formerly all-male institution. Claunch, a member of the first VMI class to include females, was named yesterday as one of the school's two battalion commanders for next year. As battalion commander - second in rank only to the regimental commander - Claunch will bear a "supervisory responsibility" over four companies of cadets, said VMI's Assistant Public Relations Director Chuck Steenburgh.
Dr. Jerry L. Nadler, Division Chief of Endocrinology and metabolism at the University Health System, and his team of researchers have been awarded a nearly $1 million grant to research why diabetes causes heart disease. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation funded the grant. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that affects the body's ability to regulate glucose levels.
Recognizing his advocacy of first amendment rights, the National Press Club named Robert M. O'Neil, Law School professor and former University president, the first in a series of "first amendment fellows." The NPC decided in a board meeting in Washington, D.C., Monday night to honor individuals who have worked to educate people about their rights of expression. NPC President Jack Cushman said over the next year the club plans to select 12 first amendment fellows.
Charlottesville Police said yesterday they believe they found the weapon used in the alleged armed robbery on University Circle Friday night. A resident of the 300 block of 14th Street found the weapon in his yard, at which time the resident contacted police, Charlottesville Police Det.
The University continues to fight legal battles in court over the work of the student-run Honor and Judiciary Committees. University lawyers went before U.S.
An old boarded-up Albemarle County house was slated for demolition but saved just in time to rescue boxes of original documents that detail daily life for turn-of-the-century blacks in Albemarle county. The documents, which consist of more than 250 letters, postcards, photographs and educational materials, are an excellent source of information about American black culture during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The artifacts, found in the attic of the old house in Esmont, are the family papers of Benjamin Franklin Yancey, one of the first black educators in central Virginia and founder of the Esmont School for Colored Children, located about 20 miles from the all-white University. Included among the documents are numerous pieces of correspondence in which black students talk about their professors, courses, friends, ministers and daily life. "Dear Mr. Yancey," reads one letter released by University Relations, "Do you have many scholars this year?
Following yesterday's unanimous Supreme Court ruling, public universities across the country now are able to allocate tuition-based student fees to all university student groups, even if some of these groups may be controversial. In 1996's Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin v.
It is hard to imagine information being transferred faster than the speed of light, but new technology in the field of Quantum Information Physics may make computers exponentially faster one day and allow them to crack complicated computer codes in minutes. QI scientists have developed unique switches with unusual properties.
Jorge Luis Borges, renowned for his impressive short stories and poems as well as the impact he had on his contemporaries, has emerged in the form of previously unpublished poems on the pages of Meridian, a University literary journal. Meridian has unearthed two poems by the famous Argentine poet, who died in 1986.
More evidence has been discovered in the Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson saga, this time casting doubt on the claims of the descendants of Monticello slave Tom Woodson, who assert Woodson was the product of the Hemings-Jefferson affair. A DNA test on the Rev.
