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Honor searches for legal advisor

By Edward Hock | January 28, 2000

The Honor Committee will have to speed up their year-long search for a legal advisor after their current advisor confirmed yesterday that he will not work in the General Counsel's office after the end of this year. Earl Dudley, law professor and general counsel, has worked with the Honor Committee through the General Counsel's office for five years, but said he will resign in May. The move comes as the Committee faces three lawsuits seeking more than $13.3 million. Board of Visitors member Benjamin Warthen said he and other Board members had tried to encourage Dudley to stay, but he had wanted to move on. "At the moment we are disappointed that Mr. Dudley is leaving, but he has other mountains to climb," Warthen said.

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Allaire receives $4.2 million grant for heart disease study

By Maria Tor | January 28, 2000

University Mechanical Engineering Prof. Paul Allaire received a $4.2 million grant to help fight one of the deadliest diseases in the United States: congestive heart disease. Allaire and Dr. Dan B.

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Police launch new program to increase alcohol awareness

By John Clark | January 28, 2000

University Police and the Center for Alcohol and Substance Education have targeted first-year students as the focus of new education and enforcement campaigns against underage drinking. Made possible by a $6,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control, University Police have purchased new educational equipment and allocated funds to substance education groups to help deter high-risk drinking. "The grant really supports work with the police department," CASE Interim Director Alison Houser said.

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Author decries capital punishment as unjust

By John McArdle | January 28, 2000

Over 200 students, faculty and community members rose to their feet and gave Sister Helen Prejean a standing ovation at the end of a presentation she gave yesterday in Wilson Hall on the ethical implications of the death penalty.

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Clinton encourages affordable college tuition

By John Teschner | January 27, 2000

President Clinton announced last week that he will encourage Congress to pass legislation to make college more affordable for both students and their parents.

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Council decides to restructure Elections Committee

By Shelley Johnson | January 27, 2000

At Student Council's Tuesday night meeting, Council members established new guidelines for the structure of the Election Committee and a calendar for spring elections. In the past, the Elections Committee consisted of one chairperson and one vice chairperson. However, members voted to establish two co-chair positions and four vice-chair positions for the upcoming election.

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Monticello inquiry supports Hemings,

By Margaret Chipowsky | January 27, 2000

After over a year of study, Monticello officials announced yesterday that research has nearly conclusively proven that University founder Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one and maybe more children with his slave, Sally Hemings. Monticello officials commissioned the study after former University Pathology Prof.

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Couric pushes for internet voting

By Sarah Marchetti | January 27, 2000

State Sen. Emily Couric (D-Charlottesville) announced yesterday that she has proposed a resolution to the General Assembly that would form a study on Internet voting in state elections, with the University's Center for Governmental Studies providing staff for the study research. "Internet voting sometime in the not too distant future will be available to the states," Couric said.

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Researchers use glowing frogs to investigate eye genetics

By Lisa Ann Kaufman | January 27, 2000

Remember when you were young and couldn't sleep at night because you were afraid of glowing, green-eyed creatures?

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Faculty propose

By Tina Hong | January 27, 2000

The Faculty Senate's Student Faculty Interaction Subcommittee is seeking to promote better student-faculty relations at the University through specific proposals that members said they hope to present to administrators this semester. Robert Davis, environmental science professor and subcommittee chair, said the proposals originated from a Senate-sponsored student and faculty retreat in the fall of 1998 where participants discussed ways to improve faculty-student relations. At the retreat, participants stated impediments to faculty-student interaction, including incompatible faculty and student schedules, faculty members' perceived inaccessibility, the difficulty of initiating contact between faculty and students outside of class and the size of the University. "Some of the ideas were photo class lists and [requiring that] every faculty member have a Web page," Academic Affairs Committee Chairman William R.

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Studying the flu: Human guinea pigs earn free money

By Dan Lopez | January 27, 2000

"Volunteers needed for U.Va. Flu Study. Participants will be compensated $1,350.00." My first reaction was that I was probably going to get the flu anyway so I might as well get paid for it.

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Conference to discuss aspects of mentoring

By Jacqueline Roper | January 27, 2000

Members of the University and Charlottesville communities will meet at a conference tomorrow in order to discuss new mentoring programs and find ways to improve existing ones. The conference will "bring together a wide variety of community leaders ... to share ideas about best practices in mentoring," Madison House Assoc.

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Students feel pressure to sign leases

By Jessica Collins | January 26, 2000

First year students, some officials say, may feel pressured to sign a lease prematurely without knowing what they are getting into. When dealing with off-Grounds housing, problems can range from irresponsible landlords and unplanned expenses to inconvenient locations. But most of all, Dean of Students Penny Rue said she believes students feel pressured to find a place to live in too much of a hurry. "Students get in a market frenzy because housing is limited, so they decide very fast, making decisions far in advance of when they need to.

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Program promotes nursing

By Rakesh Gopalan | January 26, 2000

A Nursing student and a Charlottesville resident have created a program in the School of Nursing that will provide health services to countries that lack adequate medical facilities. Third-year Nursing student Matthew Walden along with Charlottesville resident Rodney Hughes created the group, called Nurses Without Borders, late last semester.

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Tenants decry inadequate landlord action

By Claire Edwards and Nicola M. White | January 26, 2000

Leaking refrigerators, misunderstood lease agreements and windows without locks are just a small list of woes some University students have experienced at their off-Grounds dwellings. Student tenants of a D.M.

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Study indicates high levels of stress for college students

By Clark Williams | January 26, 2000

First-year college students feel more stressed now than ever before, according to a nationwide study released this week by the University of California-Los Angeles. Out of over 360,000 first-year college students surveyed, 30 percent reported being "frequently overwhelmed" by all they have to do.

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Classes cancelled?

By Jaime Levi | January 26, 2000

Although Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) declared a state of emergency in Virginia yesterday because of a storm that unexpectedly dumped more than eight inches of snow on the Commonwealth, University officials decided to hold classes and conduct business as usual. The snowstorm quickly made its way to the East Coast, dumping more than 10 inches of snow in the Richmond area, 14 inches at the North Carolina border, and shutting down the federal government in Washington, D.C. Although climatologists said this was the worst storm to hit the East Coast since 1996, Charlottesville accumulations reached only eight inches. Leonard W.

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Institute of Substance Abuse Studies decides on new name

By Abby Curran | January 26, 2000

Gradual changes in the mission of the University's Institute for Substance Abuse Studies have led it to rename itself the Center for Alcohol and Substance Education. Originally founded in 1987 primarily as a research center, CASE became a prevention and education organization as time passed, CASE Interim Director Alison Houser said. "Over the years the office has evolved to better serve the needs of the University," Houser said.

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Off-Grounds housing sprawl may contribute to 'slumization' of city

By LaJoy Faith Thomas | January 26, 2000

College students move in, rents go up and middle-class families move out: A scene that has been played over in college towns across the nation and in the city of Charlottesville, according to Charlottesville Mayor Virginia Daugherty. University students who seek off-Grounds housing are a potential cause of "slumization," a phenomenon that once affected cities like Chicago and New Haven, Conn., the hometowns of the University of Chicago and Yale, repectively, as a result of college students who can pay higher rents encroaching on formerly middle-class areas, Daugherty said.

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Students suggest new 'wellness dorm'

By Emily Roper | January 26, 2000

Members of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team are proposing the creation of a new "wellness dorm" that would cater to students interested in healthier living. ADAPT hopes the wellness dorm will provide a substance-free environment where students can participate in programs that will contribute to healthy lifestyles, ADAPT Peer Educator Marc Olsen said.