Beyond student communication, Ryan announced that the University plans to create a Community Safety Working Group composed of University, Charlottesville and Albemarle community members.
Monday’s town hall, hosted in association with the natural sciences departments of the College, kicks off a total of six town halls to be hosted with various schools around Grounds in the coming two weeks.
Leaders plan to increase student body involvement in Council and support diversity initiatives on-Grounds.
Regular decisions — released March 17 — saw 750 Virginians and 1,432 out-of-state applicants admitted to the University.
The death of this University community member follows a death Tues Mar. 14 after a construction worker fell from the U.Va. Contemplative project, along with an overall uptick in gun violence in Charlottesville.
A major area of expenditures has been the campaign for Student Council president, which was contentested between three candidates.
Van Berkel and Brown founded the group following mutual frustration with the lack of transportation safety on Grounds.
Charlottesville City Council unanimously approved First United Methodist Church’s appeal of the Board of Architectural Review’s denial of Certificate of Appropriateness for a solar panel project in Monday’s session.
The meeting was in quorum with 18 out of 26 members present, meaning the Committee could vote on constitutional and by law matters.
There was a confirmed fire at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house, 165 Rugby Rd Thursday night at 10:17 p.m., per a message sent by the U.Va. Emergency Alert system.
A construction worker at the U.Va. Contemplative Commons project site died Tuesday after falling from the west connector bridge to the Ridley Building.
A focus during this process is on increasing affordable housing in Charlottesville.
Rojas — who will succeed Lily Roberts, Current Student Member of the board and fourth-year Architecture student — was elected March 3.
The sewage backup was initially reported to Facilities Management at around 9:00 p.m. Sunday and resolved by 11:30 p.m., with two subsequent incidents occurring at 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., respectively. According to University spokesperson Bethanie Glover, the three clogged pipes were caused by electronic cigarettes that had been flushed into the main sewer line.
The Charlottesville OED finds that vacancies across the city’s six main shopping centers have slightly increased over a year-long period of observation.
In the face of administration’s insistence that the problem has been rectified, the group continues to demand stricter policies and an expanded staff to enforce payment timelines.
The University of Virginia Medical Center was ranked the No. 1 hospital in Virginia in Newsweek’s annual “World’s Best Hospitals” guide.
The gathering in Newcomb Ballroom began with a moment of silence to honor the free and enslaved Black community.
The group says CASPCA CEO Angie Gunter is to blame.
