Fourth-year College students Evan Behrle and Charlie Tyson accepted Rhodes Scholarships on Saturday.
The Honor Committee released its state-funded and endowment-funded budgets for 2013 to the Cavalier Daily on Thursday. The Committee’s total budget is $179,031, with $117,446 coming from draws on the Committee’s Endowment and the other $61,585 from state funding.
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Council appointed Jarek Ervin to the University Judiciary Committee Sunday. The committee consists of two representatives from each undergraduate and graduate school of the University, except for the College of Arts and Sciences, which is represented by three members due to its larger size. Ervin will be one of two representatives for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on the 23-person committee.
Thursday the newly appointed Charlottesville Human Rights Commission met in City Hall for the first time. The Commission, an eleven-person committee formed by City Hall to work with the City Office of Human Rights, investigates potential human rights violations in Charlottesville, although the exact details of its work have not yet been established.
The Inter-Fraternity Council elected new leadership to its executive board for the 2014-2015 year Thursday. Among the chief concerns for the new executive board is continuing efforts to reduce hazing during the rushing and pledging processes.
Students, faculty and community residents gathered in the University amphitheater for a candlelight vigil Thursday evening in support of state senator Creigh Deeds (D-Bath County), who was stabbed Tuesday morning. The College Republicans and University Democrats co-hosted the vigil.
The University administration has big plans to restructure the student advising system over the next few years as part of The Cornerstone Plan developed through the strategic planning process.
Student Council adopted a symbolic resolution Tuesday evening in an effort to encourage fourth-year students to donate their class gift to AccessUVa, the University’s flagship financial aid program.
Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ condition was upgraded to “good” Wednesday afternoon after he suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted by his son in his Bath County home Tuesday morning. First responders pronounced Deeds’ son Gus, 24, dead at the scene.
The Living Wage Campaign hosted a vigil for Jarvis Brown Wednesday night outside of O’Hill dining hall.
Recent efforts to make the University a bicycle friendly community have gained traction, as the University was recently named one of 75 bicycle friendly universities by the League of American Bicyclists.
The University recently established the world’s first research Center for Automata Computing as a collaborative effort with Micron Technologies.
At its representative body meeting Tuesday, Student Council expressed condolences and proposed resolutions to recognize several recent local and state tragedies.
Police are investigating Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ (D-Bath) attack in the early hours of Tuesday morning as a possible murder-suicide, Virginia State Police said at a press conference this afternoon. Deeds was stabbed multiple times in the head and upper torso, but is in fair condition at the University Medical Center.
City Council met on Monday night to approve a list of “legislative requests and policy positions” to be submitted to the Virginia General Assembly, including local gun restrictions and bans on smoking in public parks. The requests and positions submitted to the General Assembly were presented by Deputy City Attorney Richard M.
A YouTube video created by students at the University of California, Los Angeles, has garnered massive online attention and is sparking debate across the nation about race at institutions of higher education. The Black Bruins, an African-American student organization at UCLA, posted the video last week to voice complaints regarding their university’s low minority enrollment. Junior and group leader Sy Stokes narrates the video with a spoken word poem addressing the school’s statistical gap in minority enrollment, saying only 3.3 percent of the school’s male student body is African-American.
Charlottesville police are investigating two robberies that occurred approximately 30 minutes apart from each other early Saturday morning. Police have noted that both cases have similarities.
The University administration is requiring the University Guide Service to rewrite its constitution, reform its disciplinary system, and restructure its new member education program in light of the hospitalization of five students for alcohol poisoning during a new member event in early October.
In keeping with national trends, the University has seen a growth in the number of international students stepping on Grounds. The number of international students coming to the United States for the 2012-13 year was a record high of 819,644 — a 7.2 percent increase from last year, according to a recent survey on international enrollment by the Institute of International Education.
An Engineering School student was found guilty of cheating by a student jury in an honor trial Sunday.
