Good news - you no longer have to go to the Big Apple to get a dose of Broadway. In fact, you don't even need to leave Charlottesville.
[caption id="attachment_41556" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Members of the Black Student Alliance rallied Monday to continue drawing attention to the Living Wage Campaign.
The Harrisonburg/Rockingham General District Court set the preliminary hearing date for three Virginia football players Monday.
[caption id="attachment_41544" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Council members discussed plans yesterday to reinstate newspaper distribution to students around Grounds.
The University is participating in a state-wide competition in which students may submit proposals for redistricting, the process of redrawing the political boundaries for the Congressional, House of Delegates and state Senate districts.
Third-year Commerce student Dan Morrison, Student Council's current director of University Relations, was named the president-elect with 3,861 votes, defeating third-year College student Evan Shields.
University students elected 23 Honor Committee representatives yesterday for the upcoming term. The new members will take office after Spring Break at a retreat where the chair and executive committee will be elected internally. Elected representatives for the College include third-year students Brandon Kist, Remy Wheat, Ellie Perkins, Alex Eschenroeder and Liz Rosenberg. Current College representative Sarah Munford said the five incoming representatives will bring forth new ideas. "There is a good balance of different experiences between the five of them that they've had in Honor, so they bring a lot of good perspectives and backgrounds," Munford said. Eschenroeder's election platform was based on sustaining community engagement.
The University Board of Elections announced the 13 elected representatives for the University Judiciary Committee last night in Jefferson Hall on the West Range.
Two Honor Committee referenda were validated last night, further clarifying the Committee's constitution. The referenda were passed with a large majority vote.
[caption id="attachment_41340" align="alignleft" width="201" caption="University community members represented Workers and Students United for a Living Wage in a march during the Board of Visitor's meeting in an effort to draw attention to employee salaries for on-Grounds personnel.
The Board of Visitors approved a plan Friday to charge University students an additional $3,000 to enroll in the Commerce School. Rector John Wynne met with Virginia Gov.
[caption id="attachment_41332" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Katie Couric, University alumna and "CBS Evening News" anchor, spoke about the new Emily Couric Cancer Center at the University Medical Center.
The Virginia General Assembly voted last Thursday to pass a bill that critics fear could shut down as many as 17 of the 21 abortion clinics in the state.
[caption id="attachment_41258" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="The University has frozen salaries since December 2007 in response to the economic downturn, but planning has allowed it to avoid refrain from layoffs.
The fourth annual Image Awards were presented yesterday during the closing ceremony of Black History Month at the Special Collections Library. The ceremony was sponsored by the University's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, the Black Student Alliance, the Black Leadership Institute and University Dining. The event was organized to "recognize the dedicated efforts of University community members, both students and faculty, that work towards uplifting the black community at the University," said Dion Lewis, assistant dean and director of the Luther P.
The members of the Board of Visitors met yesterday to discuss the expansion of both the student body and academic programs at the University through legislative support from the state government. In the preliminary Board of Visitors meeting, President Teresa A.
[caption id="attachment_41246" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=""End of Life" Founder Bryan Doerries created the show to depict death as acceptable as birth.
[caption id="attachment_41167" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is continuing his investigation into climate research conducted at the University.
The Princeton Review Best released its annual list of Best Value Colleges Tuesday, naming the University the Best Value Public college for the third consecutive year.
[caption id="attachment_41162" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Council discussed ways to publicize the Central Grounds Parking Gararage's low fees to encourage students to make the drive to libraries late at night.
