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Virginia football player Devin Wallace failed to disclose a prior arrest to the University, which is a violation of University Standards of Conduct.
[caption id="attachment_40358" align="alignleft" width="236" caption="U.Va. Day gave Student Council an opportunity to communicate concerns expressed through a survey completed by nearly 2,000 University students.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection in 2012. "After much thought and consideration I have decided to return to the private sector, where I have spent most of my professional life," Webb said in a statement released on his 65th birthday.
[caption id="attachment_40355" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Dr. James C. Turner's study shows national data to be 89 percent higher than Student Health's findings about fatalities among college students.
[caption id="attachment_40353" align="alignleft" width="211" caption="Former Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Hassell stepped down from his position as chief justice last month.
[caption id="attachment_40298" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Devon Wallace, Mike Price and Ausar Walcott are suspected of being involved in a violent fight at JMU.
Senator Jim Webb, D-Va. has proposed to add 13 Southwest Virginia counties to the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, an initiative of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The HIDTA program provides additional federal resources to designated areas that exhibit serious drug trafficking problems to help eliminate and reduce the harmful consequences of illicit activity.
[caption id="attachment_40291" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Turnitin For Admissions searches its large online database, which include libraries, to find similarities between application essays and Internet content.
An increasing number of first-year students are abstaining from drinking alcohol, according to an online survey by Outside The Classroom, an organization that provides alcohol training at colleges and institutions across the United States. Outside The Classroom CEO Brandon Busteed said the survey showed an increase in students who had not consumed alcohol during the periods of the preceding two weeks, 30 days or one year.
Nearly half of the 65 philanthropic gifts of $5 million or more made by private donors last year went to institutions of higher education, according to a report released last Sunday by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. This number reflects an increase from 22.6 percent in 2006 - 21 out of 93 gifts - and 29.2 percent in 2007 - 26 out of 89 gifts.
The Virginia Crime Commission is currently reviewing a bill which would allow rape victims to contact local police, rather than University police, about rapes committed on college campuses.
[caption id="attachment_40226" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Council considered a bill to create a new committee for environmental funding.
The Virginia House of Delegates endorsed House Bill 2063 yesterday, which will make it easier to obtain a protective order without first obtaining an arrest warrant.
Former University student David Solomon, 26, was arrested Jan. 27 at his home in Reston, Va. by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department.
[caption id="attachment_40121" align="alignleft" width="284" caption="The University has asked the state for funding to repair the Rotunda's leaky roof.
The Virginia Employment Commission released statistics last Wednesday indicating Central Virginia's unemployment rate dropped in December to its lowest point in two years.
The Virginia Senate essentially voted to defeat Senate Bill 1250 earlier this week, which would have prevented Virginia departments, agencies and other entities of the commonwealth from regulating firearms and ammunition without statutory approval. The bill would have included public institutions of higher education as one of these entities.
Albemarle County Sheriff J. E. "Chip" Harding is seeking to raise $40,000 for the renovation of a recently purchased command vehicle for his team of search and rescue volunteers. Harding purchased the vehicle, a used Winnebago trailer, at an auction and needs the funds to optimize the vehicle for rescue operations.
Virginia figures from the 2010 United States Census released last Thursday report a spike in the Asian and Hispanic populations, specifically in Northern Virginia counties.
