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Court convicts Chang for death

By Shirley Park | September 14, 2010

Former University student Alan Yuan Chang was found guilty Thursday of voluntary manslaughter and unlawful wounding of his father Jian Zhang. The following Friday evening, after three hours of deliberation, the Henrico Circuit Court jury suggested a four-year sentence for the voluntary manslaughter conviction and a $2,500 fine for the unlawful wounding conviction. Before coming to a conclusion, the jury was deadlocked, almost ending the case in a mistrial.

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Councils evaluate future of readership program

By Caroline Houck | September 14, 2010

[caption id="attachment_35683" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The Newspaper Readership Program, which provided copies of The New York Times at various locations on Grounds, has been put on hold until Student Council and the Arts & Sciences Council can look into alternatives.

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UJC makes exam available online

By Tom Christensen | September 14, 2010

The University Judiciary Committee has gone paperless; paper exams administered to potential recruits have been replaced by an electronic exam that users can access through Collab. UJC made the decision to bring the test online to increase access for interested recruits, as well as to become more environmentally friendly. "It makes it very accessible to all students to have it on their Collab site," said Emily Flavin, vice chair for first years. By administering the test via Collab, students will be allowed to take it at their convenience, Flavin said.

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Environmental group invites Nader to talk

By Rebecca Rubin | September 14, 2010

[caption id="attachment_35678" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="People's Alliance for Clean Energy, the organization that invited Nader to speak, was created in response to officials' plans to build a plant in Louisa, Va.

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AirBus program resumes

By Jane Ma | September 13, 2010

[caption id="attachment_35639" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="While Student Council's UVAirBus program will return for students during breaks, the current schedule only includes trips to and from Richmond.

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Board accepts park rezoning

By Caroline Newman | September 13, 2010

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a rezoning plan to extend Fontaine Research Park by 31,000 square feet during a meeting last Wednesday night. Fontaine Research Park, owned by the University of Virginia Foundation, is currently home to clinics and research facilities for a variety of medical disciplines within the University, including the Health South Office, a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital.

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Survey reveals city bike-path demand

By Kevin Mead | September 13, 2010

Bike enthusiasts and local officials discussed ways to make Charlottesville more biker-friendly at a summit Thursday. Survey results from 586 local cyclists revealed an overwhelming demand for more on-road bike paths in Charlottesville, specifically along Ivy Road and West Main Street.

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Hoos for Pakistan pushes for awareness

By Tyler DeBoard | September 10, 2010

University students and faculty are working to publicize the relief effort for victims of widespread flooding in rural Pakistan, which has displaced some 20 million people and has left more than 1,500 individuals dead. During a panel discussion Monday evening discussing the Pakistani disaster, Politics Prof.

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Group claims lack of transparency

By Virginia Terwilliger | September 10, 2010

The Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville-based civil liberties nonprofit organization with conservative leanings, sent a letter to the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle Country Board of Supervisors condemning the governing bodies for holding "closed, secret meetings on matters of public interest." The letter said the meetings violated Virginia's Freedom of Information Act as well as the constitutional principles of democracy, such as "an informed electorate and maximum transparency of government." Members of the governing bodies met to discuss ways to cut costs by combining services provided by each government. The complicated nature of these issues prompted the closed discussions, Dennis Rooker, a member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors said, because "the meetings have a greater chance of success if people can speak candidly." He also denied the legal validity of the group's accusations.

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UNT policy sets quotas for faculty work hours

By Virginia Terwilliger | September 10, 2010

The College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of North Texas has implemented a new policy this fall requiring professors spend four hours per day, four days a week on campus, in addition to the hours they spend teaching in the classroom. There are two major goals of the new policy, said Thomas Evenson, dean of the college. "We are using this policy to promote more collaborative research between both students and faculty as well as across disciplines," he said.

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Study links social life to suicidal thoughts

By Sofia Economopoulos | September 9, 2010

A recent study found that lack of a social life, childhood or adolescent exposure to domestic violence and symptoms of depression are major factors that can lead to suicidal thoughts in college students. The study, which was conducted at Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland, College Park, relied on interviews with 1,253 college students starting in 2004 until their graduation in 2008. The results of the study, funded by the National Institute of Health and American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, showed that an estimated 12 percent of those interviewed had thoughts about suicide at some point during their college careers, said Kimberly Caldeira, assistant director in the Center on Young Adult Health and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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IBM program to help

By Kate Colwell | September 9, 2010

The "U.Va Bay Game/Analytics," an in-depth simulation of the interactions contributing to the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, has been picked up by IBM's world community grid project.

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UVIMCO covers some past losses

By Kate Colwell | September 8, 2010

The University's endowment regained in fiscal year 2010 more than 50 percent of the value it lost in fiscal year 2009, according to the recently released year-end report by the University of Virginia Investment Management Company. During the 2010 fiscal year, the endowment - which serves as the source of sustainable private support for instruction, service and research - gained $597 million back from the $1.1 billion it lost during the previous fiscal year, according to an e-mail from Leonard Sandridge, executive vice president and chief operating officer. In the context of the wider U.S.

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