Students may have even more opportunities to discuss honor with the formation of a new Honor ad hoc committee investigating the potential for an introductory U.Va.
Students across the nation are taking to Facebook in response to planned anti-gay protests at the funerals of Virginia Tech shooting victims. Shirley Phelps-Roper, attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., confirmed that the organization is planning to protest at the funerals of Tech students killed in Monday's shootings. Virginia Tech junior Victor Kasoff expressed his anger at WBC leader Fred Phelps' decision to protest. Virginia Tech "should do anything in their power to stop this guy from coming," Kasoff said. At press time, one open Facebook group, "Stop Fred Phelps & WBC from protesting at fallen VT students funerals!!," created to stop the WBC funeral protests had 32,923 members and had at one point gained more than 1,000 new members in an hour. Phelps-Roper placed the blame for the Tech killings on tolerance for homosexuality, saying the attack was a result of "those young people sitting in their classrooms being taught rebellion against God [and] being taught that God is a liar ... He says 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind,' and you're teaching it.
Student leaders expressed mixed reactions after Student Council presented its budget allocations last night for the 2007-08 school year.
The search to replace College Dean Edward Ayers has come to a head this week as the four finalists are visiting the University for on-Grounds interviews. Since January a search committee chaired by Religious Studies Prof.
"I did it, I had to." The man identified as the Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung Hui, uttered these words in a video released yesterday by NBC News.
Students bored by the same classes offered year after year now have an opportunity to shape their academic fate and more easily create new classes. Student Council's Academic Affairs committee, working in conjunction with Associate College Dean Gordon Stewart, created the Student Initiated Course Proposals program earlier this month to make proposing a class easier, according to Academic Affairs Co-Chair Kathryn Serra.
eachers who seem highly qualified on paper are not always the most effective in the classroom, according to a study published last week. The study -- completed by University Education Prof.
The genocide situation in Darfur is escalating, and American students are the only ones stepping up to stop the violence, according to Mohamed Yahya, a Darfur refugee who found political asylum in the United States in 2002. Yahya, who also founded the Charlottesville-based Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy, said he "believe[s] if our leaders in the superpowers were doing half of what you [students] do, we could have stopped the genocide years ago.
Heavy e-mail traffic overloaded the Central Mail Server Tuesday night, inconveniencing University students and faculty until yesterday afternoon. James Jokl, Information Technology and Communication Office director of communications and systems, said Webmail experiences the highest volume of traffic around Thanksgiving and the end of the school year, adding that ITC was not expecting this sporadic downtime. ITC Lab Consultant Nader Raja, who was on duty in the Brown Science and Engineering Library, heard complaints from students throughout the morning about the difficulties with the server. "It's kind of hard to communicate without e-mail," Raja said.
For the second year in a row, the University's Collegiate Mock Trial team defeated Harvard for the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Sunday in St.
Days after students at Virginia Tech struggled to defend themselves in the face of the deadliest shooting spree in U.S.
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, as the gunman responsible for killing 30 victims Monday in Virginia Tech's Norris Hall.
BLACKSBURG, Va.-- In a day filled with a constant barrage of media images of the shooter who took the lives of at least three of her friends and 29 others,Behnaz Bonyadian took solace as thousands of people patiently filed into Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium yesterday afternoon.
"Horror, disbelief and profound sorrow" was how Virginia Tech President Charles Steger described the Blacksburg community's reaction to what is the deadliest shooting incident in the nation's history.
Only in her worst nightmares could Nicole Shyti have anticipated the carnage transpiring as she slept on the fifth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory yesterday morning.
BLACKSBURG -- A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, has been identified as the gunman found dead yesterday after murdering 30 students in Norris Hall.
The gunshots at Virginia Tech not only reached the ears of the immediate Blacksburg community yesterday, but also rang in the ears of politicians in the national and international arenas. President George W.
