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Family, friends remember University student Brett Gosnell

By Caroline Freeman | August 23, 2006

University student Brett Gosnell passed away last Thursday at his home in Hickory, N.C. after a three-year battle with cancer. A diligent student and passionate football fan, Gosnell graduated as his class valedictorian at Hickory High School in 2004 after being diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer known as rhabdomysarcoma during his junior year, his father, Mark Gosnell said. After attending classes at Lenoir-Rhyne College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gosnell was finally able to live out his dream of attending the University last year, Gosnell's father said. "He went to UNC and he really liked Carolina, but he asked me to drive him up to U.Va.

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Center for Politics announces new ACE internship

By Maggie Thornton | August 19, 2006

The Center for Politics recently announced a new internship program designed to match students with local and state politicians. The Awards for Civic Excellence (ACE) program will be launched this fall with interns being placed in the offices of Del.

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BOV formulates annual goals

By Whitney Gruenloh | August 19, 2006

The Board of Visitors left the Rotunda this summer and traveled to historic Williamsburg for their annual summer retreat where Board members and administrators used the retreat to discuss progress on committee goals set at last year's summit.

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Student protestors acquitted

By Maura O'Keefe | August 19, 2006

The 17 Living Wage Campaign protesters arrested for trespassing at Madison Hall during their sit-in last April were successful in both General District Court and in their dealings with the UJC this summer.

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South Lawn project faces criticism in national media

By Courtney Kessler | August 3, 2006

At last Thursday's Board of Visitors meeting former rector Gordon F. Rainey jokingly suggested that the Board send its architectural plans to the New York Times, a reference to Adam Goodheart's New York Times article published in late May which criticized the University's architecture and the structural plans for the South Lawn project.

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Prof. under fire over funding source

By Maria Tchijov | August 3, 2006

A University environmental science professor has come under fire recently from environmentalists and ethicists after reports surfaced that the professor, who is skeptical of the extent to which humans play a role in global warming, had received money from a coal-burning utility. The New York Times reported in a July 28 story that the Intermountain Rural Electric Association, a coal-burning utility co-operative, gave money to Environmental Science Prof.

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BOV approves new cancer center plan

By Marisa Roman | August 3, 2006

The University Board of Visitors Buildings and Grounds committee approved the design for the University's Clinical Cancer Center during its meeting July 27. The main purpose of the new cancer center will be to house all of the cancer technology, research and treatment equipment in one building, said Peter Jump, University Hospital Center spokesperson. The cancer center will be located at the intersection of Jefferson Park Avenue and Lee Street where a covered parking garage now stands.

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University provides limited aid for interns

By Stephanie Fees | July 27, 2006

Student interest in internships has been rising steadily for several years, and many universities across the nation are taking the rise in popularity into consideration when awarding students with stipends to off-set the cost of a low-paying or unpaid internship.

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Correction

By Cavalier Daily Staff | July 27, 2006

Correction The July 20 News article "Turner put on leave after probation agreement" erroneously identified Gregory Jackson as president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

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Dept. of Education proposes database of student information

By Maria Tchijov | July 27, 2006

In June, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education put out a draft report proposing the creation of a national database to track information about individual students such as financial aid standing, for students at the nation's colleges and universities. In March 2005, the National Center for Education Statistics put out a study examining "the feasibility of collecting individual enrollment and financial aid information for each student in postsecondary education." The study examined both whether or not such a system could be and should be implemented.

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NeW holds first ever national conference

By Ashley Simpson | July 21, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Last Friday, the Network of Enlightened Women, an organization founded at the University in the fall of 2004 to promote a conservative women's movement, held its first annual national conference in Washington, D.C. At the conference, entitled "A NeW Generation of Women," NeW founder and University Law student Karin Agness led women from more than 30 colleges as they gathered to strategize and share their schools' chapters of NeW.

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