Student Council met last night to discuss a resolution which supports the University's ability to offer domestic partner benefits. According to the resolution, a domestic partnership is defined as an "ongoing, committed relationship between two adults of the same or opposite sex who are not otherwise legally married." College Rep.
The University Board of Elections announced changes to its election policies at an informational meeting last night, one of which included the printing of official petition packets for referenda sponsors. Students who wish to place a referendum on a student election ballot will be given a packet from the UBE after submitting their proposal.
The Miller Center of Public Affairs released the first selection in its Reagan administration interviews from the Ronald Reagan Oral History program on Sunday, a subcategory of the Presidential Oral History program at the Miller Center. The Reagan project compiles information taken from people close to the former president, said Michael Greco, director of the Scripps Library at the Miller Center. "This is an attempt to preserve the memory of the top officials in the Reagan White House," Greco said.
Yesterday's News article "Honor explores separate deliberation of seriousness clause from act, intent," reported that Honor Committee Commerce School Representative Matt Miller said "It depends on who you are trying to help.
The University's Nursing School announced yesterday that it has been awarded a $5 million grant by the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation of Fairfax, Va.
For the fourth year in a row, the University of Virginia is the number one producer of Peace Corps volunteers among medium-sized universities, according to a Peace Corps press release, that came out yesterday. Eighty alumni currently serve as volunteers and 838 University alumni have served as Peace Corps volunteers since the institution's inception. University spokesperson Carol Wood attributes the high number of students involved in Peace Corps to University students' dedication to volunteerism.
Stanford University introduced a new policy concerning graduate students and maternity leave last week, becoming the second university in the United States to offer paid maternity leave for graduate students. The University currently does not have a uniform policy concerning maternity leave for graduate students and the University is not considering creating a policy similar to Stanford's, according to Roseanne Ford, associate vice president for research and graduate studies. Under Stanford's new policy, female graduate students are able to apply for an "academic accommodation period," which lets them remain full-time students with the opportunity to postpone assignments and exams.
The Cavalier Daily elected a 117th managing board, senior board and junior board this Saturday. The new Cavalier Daily leadership took its post yesterday. Former Opinion Editor Mike Slaven, a third-year College student, undertook the position of editor-in-chief.
Honor Committee members debated a proposal last night that would create a separate three-person panel of Honor Committee members to vote on the seriousness of an honor offense after a jury convicts a student of act and intent. This amendment to the Honor Constitution was proposed last semester by a support officer, said Honor Committee Chair David Hobbs. Isolating deliberations of seriousness is intended to avoid "disparate interpretations" which "may cause the Seriousness Clause to be applied inconsistently, depending upon the interpretation of a particular jury panel," the proposal reads. The proposal drew mixed reactions from committee members.
Student Financial Services announced changes, effective immediately, that will be made to their Satisfactory Academic Progress Standards, which determines a student's eligibility for financial aid.
Last week marked the beginning of a joint project amongst graduate students of the University, Virginia Tech, and Virginia Commonwealth that examines local governments' effect on the James River watershed.
Proposed sketches of the upcoming expansion of College facilities, known as the South Lawn Project, were presented to the University's Board of Visitors Jan.
Science has been around for a long time. The word "science" actually comes from the Latin word scientia, which means knowledge.
After recent scientific findings showed the plastic used to manufacture Nalgene brand bottles emits a toxic gas when exposed to certain chemicals such as bleach, Charlottesville's Ragged Mountain Running Shop has decided to stop carrying the polycarbonate Nalgene water bottles. This fact was brought to the attention of Ragged Mountain Running Shop by John Peterson Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences in Charlottesville. "As soon as we heard about it, we took it off our shelves," said Mike Elchinger, manager of Ragged Mountain.
The Honor Committee, in conjunction with the University's Center for Survey Research, will release a survey on Monday to faculty members in an effort to improve the honor system at the University, and to explore the factors motivating the report of honor violations, according to Honor Committee members. "We want to be able to understand the faculty's perspective on the honor system," Honor Committee Chair David Hobbs said.
The Cavalier Daily has discovered that the Dec. 2 Science column, "Browser Wars: A New Hope" used a significant amount of ideas and conclusions without attribution from a Dec.
Details for the University's inaugural voyage as the host of the Semester at Sea program have been finalized for the academic summer term of 2006. According to the Semester at Sea Web site, the preliminary itinerary for the first trip will last 65 days and travel to Sapporo and Kobe, Japan; Pusan, Korea; Hong Kong; Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; Singapore; Taipei, Taiwan; and concluding the expedition in Seattle, Wash. This itinerary may be subject to some changes before the boat departs this summer and is composed primarily of Asian countries, but the Semester at Sea route is not limited to Pacific countries, said Associate Director of Study Abroad Marina Markot. The shorter summer sessions alternate between Asian and European destinations, while the regular semester-long programs literally travel all around the world, said Dudley J.
"Space travel" has a deeper meaning these days. Celebrities and businessmen are dishing out their millions for a trip to space, while mention of space travel agencies and even talk of tourist trips going around the moon starting in 2008 seem to be the wave of the future.
