Former Charlottesville Mayor and City Council member David Toscano (D-Charlottesville) won the Virginia State Delegate seat for the 57th District, which represents the City of Charlottesville.
With polls open across Virginia, the College Republicans, University Democrats and supporters of Russ Potts have prepared for today's electoral contests, especially the gubernatorial race, with activities and programs to garner votes and increase University involvement in the election. College Republicans President Brian Gunn said the group has been preparing for Election Day for quite a while.
The Honor Committee voted unanimously Sunday night to approve changes to its Code of Ethics and Standard Panels. The changes will alter the language of the Committee's Code of Ethics, which originally was approved by the current Committee at its first meeting last spring. "Basically it's an effort to redo the Code of Ethics and Standards Panel to make things tighter," Honor Chair David Hobbs said. The Committee first discussed the proposed changes at its meeting last week. Under the old language, a significant prior relationship with a student who is the initiator, the accused or a material witness constitutes a conflict of interest for an Honor Committee member, advisor or counsel.
The Special Committee on Planning of the Board of Visitors met yesterday for the second time to continue developing a 10-year financial plan. Discussion highlighted the University's aspirations to rise in program rankings and develop a case statement for the upcoming Capital Campaign that is consistent with this goal and the long-term plan. "We really need to do a better job of saying how the University will be different with $3 billion than it is today," said Capital Campaign Chairman Gordon F.
The Board of Visitors lent a stamp of approval to a management agreement yesterday morning that will be sent to Governor Mark R.
Three professors in the University School of Nursing are currently conducting research regarding the connection between breast cancer in women and abusive intimate relationships. The professors are "really looking for a better description of how abuse effects breast cancer and breast cancer treatments, and how treatment affects relationships," said Nursing School Prof.
Effective Nov. 25, classified employees at the University will receive a base salary increase of three percent.
Both the University and the National Collegiate Athletics Association are hoping innovative marketing strategies will score increased enthusiasm for the upcoming basketball season. Although not a direct response to the NCAA's efforts to bring more enthusiasm to college basketball, the University's athletic program is unveiling a new marketing scheme that revolves around the slogan "Last Ball in U-Hall" and focuses on honoring the closing of University Hall prior to the opening of the John Paul Jones arena next season. The marketing program includes putting up light-pole banners, T-shirt giveaways to the first 1,000 people at the first several games and a series of other events and giveaways. Furthermore, because of the push last season for a student spirit group at basketball games, the Hoo Crew -- formed with the hopes of achieving the intensity and reputation of Wake Forest's Screamin' Demons --- will have its own section.
Nat Scurry recently was appointed as the University's associate vice president and interim chief human resource officer.
A 22-year-old male University student was the victim of aggravated assault at 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1200 block of West Main Street, according to Charlottesville police.
Although U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced in September that President George W.
The financing of the Darden School, specifically the school's reliance on lucrative executive education programs, was criticized last week at financial firm TIAA-CREF Institute's conference about financing higher education. Executive education programs allow adult students to participate in programs targeted toward their careers and allow businesses to commission specific programs for their employees. University of California at Berkeley Prof.
The Nov. 4 News story "NAACP Challenges Restructuring" mistakenly stated that the Rewards and Recognition program was first introduced on Sept.
The NAACP has announced its intent to oppose any management agreement under the Higher Education Restructuring Act that would create what the organization refers to as a 'two-tier workforce.' The organization objects to what it perceives as a lack of public input into the plan and the potential negative impact it could have on lower-wage employees in the future, according to a NAACP press release. The University is ironing out the agreement with Gov.
Thanks to the addition of a writing component to the SAT I, college admission officers now can compare a student's own, candid writing ability with their college application essays to gauge the level of outside help a student may have received during the application process. Kaplan, a test preparation company, performs an annual survey of college admissions officers across the country, and the focus of this year's survey was on the new writing component, which became an official part of the SAT I for the high school class of 2006, said Jon Zeitlin, general manager of SAT and ACT programs at Kaplan. Kaplan wanted to determine if admissions officers would give the writing score the same weight as the traditional math and reading portions and if admissions officers would look at the actual essays or just the final score, Zeitlin said. According to the survey, 47 percent of the colleges are adopting a "wait and see" approach, meaning they will not give the writing component scores any weight until more information about the exam is available. Survey results show that the University, along with colleges like Harvard and Duke, falls into the group of schools that will give the writing component equal weight with the math and critical reading sections. While not all colleges will give the actual writing score any weight in the admissions process, Zeitlin said 58 percent of colleges said they would reference a student's SAT essay when there were discrepancies with his or her application essays. Dean of Admissions John Blackburn said University admissions officers will review the SAT essays if there is a question about test scores or the application essays. "If we see something that looks like it could be published in 'The New Yorker,' we would expect good SAT reading and writing scores," Blackburn said.
With advising week almost over, something that is incubating in the back of every student's mind is the upcoming course enrollment for Spring 2006.
A white supremacist and anti-Semitic newspaper called the Aryan Alternative was distributed around the Charlottesville community Wednesday. Published in Missouri, the issue distributed Wednesday in Charlottesville was the newspaper's third issue.
