An impressive fireworks display followed the football season opener Saturday, bringing the fireworks back after a two-year hiatus. "This was the first weekend evening game we have had in a couple of years," said Hunter Yurachek, director of marketing and promotions in the Athletics Department.
By Kristin Hawkins Cavalier Daily Staff Writer The U.Va. Alumni Association offered a $5,000 reward Friday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who has committed acts of racial intolerance on campus or in the surrounding area. University President John T.
Today marks the first day of classes for 130 Virginia residents displaced from their Louisiana colleges and universities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Iam no Ponce de Leon, but I think our time for revitalization has come. And that's not necessarily a good thing. If you think oil prices are a mess now, imagine what they'll be like when a couple more billion people have the opportunity to buy a Hummer in 50 years.
With Microsoft's supremacy in the last few decades, Google has taken on the economics of search to end this monopoly.
A new committee charged with investigating alternatives to the single sanction held its first meeting Wednesday night. The ad hoc committee, called the Committee for the Investigation of the Single Sanction, was formed after 59 percent of the voting student body in last spring's elections supported a referendum calling for the Honor Committee to seek alternatives to the single sanction, a policy in which students found guilty of an honor offense are automatically expelled from the University. During the meeting, members of the ad hoc committee attempted to establish the committee's purpose and set its goals. "The charge as I understand it is given by the vote last year, to investigate alternatives to the single sanction," ad hoc committee member Matt Miller said. According to ad hoc committee Chair Sarah Outten, most of the investigation will take the form of research. "This committee is wholly research-based," Outten said.
Gas prices in Charlottesville and around the country shot up dramatically yesterday due to Hurricane Katrina's impact.
A group of students reported offensive graffiti on Beta Bridge to Charlottesville Police Monday, Student Council President Jequeatta Upton said yesterday. The graffiti images included a woman in a spread eagle pose and a pair of breasts, Upton said, as well as a bloody face with the words, "We'll be back," as well as "GSociety," "GWizard" and "G-Bug." "That's how it appeared on Monday," Upton said.
If the citizen action group Charlottesville Citizens for Better Rail Alternatives gets its way, University students from Washington, D.C.
After more than four hours of deliberation, the jury in the trial of former University student Anne Hylton delivered its verdict at 8:30 Wednesday night.
A pending Supreme Court case -- Garcetti v. Ceballos -- could threaten the First Amendment rights of public university professors, according to the American Association of University Professors and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of the First Amendment. The plaintiff, Richard Ceballos of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, filed a lawsuit against his employer after he was demoted and relocated.
"Things that are so normal and routine to me are gone," third-year Education student Katie Van Horn said. The effects of Hurricane Katrina, a category five storm that has caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, will be felt all over the nation and already are being felt at the University. Many University students who are from New Orleans said they are unable to contact family and friends and are left to wonder about the conditions of their homes and neighborhoods because communications systems based in New Orleans are unreliable, if existent. "You have no way of knowing if the people you love are okay," second-year College student Lauren Tilton said. The students said they could only guess about the condition of their homes. "We're fairly certain that the first floor of the house is gone," said third-year College student Stephanie Mastrangelo, whose house was located three blocks from the 17th Street levee that broke earlier this week. "A lot of friends have sent messages [saying] that their homes are destroyed," third-year College student Julie Guider said. Students also said their families were evacuated successfully, but the families are struggling to find a temporary place to stay. "The whole community is so scattered," Van Horn said.
Over the previous year, there has been an increase in employers' salary offers to college graduates in all career fields, according to the Salary Survey, a quarterly report published recently by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The average starting salary offered by accounting firms increased to $43,370 as compared to $42,797 last year; followed by engineering services firms which increased to $47,161 from $45,807 and consulting services employers which increased to $46,856 from $45,278.
While the poverty rate in rural central Virginia has decreased, poverty among the urban population in Charlottesville has increased, University sociology Prof.
A decision is expected tomorrow in the civil lawsuit University alumna Anne Hylton filed against alumnus Matthew Hamilton for an alleged rape that occurred in December 2001, seeking $1.5 million in damages. Hylton brought a complaint against Hamilton to the University's Sexual Assault Board in March 2002, according to The Hook.
Men may no longer stamp their feet to intimidate women when they enter the classroom or answer a question in class, but today at the University a variety of challenges still exist for many women ranging from self-esteem issues to a limited number of female faculty to a controversial procedure for reporting sexual assaults. Raising the bar? Though the University was one of the top schools in the country prior to 1970, it still enrolled a significant number of students who were less academically inclined.
In light of recent racial incidents on and near Grounds directed toward University students, the Black Student Alliance opened its first meeting of the year to University administrators and student leaders in order to discuss the recent events and related issues yesterday. While the meeting did not outline specific plans of action, it gave community members a chance to voice their concerns and share their experiences. "We should feel good about what we are doing, not good about what has happened," said Leonard Sandridge, University executive vice president and chief operating officer. The meeting highlighted education and awareness within the University concerning hate incidents and crimes. "I think this year we are really focusing on education," BSA President Aaron Blake said.
The Charlottesville Airport is celebrating 50 years of service to the local area. The airport, now half a century old, looks much different today then it did fifty years ago, and more changes are in the works, airport officials said. "There are many changes in the past 15 years I guess," said Bill Kehoe, a University Commerce professor and former chair of the Charlottesville Airport Board.
Turns out the demand for off-Grounds housing is not a new trend in Charlottesville. In fact, a new exhibit looks at the history of accommodations available to student beyond University Grounds. An exhibit highlighting the history of off-Grounds student housing is scheduled to open this Friday at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society located downtown and will run through December. The exhibit, entitled "Boarding Houses: Living off Jefferson's Lawn," is a product of a year-long research project by students in Assoc.
