An unanticipated severe thunderstorm hit Grounds and surrounding neighborhoods yesterday, leaving several trees down, damaged homes and vehicles beyond repair. "It went from a few drops to a hurricane in a couple of minutes," fourth-year Engineering student Matthew Sefcik said.
On the windowsill next to his desk, History Prof. Herbert "Tico" Braun keeps a photograph clipped from The Washington Post, that of a man in an orange jumpsuit, cringing in fear from a dog held at bay by U.S.
Meredith Richards is advocating for another option to connect Charlottesville to the Washington, D.C.
Workers last Wednesday reached a major milestone in the John Paul Jones Arena construction project as the final steel high steel beam of the $129.8 million complex was put in place.
On Jan. 4, an outdoor fire on a 16-acre property owned by Cecil and Doris Gardner in Keswick, Va.
On its final day in session, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that distributors of file-sharing programs can be held responsible for copyright violation for their user's actions, a major development in the ongoing controversy over the use of peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing services. In the case of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios v.
Administrators can censor the content of student publications at public colleges, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier this week. The 7-4 ruling reversed a lower court's decision which had favored the college journalists.
The smell of pine tar and freshly cut grass is in the air as the Heritage Repertory Theatre kicks off its Summer 2005 Season with two baseball-related productions, Richard Dresser's "Rounding Third" and Richard Adler and Douglass Wallop's "Damn Yankees" musical production.
Beginning in January of next year, the Law School will offer classes during the January term. "We decided for various pedagogical reasons to shorten semester to 13 weeks, so we had an extra week at the beginning of the spring semester," Thomas Nachbar, Law Professor and chair of the faculty curriculum committee, said.
The demolition of the old Observatory Hill dining hall and the Treehouse this summer marks the beginning of an ambitious redevelopment of the Alderman Road area that is eventually slated to replace many of the suite style "newdorms." The Board of Visitors approved concept, design and site guidelines for the first phase of the planned development of first-year dorms at their meeting which concluded earlier this month. The first two new buildings are expected to be done by 2008, and will provide 'swing space' to accommodate first-year students while construction is underway.
More and more children are getting hurt riding all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) nationally, and the U.Va.
The partisan composition of the University's surrounding three districts may create for a predictable election day in November for the Virginia House of Delegates, Politics Prof.
Politics department Prof. James R. Sofka and University officials have agreed for the embattled professor to spend the academic year until Dec.
Local archeologists working near 1512 JPA made a stunning discovery in late May -- two gravesites dating back to the 19th century were unearthed in a location previously known for archeological finds for the past decade. "We had all thought that the gravesite was formally defined in 1993 when it was initially discovered," Rivanna Archeological Services investigator Benjamin P.
Administrators reported the University has made significant progress in advancing three of the Board of Visitors' highest priority initiatives -- affordability for low-income students, diversity issues and higher education reform -- at the summer meeting that concluded Saturday. The Board, which introduced Access U.Va.
After 10 years of anticipation, Bodo's Bagels finally opened its location on the Corner yesterday. "We were expecting a trickle of people when we opened," General Manager John Kokola said.
New leaders are slated to assume the helm of the University's Board of Visitors after the Board selected W.
Over the last four years, issues such as greater autonomy for higher education, sexual assault and diversity on Grounds have been the top issues facing University students. Higher Education Restructuring After two years of debating issues surrounding the restructuring of Virginia public institutions of higher education, the General Assembly passed legislation April 6 which officially outlines the path toward more autonomy for schools in the Commonwealth, including the University.
At the University, where traditions frequently remain undisturbed for generations, the University's graduation ceremony, or Finals, has seen several incarnations. Board of Visitors Secretary Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam, who received his bachelor's degree in history from the University in 1955 before assuming numerous staff and faculty positions, has witnessed better than anyone else the evolution of this important ceremony over the years. "An ancient tradition at the University [in the 1950s] was that there were four big party weekends, and Finals was one of them," Gilliam said.
There's never a better time to look back then at graduation -- excuse me -- Final Exercises. Most of this weekend's graduates entered the University to the shock of airplanes taking down the Twin Towers in New York.
