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Yesterday University and Charlottesville Police began an indefinite program of joint patrol efforts around the Corner area that will take place every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Three pairs of officers, each pair consisting of a University and Charlottesville police officer, will patrol three different sections of the Corner area starting in the early evening and lasting until 3 a.m., University Police Sgt.
There will be no statistics in this article. There will be no suggestive statements or propaganda intending to downplay the level of alcohol consumption by college students.
You might question "What kind of perverted creep would write this column?" And rightly so. That's how you've been conditioned to think in America.
We the people, in order to form a more perfect education, do hereby promise to celebrate Sept. 17 as "Constitution Day." This year will mark the first time that all educational institutions receiving federal aid will be required by law to offer an educational program centering on the U.S.
The Aug. 20 News article, "Class of 2009 largest to date," stated, "Admission of black students rose 1 percent from last year to an overall 10 percent of incoming students.
The late-night bus service program which piloted last semester has shown "incredible success," and the program will officially be in effect this semester, said Darius Nabors, Student Council executive vice president and former chair of the Student Life committee. University Transportation Services began the program to reduce the demand for Safe Ride calls early in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. The late-night bus service runs every Saturday and Sunday between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. The program allows six buses to follow the nightly route.
As incoming students select a type of computer to bring to school, Cavalier Computers has experienced a 57 percent increase in the sales of Apple machines, while sales of Dells are down 4 percent, according to Scott Layne, manager of the Student Bookstore branch of Cavalier Computers. Layne said Apple computers have recently been gaining popularity, especially at colleges and universities.
An upstart college ranking system that measures institutions' citizenship values placed the University at No.
Jason Mraz will perform at the University Oct. 14 as part of the University Programs Council's fall line-up. "I worked throughout the summer with the PK German committee on the artist list for our fall show," UPC's PK German Chair Amir Khoddami said.
AccessUVa will be implemented fully this year for the first time, affecting the newly-arrived Class of 2009, the University's most diverse batch of students ever, according to University officials. "This year we have a much more diverse population in many ways," Director of Student Financial Services Yvonne Hubbard said.
The Aug. 24 News article, "Center for Politics to host gubernatorial debate," incorrectly stated in the subheadline that the debate was scheduled for Oct.
September is widely recognized as one of the most dangerous months for college students. The high risk of sexual assault and other crimes have led Representatives John Duncan, R-Tennessee, and Mark Greene, R-Wisconsin, to propose a bill that would designate September as National Campus Safety Awareness Month. The bill was proposed at the request of the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and Security on Campus, Inc., a national non-profit group dedicated to making college campuses safer. "We've had incidents at every college, and this was in response to that," said Aaron Tallent, aide to Congressman Duncan. The bill would bring attention to campus safety and the need for increased awareness of safety issues, Tallent said.
A list of all required textbooks is available to students on the University Bookstore Web site and is being updated daily in accordance with the new Textbook Market Fairness Act. The act, passed by the Virginia state legislature earlier this year, requires that all public colleges and universities in Virginia make available the list of textbooks required as soon as the professor notifies the university's bookstore. In the case of the University, the online list is updated within 24 hours of when professors submit their lists to the bookstore.
The Charlottesville City Council has proposed an ordinance that would triple the annual rent for vendors who set up stalls on the Downtown Mall.
awn acceptance letters were sent out Feb. 10 -- the 2006-2007 Lawn class has been chosen. Two hundred eighty-four rising fourth-years applied for 47 coveted non-endowed Lawn rooms. Every year, a new selecting committee sifts through the hundreds of applications and chooses the following academic year's Lawn residents.
awn acceptance letters were sent out Feb. 10 -- the 2006-2007 Lawn class has been chosen. Two hundred eighty-four rising fourth-years applied for 47 coveted non-endowed Lawn rooms. Every year, a new selecting committee sifts through the hundreds of applications and chooses the following academic year's Lawn residents.
The parents of John Steve Catilo, a former University student who drowned last summer while coaching novice rowers on the Potomac River, have recently filed a lawsuit against Catilo's employer, the Alexandria Crew Boosters. Catilo's parents sued the Crew Boosters contending the club was liable for his death for failing to provide adequate safety training for its summer coaches and disregarding safety rules for boating on the Potomac, The Washington Post reported in an Aug.
"There will be girls eating lunch with you, girls walking down the street, up the street, on the grass, girls sitting on the Lawn, girls living next door, girls living upstairs, girls standing on the corner, girls sitting on the wall at the Corner, girls alone at the movies, girls in your chemistry lab, your history class, your seminar
