With obesity and obesity-related diseases on the rise, the United States is facing a national health crisis, and the issue especially is hitting home in Virginia, Gov.
Residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County as well as University students will face an additional rise in the cost of living in the upcoming year. City and County assessors forecast another year of real estate assessment increases, which means higher property prices, a rise in taxes and higher rental prices. In the past six years, the City and the surrounding area have experienced an annual increase of 10-12 percent in real estate assessments, City Assessor Roosevelt Barbour said. Preliminary numbers suggest that this year's increase in real estate assessments for the City may be as much as 12-15 percent, Barbour said. Real Estate assessments are determined for each of the City's 30 residential and 12 commercial neighborhoods on an annual basis. A rise in the values of homes for sale has a direct bearing on surrounding homes that are not for sale, Barbour said.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that colleges which ban military recruiters from their campuses cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds.
Last year, a random sample of 917 University students participated in the National College Health Assessment, which was released last month and revealed a 4.6 percent increase over the last four years of college students who said they had received a diagnosis of depression. According to Student Health Director Jim Turner, the University students who participated in the survey were taken from the 2003 graduating class.
Second-year College student David Sloan Critchfield was friendly, caring and dedicated to his family, his fraternity and his sports teams, said his friends and family. "When Sloan did anything, it's like he did it with his whole heart," Critchfield's mother Triss Critchfield told their hometown paper, The Portland Press Herald.
A forum on the promotion of healthier lifestyles, titled "The Governor's Summit on Healthy Virginians," began yesterday at various stations around Grounds and will end today at 3 p.m.
In the early hours of Nov. 20, a female student reported a sexual assault to University Police immediately after the incident occurred at around 6 a.m.
Registration for the University's first January academic session began yesterday at 8 a.m. Within the hour, one class was already full. By the end of the first day of registration, 136 of about 400 slots for students in January Term classes were full, according to program director Dudley Doane. Administrators said they were pleased with the interest. "It's been quite amazing," said Milton Adams, vice provost for academic programs. The program is the collaborative effort of multiple departments at the University. Students have been "very patient and positive" with the process, Doane said.
In the 2003 fiscal year, colleges and universities across the country filed for more patents, signed more licenses with companies seeking to turn academic research into drugs, devices and other products, and identified a larger number of scientific discoveries with commercial potential than ever before, according to a report released last week. The 165 institutions that responded to the survey of technology-transfer activity received more than $968 million collectively. In addition, 3,450 U.S.
For the first time in three years, it seemed like the Virginia football team's bowl situation would be settled early and without controversy. However, a statement from University President John T.
In response to complaints from students and faculty about unwanted e-mails infiltrating their mailboxes, ITC recently launched a new ad campaign to raise awareness about its spam-filtering systems. According to ITC Network Systems Manager Robin Ruggaber, many people with University e-mail accounts are unaware of ITC's spam-filtering services. "We have a lot of people complaining about spam because they don't know we have a lot of measures they can opt into," Ruggaber said. ITC currently offers two systems to mitigate the flow of spam to University e-mail accounts.
The University detailed its sexual assault policy and potential changes in two statements by top officials released yesterday and posted to the University's Web page. The statements from President John T.
University students, administrators, and health professionals gathered at an inaugural speak-out vigil last night in order to recognize and bring greater awareness to eating disorders. "Perfect Illusions" co-creators fourth-year College student Anne Fishwick and third-year College student Whitney Snyders, interns at the newly formed University committee U.Va.
As the holidays approach, University Academic Division employees will have an extra day off this year. Following an extension of holiday hours by the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, Chief Human Resources Officer Thomas Gausvik announced this month that Wednesday, Dec.
The top story in yesterday's paper stated that this is the first year the University has had two winners of the Rhodes scholarship, based on information provided by University News Services.
The University reported a slight increase in the number of black students who enrolled with this year's first-year class, even as many other universities reported a significant drop. Of the 3,096 members of the Class of 2008, 288, or 9.3 percent, are black, compared to 273 of 3,101 students in 2003 (8.8 percent) and 289 of 2,999 students in 2002 (9.6 percent). Nationwide, however, the Washington Post reported Monday that many schools, including several public flagship universities, enrolled significantly fewer black students this year than in 2003. At the University of Michigan, which following a May 2003 Supreme Court decision continues to use race as a factor in admissions but does not award extra points to minority applicants, 350 of 5,730, or 6.1 percent, of this year's freshman students are black, compared to 410 of 5,333, or 7.7 percent, last year.
Sunday, November 21 An undergraduate student was found guilty of cheating on the final exam for an introductory-level class by a panel of random student jurors.
Cpl. Bradley Thomas Arms, a Charlottesville native and member of the Marine Corps Reserves, was killed Friday in a small arms crossfire in Fallujah, Iraq. Arms was a 20-year-old student attending the University of Georgia when he was summoned to Iraq. As a way to honor Arms' life, Trinity Presbyterian Church Pastor John Hall said he spoke about how to deal with the death of a loved one during Sunday's church service.
Approximately 750 undergraduate and graduate students are blocked from class registration for the spring 2005 semester as of today due to their failure to verify their health insurance coverage, according to Virginia Carter, the University's director of external communications. The University informed students of the new insurance verification procedure through three mass e-mails, postings on the weekly Connections e-mail sent out by the Vice-President for Student Affairs' Office and a letter included in tuition bills last spring. "We will try one more time to reach them to stress the urgency that they need health insurance and that they need to verify it," Carter said. Insurance Compliance Coordinator Jennifer Krugmann said she has recently received hundreds of phone calls from students who have been blocked.
