Student Council introduced three possible referenda last night that will be voted on at next week's meeting.
$6 million renovation to accommodate Classics and Philosophy departments. Project Start: April 2005 What's Done: Design documents and construction firm bids solicited. In Progress: Seeking state approval for major work to begin. What's Next: Erection of construction fencing and interiror demolition of building. Estimated Completion Date: Summer 2006
The Student Assault Leadership Council presented its first response to the University administration for the recently-revised sexual assault policy report, which bestows victims with more flexibility to make their case public. SALC Chair Sloane Kuney said the memo proposed suggestions for all aspects of the committee's procedures.
$129.8 million basketball arena that will contain 15,000 seats and a 1,500 car parking garage. Project Start: April 2003 What's Done: Restoration of Emmet Street Dell area, major structural work on the parking garage and arena, as well as a significant amount of mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-in work. In Progress: Arena's roofing structure, placing of concrete block wells and a mechanically-stabilized earth-retaining wall in front of the arena's main entrance, in addition to continued mechanical, electrical and plumbing installations. What's Next: Completion of arena roof and a trasnsition structure from the arena to yet-to-be built practice courts. Estimated Completion Date: June 2006
As the number of students using cellular phones steadily increases, the University is losing revenue generated from the long-distance phone calls made by students over the land-lines provided by the University. Between 1998 and 2004, the number of minutes students spent making long distance phone calls has decreased by nearly 4.3 million, Mark Doherty, Chief Housing officer said in an e-mail. Doherty cited the increasing use of e-mail and competitive calling card and cell phone packages as reasons for the decline in revenue. Despite the drop, there has been no effect on Housing's budgetary considerations, and there will be no effect on electronic services currently provided for students living in on-Grounds housing, said James A.
As of a few weeks ago, University Dining began selling cigarettes at the Castle amid some criticism from the University community. Although cigarettes had previously been sold at other locations on grounds, including the Treehouse, the expansion to the Castle was the result of student demand. "The only reason we carry cigarettes is because students are asking for them," said Eddie Whedbee, the director of operations for U.Va.
Although there has been an outpouring of donations in response to efforts for tsunami relief, local charities have discerned minor and varying fluctuations in the donations received and said they could not definitively attribute the changes to the international tsunami aid.
For the first time since the creation of the Black Fraternal Council in 1992, a black fraternity has left the BFC to join the Inter-Fraternity Council. The Iota Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha achieved the two-thirds vote necessary last Thursday to become full members of the IFC. "Alpha Phi Alpha is a fantastic addition to the IFC because of the quality of their members, their organization and the presentation they gave to the IFC," IFC President David Bowman said. Joining the IFC was a business move, Alpha Phi Alpha Secretary Cameron Webb said. As the only black fraternity with a house, the constitution of the IFC matched the goals of the Alpha Phi Alpha better, Webb said. Alpha Phi Alpha began looking at the switch this summer when comparing the constitutions of the two fraternal councils. "It went from thought to reality very quickly," Webb said. Now that the Alpha Phi Alphas have joined the IFC, they say they look forward to being able to show that they serve the University Community as a whole, not just the African- American community. The biggest opportunity the IFC offers is "to be a part of a Greek community -- not just a black Greek community," Webb said. The Alpha Phi Alpha chapter remains on good terms with the BFC. "It was an organizational decision and we wish them the best," BFC Co-Chair Ryan Chatman said. Alpha Phi Alpha president Brian Pennington agreed. "We're going to make every effort to stay involved with the BFC and know their events and so support them," Pennington said.
The South Asian Leadership Society, the NAACP Student Chapter and the Sikh Students Association co-sponsored a forum yesterday evening entitled "AMERICAN HATRED: are YOU part of it?" reflecting on recent University concerns of minority animosity. The forum began with attendees sharing their experiences of hatred at the University with each other and the event drew undergraduate and graduate students as well as administrators from many different backgrounds. Aleea Maye, a fourth-year College student and president of the NAACP chapter at the University and Neela Pal, a third-year College student and president of the South Asian Leadership Society, opened the forum by discussing the importance of finding common ground for dialogue and change. The forum was led by Preetmohan Singh, director of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education fund, and M.
The Honor Committee voted against a resolution to place a "forgiveness clause" on the spring ballot last night.
The spring season of University student elections starts today -- in order to inform prospective student voters, the first candidate information session of the election period will be held tonight in Newcomb Hall. Created in the spring of 2003, the University Board of Elections oversees all student elections.
With the opening of the new semester, The Cavalier Daily has reached its annual changing of the guard.
The University's Weldon Cooper Center unveiled its recent provisional population growth estimates for the Commonwealth on Friday.
A study released Tuesday concludes that the increasingly generous financial assistance programs used to make college more affordable for lower income students may be fueling tuition increases nationwide. "Federal loans, Pell grants and other assistance programs result in higher tuition for students at our nation's colleges and universities," the study reported. The study, published by the libertarian Cato Institute's Policy Analysis, is entitled "Making College More Expensive: The Unintended Consequences of Federal Tuition Aid." Economist Gary Wolfram, the George Munson Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., wrote the report. "To the extent that we give more people aid and get more people to come we are going to bid up prices," Wolfram said.
The Charlottesville area has donated tens of thousands of dollars to South Asian tsunami relief efforts during the past few weeks. Tsunami Relief Charlottesville, a one-day fundraising event, was held on the Lannigan Field Track Saturday.
After days of snow and rain, Ted Yokoyama takes advantage of the brisk air and bright skies to practice with the ultimate Frisbee team in Mad Bowl.
Applications for the University's newly established Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity are due Monday. The position was outlined in and prescribed by the report given by the President's Commission on Diversity and Equity in the summer of 2004.
The Honor Committee will decide this Sunday whether it will send the forgiveness clause, developed by the Sanction Reform Committee, to this spring's student ballot. In the meantime, students involved in the debate over sanction reform are split over whether the SRC proposal changes too much or too little in the honor system. Under the forgiveness clause, a student convicted of an honor offense would be suspended for two semesters, and would then be eligible to re-enter the University.
A day after a letter detailing the reassignment of Politics Prof. James R. Sofka from his position as director of the Echols program became public, Sofka yesterday responded to College Dean Edward L.
