Years of treading on the Earth's surface beneath our feet has led the human race to take for granted the power that our rock holds.
A bill was presented to Congress Tuesday that would pay the interest on student loans for graduates who work in a math or science job, including teaching, for at least five years. The Math and Science Incentive Act, which was presented in the House by U.S.
Whether it is one general ability "g" or a variety of context-dependent intelligences, the nature of intelligence has been an elusive concept to clearly define.
In an appropriations appeals hearing held Tuesday night, fewer than 10 percent of the University's nearly 360 Contracted Independent Organizations appealed the appropriations allotted to them by Student Council this semester, according to Rebecca Keyworth, Council vice president for organizations. During the first round of appeals, representatives from five CIOs unsatisfied with the amount of money appropriated to them April 4, presented an appeals to the main representative body of the Council. The appealing CIOs sought funding for valued items that had been excluded from their operational or activity budgets by the Council appropriations committee during the committee's deliberations in late March and early April. Problems that most CIOs found with their allocations from Council were dealt with prior to the appeals because some of the financial discrepancies stemmed from minor oversights on the part of the allocations committee, Keyworth said. Other CIOs were denied funding for certain line items -- items cut from CIO budgets by the Appropriations Committee -- and resorted to appealing their allocations before Council. The Media, Entertainment and Sports Club at Darden, one of the CIOs to appear before Council Tuesday night, sought funding to extend its Web site to include an electronic database, which would include contact information for high-profile speakers and thus streamline event planning for club officers who change every year, club President Ken Zamkow said. "We wanted all this knowledge to be preserved and to not disappear," Zamkow said. Members of the club were concerned that certain items proposed by CIOs are "categorically denied" by the Appropriations Committee. Despite this concern, Zamkow said he believed Council fully debated all proposed items after finishing the opening statements and question-and-answer sessions with the CIOs. Other CIOs present Tuesday night included AGAPE and the Virginia Women's Chorus. Council will inform appealing CIOs whether or not their line items will receive funding within the next few days. A second round of appeals will be held next Tuesday, during which Keyworth said she expects five to 10 more CIO's to present appeals for their unfunded line items.
Varsity Hall was transported to a permanent location near Hospital Drive Saturday. The move took about eight months to prepare for and about eight hours to complete, according to University Architect David Neuman.
In response to the recent revision of City zoning codes, local developers are building high-density apartments with fewer parking spaces around the University area.
City of Charlottesville Police will receive pay raises while City residents enjoy decreased property tax rates because of the 2005-2006 City budget, passed by City Council Tuesday evening. The $106 million budget, prepared by City Manager Gary O'Connell, was adopted by the Council in a 4-1 vote.
Jerry Kilgore, presumptive Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Commonwealth Attorney General, highlighted his ideas for addressing domestic violence among other issues during a visit to Politics Prof.
The Virginia House of Delegates earned two of the Center for the Protection of Free Expression's annual Muzzle Awards yesterday. "The qualifications for this award is evidence of having done things over the past year showing unusual disregard for principles of free speech and the press," said University Law Prof.
After receiving $1.1 million from the MPC Computers Bowl, the University's Department of Athletics will continue to support other areas of the University by donating $25,000 to both the Faculty Senate and the Cavalier Marching Band endowment. The money granted to the Faculty Senate will go toward one of their six Dissertation-Year Fellowships.
Although Asians are the largest minority group at the University, making up approximately 12 percent of the student population, many students and faculty say they are oftentimes marginalized in the typical dichotomy of black and white race relations. Coinciding with Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month and Take Back the Night, two facebook groups about Asian women have had attention called to them by various students.
The Observatory Hill Dining Hall will open later than expected, according to officials from Facilities Management and the Office of Business Operations. The dining hall originally was scheduled to open over Winter Break, and the timeline then was pushed back to Spring Break.
Student Council unanimously passed a resolution last night to endorse a student exchange program for students to attend historically black universities.
The University Transit Service's pilot program had its first trial run last weekend, providing bus service for University students between the hours of 12:20 a.m.
The Board of Visitors convened by teleconference yesterday to set next year's tuition, which will increase by 8.8 percent for in-state students and 6.2 percent for out-of-state students. The tuition increase, the smallest in the last three years, is expected to be the last time the Board sets tuition on an annual basis as the University moves toward a five-year tuition plan that will lock in future increases. A five-year tuition plan discussed at the Board's February meeting proposed fixing the annual increase in estimated total cost of attendance at 8 percent for in-state students and 6 percent for out-of-state students. The Board deferred setting tuition at the spring meeting that concluded two weeks ago in order for the budget office to recalculate in-state tuition slightly.
In a recently released issue, the U.S. News & World Report altered its standards for law school rankings.
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airportreceived a $3 million grant through the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration, U.S.
