A ten-year controversy over military recruiting on campuses could finally end up on the steps of the U.S.
The co-chairs of the new Faculty Senate Development Committee will meet with the University's Senior Vice President of Development next week to lay the foundations for its first meeting, which is expected to be held in March. Faculty Senate Chair Marcia Childress said the new committee was created last spring based on a spring 2003 Senate statement that expressed faculty interest in having a voice in private fundraising. The committee's purpose is to provide a source of communication between the faculty and the University's development efforts, Childress said. "Ideally, it all ties in with fundraising," Childress said. English Prof.
It may not help with the morning walk of shame, but UTS is looking to implement weekend late-night bus service for partygoers and other night owls by the end of the semester.
The preponderance of cars traversing today's Grounds would no doubt surprise the University's founder, even given Mr. Jefferson's aptitude for technological innovation. The cars are here, though, and with the start of each new school year thousands of Wahoos with wheels return to Grounds and the surrounding neighborhoods. In competition for primo parking spots with faculty and staff, as well as Charlottesville's year-round residents, the struggle can often be Darwinian in nature. "Parking and transportation is not something that anybody is going to solve," said Clayton Powers, parking and transportation co-chair of the Student Council Student Life Committee.
"Are we really any safer today? Are we truly any smarter now than we were then?" Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo queried during his presentation on "Homeland Security and Domestic Preparedness: Keeping America Safe" at the Miller Center for Public Affairs last night. On the topic of preparedness, Longo questioned whether any locality, such as Charlottesville, could truly have the means and resources to respond to a terror attack. Throughout the evening, Longo focused on measures the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County have taken to prepare for a possible terror strike in the wake of the Sept.
At its meeting last night, Student Council passed seven pieces of legislation, including a bill that will send a ballot referendum to students asking their opinion on public records for Council members' votes. Council members debated the bill more than any other piece of legislation yesterday. "The only way we can be held accountable is by election or reelection," said Gavin Reddick, a representative from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Those opposed to the bill argued that it would politicize the process. "It would make it more an individual basis than Student Council as a whole," College Rep.
Politics Prof. James R. Sofka, who was dismissed from his post as director of the Echols Program last month, officially appealed his case to President John T.
Education Profs. Dewey G. Cornell and Peter L. Sheras recently released a study on how youth violence can be prevented through means other than zero tolerance in order to foster a safer environment in school settings. The professors' preliminary results were developed into a publication titled "Guidelines for Responding to Student Threat of Violence," which was field-tested at 35 schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County during the 2001-2002 school year.
After nearly a year of controversy surrounding the Charlottesville Police Department's use of DNA testing in the search for the serial rapist, Judge Robert H.
Since the University's chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity left the Black Fraternal Council in favor of the Inter-Fraternity Council last week, the reaction from the University community has been mixed. While the Alpha Phi Alphas say they believe their move was in the best interest of their fraternity and its mission, M.
Virginia lawmakers are in the process of cracking down on underage drinking and adults who facilitate it. The Virginia House of Delegates considered two bills this week targeting underage drinking and the so-called "keg party loophole." The first bill is an attempt to clarify the crime of underage drinking. Currently, the law states it is illegal for an underage person to purchase or possess an alcoholic beverage.
The influenza season has begun and is hitting the University community with a greater ferocity than in previous years.
University graduate students are concerned about health insurance and research fees, according to their responses to a recent survey conducted by the Graduate Student Council. The Council presented the findings from its Graduate Student Survey yesterday.
A statement released yesterday by University Spokesperson Carol Wood states that, contrary to earlier indications that Politics Prof.
Catherine Neale, a third-year College student, became the new student member of the Board of Visitors Friday evening. This year 26 students applied for the position of student member, which is selected annually.
Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato announced a $1 million donation to the University Friday morning.
Mihye Jeong, a University graduate student, was hit by a car on Emmet Street Thursday evening. According to a report filed by the Charlottesville Police, Jeong was hit when she stepped off the curb near Memorial Gym. Sergeant Steve Dillon of the Charlottesville Police said that Jeong was taken to the University Medical Center and kept overnight for observation. Hospital spokesperson Abena Soreman-Trice was able to confirm that Jeong had been discharged from the hospital as of Sunday evening.
The fight to put sanction reform referenda on the spring ballot is heating up. Both Hoos Against Single Sanction and Students for the Preservation of Honor announced significant policy changes this week. Students for the Preservation of Honor is supporting a new ballot referendum to amend the honor constitution with a consensus clause. The consensus clause, conceived independently by Students for the Preservation of Honor, is an amendment to the honor constitution that would require a majority of the student body to support any changes to the sanction system. The current system requires a three-fifths majority of cast votes to pass sanction reform.
