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.
The College Board announced yesterday that the number of students who passed an AP exam has risen in all 50 states. The "Advanced Placement Report to the Nation," made in anticipation of the AP program's 50th anniversary in the 2005-06 school year, showed that the percentage of high school seniors who received at least a 3 on one of the tests has climbed from 10.2 percent in 2000 to 13.2 percent in 2004. In addition to detailing AP success, the report also announced adjustment planned for the AP program. According to Ayeola Boothe-Kinlaw, director of equity and access initiatives for the Advanced Placement program, one of these adjustments applies to the way grades are reported to schools, districts and states. "We've changed the way schools receive their grades," Boothe-Kinlaw said.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Ron Suskind spoke last night at the Miller Center for Public Affairs in a forum titled "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W.
Soon Charlottesville residents will be able to forgo the trek to City Hall to pay their parking tickets.
Although the proposed chartered universities legislation has yet to be debated in committee or on the General Assembly floor, it has already undergone significant changes since its original proposal by the University, William & Mary and Virginia Tech during 2004. Sen.
A Jan. 14, 2005 letter from College Dean Edward L. Ayers to Politics Prof. James R. Sofka, a copy of which was obtained by The Cavalier Daily, indicates that Ayers' recent decision to remove Sofka from his position as dean of the Echols program was prompted by complaints that Sofka had acted inappropriately with female students.
University students who believe they are paying too much for their textbooks are not alone. They are joined by Virginia21, a non-partisan group advocating policies to make the textbook-purchasing process both fairer and less expensive. Virginia21 Communications Director David Solimini described the group, which focuses on issues pertaining to young voters 18- to 24-years-old, as an "AARP for people our age." "The goal is to help create a free market for textbooks," Solimini said. Virginia21 submitted a formal bill to the Virginia General Assembly which will be voted on by the Higher Education Subcommittee Friday. In the bill, Virginia21 addressed two main factors that drive up the cost of students' textbooks.
The University has not heard from any students who might have been affected by the tsunami disaster and are unable to return to Charlottesville, International Studies Director Rebecca Brown said yesterday. After the disaster, the University sent a mass e-mail to students with residences in Southeast Asia expressing condolences and extending support, but the e-mail did not specifically ask students to respond. "We have not heard any information regarding students unable to return to U.Va.," Brown said.
Students walking to class in the Chemistry Building yesterday afternoon were greeted by a sea of fire trucks and rescue vehicles responding to a chemical spill. Local fire and police personnel responded to the spill in Room 280, according to University Police Capt.
The Honor Committee heard two opposing proposals on the issue of sanction reform at its meeting Sunday night. The Sanction Reform Committee, after looking into several alternative sanctioning policies, voted to formally recommend to the Honor Committee a policy that would add a forgiveness clause to the current single sanction system. SRC Chair Sara Page presented the resolution, which asked the Committee to forward the forgiveness clause proposal to a student-body referendum in the upcoming spring election. "The heart of this resolution is really the idea of putting a reform policy on the ballot," Page said.
The search for former University student Chyler Ebersold ended yesterday when one of the many concerned groups looking for him discovered his body shortly after 10 a.m., Charlottesville Police said.
