Second-year College student Gray Crabtree traveled to the University of Florida this weekend to attend her boyfriend's formal, expecting to fly home Sunday evening.
Discussions may be in the works to bring filmmaker Michael Moore to the University as part of his "Slacker Uprising Tour," according to Alex Thurber, University Programs Council speakers committee chair. Thurber said one of Moore's agents contacted her last week with the date that the filmmaker was available to come to Charlottesville -- Oct.
In response to the alleged racial hate crime against fourth-year College student Amey Adkins, the Honor Committee overwhelming voted to endorse a statement condemning acts of discrimination and hate at the University last night. "I think tonight we took a step in the right direction in stating we are not just against lying, cheating or stealing---we're not just defined in this negative sense, but also this positive sense of really having this vision for U.Va.," Sullivan said. The recommendation to bring the statement to the Honor Committee came from the Diversity Advisory Board and the Black Student Alliance.
In response riots following this year's Superbowl, Boston's city council has proposed an ordinance to create a centralized database of students who are living in Boston. The database would track the addresses and phone numbers of all students living off-campus who attend Boston's sixty colleges and universities. The ordinance was proposed following riots that occurred after the New England Patriots won the 2004 Superbowl in which one person was killed and several others were seriously injured.
Albemarle County residents were warned by police to remain vigilant last week following two reports by a woman in the Hydraulic Road area that a suspicious man was hovering near her home on Tuesday night and Thursday morning, The Daily Progress reported Saturday. The woman described the man hovering near her home as black, in his 20s or 30s, about six feet tall and weighing about 180 pounds. The Daily Progress reported that although police are not connecting the Westfield Court incidents to the serial rapist, they are still recognizing the seriousness of the incidents. Police used an automated phone message system typically used only for storm evacuations to send a warning to residents after Tuesday night's incident, The Daily Progress reported. Police told The Daily Progress that they are asking anyone who sees the prowler to call 911 immediately. A $20,000 reward currently exists for anyone providing information that leads to the arrest of area's still-at-large serial rapist. --Compiled by Anthony LaMesa
The University has received yet another accolade. According to the Atlanta-based Collegiate Licensing Company, the University ranks as one of the top 50 colleges and universities in the United States for the amount of school merchandise sold. The company releases a list at the beginning of every year ranking schools for the amount of merchandise sold.
A University student took yesterday took advantage of the weekend's balmy weather to catch up on reading beneath a tree on the Lawn.
In the past month, three college students have died in separate alcohol-related incidents around the country, but University officials said they remain optimistic about local binge drinking prevention efforts. Last Sunday, a Virginia Tech student died from alcohol poisoning.
ITC officials began an online survey last Friday in an effort to gauge student support for a subscription download music and video service at the University. ITC will operate the online survey until Oct.
In an effort to recruit and hire more female and minority faculty members, the University is taking on a more active search procedure. University spokesperson Carol Wood said the University already has had success with recruiting and hiring female and minority faculty members. "This increase focus goes hand-in-hand with the President's Commission on Diversity and Equality," Wood said.
I am from South Florida, the unofficial sunshine/lightning capital of the world. Let's just say that the weather down there is often a lot more interesting than Virginia's usual forecasts of "haze" or "wintry mix." And so, during these last partly cloudy/drizzly weeks, my attention has been focused on the state I love and the barrage of hurricanes that seem to have decided that Florida needs to be wiped off the map.
Many agree that obesity is a significant problem in many Western and some developing countries. According to the 11th European Congress on Obesity, this problem affects more than 300 million people.
With October fast approaching, the newly chartered University-run Off-Grounds Housing Office is working with students to prevent panic over early lease signing dates. "In about two weeks, you are going to hear a lot of talk about having to sign a lease for off-Grounds housing," Student Council President Noah Sullivan told students in an e-mail Wednesday night.
"Who is George Bush?" Bob Woodward, Washington Post assistant managing editor and noted investigative journalist, focused his speech last night before a capacity crowd in Old Cabell Hall on answering this question.
Police in Harrisonburg this week reported a string of incidents in which young women have woken up to find a stranger in their bedrooms. So far, 18 women have reported such incidents.
The University's Darden School ranked 12th overall, just ahead of Harvard and Duke, in the Wall Street Journal's list of the best graduate business schools in North America released this week. Darden's Olsson Center for Applied Ethics was rated fourth worldwide in the category of business ethics.
Hundreds of students, staff and faculty members from dozens of student organizations and University affiliations overflowed the Rouss Hall lecture hall last night at a town meeting sponsored by the Black Student Alliance. The meeting was organized to address the University community's response to fourth-year College student Amey Adkins' report that a racial slur was written across a window of her car Sept.
After a four-hour open trial that filled the trial room of Newcomb Hall last night, Graduate Student Rich Felker was found guilty of violating two University Standards of Conduct and was sentenced to 20 hours of community service with University Recycling and "suspension in abeyance." According to UJC Chair Angela Carrico, suspension in abeyance means that if Felker is found guilty of violating standards 4, 8 or 12 again, it will be "very strongly recommended" to the next trial panel that he be suspended. Felker, a member of Students for a Free Tibet, was charged with intentional disruption of a University activity and failure to comply with University officials when he attempted to chain himself to a banister in the Dome Room of the Rotunda during a speech by Chinese Ambassador Yang Jiech last June. "I'm disappointed with the outcome that the Judiciary Committee was not willing to stand up for the free speech rights of students who wish to make their voices heard at the University about issues they feel deeply about," Felker said. Felker said he understood the risk he took in attempting to stage a protest. "I went into this whole protest understanding that there could be consequences -- just or unjust -- against the actions I took.
The Curry School of Education last night announced the second half of its largest donation in history, a $23 million gift from non-alumni Daniel Meyers, 41, who serves as vice-chair of the school's fundraising foundation. The donation will fund a planned addition to the Curry School near its current home in Ruffner Hall, to be named after the late Anthony D.
This fall, the presidential campaign's platforms on American higher education center on college affordability, but their impact after the election is uncertain. Although voters may have trouble seeing past the frequent attacks and electoral strategy that has marked the campaign to date, both President George W.
