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First day of January Term sign-up draws over 100

By Becca Garrison | November 30, 2004

Registration for the University's first January academic session began yesterday at 8 a.m. Within the hour, one class was already full. By the end of the first day of registration, 136 of about 400 slots for students in January Term classes were full, according to program director Dudley Doane. Administrators said they were pleased with the interest. "It's been quite amazing," said Milton Adams, vice provost for academic programs. The program is the collaborative effort of multiple departments at the University. Students have been "very patient and positive" with the process, Doane said.

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Licensing revenue generates almost $1 billion for colleges and universities

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 30, 2004

In the 2003 fiscal year, colleges and universities across the country filed for more patents, signed more licenses with companies seeking to turn academic research into drugs, devices and other products, and identified a larger number of scientific discoveries with commercial potential than ever before, according to a report released last week. The 165 institutions that responded to the survey of technology-transfer activity received more than $968 million collectively. In addition, 3,450 U.S.

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U.Va. statement shifts bowl prospects

By Sean McLernon | November 30, 2004

For the first time in three years, it seemed like the Virginia football team's bowl situation would be settled early and without controversy. However, a statement from University President John T.

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University promotes new spam filters

By Lauren Todd Pappa | November 23, 2004

In response to complaints from students and faculty about unwanted e-mails infiltrating their mailboxes, ITC recently launched a new ad campaign to raise awareness about its spam-filtering systems. According to ITC Network Systems Manager Robin Ruggaber, many people with University e-mail accounts are unaware of ITC's spam-filtering services. "We have a lot of people complaining about spam because they don't know we have a lot of measures they can opt into," Ruggaber said. ITC currently offers two systems to mitigate the flow of spam to University e-mail accounts.

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Event urges eating disorder awareness

By Jehan Mondal | November 23, 2004

University students, administrators, and health professionals gathered at an inaugural speak-out vigil last night in order to recognize and bring greater awareness to eating disorders. "Perfect Illusions" co-creators fourth-year College student Anne Fishwick and third-year College student Whitney Snyders, interns at the newly formed University committee U.Va.

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University extends holiday hours for staff

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 23, 2004

As the holidays approach, University Academic Division employees will have an extra day off this year. Following an extension of holiday hours by the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, Chief Human Resources Officer Thomas Gausvik announced this month that Wednesday, Dec.

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Correction

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 23, 2004

The top story in yesterday's paper stated that this is the first year the University has had two winners of the Rhodes scholarship, based on information provided by University News Services.

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Number of black students admitted to University increases slightly from last year

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 23, 2004

The University reported a slight increase in the number of black students who enrolled with this year's first-year class, even as many other universities reported a significant drop. Of the 3,096 members of the Class of 2008, 288, or 9.3 percent, are black, compared to 273 of 3,101 students in 2003 (8.8 percent) and 289 of 2,999 students in 2002 (9.6 percent). Nationwide, however, the Washington Post reported Monday that many schools, including several public flagship universities, enrolled significantly fewer black students this year than in 2003. At the University of Michigan, which following a May 2003 Supreme Court decision continues to use race as a factor in admissions but does not award extra points to minority applicants, 350 of 5,730, or 6.1 percent, of this year's freshman students are black, compared to 410 of 5,333, or 7.7 percent, last year.

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HONOR TRIAL RECAP

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 23, 2004

Sunday, November 21 An undergraduate student was found guilty of cheating on the final exam for an introductory-level class by a panel of random student jurors.

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Native of City killed in Iraq war

By Sarah R. Gatsos | November 23, 2004

Cpl. Bradley Thomas Arms, a Charlottesville native and member of the Marine Corps Reserves, was killed Friday in a small arms crossfire in Fallujah, Iraq. Arms was a 20-year-old student attending the University of Georgia when he was summoned to Iraq. As a way to honor Arms' life, Trinity Presbyterian Church Pastor John Hall said he spoke about how to deal with the death of a loved one during Sunday's church service.

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Failure to verify insurance blocks hundreds from classes

By Maria Jeong | November 23, 2004

Approximately 750 undergraduate and graduate students are blocked from class registration for the spring 2005 semester as of today due to their failure to verify their health insurance coverage, according to Virginia Carter, the University's director of external communications. The University informed students of the new insurance verification procedure through three mass e-mails, postings on the weekly Connections e-mail sent out by the Vice-President for Student Affairs' Office and a letter included in tuition bills last spring. "We will try one more time to reach them to stress the urgency that they need health insurance and that they need to verify it," Carter said. Insurance Compliance Coordinator Jennifer Krugmann said she has recently received hundreds of phone calls from students who have been blocked.

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Study: College students voted Kerry

By Paras Sharma | November 22, 2004

With the political passions and election fever that swept the nation now receding, political pundits, including those at the University, are beginning to take a closer look at how college students voted in the 2004 presidential election.

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Cancer drug developer joins University Medical Center

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 22, 2004

Cancer researcher and break-through drug developer Geoffrey Weiss recently was appointed the University Medical Center's newest chief of hematology-oncology and deputy director of the cancer center. Weiss previously conducted research at the University of Texas, where he developed the cancer fighting drug interleukin-2, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993. Interleukin-2, used primarily to combat kidney and skin cancer, results in remission among 20 percent of the patients who use it. Weiss told the Daily Progress that in his new role at the University, he plans to develop targeted therapies, drugs that work to destroy altered cancer-causing cell proteins. Weiss said he also plans to hire nine new researchers within the next five years and earn the University's Medical Center a top-10 ranking for cancer research.

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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

By Cavalier Daily Staff | November 22, 2004

Virginia freshman sensationSean Singletary led the Cavaliers to their second victory of the season with a spectacular 15-point, 8-assist, 6-steal performance.

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