The Recording Industry Association of America is now notifying suspected music sharers of its plans to file a lawsuit in order to avoid legal action. Those who receive warning letters are given 10 days to contact the RIAA and discuss settlement options.
After two years of contentious debate, the University Judiciary Committee voted down a proposed referendum to extend the statute of limitations -- the amount of time following an alleged crime during which a person can file a complaint -- from 45 to 180 days in cases of physical assault. The change would have required an amendment to the committee's constitution, a move that must be approved by a majority of students in an election. The committee's judge pool voted 10-4, with one judge abstaining and six judges absent, not to send the proposal to the fall election for a student vote.
Mixing heated anti-Bush rhetoric with visions for the future of America, Democratic Presidential Candidate Rev.
If Saturday's football game against Florida State is any indication of the future, the time-honored tradition of ties, jackets and sun dresses may be competing with a new "sea of orange" in the stands. With a record-setting attendance of 62,875, University athletic officials said they were pleased by the turnout and acknowledged student responsiveness to their ongoing campaign to get students to wear orange at games. "It's something the players can see, something they can hear and something they can feel," Athletic Director Craig Littlepage said.
Members of the Inter-Sorority Council executive board, sorority presidents and other ISC representatives held a forum yesterday to discuss the purpose of Big Sis Week, address concerns and propose potential reforms to improve the event. ISC President Cahill Zoeller said ISC board members and sorority sisters voiced similar issues and concerns with the event. Big Sis Week takes place about a month after pledges accept bids but before they are initiated into their sororities.
Bright green flyers deriding the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force as "JADED" and chalkings of marijuana leaves blanketed Grounds last Friday around the Bryan Hall walkway and the Ruffner Hall pedestrian bridge. Some of the fliers featured a large picture of the serial rapist in an attempt to argue that funds allocated for the "Operation Spring Break Down" drug bust would have been better spent finding the serial rapist, who remains at large. A chalking on the side of Ruffner Hall had the Web address of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws written below a picture of a marijuana leaf. Although remnants of pro-Marijuana chalkings still remained on some University buildings yesterday, the fliers all had been removed from the Bryan Hall walkway. University Police Capt.
The benefits may certainly outweigh the costs of attending next weekend's 16th annual Virginia Film Festival.
When students and faculty think of honor, they too quickly associate it with the trials and sanctions of the University Honor Committee, according to the University members who created Envision Integrity, an initiative they are seeking to endow this year. "We're afraid University students have narrowed their definition of honor to what they can get away with, or what they can get caught for," said Nicole Eramo, special assistant to the Honor Committee and a member of EI. EI looks to incorporate University faculty and staff, along with students, into an extended dialogue about ethics, integrity and what it calls "little-h honor." "We want to make sure conversation occurs on how we live our lives in an honorable way every day," said Pat Lampkin, vice president for student affairs, who initiated the program.
A nurse with the University Medical Center was arrested Monday night after authorities found 195 marijuana plants in his Monte Vista Avenue home.
Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner revealed new pieces of his Education for a Lifetime initiative, setting goals for Virginia colleges and universities to increase degrees by 10,000 each year and to increase yearly research budgets to $1 billion annually, in a speech at the College of William & Mary Tuesday. Warner said he hoped these changes would be in effect by 2010. Currently, Virginia's public colleges and universities collectively award 47,000 degrees each year.
The University's School of Nursing recently received a $650,000 grant to help recruit more young men and women for the nursing field. Officials said the money will be used to improve facilities and faculty resources as part of a larger effort to recruit current nurses' aides and other college graduates and provide them with an incentive to become full-time nurses.
What do you get when you cross free food, fun and festivities? Homecoming 2003 -- Wahoo style. The University Programs Council, Student Council, Alumni Hall, the Athletics Department, Inter-Fraternity Council, Inter-Sorority Council, the Office of the Dean of Students and the class councils are sponsoring Homecoming events, officially known as Homecomings 2003, Friday, Oct.
Wesley United Methodist Church on Emmet Street displayed pumpkins for Halloween carving yesterday in the afternoon sun.
Over seven months after the alleged assault on then-Student Council Presidential Candidate Daisy Lundy, the Federal Bureau of Investigations continues to investigate the incident as a potential civil rights violation with at least one individual testifying before a federal grand jury. An unknown assailant allegedly attacked Lundy at about 2 a.m.
Charlottesville police have apprehended three gang members in connection with the alleged assault of two University students last month.
The face of the Atlantic Coast Conference is slated to change for the second time this year. Boston College announced Sunday that it will accept an invitation for ACC membership.
University students and Charlottesville residents experienced a series of power outages yesterday morning following a night of heavy rains and high winds that caused trees to fall on power lines. The first outages occurred after 4 a.m.
Dominion Virginia Power's proposed fuel rate increases likely will affect the University beginning in early 2004, and officials are not enthusiastic about the rate hike, according to Cheryl Gomez, director of utilities for Facilities Management. "We're not looking forward to it," Gomez said. Though she could not provide any specific figures or estimates on how the rate hike would affect the University's electric bill, Gomez said it is possible that any increases could be absorbed by the University and not passed on to students. Gomez attributed this to the fact that the demand for electricity was lower than normal this past summer.
The latest in a series of bomb threats on Grounds came last Thursday when New and Old Cabell Halls were evacuated following a phoned-in threat. The threat was received around 10 a.m.
