Due to the heavy rains and subsequent ground saturation, this retaining wall between the 200 and 300 block of 15th Street collapsed yesterday morning.
A brown bear visited a couple of buildings on the Appalachian State University campus, located in Boone, N.C.
University alumnus Paul Tudor Jones II, class of 1976, praised the high level of University student volunteerism in a speech before an audience of over 100 Madison House program directors last night as a part of a special visit to Grounds. Madison House invited Jones, who flew in specifically for the evening's dinner and speech, to return to the University over a year ago.
An investigation currently is underway at the University of South Alabama, located in Mobile, Ala., where 3,000 copies of its Vanguard student newspaper were stolen last week, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Tim Beard, South Alabama's dean of students, told the Associated Press that the papers disappeared following campus wide distribution to students the Tuesday before last. Jamie Sims, Vanguard editor-in-chief, told the Associated Press she believes it is no coincidence the papers stolen included criticism of the school's Student Government Association. The paper questioned if paid cell phones and stipend increases for three SGA officers were a good use of student activity fees paid by all students. Beard said officials are working to find the newspaper thieves.
Albermarle County investigators named a cooking grease and creosote buildup on a wood-burning stove as the cause of Monday night's three-alarm fire at Farmington Country Club. The fire was first detected at 6:30 p.m.
Certified Massage Therapist Lisa Barnhart gives first-year College student Joey Djojohadikusumo a massage yesterday at the Women's Wellness Fair in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom.
Less than two months after passing new zoning regulations that would allow for high-density housing to be built near Grounds, City Council approved an ordinance at its Nov.
A melanoma vaccine developed at the University has shown a positive correlation to tumor regression in a recent study conducted by the University of Virginia Health System. Of patients injected with the vaccine, 75 percent showed response by the killer t-cells in the lymph nodes.
When Jeannemarie Devolites won a seat in the Virginia Senate Tuesday night, she became the first female University graduate elected to a seat in the Virginia Senate.
The Library Access to Music Project -- LAMP -- created by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, was shut down indefinitely Monday after being active for only a week. Keith Winstein and Josh Mandel created LAMP with the hope that they would be able to share music with students across the campus legally. The program broadcast music, which they had attempted to legally license, over MIT's cable network as opposed to the Internet.
Remember when you thought getting sick was a good thing?I used to pray for minor illness during elementary school so that I could curl up on the couch and get waited on, hand and foot. Oh the irony!
Have you ever wondered what the universe is composed of? When you look at the sky at night, on a clear day, you see stars flickering like lanterns.
Election Reform referenda are no longer the only controversial issue surrounding the upcoming fall Student Council elections. The Student Council representative body voted to postpone the fall elections from November 11-12 to November 18-19 during their meeting Tuesday night because of the need to meet with legal counsel regarding the revision of the fall election rules. The contested rules included new stipulations on the disclosure of candidate and endorsing organization expenditures as well as other various procedural regulations. Endorsing organizations, including The Cavailer Daily and the Greek Councils, expressed concern about the handling of the fall election rules and procedures. On Sunday, The Cavalier Daily managing board contacted Madelyn Wessel, Council's legal counsel, concerning a possible lawsuit against Council for a violation of the U.S.
Charlottesville Police released two phrases last Friday allegedly uttered by the serial rapist to two of his victims. The police got the statements from two of the six women in Charlottesville allegedly victimized by the rapist since 1997, and have released them based on the advice of behavioral profilers, according to Charlottesville Police Capt.
RICHMOND, Va. -- State Democrats downplayed their continued minority party status last night and extolled an apparent three-seat gain in the Virginia House of Delegates, the first net gain in the House since 1975. "Democrats have not gained seats in the General Assembly in your lifetime -- it's a great night for Democrats," Virginia Democratic Party Chair Lawrence H.
At a school which champions student self-governance, the fate of the University's election process may have to be decided by the Board of Visitors if not enough students cast their vote in this fall's upcoming election. November 11 and 12, students will be asked to vote for a series of referenda concerning constitutional changes related to each school and the creation of the new University Board of Elections. Though the Student Council constitution does not stipulate a minimum turnout for regular elections, the constitutions of the Fourth-Year Trustees and the Engineering Student Council are ambiguous enough to generate differing opinions on whether they require a minimum turnout to ratify the new election process. Any organization that will be governed by the UBE, including class councils, school councils and the Honor and Judiciary Committees, must ratify this process in order for there to be full implementation. Past fall elections have shown a general apathy among the student body, however, and many organizations on Grounds are concerned that too few students will cast votes in the upcoming election. John Rodney, student member of the Board of Visitors, said he expected voter turnout to be low in the election because the issues at hand -- electing school representatives and deciding on proposed constitutional amendments -- are not ones that spark much interest or publicity among the student body. "In an ideal world, everyone would come out and vote," he said.
The number of blacks attending the Law School has dropped substantially since the mid-1990s, despite efforts by administrators to maintain a racially diverse student body. Michael Signer, a third-year Law student and the founder of the U.Va.
For the majority of its history, the University has neither possessed nor sought a diverse faculty. Built by slaves, Thomas Jefferson's experiment for the "respectable enlightenment...of the whole people," did not begin admitting black students until 1950. The University did not hire its first black faculty member until Curry School Prof.
Residents who had planned on living in the new Camden Plaza apartments on 14th Street two months ago finally moved in Oct.
Second-year College student Carson Ward remains hospitalized and in critical condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center as a result of head injuries sustained in an altercation outside the Sigma Chi fraternity house early Saturday morning. University Medical Center spokesperson Marguerite Beck said yesterday afternoon she could "release no other information at this time." Two Sigma Chi brothers and fourth-year College students, Kurt P.
