In light of recent accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists, Monday's semiannual Safety Walk focused specifically on bus stops and crosswalks.
The Alpha Mu Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi at the University currently is being investigated for allegations of hazing, according to officials at the University and the fraternity's national headquarters. As of this week, the fraternity has been placed on "immediate temporary probation" by Delta Sigma Phi national headquarters.
The Virginia General Assembly elections yesterday maintained the political status quo for the most part with the Republicans gaining one seat in the Senate and the Democrats gaining at least two seats in the House of Delegates. Before the election, Republicans controlled 64 seats in the House of Delegates and 23 in the Senate.
Fire, rescue and utility vehicles responded to a three-alarm fire at Farmington Country Club yesterday after a section of the roof caught fire around 6:45 p.m.
In the second reported pedestrian accident at the University in the last month, a bicycle rider crashed into a car pulling into the Central Grounds Parking Garage last Friday afternoon, one week after a pedestrian was hit by a UTS bus while crossing Jefferson Park Avenue. According to Charlottesville Police Sgt.
In response to the recent onslaught of complaints regarding the escalating tuition costs in Maryland, Republican Gov.
A newly formed local chapter of a national group devoted to educating Americans about the United Nations hopes to inform Charlottesville residents about the United Nations and its relationship with the United States. The Blue Ridge Chapter of the United Nations Association USA held its inaugural meeting Sunday at the Charlottesville Unitarian Universalist Church, featuring a speech by David Newsom, an expert on United States foreign policy and the American relationship with the United Nations. Newsom's speech reflected the chapter's goals: Informing local citizens about the United Nations and emphasizing the positive roles it plays. In his speech, Newsom, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs and former ambassador to Libya, Indonesia and the Philippines, discussed the history of the United Nations, critiques of both the United Nations and the United States by each other, and the beneficial roles that the United Nations plays both toward the world and the United States. Newsom argued that despite problems between the United States and the United Nations, the United States has much more to gain from participating in the United Nations than it does by ignoring it. "We can join the world and work to strengthen the primary international organization or we can turn our back on it.
Charlottesville police have charged fourth-year College students Kurt P. Rupprecht and John P. Selph with malicious wounding for their involvement in an altercation outside the Sigma Chi fraternity house early Saturday morning, which resulted in the hospitalization of second-year College student Carson Ward. Police investigators interviewed over a dozen witnesses regarding the incident in order to obtain as clear a picture as possible, Charlottesville Police Capt.
Less than eight months after the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors made headlines flip-flopping on the issue of race-conscious admissions, the university has declared its original policy in compliance with the law. The report came from a board ad-hoc committee Sunday, following two Supreme Court decisions last summer that defined the constitutional use of race in admissions. While undergraduate admissions are permissible, some private and federal scholarships that offer money exclusively to students of certain races or ethnicities are problematic and require further attention, reported the committee, after working with the university provost's office and the Virginia attorney general's office. "What we do here at Tech may very likely become a model for other universities," Tech spokesperson Larry Hincker said. Tim Murpaugh, spokesman for the attorney general, said his office is working with other colleges and universities in the Commonwealth to bring admission policies into compliance with the court decisions, but could not comment on the specifics at any school. "The Michigan decision did not provide us with a hard and fast rule on the use of race, so each program has to be looked at within its own context or with its own set of facts," Murpaugh said. Two landmark Supreme Court cases last June stemming from contested admissions policies at the University of Michigan provided a much-anticipated judgment on the use of race in admissions at colleges and universities. In Gratz v.
A portion of the area Thomas Jefferson once described as "The Eden of the United States" will remain untouched by urban sprawl, thanks to a $22,500 grant from the Piedmont Environmental Council. Albemarle County accepted the donation last Thursday in an effort to halt development in the Southwest Mountain Historic District. Located between Routes 20 North and 22/231, the 170-acre district is one of many areas in which the environmental council has been working to preserve Virginia's rural heritage. Albemarle County Executive Bob Tucker praised the donation, crediting the environmental council with slowing urban sprawl. "We are very delighted that the PEC has made this donation and we will use it to develop other development rights and I hope they will consider making future donations," Tucker said.
The artspace committee of the University Programs Council opens a new exhibit today featuring work from the Virginia Stone Carvers Guild.
A second-year College student remains hospitalized after sustaining head injuries in an altercation outside the Sigma Chi fraternity house early Saturday morning. Though an official report from University Medical Center was not available at press time, friends who visited Carson Ward at the hospital yesterday said his condition has improved since Saturday, when he allegedly was struck by a brother of Sigma Chi in the early hours of the morning outside the fraternity house, located on the 600 block of Preston Place. Charlottesville Police Sgt.
The 2003 edition of America's Top Doctors includes 46 physicians from the University Medical Center, according to the Health System Media Relations office.
The University honored former School of Medicine Dean Robert M. Carey with the Thomas Jefferson Award during Fall Convocation Friday. The highest honor given to a member of a University community, the Thomas Jefferson Award recognizes an individual who represents the principles and ideals of Mr. Jefferson through personal character and contributions to the University. "This award is the most prestigious or prominent award given to members of the University," President John T.
At least one local politician will not be sweating out Election Day tomorrow. Democrat Mitch Van Yahres, who represents Charlottesville and some surrounding areas, once is again running unopposed for the House of Delegates. Van Yahres has served in the House for 22 years, and said roughly half of his past campaigns have been unopposed. Van Yahres, a former arborist, said his desire to return to Richmond is motivated by what he sees as unfinished business, especially relating to budgetary matters, in the Republican-dominated General Assembly. "I don't agree with the legislation that a lot of our conservative Republicans are putting forth," he said.
Binge drinking on campuses by the nation's at-risk demographic -- white, underage males -- is lower at schools with greater numbers of women, minority and older students, according to a recent Harvard study. Co-authored by researchers Meichun Kuo and Henry Wechsler, director of College Alcohol Studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, the study concluded that colleges should implement policies to promote greater diversity on campus and in college housing. In previous College Alcohol Study reports, white, underage males were found to be overwhelmingly the student subgroup most likely to engage in binge drinking. The researchers defined binge drinking as the consumption of five drinks in a row once in the past two weeks for men, and four drinks in a row for women. The study found white freshman students who were binge drinkers in high school were less likely to continue if they attended colleges with greater numbers of African-American, Hispanic and female students. Additionally, non-binge drinkers in high school were less probable to start if attending a school with more diversity on campus. The study's findings are based on data collected from 52,312 college students at 114 predominantly white colleges and universities from 1993, 1997, 1999 and 2001 College Alcohol Study surveys. Entitled "Watering Down the Drinks: The Moderating Effect of College Demographics on Alcohol Use of High-Risk Groups," the study appeared in the November issue of American Journal of Public Health. In the interest of public health on American campuses, the authors of the study suggest predominantly white colleges establish an atmosphere appealing to diverse students, encourage more older and female students to live on campus, and dilute heavy housing concentrations of young, white, male students. Large concentrations of high-risk students allow peer pressure to fester and establish a social norm accepting of heavy drinking, the study also said. A lack of emphasis on drinking in the African-American community discourages binge drinking, University African-American Affairs Dean M.
A $3.7 million government grant was recently awarded to University Health System researchers to fund their studies of diagnostic tools and drug treatment for peripheral arterial disease, or PAD. The grant, from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, will pay for a five-year study of PAD physiology.
Quick quiz: Can you name at least one of Virginia's two U.S. Senators? 56 percent of Virginia high school students cannot.
As Halloween night nears, pumpkins cropped up on Lawn room steps and in front of the Pavilions. Hundreds of children will descend on the Lawn tonight for the annual trick-or-treat marathon, which can cost Lawn residents upward of $80.
