Students and faculty soon may find a new place to eat, relax and study in the newly-approved dining facility "Java City Cafe at the Colonnade," to be built in Hotel E on the West range. The Colonnade Club, which manages Hotel E, approved the designs for the new cafe Monday.
The enactment of the first-ever system-wide policy banning sexual or romantic relationships between faculty and students in University of California school system could lead to an increasing number of restrictions at other universities, said Abby Lunardini, a spokesperson for the UC Office of the President. Lundardini also said she expects other universities to adopt broader, more cohesive policies banning faculty-student relationships in the future. "I know that nationwide there have been an increasing number of colleges drafting policies and everyone is handling it differently," she said.
While many students have experienced everything from denied access to delayed mail delivery and inundations of mass e-mails this past week, ITC has good news for frustrated University computer users. Students soon may have the convenience of a user-friendly spam filtration option through the University's Webmail service. ITC Network Systems Manager Robin Ruggaber said the preliminary tests for the anti-spam system look good. "We're fairly optimistic that it will work," she said. Ruggaber said they hope to make the system open to the public in the next few weeks. Anti-spam measures are "something that people have been asking for, for a long time, so we're pretty excited about the project," she added. Third-year College student Matt Oberhardt complained about the abundance of spam in his inbox. "Spam is a pain in the ass," Oberhardt said.
Changes to the University Housing Division's assignment process for the upcoming year will make it easier for first-year students to acquire their desired housing choices, officials said yesterday. Last year, upperclassmen who wanted to switch rooms or housing locations did so in a phase prior to first-year students in the Alderman and McCormick dorms applying for housing, according to Director of Accommodations John Evans. This year, upperclassmen who wish to switch rooms will enter a lottery for priority assignment at the same time as first-year students, which will be conducted after Jan.
A wild black bear has been spotted roaming in the city of Charlottesville for at least the past few weeks. The bear was last seen Tuesday near Barracks Road and Blue Ridge Road, according to Charlottesville Police Sgt.
The University Health System issued a media advisory yesterday just in time for Halloween, warning potential pumpkin carvers to use caution, or stick to paint, when working on this year's spooky creations. Serious hand injuries can result to both children and adults as a consequence of pumpkin-carving accidents, warned Dr. Greg Degnan, director of the Virginia Hand Center at the University Health System. Serious cuts and permanent tendon and nerve damage can occur instantly if a pumpkin carver's hand is in the wrong place while dislodging a stuck knife, Degnan said. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in a recent study recommended the use of pumpkin carving kits in order to stave off hand injuries.
Although exploratory neurosurgery in the field of primate neurocomputation sounds relatively simple, it has, in fact, proven exceedingly difficult for a very long time.
As a result of budgetary constraints, the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority, a prepaid tuition program, announced earlier this month that it would not accept payments toward the state's prepaid tuition program next year. Tuition increases, coupled with lower than expected investment returns were cited in a press release as mitigating factors in the decision. In August, the Authority attempted to address these issues by increasing contribution costs, but it was nonetheless forced to freeze new enrollment Oct.
University construction teams raised a new foot bridge over Emmet Street into place late Tuesday night.
Service on the University central mail server slowed dramatically yesterday after a mysterious e-mail was sent to 750 undergraduates Tuesday night.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions addressed intellectual diversity in higher education yesterday, featuring testimony from a University student. In a hearing titled, "Is Intellectual Diversity an Endangered Species on America's College Campuses?," third-year College student Anthony Dick was invited to speak on issues surrounding the University speech policies, his opposition to mandatory diversity training and the academic climate on Grounds. Dick, also president of the Individual Rights Coalition, was joined by three other witnesses: A professor from Brooklyn College and City University of New York, the president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the director of legal and public advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). "The witnesses represent a spectrum of experiences that have been affected by the lack of intellectually diversity," said Josh Shields, spokesperson for the committee's majority staff.
Last night marked the third in a series of six information sessions for the University's fledgling Passport Program, a joint initiative of students, faculty and administrators designed to encourage student participation in diverse programming and events. The Office of the Dean of Students launched the program last semester in conjunction with the Office of African American Affairs, the International Studies Office and Embrace Diversity. "The program gives people the opportunity to attend events that they would normally not go to and to get a better sense of the diversity within our community," Embrace Diversity President Barrie Leigh Moorman said. Although only in the primary stages of its second year, the program has already drawn a larger group of interested participants than last year, said Neha Shinde, graduate assistant in the Office of the Dean of Students and a member of the program's organizing committee. "At our first information session last year not many people knew about it," Shinde said.
Tie and business suit-clad students with resumes in hand descended on the University's Minority Career Day yesterday. The event attracted approximately 1,000 students from 30 colleges and universities throughout the Commonwealth and the District of Columbia, including the College of William & Mary and American University.
In Monday's news story "UTS bus hits health system employee," the third paragraph incorrectly attributed Rebecca White, director of University parking and transportation, with providing the names of the bus driver and the person hit by the bus.
All students in Greek organizations come from upper-class backgrounds. Only those with legacy status will be recruited into certain houses.
Albemarle and Western Albemarle High School students demonstrated their ability to conquer analogies, word problems and geometry this past year. Albemarle County's SAT scores showed an increase above the national average for the graduating class of 2003. The average national SAT score for the class of 2003 was a combined total of 1026.
If bigger is better, the University will soon be as good as it gets. Many examples of University expansion, such as the new parking garage, new basketball arena and the South Lawn Project, are well known to students. Others, such as the pending acquisition of the 180 to 200 acre Foxhaven Farm by the University's Real Estate Foundation, have gone virtually unnoticed, but nonetheless have implications for what the University and its surrounding areas will look like years down the road. Making a Deal Foxhaven Farm encompasses a wide swath of land to the West of Charlottesville that touches the Bel Air neighborhood and Birdwood golf course to the North and East, the Charlottesville Reservoir in the West and nearly to Fontaine Avenue in the South.
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas shut down a bake sale last Wednesday in which cookies were offered at different prices, according to the buyer's gender or race. The SMU Young Conservatives of Texas organized the sale and members said it was intended as a protest against the use of affirmative action in college admissions condoned by the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan case decided in June. A lower court banned Texas universities from using race as a factor in admissions in 1996. The bake sale's sign listed the prices for a cookie: $1 for white men, 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks. Similar sales have been held by College Republican chapters at colleges in at least five other states since February. A black student filed a complaint with SMU, saying the sale was offensive.
One of Information Technology and Communication Office's four e-mail servers failed early yesterday morning, preventing many students from accessing their e-mail accounts between 5:30 a.m.
The University and the City of Charlottesville honored author Edgar Allan Poe Monday by unveiling a historical marker outside he occupied on the Range for one academic session in 1826. Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox spoke outside Poe's room, reminiscing about his first experience with Poe's literature and praising the author's prose and poetry. Cox and other officials congratulated the city's Historic Resources Task Force for initiating the historical sign project. Satyendra S.
