Sophomore wideout turned quarterback Marques Hagans sparked the Cavalier offense to a 59-16 victory Saturday, running for 68 yards and throwing three touchdowns.
University engineering students will get a chance to test their work and the bounds of gravity tomorrow when a NASA rocket modified with sensory equipment they built heads for space. The rocket, scheduled for a launch window between 6 and 10 a.m.
Dell Upton, University professor of archeology and architectural history is slated to speak Friday at 5 p.m.
A University of Michigan class entitled "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," has become the subject of scrutiny from conservative Michigan lawmakers and interest groups including the American Family Association who deem it's content morally unacceptable and thus believe it should not be tax-payer subsidized. The class, offered by Michigan's English Department, has been offered since 2000. Michigan Rep.
A 16-year-old girl announced last weekend that she was raped at a September 6 fraternity party at the College of William & Mary. The girl, an unnamed resident of the middle peninsula area near Williamsburg, was at a party at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity when the incident allegedly occurred. Though the girl has not filed charges and the College is not involved in the case, a state investigation is ongoing. "The matter is in the hands of the Commonwealth's attorney" Vice President for Student Affairs Sam Sadler said.
Last January ITC implemented the new pay for print policy to regulate the amount of printing going on in ITC and library computer labs on Grounds. Despite the change, however, many professors continue to post large volumes of course material online for student access. "It's inconvenient -- teachers assign us a lot of stuff to be printed out and we're required" to print it, third-year College student Ashley Newell said.
Because of recent budget cuts that have affected Virginia universities, students at 12 state institutions of higher education have joined together to form Virginia 21, a group established to encourage students to vote in an attempt to help build support for school funding in state and local government. "Virginia 21 is a grassroots movement to get students from the ages of 18-24 to vote," said Brant Snyder, Virginia Tech student government association president.
University community members now will have greater ease of access to documents stored on the University server with the introduction of a web interface for the home directory program. Anyone with an active home directory account may use the service via a web browser. The new interface is hosted at www.virginia.edu/homedir/.
The latest edition of Organic Style magazine has named Charlottesville the healthiest city in Virginia and the 26th healthiest city in the nation. The rankings were based both on opinion and empirical evidence from "Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas," a book by author Robert Weinhold, which focused on air quality and toxin release in cities.
The controversial United States Patriot Act, signed into law by President George W. Bush in October 2001 as part of his efforts to promote homeland security, is hitting home for patrons of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library branches in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. The Patriot Act, which many have alleged infringes on individual civil liberties, was designed to give law enforcement officials greater autonomy in fighting terrorism in the wake of September 11, 2001. Last week, the library system, facing requests from patrons and the City of Charlottesville, posted signs in all its branches informing patrons of the Patriot Act's Section 215, which allows federal government officials to freely obtain patrons' library records without being forced to tell library officials whose records they are examining. The University library system has no plans to post signs reminding patrons of Section 215, Director of Library Communications Charlotte Morford said. "We really focus on serving the faculty and the students and visiting scholars, so we obviously want to follow legal processes and we realize that these are tense times," Morford said.
The University opened a new wing of Fontaine Research Park yesterday. The new facility features an open magnetic resonance imaging system, the first to be operated at the University. MRI technology is used to image the body without radiation.
Charlottesville and University police have been coordinating efforts to capture the area's serial rapist for months, and are saying they believe University students are not as aware of the situation as they should be. The series of rapes began in 1997 in a Waynesboro hotel.
Although the Commonwealth of Virginia currently has the highest possible bond rating, AAA, there is the possibility that it soon may be downgraded to AA+. Moody's Investors Service placed Virginia on the bond watchlist Sept.
Many students worry about cramming extracurricular activities into their 18 credit semesters, while others have to grapple with far different issues, such as providing childcare for their 18-month-old children. In an effort to aid undergraduate and graduate University students with children to care for, Student Council President Daisy Lundy has engaged in discussions with several administrators.
Aided by the light of a single candle, 13 speakers called on hundreds gathered last night on the South Lawn to remember the events of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. Vigil speakers, members of a variety of different University organizations and representing a range of different faiths and backgrounds, offered words of prayer, glimpses of their own memories and urgings of tolerance and peace. Speaker Michael Lusk spoke of a "day that began like any other." He chronicled his morning, watching planes crashing into the two towers of the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. "It felt like the world was crumbling around us," Lusk told vigil attendees. While most speakers offered their thoughts as indirect victims, Commerce student Arshiya Singh said she spoke as a target. Singh recounted visiting museums in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Senate approved an amendment Wednesday prohibiting the Bush administration from changing the federal student-aid formula. The proposed changes endorsed by the Bush administration would lower the amount of tax families could deduct in the need-analysis formula. According to the U.S.
After four years at the University, Dean of Students Penny Rue may be saying goodbye. Rue is on the short list of candidates for the vice chancellor of student affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she began her career 20 years ago as an area director for UNC's housing department. Rue had previously been senior associate dean of students at Georgetown University, beginning in 1987. From 1981 to 1987, she was a staff member at the University of Maryland while working on her doctorate in counseling and personnel services. UNC's vice chancellor for student affairs search committee is expected to reach a decision on which candidate to recommend to administrators by the end of the week, committee chair Laurie Mesibov said. The final decision will be made by UNC's chancellor and provost. UNC officials began trying to fill the position last February, and received over 70 applications.
By a vote of 209-208, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the highly publicized D.C. voucher program Tuesday night, sending to the Senate for approval a bill that would allocate $10 million in private tuition grants for over 1,300 low-income students. Sponsored by Rep.
Ricardo Lee, 48, and Troy Banks, 33, both pleaded guilty to robbing the Wachovia bank at 10th and High Streets March 11.
In the aftermath of an economic recession, the class of 2003 and current fourth years face a drastically different job market than that of previous graduates -- students who found themselves pursued by a multitude of companies offering signing bonuses and high-level entry positions during the economic boom of the late 1990s. Aaron Shen, a 2003 graduate, said his current position as a research assistant at the University hospital is not the career he envisioned when he began his job search the summer of 2002.
