By investing a portion of its endowment in the fossil fuel industry, Divest U.Va. wrote in its petition that the University was directly contributing to the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
The Class of 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were invited to the event, which was held at the Ting Pavilion on the Downtown Mall from 9:00 p.m. to midnight.
The letter contains the signatures of over 110 students and is undersigned by 12 organizations including the Black Law Students Association, the National Lawyers Guild at U.Va. Law and Student Council’s executive board.
Garcia wanted more historical information about Central Americans to come from direct sources and the communities that were involved instead of from scholarly articles whose information was often incorrect.
In a closed session Tuesday lasting over an hour, council members discussed Boyles stepping down. At the end of the meeting a vote was taken, with council members unanimously accepting his request.
This is also the first reported case of a “peeping Tom” incident.
Clemons Library had to change their operating hours due to the behavior of some students towards library staff.
In 2019, the waste diversion rate for the Green Game was 64 percent.
Of the 56 active cases of COVID-19 within the University community, 33 are students.
Moderately to severely immunocompromised individuals who may not have developed a strong enough response to the initial two-shot sequence of doses can receive a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
The University made the decision with guidance from public health experts to reduce the spread of COVID-19 to unvaccinated children and high-risk individuals in the Charlottesville community.
Businesses across the country are facing labor shortages as well as supply chain disruptions — the cause of this shortage is still unknown.
Student Council will sponsor free Uber and Lyft rides to local early voting sites.
Last year, students and faculty were given no days off during the fall and four break days in the spring, which were spread out over the course of the spring semester and rotated across the days of the week.
The seven-day average positivity rate for students, faculty and staff also precipitously declined from 1.98 percent last week to 1.27 percent this week.
David Yang, fourth-year College student and director of the Internal Student Affairs agency, said the agency would like to increase their winter International Student Activity fund to support international students' wellbeing during winter break.
In response to a question from Johnson about how OAS has impacted members’ time at the University, many students reflected that the organization has provided mentorship, community and a sense of home.
Warmbier was a brother of Theta Chi and an Echols Scholar at the University who planned to graduate May of 2017.
Following the committee finalizing a constitutional proposal, the student body will vote on the proposal in the spring.
There are currently 101 active cases of COVID-19 within the University community, which brings the total case count for the fall semester to 611.
