After completing its audit of the 2003 Student Council elections process, the Vice President of Student Affairs office published its findings to the Elections Reform Ad Hoc Committee meeting Friday. Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia M.
A 31-year-old man broke into an apartment on the 400 block of 15th Street Friday night. At 9 p.m., a female University student reported a man upstairs in her home.
Standard & Poor's, a major bond rating agency, upgraded the University's bond rating to the agency's highest level.
As part of nationwide Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, the University's Department of Otolaryngology will provide free head and neck cancer screenings today and Wednesday. Today's screenings will take place at U.Va.
In a closed session meeting yesterday afternoon, the University Board of Visitors elected Gordon F.
The chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority at Virginia Union University has been suspended following the conviction of four of its members on hazing and simple assault charges. The sorority members were charged following a Feb.
Over a hundred people cupped flickering candles in their hands and watched with solemn faces as rape survivors walked up the Rotunda steps yesterday evening.
Providing an insight into the quality of higher education, U.S. News & World Report will release its annual graduate school rankings today, including those for the University's business, medicine, education, law, nursing and engineering programs. Overall, the University's scores are lower than last year's, though some gains were made. Darden dropped a spot from last year, coming in at 11th overall among business schools.
Like many other University students, third-year College student Reema Hijazi watched the start of the war in Iraq on television two weeks ago.
Two workers sustained injuries and broken bones yesterday at the construction site of the new Emmet Street parking garage when a concrete slab fell, according to University Police Sgt.
Over 30 dissatisfied representatives from various student groups gathered in the Newcomb hall informal lounge last night to learn about the Contracted Independent Organization appropriations appeals process. The Student Council appropriations committee released its CIO funding allocations last Friday, which doled out funds to 255 CIOs.
U.S. forces recently destroyed six Iraqi GPS jamming systems that Iraq was using to disrupt enemy satellite positioning equipment. The Global Positioning System was designed in 1978 by the U.S.
The day after Sept. 11 littered Manhattan streets with remnants of the twin towers, U.S. citizens could only speculate as to what could have instigated such hatred for America. Last night, the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures sponsored a presentation by the creators of a documentary entitled "Why U.S.?," which attempted to shed light on international resentment for America and prompt discussion of U.S.
On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, mere minutes away from landing, killing all seven crew members on board and leaving the body of the shuttle in scattered pieces. Questions arose immediately: what caused the accident, and what could have been done to prevent it?
The Virginia senate voted yesterday to sustain Gov. Mark R. Warner's veto of a bill repealing Virginia's estate tax, imposed on the estates of millionaires after they die. The 25-12 vote left Republicans only two votes short of the 27 votes necessary to maintain the tax repeal. House and senate Democrats have long berated the repeal, which they say is fiscally irresponsible during a time of fiscal crisis.
Third-year Engineering student Tamika Lockhart will become one of the few University students chosen to live in 15 West Lawn since 1968 next year. The Lawn room is conferred upon winners of the Gus Blagden Award, commonly known as the "Good Guy" award.
Retired Psychology Prof. Frank Finger, a renowned former member of the University faculty, passed away March 31 at the age of 87. Finger was considered a pioneer in circadian rhythms research, which studies activity patterns that occur in 24-hour cycles.
Employees in the Office of International Students and Studies are scrambling to comply with an Aug.
Yesterday's article on the affirmative action protest in Washington, D.C. incorrectly ran under the headline "Protesters gather in support of race-based admissions policies."The protest actually addressed a much broader range of issues surrounding affirmative action and did not focus merely on race.
Freeway, a popular new Roc-A-Fella Records' rapper, will perform the opening act for the Ludacris concert during Spring Fling.
