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Students select next year's Honor, UJC reps

By Riley McDonald | February 21, 2003

After a week that began with intense chalking around Grounds and ended with candidates spraying their initials in the snow, University students elected next year's Honor and Judiciary Committee representatives last night. The newly elected Honor Committee representatives from the College are Carey Mignerey, Okem Nwogu and Sean Kevin Driscoll, emerging from a nine-person pool of candidates. "I'm just excited right now," Nwogu said. Mignerey led the race with 1,171 votes.

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Former Yahoo! CEO visits University

By Natasha Altamirano | February 21, 2003

Tim Koogle, the former president and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and 1973 University graduate, inaugurated the Batten Institute Speakers Series on Business Innovation at the Darden School auditorium Wednesday night. The annual series focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Council may voice support for living wage

By Angela Manese-Lee | February 20, 2003

The Living Wage Campaign may add Student Council to its list of supporters, pending a resolution vote next week. In the fall, a Council committee began investigating the issue of living wage at the University following a petition signed by 2000 concerned students.

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Thawing Out

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 20, 2003

After 10 inches of snow blanketed the University over the weekend, students and faculty returning to class this week were forced to dodge snow and ice faliing from the top of buildings around Grounds.

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Panel commemorates Dubois with readings

By Mary Pumphrey | February 20, 2003

To commemorate the anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Dubois's "The Souls of Black Folk," members of the University community participated in a panel discussion last night honoring the author.

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City to vote on water price cuts

By Jason Amirhadji | February 20, 2003

City Council adopted an ordinance yesterday to be voted on at its March 3 meeting which would significantly lower water rates citywide. The ordinance follows a similar reduction of wholesale water prices by the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority last month. Emergency water rate surcharges and increased municipal water usage since last year's drought left city water and sewer operations with a $500,000 surplus as of Dec.

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Officials voice concern over effects of in-state tuition cap on budget

By Anthony LaMesa | February 20, 2003

University administrators and Gov. Mark R. Warner announced yesterday their concern over a proposed in-state tuition cap, which could jeopardize already emaciated revenue for higher education. The House of Delegate's tuition proposal would cap in-state undergraduate tuition increases at 9 percent, while the Senate is proposing a cap of 5 percent or $800, whichever is less. "I think with the Senate's cap it would be pretty tough to meet all of our expenses," said Colette Sheehy, University vice president for management and budget.

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Universities around the country face budget problems, seek to expand private fundraising

By Josh Goodman | February 19, 2003

As the University plans a new capital campaign, public universities all over the country are seeking greater private funding as a result of state budget problems. States around the country are having trouble balancing their budgets, leading to cuts in higher education funding like those experienced by the University. The University of Michigan, one of the U.Va.'s peer institutions, is an example of a school facing similar challenges. The University's share of funds that comes from the state has dropped drastically since 1990, and Joel Seguine, a spokesperson for the University of Michigan, said in recent years Michigan has experienced a similar trend. State funding accounted for 19 percent of Michigan's budget in fiscal year 2001 and that figure had dropped to 17.6 percent in 2003, Sequine said. The state government further cut the appropriations to Michigan for 2003 in the middle of the year, he said. Sequine added that the state's budget problems have worsened for 2004. "It's going to mean an even greater cut," he said.

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It's all about the Jeffersons

By Angela Manese-Lee | February 19, 2003

Despite its 85 on-Grounds staffers, multi-million dollar projects and billion dollar expectations, many students have never heard of the University's Office of Development.

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Support mounts for Michigan policy

By Jon Breece | February 19, 2003

Supporters of the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policy said Monday that by last night's deadline, the Supreme Court would have received more than 60 legal briefs supporting the policy. More than 300 colleges, congressmen, law schools, education organizations, businesses and labor unions have signed or submitted briefs supporting the policy now being contested before the high court. Lawyers for the plaintiffs dismissed the outpouring of support for the policy saying the Supreme Court is not running a "popularity contest" but "trying to decide what the Constitution requires."

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Acclaimed former English Prof. dies

By Nathan Vassar | February 19, 2003

Former University English Professor Cecil Lang passed away Feb. 15 at the age of 82. Lang taught at the University from 1965 to 1991 and was an acclaimed scholar of Victorian non-fiction in the English Department.

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Snow fall has major impact on region

By Jon Breece | February 19, 2003

Local and state leaders across the area have dealt with the weekend snowstorm in very different ways. While University students returned to class, a day after the first weather-related cancellation in seven years, other college students across the state had another day off.

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University offers public health degree

By Angela Manese-Lee | February 18, 2003

Pending approval by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the University will add a Master of Public Health degree to its slate of Fall 2003 graduate degree offerings. The MPH is a professional degree program combining public health sciences, population-based research and community practice of public health.

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