Yesterday U.Va. Vice President and Provost Gene Block froze the hiring search for three vice provost positions.
The blood supply across Central Virginia is dwindling, which could lead to serious consequences for patients needing transplants or elective surgery. Elective surgery is a non-emergency procedure such as hip replacement or knee surgery. Virginia Blood Services will ask its hospitals to cancel elective surgeries next week if donations do not increase over the weekend, said Wendi Snowberger, director of donor recruitment for VBS. "The current blood supply is not very good," said Pamela Clark, associate director for blood bank and transfusion services at University Medical Center and medical director for VBS.
As Charlottesville and Albemarle County prepare for September, typically the month requiring the highest water usage, city officials are hoping the rain won't go away and that area denizens will continue to follow the area's mandatory water restrictions. The rain of the past couple of days has not come close to relieving the drought, city officials said. "This little rainfall shows very little change," said J.W.
Residents of Brown College and the Gooch-Dillard residence area will feel the effects of the University's tightening budget in at least one very tangible way this year -- they will have to clean their own bathrooms. In response to looming budget cuts, the Housing Division informed residents it will no longer clean the bathrooms, Chief Housing Officer Mark Doherty said. "In light of the increasingly serious budget situation, the notion was to bring the service to the same level as what is in other upperclass apartments," Doherty said. In most upperclass dormitories, Housing does not clean the bathrooms. An example of the kind of arguments over budget-trimming that University students might come to expect in the next two years, many students have objected to the housekeeping change. In another cost-cutting measure, the Housing Division has also eliminated Saturday mail delivery, Doherty said. Housing is not planning to fire any workers but will save money by not re-hiring some workers who leave, he added. Housekeeping still will provide toilet paper and clean "common" areas, such as hallways, in Brown and Gooch-Dillard. Some students said they were angry because they signed their housing contracts with the expectation of housekeeping service in the bathrooms. "It's a definite breach of contract," said Aaron Silverman, third-year College student and Brown resident. Some students also complained they did not find out about the change until they arrived on Grounds, and found letters in their mailboxes. "We could have been given more warning," said Alexia Spanos, a third-year College student and Gooch resident. Other students pointed out the inconvenience of coordinating the cleaning of a bathroom shared by several students. A petition has circulated around Gooch-Dillard calling the cutbacks in housekeeping a breach of contract and demanding a refund for all residents of the $190 increase in housing fees that went into effect this year for Gooch-Dillard, plus additional money, Spanos said.
The West Nile virus is continuing to spread across the United States, even causing several Virginians to become sick.
While some students who landed summer internships were forced to spend hours in crowded offices, fourth-year Commerce students Emily and Sarah Beck, twin sisters, successfully completed a six-week internship program without leaving the comfort of their home. Fairness.com, which employed the Becks this summer, is a recently developed Charlottesville-based company that describes itself as a non-profit "clearinghouse Web site." The company provides information on various fairness-related issues, from professional ethics to consumer protection. People can log on to the Web site and search for articles pertaining to specific topics or organizations of interest to them. "We live in a world in which there is no shortage of issues of fairness," said Dan Doernberg, the company's president. The Beck sisters learned of this unique internship opportunity through the Commerce School.
As the commonwealth's financial condition continues to worsen, the University might be forced to cut its budget by upward of 20 percent in each of the next two years. By Sept.
SAT Math averages up two points to 32-year high National SAT scores rose this year on the math section but fell on the verbal section, causing total scores to remain steady. The average annual score on the exam, which many colleges use to evaluate applicants, was 1020 out of a possible 1600. The national average on the math section rose two points to a 32-year high of 516 out of 800. This year the average on the verbal section dipped to a six-year low of 504. In the past decade, math scores rose 15 points and verbal scores rose four points nationally. This year, Virginia students averaged a score of 1016 on the exam, a five-point increase over the previous year. Educators, including University of California President Richard Atkinson, are in the process of looking at alternatives to the SAT. To improve accuracy, the College Board plans to add a writing section and more critical reading passages to the exam by 2005. City, County residents cut back on water usage Prompted by tough water restrictions, residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County cut water usage by 10 percent over the weekend. Local officials said they are hopeful water usage could eventually be reduced by as much as 30 percent. The reductions in water consumption come on the heels of new water usage rules that went into effect last Friday. Local residents are forbidden from washing cars and watering lawns. First-time violators receive a warning, while second-time violators are slapped with a $500 fine. Despite the cutbacks by residents, water supplies in local reservoirs dropped by 2.3 percent over the weekend. -- Compiled by Josh Goodman
Exactly one year after terrorist attacks tore America apart, students and citizens alike will unite at the University to help bring the community together. On Sept.
University Democrats will be teaming up with the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., to host "2002 in 2002," a month-long voter registration rally beginning Monday. Organizers will man tables both on the Lawn and in Newcomb Hall through Sept.
University alumnus Leroy R. Hassell Sr. was elected chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday. Gov.
Across the University, students are getting that feeling in the pit of their stomachs that somehow brings to mind the final agonizing days of an adolescent Christmas season.
This semester, the federal government has mandated that colleges and technical schools across the country enter all new international students into an internet-based data system.
More than eight months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Kmart's much-hyped restructuring plan has accomplished little for the ailing retailer.
First-year dormitories came alive Saturday as over 3,000 first-year students, along with parents and siblings, descended upon Charlottesville for Move-In Day.
Gloomy budget forecasts and more grim fiscal news from Gov. Mark R. Warner hit home August 19 when University Librarian Karen Wittenborg announced that University libraries are reducing staff and cutting back hours to accommodate further budget cuts. The libraries, which The Princeton Review recently ranked the second best college library system in the nation, will continue to offer most of their usual services, such as reference librarians and wireless laptops. A total of 80 students formerly employed by the libraries will not be rehired as a result.
In a move that affects many students and faculty, the University turned over its bank servicing contract to Bank of America in mid-June. Wachovia previously serviced the University with ATM locations in Newcomb Hall, the University Bookstore and the Tree House, and an on-Grounds branch located in Newcomb Hall.
Researchers from the University and two other institutions have immortalized a stem cell line from the testis and used it to reproduce in culture several of the stages of sperm cell development, according to a study published last month on the Science Express Web site, part of the journal Science. The new stem cell line is not capable of transforming into different cell types.
In reaction to Virginia's severe drought conditions, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County officials have declared mandatory water restrictions. The restrictions went into effect at midnight, Aug.
There's a new fix for overachievers looking to cheat their bodies out of the recommended eight hours of sleep.
