Sixteen living wage advocates held a sit-in at the lobby of the Courtyard Marriott Hotel on Main Street yesterday, culminating in three arrests for trespassing. The living wage campaign is nearing its 100th week in Charlottesville.
Although a large proportion of American Latinos go to college, many of them do not receive their degrees, according to a report released last week. The Pew Hispanic Center, a non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C., conducted the study, which relied on monthly surveys conducted by the Census Bureau. Richard Fry, a senior associate at the Pew Hispanic Center who wrote the report, offered a variety of reasons for his findings, including economic and cultural factors, language barriers and deficiencies in K-12 education.
With hopes of gaining student support for the upcoming General Obligation Bond referendum, several University organizations will host top-name bands in the Mad Bowl later this month. The referendum, which calls for $900 million in state higher education bonds, appears on the November ballot, and various student organizations think a concert event will encourage student participation in the election. Student Council, the University Programs Council, the Inter-Fraternity Council, the Inter-Sorority Council and the Vice President for Student Affairs Office have joined together to present Rock n' Rally, a concert turned political gathering to be held in the Mad Bowl on Saturday, Sept.
Students peppered Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with questions as part of an open session at Caplan Auditorium yesterday during Thomas' two day visit to the University. Thomas went to two classes and had lunch with about 40 students yesterday, Law School Dean John C.
A shooting early Saturday morning took the life of a 27-year-old man and injured two bystanders by stray gunshots. According to Charlottesville police, the victim, Margues Lamont Carter of Charlottesville, was shot about 2:30 a.m.
First years might find adjustment to college life a little more difficult with the possible elimination of second-semester parking privileges. Kevin Hanlon and Brandon Possin, Student Council parking and transportation committee members, wrote a resolution calling for the elimination of first-year parking, which the entire committee will vote on at its Sept.
As the anniversary of last year's terrorist attacks on America approaches, the University community plans to host a teach-in to address new concerns that arose over the past year. The teach-in will be held Tuesday, Sept.
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The Curry School of Education and the College expect to be awarded a "Teachers for a New Era" $5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation soon.
Rarely do students get real-world stock market experience at running an actual stock portfolio. However, through the McIntire Investment Institute, students can accumulate funds and gain real investment experience. Although many other schools have investment clubs that usually study and hypothetically plan a portfolio, the MII is unique. One of the things that "makes us different from other student investment clubs is that we are entirely student run and we invest real money," fund manager Milgo Galaydh said. In recent years, the MII generally has performed at or above broad market averages. In years when they made considerable profit, the group gave money to the University and charitable groups.
Weekend fire displaces residents in Kent House A fire in a McCormick Road dormitory early Sunday morning displaced approximately 20 residents for the night . At about midnight on Sept.
Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow Martha Jefferson Hospital to issue $50 million in revenue bonds. Nearly half the funds generated will be spent improving the hospital's current facility in downtown Charlottesville. Hospital administrators earmarked $23 million to be spent on their expanded cancer center and other projects, Martha Jefferson spokeswoman Ann Nickels said. The new cancer facility features a new linear accelerator, a cutting-edge cancer treatment and a new treatment laboratory.
Albemarle County's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to make violating state water restrictions a Class 3 misdemeanor. The decision comes after new restrictions were issued August 30 to extend the existing measures to limit private well-water users, affecting approximately half the residents in Albemarle County. In the greater Charlottesville community, residents are being asked to run dishwashers and washing machines with full loads, and not to fill swimming pools or water lawns unless they are recently renovated or new. Restrictions on private well users, who are more likely to live farther away from town, are enforced by Albemarle County local government, Albemarle County spokeswoman Lee Catlin said. Although restrictions were enacted on the county, city and state levels, Catlin said Charlottesville residents will not be cited and fined on multiple levels. Gov.
Governor Mark R. Warner released yesterday a second round of recommendations from the Secure Virginia Panel that could impact the structure and depth of state security and emergency readiness plans. The recommendations also endorse more efficient funding for homeland security research at higher education institutions. "This is a second group of recommendations from a panel that continues to meet and issue proposals," Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said. The panel was formed in January of this year by an executive order from Warner.
As part of an ongoing effort to strengthen interaction with first-year women, the Inter-Sorority Council has enforced a new contact policy for this fall. The revisions allow the incoming female class to participate in sorority-sponsored philanthropic events that were previously off-limits to first-year women. The changed bylines, voted on last spring, arrive as the ISC launches a new campaign to improve first year's understanding of sorority affairs. "By opening philanthropic events to first-year women, they will have a firsthand experience of what sorority women plan and participate in together," ISC President Whitney Eck said.
After more than a year of submitting reports to state agencies and six months of very public controversy, the University soon will break ground on a 1,200-car parking garage on Ivy Road. Virginia's Secretary of Administration made the decision Wednesday to allow the University to begin construction. The garage, to be located behind the Cavalier Inn, will hold student, faculty and staff parking.
The Virginia Department of Health announced yesterday that it has identified two more human cases of West Nile virus.
Daniela Bell, Graduate Labor Union president, sent University President John T. Casteen III a letter yesterday asking him to reverse library staff cutbacks and reductions in library hours. This fall the University library staff eliminated 80 student positions due to budget cuts. The letter, which Bell wrote on behalf of GLU and otherconcerned graduatestudents, lamented the effects the library cuts are having on graduate students and on the University in general. The letter mentioned particular concerns of graduate students who work at the libraries and have lost their jobs. In addition to making staff cuts, Alderman Library will close two hours earlier, at 10 p.m., and no libraries will be open on weekend mornings. The cuts, which University Librarian Karin Wittenborg announced last month, come as a result of the state budget crisis that has led to substantial cuts in the University's public funding. "Cutting the library really hurts the teaching mission of the University and the research mission of the University," Bell said. Library officials did not feel as though the library had been disproportionately targeted for cuts, library spokesperson Charlotte Scott said. "Everyone is in the same boat; this is a statewide budget crises," Scott said.
Republicans will rule the House, while the Senate race looks like a tossup, according to the University's political soothsayer, Politics Prof.
