Software updates underway on the Central Mail Service promise the University community increased efficiency and security in accessing e-mail accounts, officials say. CMS, the University's e-mail storage system, will undergo updates over the next two months.
In the wake of Sept. 11, state spending on higher education throughout the nation has grown by the smallest rate in five years.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed the American economy, airport security and international relations.
Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia hospitals submitted requests of $2.5 million in improvements for terrorist preparedness to the Virginia department of health, as well as to U.S.
A group of student volunteers enforced a new system for camping out and lining up at University Hall for men's basketball games at Tuesday night's contest versus Wake Forest and received good reviews. Student Council sanctioned the new guidelines in response to complaints from fans last season.
University administrators, like other Virginia college officials, had braced themselves for the financial fallout from Virginia's $5 billion budgetary morass.
University Medical Center employee David Simmons (D) announced his candidacy in the race for City Council Monday, becoming the fifth candidate vying for the two open seats. Simmons, director of clinical services for the Nephrology Clinic at the University Medical Center and the only University employee now in the race, has emphasized his extensive activity in community organizations as an asset to his bid for City Council representative. "My experience will give me a different perspective" than the other candidates, Simmons said.
University Police have begun distributing trespass warning posters around Grounds, alerting community members of a man barred from all University owned and operated property. Officers said they encourage students, faculty and staff members to study the photo, which is featured on the alert posters throughout University residence halls, libraries, academic buildings and dining facilities. If spotted on Grounds, officers said students should call 911 immediately to alert police. "We've released the picture to let students know to watch out for the man," University Police Sgt.
More students than ever applied to the University through early decision last semester, amid growing controversy over the merits of early decision in the college admissions process. The University received 2,413 early applications for next year's first-year class, 13 percent more than in 2000.
RICHMOND - An overflowing crowd came to the state capitol Saturday to see the first inauguration of a Democratic governor in more than eight years.
droves of people moving to Charlottesville and Albemarle County in the last decade have created a booming local real estate market, and the University will not be left out.
Renowned Harvard University African American Studies Prof. Cornel West is considering a move to Princeton University after a dispute with newly appointed Harvard President Lawrence Summers. The controversy began in October 2001 when Summers criticized West for his participation in political non-academic pursuits.
The University announced last month the selection of the Polshek Partnership, an architecture firm based in New York City, to design the proposed $125 million South Lawn project. The project, which includes the replacement of New Cabell Hall and the construction of a new building across Jefferson Park Avenue, provides for 285,000 square feet of new, state-of-the-art classroom and research space. The project encompasses an "opportunity that comes only once every hundred years" an opportunity to redefine the South Lawn and to "recapture some of Thomas Jefferson's original vision," University Architect Pete Anderson said. Jefferson's original plan intentionally left an unobstructed view of the Lawn's south end.
Division I representatives at Monday's National Collegiate Athletic Association's annual convention will discuss the possibility of change academic requirements for student-athletes. Currently, the NCAA dictates that to remain eligible to play Division I athletics, student-athletes must have completed 25 percent of their total coursework after two years in college, and an additional 25 percent each year after that. The new proposal would require that students maintain a 1.8 GPA by the beginning of their second year.
In a time fresh with a regained sense of patriotism in the United States, William Allard's "Portraits of America," a compilation of photographs spanning four decades of his career, provides us with breathtaking insight into our own country.
Jack Ketchum is the literary equivalent of a chainsaw. He's loud, powerful and, in the horror genre, is known for shredding a whole lot of human flesh. One of the pioneer writers of the early '80s "splatterpunk" movement (a wave of literary horror with a focus on extremities), Ketchum (the pen name of Dallas Mayr) has written consistently for more than two decades. "The Lost" is his latest work and, unlike his hard-to-find limited edition and/or short print run books of the past, it's available at almost any major bookseller. It is a much tamer beast than his older classics, but a wholesome thriller for the whole family it ain't. Set in the '60s, "The Lost" revolves around a group of teens who share a terrible secret.
Thomas Jefferson once said, "I cannot live without books." Bearing that statement from U.Va.'s founder in mind, students should think twice before regarding books as little more than an expense incurred for classes.
It is not uncommon for some brilliant, well-read director to mold a book into a Hollywood production.
David Mamet is a comic superstar underneath all that academic mumbo-jumbo. In "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources," he manages to parody the entire world as we know it. Mamet is a playwright ("Glengarry Glen Ross," "American Buffalo"), director ("State and Main"), screenwriter ("Wag the Dog"), poet, essayist and novelist; in short, he's a pretty big figure in contemporary American literary and dramatic culture.
"Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah." A statement like that is enough to induce a shudder in most Americans these days.
