Many airports across the nation, including the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, reopened yesterday following an OK from the federal government. All flights had been grounded since Tuesday morning after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and another crashed into the Pentagon. Effective at 11 a.m., the order stipulated that U.S.
Students, faculty and community members woke yesterday to see a still-clouded New York City skyline on television and the need to begin the process of piecing together a broken sense of security.
The Alumni Association still knows little about whether any University graduates who live in New York and Washington were injured or killed in Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Surreal images played over and over on the set of nearly every television. Friends gathered in an effort to comfort one another and be anything other than as helpless as most inevitably feel.
Three beachgoers were attacked by sharks in three days over normally peaceful area coastal waters.
Responding to concerns about a possible backlash against students with Middle Eastern backgrounds, many groups around Grounds have discussed over the two days since the terrorist attacks ways to combat such reactions. Between 9 and 9:30 Tuesday night a message went out to several organizations' e-mail listsannouncing a gathering in Newcomb Hall, beginning as soon as they could arrive, for students fearful about such a backlash. By 10 p.m., a large circle of people had convened in the Commonwealth Room, including Deans of Students Pablo Davis and Ajay Nair, Counseling and Psychological Services representatives Russ Federman and Julia Routbort, Terri Moore of University Career Services, and a cross-section of student organizations' members. Some two hours later, weary from the nightmarish day, students and administrators filed out of Newcomb having voiced early concerns and decided on protective steps they would take.
In response to Tuesday's national crisis, at the University, foreign affairs experts at the University began offering theories to some of the questions regarding America's future security. Philip D.
WASHINGTON - The normal bustle of commuters inside the nation's capital was nowhere to be seen yesterday.
A spectrum of experts at the University spoke with The Cavalier Daily about the technical and political implications of yesterday's tragedies in New York City and Washington D.C.
In the wake of yesterday's attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. area officials are responding to security issues at a local level. All Charlottesville City and Albemarle County emergency workers are on alert.
Shock. Numbness. Confusion. Apt words to describe the mood on Grounds, which took a somber turn yesterday. Around televisions in Newcomb Hall - the designated counseling center for the University - clusters of students watched through swollen eyes as the images splashed across the screen.
Doug Strassler spent the early parts of his Sept. 11, 2001 morning watching the breaking news from New York City that would change America forever.
While many fourth-year students are eagerly anticipating graduation and never having to write a paper again, some are applying to school all over again - gathering recommendations, writing essays that will please admissions officials, and studying for standardized tests reminiscent of the SATs from high school.
The entire nation took emergency actions yesterday to cope with the tragic events in New York City and Washington D.C., and the University was no exception.
All city and county emergency workers are on alert. Officials have closed the Charlottesville Federal Courthouse and Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, as per the national airline grounding.
Whether taking notes in a lecture hall or speaking out during a class discussion, odds are University students will rub shoulders with some of the best and brightest from, quite literally, across the globe this year. The University has enrolled 162 undergraduate international students, up from 140 last year.
Several University officials remain optimistic about the quality of a University education despite the school's recent slip to the number two spot in U.S.
For the fourth year in a row, medical schools across the nation saw a drop in new student applications this year. Total applications dropped 3.7 percent in 2000, according to a report published last weekin the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Students may never have to scrounge for a quiet place to study at 2 a.m. again. As of this school year, University students can go to Clemons Library at all hours of the night with the permanent implementation of 24-hour, five-days-a week library services.
"America's luck has run out," said one journalist covering this morning's tragic events in New York City and Washington, D.C.
