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Grant funds K-12 technology training

By Abby Curran | August 30, 2001

Kids may know more about computers than do their teachers and administrators, but a new program associated with the Education School could change that. The Education School is one of four recipients of a $7.2 million grant, partially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to train kindergarten through 12th-grade school superintendents and principals throughout Virginia to use technology in education. The Gates Foundation, run by the Microsoft tycoon and his wife, offered each state a $3.6 million challenge grant for technology training.

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Police nab man for Sigma Nu incident

By Kadie Bye | August 30, 2001

University police arrested a Charlottesville man suspected of assaulting a party guest outside the Sigma Nu fraternity house early Tuesday morning. Police charged 21-year-old Bryan Pierre Slaughter of 114 Hartman Mill Rd.

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Assault, gunshots fired near Sigma Nu

By Ann-Woods Isaacs | August 29, 2001

The University Police Department is investigating an alleged assault, which occurred yesterday morning outside of the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Carr's Hill. According to University Police, several unidentified individuals attacked Col.

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Students Flood Virginia Colleges

By Justin Bernick | August 29, 2001

There's a growing tide of incoming students to Virginia's state colleges and universities. The problem is there's hardly enough room for them. At Old Dominion University, for example, a "large increase in the freshman class" required 24 students to live in a hotel in downtown Norfolk, and over 200 students to live in triples, ODU spokeswoman Jennifer Mullen said. Although over 19,000 students enrolled at ODU this year - a record increase from about 18,600 the year before - ODU was "able to accommodate everyone who requested on-grounds housing," she said. The story is the same at multiple colleges across the Commonwealth, including Virginia Tech and James Madison University, as administrators try to grapple with the problem of dramatically increasing enrollment coupled with shrinking state financial support. State legislators have begun to leave educators in the awkward position of adding new students without adding more money to their current budgets, which were frozen by the year's fiscal stalemate in the General Assembly. And according to future enrollment predictions, the problem is going to get worse.

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News in Brief

By Brad Harrison | August 29, 2001

University student arrested at Buddist Biker Nicholson, 20, reportedly was angry after being kicked out of the club when he broke the window in a car parked out side the local hangout.

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Court rules against UGA race policy

By Sara Jeanblanc | August 29, 2001

Affirmative action suffered a setback Monday, when the 11th Circuit Federal Appeals Court ruled that the University of Georgia unconstitutionally used race in admissions by giving non-white students an arbitrary advantage. Officials at the University of Georgia have not decided what their next step will be.

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Burton considered for Securities Exchange Commission appointment

By Shelley Johnson | August 27, 2001

Economics Prof. Edwin T. Burton is among the leading contenders for a commissioner seat on the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC regulates the nation's securities markets to ensure fair business practices for all investors. Now there are two vacant commissioner seats on the SEC and two more openings are expected soon, leaving President George W.

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Accident takes life of University

By Ben Sellers | August 27, 2001

The University lost a devoted friend and musician on Saturday when second-year student Maria Diaz was killed on her way back to school from her Virginia Beach home. Diaz died when the 1986 Saab she was driving ran off the left side of Route 64 West and slid sideways into a tree in New Kent County, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller said. "She died at the scene," Geller said. Police were called to the crash site at 5:17 p.m.

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New director to take over Newcomb Hall

By Abby Curran | August 27, 2001

After looking over a year, University officials turned their search westward for a new director of Newcomb Hall. Bill Ashby, who now serves as director of business services at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, will begin his new job Oct.15.

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It's a Small World After All

By Sam Bresnahan | August 27, 2001

With uses ranging from the practical to the inane, nanotechnology, the science of the small, may be the next big thing. In fact, things are getting so small that scientists need multi-million dollar microscopes to see what they are building. For example, in 1989 an IBM scientist succeeded in writing the letters of his company using individual atoms. Researchers in this growing field often manipulate objects that are a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. Although such an accomplishment may seem pointless, futurists such as Eric Drexler say nanotechnology will become the center of a new-age revolution. Drexler's book "Engines of Creation" envisions a future where tiny machines are capable of building any object from scratch - whether it be food, cars or even more tiny machines. Nano-hype? Drexler's vision of a world filled with machines probably won't be realized for a very long time, if ever.

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A Penny Saved, a penny earned

By Diya Gullapalli | August 27, 2001

Jamie Fishman has a penchant for pennies. The 8-year-old Charlottesville resident proudly stands in front of the Coinstar machine at the Harris Teeter supermarket on Emmet Street as the machine counts his pennies and dispenses a voucher that can be exchanged in the store for cash or groceries. "Pennies are my favorite," Fishman says.

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Police capture escaped local criminal

By John McArdle | August 27, 2001

Prison escapee Timothy Eads is back in jail today after a two-day search that involved over a hundred city, county and state police officers, K-9 units and a police search helicopter. Eads, who escaped from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Joint Security Complex on Wednesday afternoon, was recaptured on Thursday at approximately 8:30 p.m.

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Honor investigates 130 cheating charges

By John McArdle | August 25, 2001

Honor Committee members said they hope to have all of the 130 honor cases filed since last spring by a physics professor completed by Christmas, despite slow progress on investigations this summer. Committee Chairman Thomas Hall said while the necessary Committee personnel were in town this summer, many investigated students could not be contacted for a number of reasons, including being out of the country on vacation. Now 37 of the 130 cases have been investigated by Committee officers, 11 have been scheduled to go to trial and 26 were dropped without a trial.

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State may fund new library

By Abby Curran | August 25, 2001

Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) said Wednesday he soon will decide whether to secure funding for the University's proposed special collections library. Gilmore met with University President John T.

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