Yesterday, in a formal statement, the Inter-Fraternity Council issued sanctions against Phi Kappa Sigma and Zeta Psi fraternities for behavior that "threatens or endangers the health or safety of person." Members of Phi Kappa Sigma and Zeta Psi hurled snowballs at females participating in Inter-Sorority Council recruitment last Saturday.
Medical center employees will not receive a pay raise this fiscal year, William Carter, senior vice president for health sciences operations, announced to all staff members early this month.
Reflecting a national trend toward the unionization of graduate students, about 50 students met last night to explore the possibility of organizing University graduate students into a union with a national affiliation. "It's important to organize graduate students in all departments to fight not just in a haphazard manner, but rather to have a well-funded, well-organized foundation to fight constantly," said Ben Lee, one of the graduate students advocating unionization. The push for unionization is being led by a small, largely informal group of students known as the Graduate Labor Alliance.
At a special retreat Sunday, the Honor Committee continued debate on its "informed retraction" proposal to reform the single sanction. The retreat "didn't go as well as we had hoped," Honor Chairman Thomas Hall said. Although Honor did resolve some contentious issues, other concerns remain to be resolved. The proposal, first introduced by fourth-year Architecture representative Brian Winterhalter in October 2001, offers students who are being investigated for a potential honor offense an opportunity to plead guilty any time before the investigative panel stage or within seven days of notification of the investigation.
Night falls, and cold rain begins to pour down in sheets. You are hungry, lonely, and you have about $4.
According to its latest statistics, the Honor Committee has nearly finished processing the mass of plagiarism cases initiated by Physics Professor Louis Bloomfield beginning in April 2001.
"This year we're trying to do what we say. It is a gradual process to make the IFC look more legitimate," said Rush Chairman Steve Bowman on the Inter-Fraternity Council's new rush policies for spring 2002.
The latest tech trend flourished in stores this past holiday season. According to an associate at RadioShack in Fashion Square Mall, the store sold out of digital music players for the Christmas season.
Now Internet users worldwide can engage in the kind of free expression inspired by the City of Charlottesville's proposed community chalkboard.
Seconds after the clock struck 5 last Thursday afternoon fourth-year Lawn Selection Committee Coordinator Trish Morrow found herself in the difficult position of turning down a number of disappointed students who had just missed the firm deadline to turn in their Lawn applications. Of the 226 students who made the deadline only 47 will be offered the honor of living on the Lawn in their last year of undergraduate studies. This week, 34 fourth-year volunteers will spend countless hours reading through each of the 226 applications, eight less than last year, and picking who will be a part of next year's Lawn community.
Rolling out of bed Saturday morning, students awoke to find their windowsills covered in a soft, white layer of steadily falling snow. Accumulation in the Charlottesville area reached approximately four inches by mid-afternoon at which point the snow tapered off and freezing rain began.
With the advent of spring rush activities the University's sorority system has found itself with a new little sister. The Lambda Chapter of Sigma Psi Zeta Inc. entered the Multi Cultural Greek Coordinating Council before the last week of classes in December. President Sophia Ni, a third year in the College, has been working to establish Sigma Psi Zeta since her first year at the University. The process to become a sorority at the University took a year and a half.
In an event reminiscent of the University's honor cases brought forth by Physics Professor Louis Bloomfield last spring, 187 Georgia Tech students are facing accusations of cheating by collaborating on a computer science class project. Professors identified the students with homemade software designed to detect plagiarism.
Because of state budget cuts Informational Techonology Communication will be forced to discountinue low-speed dial-up modem services. This will become effective Jan.
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.
