In response to the recent assaults on University students, community activists, church members and University administrators gathered at the Mount Zion Baptist Church last night to discuss race relations and the lack of interaction between the University and Charlottesville at large. Last night's meeting was one in a series of meetings that began three weeks ago when Rev.
In an effort to preserve the cultural diversity of the South Atlantic region, Virginia Tech and the University have set aside their usual competitiveness to join with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
After weeks of competitive campaigning, the student body elected next year's Honor and University Judiciary Committee leaders yesterday. Duncan Brook, Brad Robinson and Christopher Smith will serve as the three College Honor Committee Reps from a pool of 14 candidates. "We are going to have an outstanding Committee next year," said Brook, who led the race with 1,459 votes.
The results are in. Almost. With echoes of the 2000 presidential campaign ringing in the air, the elections committee announced last night that there will be a run-off for Student Council president. Third-year College students Steven Reinemund and Micah Schwartz will run-off for Council's most coveted position.
The list includes sheep, mice, cows, goats, pigs and just recently, cats -- Noah would have been very pleased. In December of last year, scientists at Texas A&M University cloned a calico cat wittily named "CC" for "carbon copy" or "copy cat." Though she is the first domestic pet to be cloned, CC represents nothing new as the latest in a line of six cloned species. Nothing is different about the cloning process either -- Texas A&M researchers followed the same routine of painstakingly fusing numerous adult cells with an egg whose genetic material had been removed. In fact, bringing CC into the world wasn
Student Council members passed a resolution last night urging Gov. Mark R. Warner to support increased University funding through bond bills. The bond bills already passed the Virginia House and Senate earlier this month, but require Warner's signature before going on the statewide ballot in this fall's general election. Senate Bill 31 and House Bill 99, also known as the "Commonwealth of Virginia Educational Facilities Bond Act of 2002," would provide $48.7 million for University construction projects.
Unless they grew up in the area, few University students will ever fully become part of the Charlottesville com munity.
After a University of Maryland-College Park freshman apparently drank himself to death, the national Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity decided to close Maryland's local chapter over the weekend. Prince George's County, Md., police and university officials are continuing their investigation behind the untimely death of 19-year-old Daniel Reardon, a freshman from Northwest Washington, D.C. Reardon was found unconscious in the fraternity's house in the early morning hours of Feb.
The astronomy department's plans to work with the Mount Graham Large Binocular Telescope not only has sparked criticism outside the University from environmentalists and American Indian groups, but also within the University's anthropology department. Retired Anthropology Prof.
Female enrollment in higher education increased substantially during the later half of the twentieth century, but that trend did not carry over as strongly into the field of engineering.
The College Board announced yesterday that it will become more difficult for students to hide low SAT II subject test scores from college admissions offices. The score choice option could be eliminated as early as fall 2002.
Investigation of bomb threat continues University Police continue to investigate the Feb. 12 bomb threat at the Aquatic and Fitness Center, but have yet to charge anyone with a crime. The case still is open, University Police Sgt.
Because of concerns over the relationship between students and police officers, the University is creating a new committee to bring student leaders and top officers together for open discussion. Over the past two semesters, several student complaints addressed the conduct of police officers, particularly regarding their regulation of parties. Last April, a predominantly black party on Madison Lane, sponsored by the Minority Ideas Exchange, was broken up by police officers, prompting concerns that the decision was racially motivated. The new committee, called the Community/University Police Liaison Committee, will address student concerns about issues such as the Madison Lane party. "The focus of this committee is to do everything we can to treat issues of concern," said Leonard W.
University students have bought acclaimed performing artist Dave Matthews' music for years - now Matthews decided to buy from the University. Yesterday Matthews purchased five farms of the University's Kluge property totaling 1,261 acres for $5.3 million. "Matthews plans to preserve agriculture and forest land on the farms with an emphasis on organic farming," a written statement on the sale said. Businessman and billionaire John W.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation now is working with Charlottesville police to review the six assaults against University students that took place from September to January, after several groups complained that local officials were not adequately investigating the case. The FBI has concluded that, based on the information available, this investigation does not merit a federal civil rights case, said Lawrence J.
Under both House and Senate budget proposals, the University, along with only three other state universities, would absorb a 60 percent majority of proposed higher education funding cuts. The special expense distribution came from both the House and Senate budget-writers, who stand in opposition to Gov.
For the second straight year, a bill that would have added a non-voting faculty representative to the Board of Visitors died in the General Assembly last week, succumbing to opposition from the University and other universities in the Commonwealth. The bill passed the House earlier this month but was voted down Thursday in the Senate's education and health committee. The proposal required the board of visitors for each public college in the Commonwealth to appoint one faculty representative.
Campaigning for spring elections is in full force on Grounds, with campaign violations in full swing as well. Campaign violations include spending over established expenditure limits, chalking on vertical concrete steps or non-concrete surfaces such as slate and posting more than one flyer on each bulletin board. This year, violations occurred when flyers were posted on the columns outside of Bryan Hall and along the footbridge adjacent to Ruffner Hall.
The resurgence of Phi Beta Sigma on Grounds has excited supporters of black Greek life at the University.
Though some might say an engineering party consists of one student and one computer, no one can accuse the University's Engineering students of not knowing how to have a good time. During last week's annual E-Week, Engineering students competed with each other, mingled with faculty and ate to their hearts' content.
