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.
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.
