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New late-hour Escort van will serve Clemons

Students studying into the wee hours of the night can worry less about how to get home thanks to a new van the Student Escort Service added specifically to serve Clemons Library. The Student Escort Service's third van, which began service Wednesday, runs from 9 p.m.


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Road trip provides Student Center insight

University students soon will have some tough decisions to make, such as what type of fast food restaurant they prefer or what color carpet they think looks best in a lounge. Such decisions will culminate in the design of the University's new Student Center, a project spearheaded by Student Council's New Student Center Committee. Third-year College student Steven Reinemund, chairman of the New Student Center Committee, and Vice Chairman Matthew Pritchard embarked on a two-week journey this summer to discover what makes student centers across the nation successful.


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Officials meet to discuss safety at Foxfield

Officials from the Foxfield Racing Association, Albermarle County, Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving met yesterday afternoon to discuss new safety measures for the spring Foxfield Races, which are popular among many University students. The ABC is investigating the Foxfield Racing Association following reports by MADD of public drunkenness, drunk driving and heavy traffic in residential areas near the race track, located off of Barracks Road. The ABC plans to issue its report within several weeks.


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Grant funds K-12 technology training

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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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