Last week's terrorist activity has temporarily delayed plans for the proposal of a new virtual university in Virginia.
Neither rain, nor snow can stop the U.S. Postal Service. However, the Postal Service has been forced to take certain precautions in response to last Tuesday's events. In order to allow for more efficient disaster relief efforts, there is no mail delivery to eight zip codes in the New York City area.
Akhtar Durrani doesn't like to answer the phone at his Pakistani restaurant right now. Since the WTC and Pentagon terrorist attack, he receives four to six anonymous calls daily at the Taj Mahal Restaurant on Rio Hill Circle.
Following Tuesday's tragedy, groups in Charlottesville and across the nation have sprung into action, working to aid victims of the attacks and their families. The Charlottesville Fire Department and Albemarle Fire-Rescue working with volunteer fire departments throughout the county collected close to $250,000 dollars for relief of families of the estimated 350 dead firefighters in New York.
The University's signature buildings are in bad shape. In New Cabell Hall, the chairs are screwed into the ground, making them impossible to move and arrange for special class sizes.
As the shock of Tuesday's tragedy begins to wear off, University students, faculty and staff are all reflecting and coping with last weeks events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in different ways. According to the University Medical Center's IQ Health System Web site, some Americans may face acute stress, which can last from four to six weeks or a delayed onset lasting up to six months due to shock and fear. "Students are absolutely stunned and horrified," University spokeswoman Louise Dudley said.
Thanks to an endeavor by the Architecture School, University students have gained a new, tangible way of coping with last Tuesday's tragedies. The Architecture School created a temporary commemorative space for the University community to attach mementos, flowers and images, located on the east fence of the University tennis courts near University Avenue. At 5 p.m.
In the age of technology, the Honor Committee is trying to bring itself up to 21st Century standards.
In the wake of Tuesday's tragedies in New York City and Washington, University economic experts agree that now is a time of great uncertainty in the world economy.
Tired of all that construction around grounds? Don't worry - at least one building will be completed and ready for students by fall 2002: the Monroe Lane Language House. "Given every possible crystal ball we can use, the house is going to be up in time," said Robert Hueckstaedt, chairman of the department of Asian and Middle Eastern languages and cultures. The house, located on the corner of Jefferson Park Avenue and Monroe Lane and across from Student Health, will be home to seven different languages.
There was standing room only in the amphitheater last night as students, faculty and community members packed into the auditorium to attend the Middle-East Teach-In.
The University canceled classes today in recognition of the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance set aside by President George W.
Many airports across the nation, including the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, reopened yesterday following an OK from the federal government. All flights had been grounded since Tuesday morning after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and another crashed into the Pentagon. Effective at 11 a.m., the order stipulated that U.S.
Students, faculty and community members woke yesterday to see a still-clouded New York City skyline on television and the need to begin the process of piecing together a broken sense of security.
The Alumni Association still knows little about whether any University graduates who live in New York and Washington were injured or killed in Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Surreal images played over and over on the set of nearly every television. Friends gathered in an effort to comfort one another and be anything other than as helpless as most inevitably feel.
Three beachgoers were attacked by sharks in three days over normally peaceful area coastal waters.
Responding to concerns about a possible backlash against students with Middle Eastern backgrounds, many groups around Grounds have discussed over the two days since the terrorist attacks ways to combat such reactions. Between 9 and 9:30 Tuesday night a message went out to several organizations' e-mail listsannouncing a gathering in Newcomb Hall, beginning as soon as they could arrive, for students fearful about such a backlash. By 10 p.m., a large circle of people had convened in the Commonwealth Room, including Deans of Students Pablo Davis and Ajay Nair, Counseling and Psychological Services representatives Russ Federman and Julia Routbort, Terri Moore of University Career Services, and a cross-section of student organizations' members. Some two hours later, weary from the nightmarish day, students and administrators filed out of Newcomb having voiced early concerns and decided on protective steps they would take.
In response to Tuesday's national crisis, at the University, foreign affairs experts at the University began offering theories to some of the questions regarding America's future security. Philip D.
WASHINGTON - The normal bustle of commuters inside the nation's capital was nowhere to be seen yesterday.
