With less than two months remaining, the 2001 Virginia race for governor has turned into a heated battle for campaign contributions between the Republican candidate, Virginia Attorney General Mark L.
Nearly three months ago, Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) submitted to a polygraph test because D.C. police remained skeptical about answers he gave regarding the status of Washington intern Chandra Levy.
The morning of Sept. 11 found the student body of the University in paralysis. In residence halls, dining halls, libraries and classrooms, students stared transfixed at the replaying images of the crumbling Twin Towers and a shattered Pentagon.
Foxfield Races will be much different next year, thanks to new changes approved yesterday by the Foxfield Races Board of Directors.
When the smoke began to lift after the deadliest terrorist attack in history, Americans were left wondering what would lead people to kill thousands of innocent civilians and destroy U.S.
A panel of government, legal and Middle Eastern political specialists gathered at the Law School yesterday to discuss America's response to the Sept.
Economics majors and faculty members recently expressed their discontent with the condition of Rouss Hall, which was rated the worst building on Grounds in a Facilities Management report released in February 2001. Though they still are in the planning stages, several members of the economics department are exploring ways to alleviate the declining situation in the growing department. Their plans include renovating Rouss Hall and constructing a new economics building behind it that would nearly double the existing space allotted for the economics department. To assist in the designing and planning, economics professors Charles Holt and Kenneth G.
The University's team effort to build a new arena honoring the success of the Cavaliers on the basketball court is moving forward into the planning stages as fund-raising continues. The athletics department has raised approximately $23 million for the new arena, about 20 percent of the estimated $125 million total cost.
A graduate student of Middle Eastern decent recently withdrew from the University following the Sept.
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have prompted new emphasis on stricter security for University athletic events. The University issued a press release yesterdaylisting new security measures that will be implemented, beginning with this Saturday's home football game against Duke. The new measures resulted from a joint effort among University officials and representatives from other Atlantic Coast Conference schools in consultation with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
A group centered at the University may play a crucial role in assembling experts' opinions to analyze the tragic events of Sept.
University undergraduates may be seeing more older faces around Central Grounds once the proposed new student center is built, according to Student Council President Abby Fifer and graduate student leaders. Fifer met recently with representatives from the Student Bar Association and the Graduate Student Association to discuss ways to make the proposed center an attractive destination for graduate students. Giving graduate students an incentive to spend more time on Central Grounds could be a way of "getting graduate students who didn't necessarily attend [the University] as undergrads to feel more a part of the greater University," said Kendall Day, a third-year Law student and president of the Student Bar Association who met with Fifer. A 24-hour coffeehouse and a sports bar where students could watch the University's away sporting events, for example, could draw graduate students to the new center, Day suggested.
The rap duo Outkast will perform in University Hall next month, bringing some of the top sounds in today's hip-hop to the University.
A congressionally chartered commission, led by Gov. James S. Gilmore III, has made its first round of recommendations to Congress and President Bush on combating terrorism. In a telephone interview with The Cavalier Daily yesterday, Gilmore cited border control, health and medical response, and intelligence as the three most important areas in which the war against terrorism can be fought effectively. Gilmore emphasized that the commission took "a strong position that the military is not a first response." He made it clear that the commission, which made its recommendation yesterday, believed the war against terrorism would begin by fortifying our own nation. Gilmore said that though the commission predicted in 1999 the possibility of an attack, it was too late for the government to act on the recommendations to prevent the Sept.
US Airways announced Friday their plans to cease MetroJet operations at Baltimore-Washington International Airport by December.
The University is making it a little easier for English majors to take the road less traveled. Beginning in the fall of 2002, a new English department program will allow majors to fulfill requirements for a master's degree with just one more year of study.
Following a statement by Virginia football coach Al Groh Wednesday, which some deemed insensitive to Arabs, students and faculty are working to facilitate dialogue and educate the community about cultural awareness. The statement was made during a weekly ACC coaches' teleconference, in response to a question regarding the team's confidence in air travel. "I'm not saying this to make light of it by any means, but I don't plan on having any Arabs in the traveling party so therefore I think probably that the threat of our being hijacked is fairly remote," Groh said, immediately sparking national media attention from ESPN, the Associated Press and newspapers throughout Virginia. Groh apologized Wednesday night for the statement, saying he did not mean to insinuate that people of Arabic decent are terrorists, and that he was sorry if his remark was insensitive. In a meeting held Friday, Assistant Dean of Students Ajay Nair, Virginia Director of Athletics Craig Littlepage and Muslim Students Association President Sana Khalid discussed ways to address Groh's comment. Nair said it was made clear that students are upset about the incident and that it should not be taken lightly. "At the same time, we realize that the statement was not representative of the University," he said.
Tickets for the 14th annual Virginia Film Festival, which will take place on Grounds in October, go on sale today. The festival, titled "Masquerades," will run from Thursday, Oct.
The Melissa virus hit last year, ILOVEYOU spread last spring and Code Red hit this summer. Last week, another bug struck computer users as the NIMDA virus spread around the globe.
Colleges and universities around the nation currently are grappling with how to solicit alumni donations in light of terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As the mourning process continues, most institutions of higher learning have placed fund-raising on the back burner. The University, in particular, is in a precarious position because of its proximity to the Pentagon.
