Complete with picket signs and bullhorns, about 150 students and Charlottesville community members gathered outside of Old Cabell Hall yesterday, demanding health coverage for graduate students. The protest immediately preceded University President John T.
Fourth-year College student Benjamin Smith is the first University student in years to win the Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowship, giving him the opportunity to study Arabic in Cairo, Egypt. The fellowship, awarded to Smith in March, will pay for his tuition and a monthly $400 stipend for room and board when he begins studying at the American Language Institute at the American University of Cairo for an entire year, starting this June.
Council representatives had an extended night of listening to 11 Contracted Independent Organizations' appropriations appeals Tuesday. These organizations appealed their defunded status or the money allocations given to them by the Student Council Appropriations Committee.
Springtime in Charlottesville usually means Fridays After Five, lazy days, wildflowers - and great weather for flying helicopters.
Despite the clamor of graduate students protesting on the Lawn and the ongoing budget discord in Richmond, University President John T.
As a result of new evidence, 25-year- old Michael Bryan Plum of Charlottesville was indicted Monday for two different sexual assaults in Charlottesville, that occurred over two years apart.
The University's biomedical engineering department - already one of the top in the country - took another step forward last month in furthering its national reputation. Last month, the American Institute of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering elected Klaus Ley and Thomas Skalak as two of 66 fellows in its 2001 class of inductees.
After months of speculation, some say University policies within the government and foreign affairs department may result in the departure of one of the most popular lecturers at the University. Caught in the middle of the understaffed department is James R.
Close to 20 faculty and more than 30 student organizations have signed on to support the Burma resolution that Student Council passed last month. Third-year College student Andrew Price, a co-author of the Burma resolution, said he hopes to raise awareness and increase student interest in the University's business in Burma before an April 26 meeting with former U.S.
In an uncommon display of student activism at the University, the Graduate Labor Alliance plans to rally on the Lawn today demanding that the University provide full health insurance coverage for its 3,300 graduate students.
A group of state senators and Virginia businesspeople filed a lawsuit yesterday in a bipartisan effort to prevent Gov.
(This is the fourth article in a four-part weekly series examining the way members of the University view the honor system.) Four years ago, during the first semester of his first year, Vineet Aggarwal entered one of his classes ready to take a big test.
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana), who many speculate could be the next Democratic candidate for president, emphasized the importance of bipartisanship yesterday as he addressed a crowd of more than 400 students in Wilson Hall. "He's exactly the kind of candidate that the Democrats should nominate if they want to win in 2004," said Larry J.
In a report published last week, a commission of scholars cast doubt on whether Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.
Student and faculty speculation has existed for months regarding the career plans of Vice President for Student Affairs William W.
Black women explored their role at the University and in the larger world this weekend as they examined how their race and gender are most powerfully articulated in society. The University's Black Women's Leadership Conference featured 12 distinguished panelists who addressed a group of about 40 females in the Minor Hall auditorium on Saturday. The panel of black women scholars, artists, and activists included Jacklyn Monk, managing editor of Vibe magazine; Angela Davis, assistant dean of students and director of Residence Life; English Prof.
Citing a need for coordininating committee appointments, Student Council changed its bylaws to create a chairman for University committees.
A General Assembly redistricting plan, which will add several new legislative districts in Northern Virginia, passed yesterday, leaving a laundry list of Democratic complaints and upset female legislators in its wake. The House of Delegates and the Senate each passed their own versions of the bill yesterday afternoon.
Participants in the campaign for affordable graduate student health care celebrated a victory yesterday, but student and faculty leaders know there is still more work to be done.
Vulnerable, ashamed, embarrassed and guilty were common words spoken by the women who shared their experiences with assault or rape last night on the Rotunda steps as part of Take Back the Night.
