At last, the University's night owls will be able to go somewhere other than Littlejohn's after 2 a.m. At yesterday morning's Board of Visitors meeting, President John T.
Visions for a new student center, complete with a mini mall-style food court and student-run theater, keep getting closer to reality. In an open forum late Wednesday night, Student Council leaders, interested students and administrators - emphasizing concerns about the current lack of adequate student space on Grounds - discussed possibilities for the proposed building. The idea for a new student activities building came to life in the spring of 1999, when Council passed a proposal to research the possibility of a new SAB.
After Phi Delta Theta national headquarters and its University chapter clashed over alcohol policy last spring, the University chapter lost its charter.
Library of Congress officials yesterday announced a $60 million gift from longtime University benefactor John W.
The Aquatic and Fitness Center will become even bigger and better with the Board of Visitors' approval of an $8 million expansion. The AFC now measures about 99,000 square feet; the proposed 50,000 square foot expansion will increase its size by about 50 percent. Three indoor basketball courts, an elevated indoor track and expanded free-weight and fitness space are included in the plans. The expansion will turn the AFC into a "comprehensive facility" housing an all-inclusive array of modern facilities, said Ed Rivers, senior associate director of the AFC.
Four years ago I came to the University with the same expectations as most first years - new opportunities, new people, a wealth of experiences waiting to happen.
The University is planning to implement a new managerial position - chief executive officer of the Medical Center - in an effort to strengthen leadership and oversight of University hospitals and clinics. Creation of the CEO position is part of a broader movement by the University to handle the increasing complexities facing hospitals across the nation, said Leonard W.
New York University is planning to demolish a building where Edgar Allen Poe lived from late 1845 to 1846.
The hazing of a sorority member - including dropping a freshman in a coffin so she could be reborn as a Chi Omega sister - and failure to follow nationally established principles led the Chi Omega national sorority to suspend the Sam Houston State University chapter last week. Sam Houston State University is located in Huntsville, Texas. The victim of the hazing, identified as "Becky Smith", alleged that some of her sorority sisters placed her in a coffin and covered her with a sheet to symbolize her rebirth in Chi Omega, said David P.
Five years ago James C. Turner watched five University students fight for their lives after contracting bacterial meningitis. "I was in intensive care with the patients," Turner said.
Property Leasing 101 will not be in the Course Offering Directory anytime soon at the University, but sooner or later first-year students will need to move out of the dorms, and find a new place to live.
Facing a Medical School space crunch, the University plans to ask Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) for $25 million to go toward construction of a new medical research building. The new facility would be built next to another medical research building on Lane Road behind the University Medical Center.
Until a national search yields a permanent replacement, George E. Culbertson will serve as interim chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, University President John T.
The University is known for its praiseworthy and highly gifted professors, and one faculty member in particular has found a chance to shine. Last Wednesday evening, Lisa Russ Spaar, poet and administrator of the University's Creative Writing Program, was one of six women writers nationwide awarded the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
(This is the first in a five-part weekly series examining issues in this November's presidential election.) As baby boomers everywhere begin suffering from the aches and pains of old age, presidential candidates Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the RU-486 abortion pill Friday, students will not find it at the University's Student Health Center. But David Nova, president and CEO of Blue Ridge Planned Parenthood, said its Pantops facility will provide the pill to the public, including students, within the next 60 days. The pill, which will be sold under the brand name Mifeprex, will allow American women to abort pregnancies within the first seven weeks of conception.
Student Council took a step toward tackling the University's minimum wage controversy by unanimously passing a resolution to create an ad hoc committee on University employee wages. Council College Reps.
Every February 7, the University Housing Division sends out housing letters to first years who have applied for on-Grounds housing. Some students get their first choice, some get second or third, and then there are those who are put on the waiting list. Although some students are put on the waiting list, Director of Housing Mark Doherty said all students who apply eventually get placed somewhere in on-Grounds housing. "We've found that we are able to accommodate students if they elect to stay on the waiting list through the summer," Doherty said. Doherty said even groups of students who apply together and are put on the waiting list should be offered a spot together in some location at some point. But waiting until the end of the summer to find out the living situation for that semester can be a stressful ordeal, especially when the choice of off-Grounds houses and apartments becomes considerably smaller as the spring semester nears its end. Third-year College student Sarah Sisti and five of her friends applied to live on Grounds, marking Lambeth Field Apartments as their first choice and Bice House as their second choice.   Vacancy ResidenceNumber of SpacesNumber of VacanciesAlderman Road155437McCormick Road12563Brown College2841Hereford College49119Language Houses (Spanish, French, Russian)644Mumford, Gwathmey, Lewis, and Hoxton3127Copley III, IV27411Lambeth Field8158Bice House2864Gooch/Dillard64318 "We figured we would at least get our second choice," Sisti said. But the group was put on the waiting list and "housing couldn't guarantee that we'd find out before the summer," she said. Because Sisti and her group were put on the waiting list and felt the pressure of time, they opted to search for a place off Grounds before the options slimmed out.
Transfer students hoping to attend Virginia Tech this spring will need to make other plans for the semester.
Next summer, 15 teachers from across the country will travel to Charlottesville to participate in a seminar on the significance of colonial Jamestown in forming American culture. Sponsored by the University's Center for the Liberal Arts, the program is designed to help teachers develop new ideas for teaching their students about Jamestown, other early settlements on the Chesapeake and history in general.
