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.
The hunt for Dean Melvyn Leffler's successor at the helm of the College took a step forward Thursday with University Provost Peter Low's announcement of a 14-member search committee. Gene D.
The University Library's Electronic Text Center has teamed up with Microsoft Reader, a free software reading tool, to provide the University community and Web users around the world free access to literature. The partnership is intended not only to enhance the availability of books, but also to read text on an actual computer screen as opposed to printing out an entire book off the Web. "The whole idea is aimed at trying to get a person to read on the screen for a long period of time like you would an actual book," said David Seaman, director of the E-text Center. The text on Microsoft Reader looks more like an actual book than other e-texts.
More than 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 have died since the imposition of the U.N. sanctions against Iraq, according to priest and retired ethics professor G.
Although Iraq is half a world away from Charlottesville, many University students are as impassioned about the events transpiring in the Middle East as if battles were being waged in their own backyards. University students prove to be divided in their views about U.S.
In a unanimous decision Sunday, the Board of Directors at Susquehanna University elected L. Jay Lemons as the new president of Susquehanna.
When Catalina Ocampo came to the University from Colombia three years ago, she didn't feel compelled to become an active member of the Latino student community. But by her third year, Ocampo had a newfound appreciation of the importance of Latino involvement at the University, where the Latino population has risen from .3 percent in the mid-1990s to 3 percent now.
A 16-year old male was shot in the leg Saturday night outside Kegler's Bowling Alley, located at 2000 Seminole Trail off Route 29, police said. Around 10:50 p.m., Albemarle County Police received a call reporting "disorder in the parking lot" of Kegler's.
With the booming new e-economy, the rules in the business world have changed. Now, it is not just about the quality of a company's goods or services, but rather, it is how fast it reacts to the ever-changing financial playgrounds filled with new-spawned ideas and technologies.
University Judiciary Committee Law School Rep. Brian Stansbury resigned from his position last night in closed session.
You've got the dough and you've got the desire. You want to get into the market. So how do you do it?
Last week, Student Council demonstrated to the Hindu Students Council the eternal wisdom of the cliche, "don't count your chickens before they hatch" when it backtracked at the last minute on a $650 agreement. When the HSC submitted its 2000-2001 allocation requests to Council last semester, it listed one of its expenses as a "Garba Band" that "plays music for dancing" at a traditional Garba Raas stick dance, the first of which was held Saturday.
A fourth-year University student was stabbed in the face with a broken beer bottle outside the Buddhist Biker Bar and Grill early Thursday morning, police said. Six individuals were involved in a fight around 1:55 a.m.
After weeks of working alongside demolition teams and construction crews renovating Peabody Hall, the Office of the Dean of Students has decided to relocate temporarily to trailers on the corner of Alderman and McCormick Roads. The makeshift offices, located directly across from Observatory Hill Dining Hall, were originally put up to serve as a temporary home for offices that would be displaced during a planned O-Hill renovation. But when University officials scrapped the plans to remodel O-Hill because of budget concerns, the future of the trailers was left up in the air. The office will probably wait at least until Fall Break to move, said V.
