"I've been in many places where it wasn't okay to talk about what we are going to talk about tonight," Asst.
Last night, 1988 Democratic presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis addressed a crowd of about 500 students, faculty and community members in the Chemistry Auditorium regarding the state of the presidential election system. Dukakis's speech was part of the annual National Symposium Series sponsored by the University Center for Governmental Studies.
Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare at the Cato Institute, discussed the future of Social Security in the United States and actively endorsed privatization of the system last night in a forum hosted by Students for Individual Liberty. Tanner pointed out how the system now discriminates on the basis of both gender and race. "Social security under the current system penalizes married women who work and those people with shorter life expectancies," Tanner said. Under the spousal benefit rule, wives are entitled to 50 percent of the social security their husbands receive.
Pavilion X soon will have a new resident. Commerce School Dean Carl P. Zeithaml will move into the historic pavilion this summer.
According to a letter sent by Rector John P. Ackerly III to the prime minister of the Burmese government in exile, the Board of Visitors will not address a Unocal shareholder resolution when it convenes this weekend. The University now invests $2.1 million in Unocal, a Los Angeles-based oil company that built a pipeline in Burma in 1996.
Filling a role traditionally played by the Student Council appropriations committee, Newcomb Hall officials will assign office space to student organizations in the coming months. An executive decision by Council President Abby Fifer removed the appropriations committee's control over Contracted Independent Organization office space allocation.
Law enforcement officials following the case involving a top Republican's eavesdropping on a conference call between high-ranking Virginia Democrats are now considering a full grand jury investigation into the matter. Ed Matricardi, the executive director of the Virginia Republican Party, listened in on a conference call March 22 between 30 Democratic lawmakers and Gov.
Top journalists and Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato discussed the media's new role after Sept. 11 and its mixed success in accurate and in-depth reporting at a panel held in Gilmer Hall yesterday. The panel, moderated by Politics Prof.
Dressed in a white lab coat pulled neatly over a shirt and tie, a tall man with an affable smile peered through his glasses and discussed the accomplishments of the University's Health System. "Our success is a tribute to the wonderful faculty and staff we have here - they made this happen," Robert W.
Nearly half of hospital patients across the country - and 30 percent of patients at the University's Medical Center - are age 65 or older.
Gabriel Laufer, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a team of mostly undergraduate engineers seem to have struck the right balance between theory and reality. On April 26, they plan to launch a payload with infrared atmospheric sensors to the edge of the sensible atmosphere.
Boss Hogg beware. The actor who played Cooter on "The Dukes of Hazzard" is running for political office right here in Virginia. Former Georgia Congressman Ben Jones has thrown his hat in the ring for the House of Representative seat in Virginia's seventh district. Jones, a Democrat, will challenge Republican incumbent Eric Cantor in the election this November. Though the filing date for candidacy was not until April, the two, who currently are uncontested within their parties, likely will be the candidates, Politics Prof.
The Student Council appropriations committee released the preliminary figures for the allocation of $695,570 among 206 Contracted Independent Organizations who requested funding for the 2002-2003 school year. The Virginia Rowing Association received the most money with $23,698.
Many University students have felt that at some point during their college careers they received a grade that was better than what they might have deserved.
(This is the second in a four-part series examining the way members of the University view the honor system.) Foreign students are a significant minority within the University community.
A representative from the University Budget Office presented proposals for tuition rate increases for the 2001-02 school year at last night's Student Council meeting. Melody Bianchetto, director of the budget, told Council that the Budget Office will suggest to the Board of Visitors on Friday an increase of 2 percent in tuition for in-state graduate students and 4.8 percent for both undergraduate and graduate out-of-state students. In-state undergraduate tuition rates were frozen by the General Assembly in the 1995-96 session and will not increase next year. In addition to the tuition increases, the Budget Office proposed an increase in auxiliary fees of 7.8 percent applied to all students.
In a long debate last night, Student Council discussed a housing proposal by the Enrollment Committee to eliminate incoming first years' choice between McCormick Road and Alderman Road housing. The Enrollment Committee is led by two associate provosts and consists of administrators from various University offices.
A study recently released by the Office of Institutional Assessment and Studies shows that University students devote less time than University officials expect them to spend on studying and homework. The University study, "How Undergraduates Spend Their Time," evaluated how students in the class of 1999 spent their free time over the course of their four years at the University.
Daylight-saving time may not be the only reason behind lighter evening hours. By conducting a night tour and by building more lights and safety telephones, University administrators plan to address safety concerns raised by the Student Council Safety Concerns Committee. The committee recently released a report designating problem areas on and off Grounds. The University's Security and General Safety Committee will "use Student Council's report as a basis for the walking tour," said William Wilkerson, the committee's chair and Comerce professor. The tour, planned for the night of April 10, will examine areas such as Scott Stadium and North Grounds to determine what actions are needed. But the committee already is taking proactive steps to deal with safety concerns. To increase safety, we recently have "added lighting around Emmet Street and have participated in making a sidewalk along Whitehead Road near Scott Stadium," Wilkerson said.
Although the stock market's recent downward spiral and news of a pending economic slowdown may have far-reaching implications in some areas, national education officials expect effects to be moderate in financial aid for higher education.
