The Medical School has instituted a new academic program this year, stressing smaller classes and 50 percent fewer lectures.
MTV's Campus Invasion Tour is making its way to the University on Oct. 5, featuring hip-hop artists Wyclef Jean, De La Soul and Black Eyed Peas. In addition to the nighttime concert, there will be a daytime festival with tents offering various music-related activities, such as a Rock Tent, where participants can learn to play musical instruments. The University, which is slated to be the second college on the six-week tour, also will be featured in a half-hour MTV kick-off special providing an inside look at the tour. Lisa Braun, MTV's vice president of promotion and music marketing, said the special will feature portions of the concert as well as interviews with the artists and University students. The University Programs Council's PK German is sponsoring the event. PK German Chairman Jbeau Lewis said the show will provide MTV's audience with exposure to the University. Related Links MTV Campus Invasion   "When your school name is scrolling down MTV several times a day, it gives you a certain amount of respect as far as how we're looked at by other schools around the nation," Lewis said. The "stellar lineup" of musicians will attract a diverse audience "more so than anything we've done in the past," he said. PK German tries "to find that right balance between the diversity of the school and the diversity of acts out there," he added.
James Demas likes his work because "it's pretty." But as a chemistry professor, he confesses that he researches chemicals that give off light also because the research has practical applications. Demas and his group in the Chemistry Department study luminescence, a process where chemicals absorb energy from their environment and release that energy at some later time in the form of light.
Former Virginia Gov. George Allen (R) and U.S. Sen. Chuck Robb (D) are locking horns over environmental issues as both candidates for the U.S.
In 1994, the Republican Party rode the "Contract with America" platform into both houses of Congress, capturing the majority for the first time in 40 years. But now the architect of that resurgence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is back home in Georgia and Republicans face the possibility that the Democrats could wrench back control of the House and Senate this November. The Republican majority has eroded from a total of 230 House seats in 1995 to the current majority of 222 seats in the House and 56 in the Senate.
Gloria Steinem, an influential leader of the feminist movement and co-founder of Ms. magazine, discussed the tensions between generations of feminists yesterday afternoon at the Law School. Many polls show that today's women are reluctant to call themselves the "f-word": a feminist, Steinem said. An audience of about 200 filled Caplin Auditorium yesterday to hear Steinem, Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, co-authors of the new book, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.
As students traipse around Grounds these days, construction workers, Caterpillar machines and piles of dirt have become a familiar sight.
In honor trials, student juries handed down fewer guilty verdicts this year than last, according to Honor Committee case statistics released Sunday night. The number of students asked to leave the University dropped from 19 in the 1998-1999 school year to seven in the 1999-2000 school year, a difference of 63 percent. The statistics track the number of cases that go through the honor system from the investigative phase through the post-trial phase.
The Women's Leadership Council, which University President John T. Casteen III announced last February to provide greater gender equity at the University, is close to officially forming after many months of planning. The committee recently sent out membership invitations to a small, select group of faculty, staff, current students and alumni, both male and female.
Several University professors are picking up extra funding for innovative projects. The National Science Foundation announced five University professors have received more than $3 million in grants through the Information and Technology Research Program. Although over 1,400 people applied, only 62 awards over $500,000 were given (including University professors Kevin Sullivan and Jorg Liebeherr) and 148 were less than $500,000 (including University professors Ronald Williams, Barry Johnson and Kevin Skadron). "This record of achievement puts us in an elite class of departments nationally," said recipient Kevin Sullivan, assistant professor of computer science. "This is an amazing yield for U.Va.," echoed recipient Kevin Skadron, also an assistant professor of computer science.
Nowadays, it seems you can't walk across Grounds without a new college ranking being released. Two weeks ago, U.S.
In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for suspended University student Richard W. Smith argued that the University Judiciary Committee is essentially inefficient and incompetent. The UJC voted in 1998 to expel Smith for his involvement in a 1997 attack on then-first-year College student Alexander "Sandy" Kory.
Vice President and Provost Peter Low and other administrators have selected the 12 men and women who are in charge of finding a suitable replacement for Law School Dean Robert E.
L. Jay Lemons, chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, announced Friday that he may leave his post to assume the presidency of Susquehanna University if he is offered that position. Officials at SU, located in Selinsgrove, Penn., have chosen several finalists for the position, but Lemons is the only candidate who already was invited to visit the school's campus.
Ahhhh, fourth year. The top rung of the collegiate social ladder; pinnacle of days spent studying too much and nights passed partying too hard.
University couch potatoes may be surprised at what they find while channel surfing. SCOLA, a new television service, will use University cable services to broadcast news, documentaries and entertainment programming from 40 countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Ukraine and China.
Susan Bruce entered the University as an undergraduate in 1985 and during her college years she saw two friends' brothers die in alcohol-related incidents. Since her time at the University, Bruce has taken up the cause to prevent substance abuse.
Administrators may finally carry out a plan to combine the Middle East Studies and Asian Studies majors and expand the division of Asian and Middle East Languages and Culture into a full department, nine years after drafting the first proposal. Division chairman Robert Hueckstedt met last week with Dean of Graduate Affairs Richard Handler and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Stephen Plog to finalize the plan. Hueckstedt will present the proposal to the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum, chaired by Mathematics professor Donald Ramirez.
Moments before Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took center stage last night, Dave Norris, associate director of Madison House, challenged students to vote according to their consciences in the November election. The Democratic and Republican parties, Norris said, "have already decided what the questions are and don't want Ralph Nader to answer them." When the lawyer-turned-author finally appeared before a packed audience in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium, Nader addressed the need for universal health care coverage, a solution to child poverty, reformation of the education system, increased attention to budget concerns and an end to what he called a "two-party duopoly" in American politics. Nader first criticized the American education system for placing what he feels is too great an emphasis on measurements like grades and standardized test scores. "The most important evaluation of human intelligence cannot be measured by standardized tests," he said.
Picture this: starving pop-artists barely scraping by in a world that has cruelly deprived them of their gaudy chains, private Leer jets, limousine caravans and designer outfits.
