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Missed faculty deadlines lower payments for used textbooks

By Shelley Johnson | April 20, 2001

University students who are frustrated with the high cost of textbooks and low prices offered at the University Bookstore buyback soon may find relief. A personal experience with the bookstore prompted one student to develop a proposal to provide students with some financial relief. "I felt like I had been robbed" when I sold my books back to the bookstore, said Ronald Mayhew, a first-year College student and a Student Council representative.

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Graduates protest for health care

By James Tsai | April 19, 2001

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.

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Smith wins Arabic scholarship

By Kevin Hechtkopf | April 19, 2001

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.

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CIOs appeal funding levels

By Deirdre Erin Murphy | April 19, 2001

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.

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Flying wonder

By Laura Brewer | April 19, 2001

Springtime in Charlottesville usually means Fridays After Five, lazy days, wildflowers - and great weather for flying helicopters.

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National organization honors biomedical engineering faculty

By Rakesh Gopalan | April 19, 2001

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.

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Department woes may move Sofka

By Kadie Bye | April 18, 2001

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.

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Students, faculty voice Burma support

By Mary Catherine Wellons | April 18, 2001

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.

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Views on honor system evolve by fourth year

By Sarah Salwen | April 18, 2001

(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.

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Bayh unsure about 2004 nomination

By Mary Catherine Wellons | April 17, 2001

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.

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Conference discusses role of black women's leadership

By Atima Omara-Alwala | April 17, 2001

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.

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Democrats angered by GOP redraw

By Emily Roper | April 13, 2001

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.

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