Participants in the campaign for affordable graduate student health care celebrated a victory yesterday, but student and faculty leaders know there is still more work to be done.
Vulnerable, ashamed, embarrassed and guilty were common words spoken by the women who shared their experiences with assault or rape last night on the Rotunda steps as part of Take Back the Night.
The Greek system is bringing a new house to Charlottesville, which will not have fraternity parties or accommodate college students. The new residence will be the home of the Early family, and will result from a partnership among the Inter-Fraternity Council, Inter-Sorority Council, Habitat for Humanity and the Venable Neighborhood Association. The VNA, IFC and ISC have spent the past two years trying to raise the $45,000 needed to construct the house.
Dave Matthews will be coming to Charlottesville April 21 and, like all celebrities, he will be accompanied by hoards of adoring fans and traffic dilemmas. University Parking and Transportation Director Rebecca White said she has been working on the potential problems since February.
Newly elected members of the General Faculty Council are brimming with excitement and fresh ideas to bring to the organization when they take office later this month. The 18-member council represents all general University faculty members, including non-tenure and non-tenure-track faculty members. For the past few years, the council has directed its efforts at "revising policies that affect employment agreements with the University," Council Chairwoman Patricia L.
Glenna C. Chang, widely considered one of the most influential Asian women to assume a leadership role at the University, plans to leave her position as assistant dean of students at the end of the spring semester. A search committee has started looking for Chang's replacement, and on-Grounds interviews will begin at the end of the month, said Pablo Davis, an assistant dean of students and the committee's co-chairman. Chang arrived at the University in 1998 after a group of Asian and Asian-American students rallied University officials to fill an open position in the Office of the Dean of Students with an individual who would act as an advocate for the Asian community. Chang said her experiences at the University have been some of the most trying yet most fulfilling of her career.
Graduate Labor Alliance members saw a significant victory in their campaign for affordable health insurance yesterday after University officials said they would recommend that the Board of Visitors create a $900 per person annual subsidy for graduate student coverage.
The National Endowment for the Humanities continued its long-standing relationship with the University this week by handing out over $500,000 in grant money to faculty members. Four faculty members received grants from the NEH, which recognizes exceptional humanities programs at colleges, universities and historical societies across the nation.
M. Rick Turner, dean of African-American Affairs, voiced concern yesterday that suggested changes in the athletics department might considerably decrease the number of black athletes at the University.
A new era dawned for the land of the rising sun when a team of three Japanese health care workers traveled to the University for a month-long training program in infection control. The International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University Health System organized the program, which started in 1998.
Although there is no cure for asthma, researchers may be one step closer to combating this common and deadly illness. According to a new study from the University Health System, exposure to cats may lead to a decreased risk of developing asthma.
Mathematicians are not widely known for a combative nature, but the construction that began in Kerchof Hall ahead of schedule Monday has some in the University's math department fuming.
President Bush's proposed budget may disappoint students who rely on federal aid to finance their undergraduate educations.
(This is the third in a four-part series examining the way members of the University view the honor system.) University faculty members initiate more than 50 percent of all honor cases.
Yesterday, the Dave Matthews Band official Web site posted the cancellation of the band's second Charlottesville show scheduled for Sunday, April 22.
Few may remember filling out those mind-numbing census forms that appeared in our mailboxes last year - maybe because many did not bother to fill them out at all.
Have you "ever been convicted of possessing or selling illegal drugs?" Starting with the 2001-2002 school year, the U.S.
As third-year Engineering student Brian Edmonds thought about what life would be like next year living at 15 West Lawn he quietly commented, "There's no way I won't be taking my rocking chair." Almost 35 years ago, Lawn room 15 was endowed in memory of Gus Blagden.
Nine months ago, College Dean Melvyn P. Leffler announced he would resign in August. Nine months later, his replacement still is unknown. But according to Gene Block, chairman of the search committee charged with finding Leffler's replacement, there are several "exceptional" applicants from which the new dean will be chosen. "We have interviewed a number of external as well as internal candidates," Block said.
It's official - University professors are interested in having an on-Grounds faculty dining facility in which they can enjoy lunch with one another, University guests and students. Faculty Senate members recently learned the results of a survey asking faculty about potential plans for an additional University dining facility.
