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Committee resubmits housing plan

By Christine Buurma | September 4, 2000

Concerns about the fairness of a proposed change in the first-year housing assignment system prompted administrators to seek student input over the summer before resubmitting the proposal to the Office of the Vice President and Provost. The new system would attempt to diversify first-year residence halls by randomly assigning students who choose the "first-year housing" option to either the McCormick or Alderman Road areas, rather than allowing them to choose between the two. "The proposal is based on an observation that a higher percentage of African-American students reside in the Alderman area as compared to McCormick," said Director of Housing Mark Doherty. After the proposal originally was submitted early last summer, administrators expressed concern about potentially negative student reactions to the change, Associate Provost Shirley Menaker said.

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Alumni make switch to Silicon Valley

By Mona Rahman | September 4, 2000

Imagine going to work where there's foosball in the lounge and the dress code is "come dressed." This lifestyle, along with other perks, is attracting more and more recent graduates, including University students, to the Silicon Valley. Geraldine Colglazier, a 1998 College graduate, who began her first job at Ernst and Young, a worldwide consulting firm, recently made the move out west. "I had a good experience at E and Y, there was a lot of variety within the e-commerce division that I was in," she said. But despite the advantages of working in a more established firm, Colglazier was looking for something different. Partly because of the amount of travel associated with consulting, she decided to make the switch to Electron Economy, a commerce enabler that works with both traditional companies and e-businesses.

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Quandt tapped as vice provost

By Niyati Vyas | September 4, 2000

With a string of impressive accomplishments behind him, William Quandt, a government and foreign affairs professor, has many plans for his new role as vice provost for International Affairs. "This is a new position that has been created to enhance many international aspects of this school.

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Needle- wielding man robs area bank

By Emily Roper | September 1, 2000

Brandishing a hypodermic needle as a weapon, an unidentified man robbed the Emmet Street Virginia National Bank and escaped with an undisclosed amount of money early yesterday evening. A white male dressed in a gray T-shirt, with blondish hair and a thin face, presented a note demanding money to one of the bank tellers at about 5:40 p.m., Charlottesville Police Lt.

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Police apprehend suspected sex offender

By Jacqueline Roper | August 31, 2000

Cooperative efforts between the University, Charlottesville and Albemarle County police departments brought about the arrest of Shannon Leo Malnowksi, charged with raping two local women and attacking a University student. Police charged Malnowski, a 26-year-old Charlottesville resident, with two counts of rape and forcible sodomy stemming from a July 28 rape at a local high school track, a July 4, 1997 rape on Culbreth Road and a November 30, 1996 attack on Cemetery Drive.

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University library opens pages for electronic book research

By Juliana Chan | August 31, 2000

Imagine curling up under the covers at midnight, totally engrossed in "The Adventures of Huck Finn." Now imagine curling up under the covers with a blinking monitor in front of your face. Although this scenario isn't exactly true to form, it's not all that far from reality. Here at the University, the Library's electronic text centers, in cooperation with Microsoft, are experimenting with a new program called Microsoft Reader, just released on August 8, which allows digitized text, called an e-book, to be read off the Internet. Seaman has been working on releasing more than 1,200 texts for public viewing on desktops or laptops, but new technology is making it so that people can actually carry their novels to class like an ordinary book.

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Legion of computers create supernetwork

By Lisa Manning | August 31, 2000

A computer program created at the University is changing the way technology experts think about computer networking. University researchers led by Associate Computer Science Professor Andrew Grimshaw invented Legion, a software system that acts like a sandwich between a normal PC and other PCs on a network to create a giant virtual supercomputer. "Legion is in a good position now," said Associate Computer Science Prof.

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Leffler to leave College dean post for position at Oxford

By Abby Curran | August 30, 2000

Dean of the College Melvyn P. Leffler announced yesterday he will resign from his post next August, four years after he took the job. Leffler's resignation comes following his acceptance of the visiting Harmsworth Professorship in American history at Oxford University.

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Class of 2004 raises bar on diversity, academics

By Emily Rockwood | August 30, 2000

Diversity is not news to Chris Blanton. His high school was in inner-city Orlando and included some of the city's poorer districts, he said. "The University is less diverse than my high school," he said. But in Blanton's Dobie House suite Monday night, when 20 first-year students gathered for a small "Grounds for Discussion" meeting, their differences were clear. When prompted by facilitators, they described themselves with adjectives ranging from "kind" and "easygoing" to "bashful," "terrible" and "magical." They were getting to know each other and appreciate their differences. And so goes the Class of 2004. Student body more diverse than ever At 2,930 members, the class this year brims with more diversity than ever.

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Pepsi pops into dining halls

By Jaime Levi | August 30, 2000

Always Coca-Cola - but not for University students. After 10 years of offering cups, cans and bottles of Coca-Cola, Inc. products, the University signed a contract Aug.

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Robb touts Democratic progress

By Emily Roper | August 20, 2000

U.S. Senator Chuck Robb urged delegates of the Democratic National Convention to vote for presidential candidate Al Gore in order to "continue with the progress of the last eight years." A Republican presidency would "turn back the clock" to a time when annual deficits where at an all-time high, as they were in 1992, Robb warned. According to Robb, Democrats were able to pass the largest deficit reduction package in history without a single Republican vote, bringing the country into its current period of economic expansion. Republicans now want "to lecture [Democrats] on how to spend" the money incurred during the past years of deficit reduction, Robb said. A Republican presidency would mean a return to deficits, meaning less money to spend on Democratic programs such as prescription drugs for the elderly and targeted tax cuts, he added. Robb encouraged Democrats to go to the polls in November and cast a vote for Gore. This election will have "profound consequences for decades," he said. Earlier in the week Robb had the opportunity to address the Virginia delegation at a breakfast he sponsored Monday at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Amidst chanting and wild applause from the Virginia delegates, Robb tried to whip up enthusiasm for that week's convention events. He gave the delegates a preview of possible topics that would be discussed as the convention convened over the four-day period. The speakers and Democratic leaders will try to show the American people that there are "differences between the parties", Robb said.

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