The foliage around the Rotunda just got too unwieldy for the otherwise serene Jeffersonian landscape. The 14 boxwood shrubs wrapping around the Rotunda's north terrace grew big and bushy and blocked the view of the Rotunda.
For millions of Americans, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer and the last long weekend before fall. For many University employees and students, however, Labor Day offers no break in the routine of going to work or attending classes. While some employees expressed discontent with working on a state holiday, most workers said they did not mind. Pavilion XI employee April Oliver said working on Labor Day was difficult, "especially if you have kids at home." History professor Nelson Lichtenstein, a member of the Labor Action Group, said he and other members of the group think there should be a system in place for employees to influence the University's decision to close on holidays. "There's no mechanism [at the University] to decide whether to close on Labor Day," Lichtenstein said. James Lee, Pavilion location manager, said some workers were unhappy with the system because they misunderstood the compensation policy. Employees will either be given a day off very close to the holiday they had to work, or they can choose not to take a day off and be paid for an extra day, Lee said. University News Services Director Carol Wood said it was unavoidable for the University to have certain employees overlook holidays when students remain in class. "Clearly there are certain people who have to work ... to keep everything moving for the students," she said. But most members of the University community expressed little to no resentment over missing a day off that many Americans accept as a matter of course. Bookstore clerk Scott Burnet said working on Labor Day is not an issue for him. "Everybody who works for the University just gets used to it," Burnet said.
The Honor Committee lost one of its five executive officers at last night's meeting when, in closed session, fourth-year Architecture student Scott Sottile resigned from his position as Vice Chairman for Services and the Honor Committee as a whole. Sottile has served the honor system in various functions for three years, but he said he has become disenchanted with the system since becoming a member of the Executive Committee last spring.
The University's return to the top of the U.S. News & World Report rankings for public universities should have a limited effect on fund-raising efforts, University officials said. U.S.
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.
Returning to University life equipped with summer paychecks can feel like a once-in-a-lifetime free for all.
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.
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.
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.
The Wahoos are back on top again. U.S. News and World Report ranks the University in a tie with the University of California-Berkeley as the No.
Bogged down by the sheer complexity of its task, a commission examining the honor system will not meet its Sep.
When two prominent Charlottesville politicians opted out of Virginia's lieutenant governor race, the decision threw state party leaders for a loop. The two politicians expected to run, State Sen.
Tuesday afternoon Benjamin Willis gathered with several people to talk in front of an apartment building on Prospect Avenue.
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.
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.
Although former governor George Allen (R) leads in a national poll for the U.S. Senate race, incumbent Charles Robb (D) remains confident that his education policy is stronger than his opponent's.
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.
The Medical School Foundation received a $3.5 million gift from Mrs. Florence Farrow to support cancer research and education.
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.
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.
