If next week's presidential election were left up to Virginia middle and high-school students, Texas Gov.
Dave Sbarra loves breakups. That's because when they happen, it gives him another chance to study the complexities of grief associated with breakups.
After a meeting with Charlottesville City Council, the University is getting closer to building a replacement for University Hall.
White House drug czar Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey advocated drug prevention and rehabilitative treatment for illegal drug users at a forum at the Miller Center of Public Affairs yesterday. McCaffrey, the White House drug policy director and retired four-star general, said the two main goals of the nation's $19.2 billion drug control strategy are preventing youths from beginning gateway drug taking behavior and effectively treating the five million American drug addicts. He addressed about 35 people, mostly Miller Center fellows and older Charlottesville residents and answered questions about the effectiveness and philosophy of the U.S.
In the face of escalating violence in the Middle East, Muslim and Jewish students at the University are expressing concern about the crumbling peace process and the degree of concessions they would be willing to make to achieve peace. Third-year Medical School student Hani Mowafi said Arafat does not have the right to concede land or holy sites such as the al-Haram as-Sharif to Israel during the peace talks. "Arafat can concede an internationally recognized site no more than the Pope can concede the Vatican," Mowafi said. Many Palestinians were forced to surrender their land after the creation of Israel in 1948, and Arafat cannot forfeit land to Israel that was previously held by Palestinians, he said. "All people expelled from their homes have a right to land and compensation.
In contrast to conventional American views that the Middle East peace process is beneficial to both Israelis and Palestinians, independent Palestinian activist Said Erikat argued in a speech last night in Monroe Hall that peace negotiations have consistently proved detrimental to Palestinians. About 60 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Arab Students Organization. The Mideast violence erupted Sept.
Marijuana use among college students nationwide rose 22 percent from 1993 to 1999, according to the Harvard School of Public Health's new study.
Downloading free music may soon be history, as plans to make Napster accessible only to monthly-paying members are now underway. Napster Inc. and Bertelsmann AG, an international media enterprise, announced Tuesday the formation of their partnership to develop a new, secure membership-based music downloading system to preserve Napster in the face of legal troubles and compensate artists for their songs. Bertelsmann eCommerce Group, a division of Bertelsmann AG, will provide a loan to Napster to facilitate development of the new service and will receive a portion of Napster's equity. After announcing the partnership, Napster faces many questions from its 38 million users.
Astronomy Prof. Tolbert advises, "Don't ever stick your arm in a black hole." A black hole is a massive star that has collapsed and become infinitely dense.
Despite what Smokey Bear says, sometimes even you can't prevent forest fires. Beginning Tuesday, smoke streaming from Old Rag Mountain forest fires spread to Albemarle County, and University students began to see and inhale the effects yesterday. An exact cause is not known, but the fires probably were sparked by unusually dry conditions. The fires started burning several days ago, and as of yesterday the Virginia Dept.
Leonard W. Sandridge, University executive vice president and chief operating officer, has decided not to enact a proposal that would have eliminated incoming first-year students' choice in housing.
(This is the last in a five-part weekly series examining issues in next week's presidential election.) Throughout the presidential campaign season, college students have turned a deaf ear to Social Security debates between Vice President Al Gore (D) and Texas Gov.
Potential Virginia voters feel that the George Allen (R) and Charles S. Robb (D), Virginia's senatorial candidates, are running honest and informative campaigns, but at the same time, they agree that the race is not very interesting. These and other questions about the Allen-Robb race were the focus of a recent study conducted this fall by the Sorensen Institute, part of the University's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The Institute will use the survey to help politicians in future races run effective campaigns. Dale Lawton, director of the Project on Campaign Conduct, said employees of the Center for Survey Research called 814 randomly selected Virginians and asked them questions about whether they have been paying attention to the campaign. Related Links Cavalier Daily coverage of Decision 2000 Top Senate Races Help Wanted : One President of the U.S.   "The first survey was about half an hour, and we asked them questions about their demographics," said Paul Freedman, research director for the Project on Campaign Conduct,. The CSR staffers then called the same people again and asked the same questions; 549 of the 814 original participants answered. According to the survey, 41.9 of first wave respondents and 53 percent of second wave respondents said they felt Robb "is running a fair campaign so far" and 43.2 percent of first wave respondents and 47.2 percent of respondents felt that "Allen is running a fair campaign so far." According to the survey, 26.2 percent of respondents from the first wave of the survey and 44.8 percent of respondents from the second wave said "the tone of the campaign has been mostly informative over the past two weeks." Although respondents said they found the campaign informative and fair, 29.6 percent of first wave and 45.4 percent of second wave respondents thought the "tone of the campaign has been mostly discouraging over the past 2 weeks" and 59.4 percent of first wave and 61.1 percent of second wave respondents felt "the tone of the campaign has been mostly boring over the past two weeks." Freedman said the study is unique in "not focusing on the horserace - we have a different focus and scope of interest." He added that the survey was a "tremendous opportunity to study the [Allen-Robb] election in greater detail." Lawton said voters might think the Allen-Robb campaign is boring, "but more people are paying attention." "We spent months hammering out the question wording," Freedman said.
Students taking natural sciences courses may notice they have difficulty getting into the classes they want. According to the Virginia 2020 Science and Technology Commission's report, the size of University faculty in the natural sciences is 34 percent smaller than the top 20 departments at peer institutions, leading to packed classes and irked students and professors. Despite the deficit in the sciences, the report states that faculty size in humanities departments equals or exceeds the average of those ranked in the top 20. The faculty deficit is not a reflection of the performance of the departments, Commission Chairwoman Anita K.
Students working toward minors in Arabic Studies will have fewer ways to meet their requirements next semester after University administrators canceled two upper-level Arabic courses. ARAB 226, "Topics in Arabic Prose" and ARAB 584, "Conversational Arabic" will not be offered since Prof.
With money already appropriated for a Studio Arts building, members of the Virginia 2020 Fine and Performing Arts Commission are finally seeing the dream of an Arts Precinct become a reality. A state grant of $9 million begins a 20-year project that will culminate in an "an Arts Lawn," according to Lawrence Goedde, Chairman of the Art Department and member of the Commission. But funding for the Studio Art building is just the beginning, signifying the first sign of a developing Arts Precinct. The Arts Precinct will include approximately nine buildings located on Carr's Hill, spanning the same length as the Lawn.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Foundation, University students and the public soon will be able to easily access the country's premiere collection of information on the American Presidency. On behalf of the Scripps Foundation, which supports education, the arts and humanitarian relief efforts, Betty Scripps Harvey and her husband Jeremy G.
An overflowing Wilson Hall auditorium listened last night as political pundit Larry J. Sabato, professor of government and foreign affairs, offered insights on next week's presidential elections in a "crystal ball" session hosted by the Center for Governmental Studies.
As Election Day barrels down on Virginia politics, incumbent U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb (D) has pulled into a virtual dead heat with Republican nominee George Allen, a new Washington Post survey reported Sunday. The poll showed former Governor Allen leading Robb 48 percent to 46 percent among likely voters, a gap well within the survey's margin of error.
After undergoing surgery, the male student who fell out of a window in Lefevre House on Saturday is nearing stable condition at University Hospital, a spokeswoman for the University said. The student, whose name is not being released, was sitting on a windowsill on the south end of the building around 8 p.m.
