A fourth-year University student was stabbed in the face with a broken beer bottle outside the Buddhist Biker Bar and Grill early Thursday morning, police said. Six individuals were involved in a fight around 1:55 a.m.
Last week, Student Council demonstrated to the Hindu Students Council the eternal wisdom of the cliche, "don't count your chickens before they hatch" when it backtracked at the last minute on a $650 agreement. When the HSC submitted its 2000-2001 allocation requests to Council last semester, it listed one of its expenses as a "Garba Band" that "plays music for dancing" at a traditional Garba Raas stick dance, the first of which was held Saturday.
You've got the dough and you've got the desire. You want to get into the market. So how do you do it?
University Judiciary Committee Law School Rep. Brian Stansbury resigned from his position last night in closed session.
A 16-year old male was shot in the leg Saturday night outside Kegler's Bowling Alley, located at 2000 Seminole Trail off Route 29, police said. Around 10:50 p.m., Albemarle County Police received a call reporting "disorder in the parking lot" of Kegler's.
When Catalina Ocampo came to the University from Colombia three years ago, she didn't feel compelled to become an active member of the Latino student community. But by her third year, Ocampo had a newfound appreciation of the importance of Latino involvement at the University, where the Latino population has risen from .3 percent in the mid-1990s to 3 percent now.
With the booming new e-economy, the rules in the business world have changed. Now, it is not just about the quality of a company's goods or services, but rather, it is how fast it reacts to the ever-changing financial playgrounds filled with new-spawned ideas and technologies.
After weeks of working alongside demolition teams and construction crews renovating Peabody Hall, the Office of the Dean of Students has decided to relocate temporarily to trailers on the corner of Alderman and McCormick Roads. The makeshift offices, located directly across from Observatory Hill Dining Hall, were originally put up to serve as a temporary home for offices that would be displaced during a planned O-Hill renovation. But when University officials scrapped the plans to remodel O-Hill because of budget concerns, the future of the trailers was left up in the air. The office will probably wait at least until Fall Break to move, said V.
A record number of University students and graduates have applied for prestigious scholarships this year with help from the new College Fellowship Office. The office, located in the basement of Garrett Hall, aims to assist students who would be strong applicants for awards such as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Engineering students soon will get the chance to perform advanced research, thanks to a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The NSF announced Wednesday it will fund four new national Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers for a five-year period.
One of Student Council's College seats was empty, after one of its representatives moved to a higher Student Council position last spring.
Maryland's public college and university system has come under fire for the use of race as a factor in its admissions policies. The Center for Equal Opportunity, the same conservative think tank that attacked the University for its admissions practices over the last two years, recently released another study focusing on Maryland, "Racial Preferences in Maryland Higher Education." The Center, which criticizes schools whose policies include what it calls "racial preferences," also has scrutinized the admissions policies of public schools in California and Colorado. The study shows a disparity between the average SAT scores of black and white students admitted to state schools such as the University of Maryland-College Park, St.
The Integrated Systems Project, a five-year overhaul of the University's administrative software, completed its first stage of planning and is heading into its build-and-test phase. The Integrated Systems Project will implement a new computer system to benefit faculty by making day-to-day computer procedures easier.
You and a chicken are at a loud rock concert. Both of you get hearing damage from standing too close to the speakers.
A methane gas leak may be the cause of the explosion that occurred Sunday afternoon at the University's Highway Research Council Building. State fire investigators located a gas leak away from the building, said Ralph O.
In an effort to encourage average citizens to voice concerns with the city government, Charlottesville Mayor Blake Caravati started a series of "Meet the Mayor" days yesterday afternoon. "I'm very pleased," Caravati said.
Twenty University students will receive the chance to go on all-expenses-paid trips to Israel during winter break thanks to the two-year-old Birthright Israel program. The Birthright Israel program started when two Jewish philanthropists, Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt, decided to give a gift to Jewish students, Rabbi Joe Blair of Hillel said. The program's founders hope that visiting their homeland will reinforce students' ties to their Jewish heritage, since fewer Jews now visit Israel than in the past. "This is an amazing opportunity for those who have never been to Israel to make a connection on their own terms at no cost," Blair said. Related Links Hillel.org   Through Bronfman's and Steinhardt's donations and those of many other individuals in cooperation with the state of Israel and the Council of Jewish Federations, the program was able to raise enough money to send 6,000 students to Israel last winter. Blair said the program gives students "a feeling of connection to the land of Israel." "It is a gift to people who are born Jews or people who have become Jews," he said. He added that there are a number of requirements to qualify for the program: students must be Jewish, accept the existence of the state of Israel and never previously have gone to Israel with a peer group. Those applicants from the University who apply through Hillel's Web site and meet the criteria are put into a lottery in which 20 names are chosen randomly, Blair said. Hillel is a nationwide college organization for Jewish students. One University student who was selected to go last year is third-year College student David Radin, who said he was able to better understand the strong national pride of Israel after his visit. The experience gave him "a deeper appreciation of why the Israelis want to hang on to their land as much as they do," Radin said. He said he was able to "look at how the people are willing to fight to keep their nation." He was impressed by the fact that Israeli citizens will join the army without protest to help out Israel, he added. "It's amazing the unity of the Hebrew nation," Radin said. He said some of the activities he was involved in included swimming - or, in reality, floating - in the Dead Sea, riding bikes around the Golan Heights and climbing the Massada, a legendary mountain on which Jewish rebels died heroically. He added that because of the generosity of the sponsors, he spent "practically no money." The deadline to apply for the program is Oct.
It's Tuesday night. Rugby Road is empty. But a few determined partygoers head out to the Corner where several bars have drink specials. Dan Murray, a bouncer at Buddhist Biker Bar, is not too busy yet, but the night is still young. On "any average, busy night I see at least 15 fake IDs," Murray said. He turns them away. Murray is not alone in rejecting students' attempts to drink illegally.
A government report released Monday reveals Latino enrollment in higher education has improved but still has a long way to go. The President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans conducted the report, which noted that 30 percent of Hispanic Americans still do not complete high school. Despite a large amount of improvement in the last 20 years, the report states that Latino students still complete college at lower rates than other Americans and take longer to graduate. One of the goals of the Commission, which President Clinton founded in 1994, is to raise educational performance of Latino students to the same level of other students by 2010. In order to do this, the report suggests colleges recruit heavily in high schools with large Latino enrollments. The report also encourages colleges and universities to study why Latino students drop out and to develop plans to solve the problem. Sarita Brown, executive director for the White House Initiative, which oversaw the report, said a similar 1996 report on the performance of Latino students "set off an alarm." Since then, some federal, state and local government and business leaders have helped increase the opportunities available to Latino students and encourage them to pursue higher education, she said. Brown also said the report is "an invitation for anybody to get involved who wants to ensure that all young people have a quality education." The improvement in educational opportunities for Latinos over the findings in the 1996 report suggests that "the strategies that can cause remarkable improvement already exist," Brown said.
You know the syringe the doctor used on you the last time you saw him? Well, guess what? It may have been tested at your very own University. Manufacturers are sending their medical instruments to the Nursing School's Health Care Evaluation Services Center on their way the marketplace. The Center, in its first year at the University, assists in testing medical devices other companies developed.
