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Republicans look to maintain majority

By Oliver Longwell | September 20, 2000

In 1994, the Republican Party rode the "Contract with America" platform into both houses of Congress, capturing the majority for the first time in 40 years. But now the architect of that resurgence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is back home in Georgia and Republicans face the possibility that the Democrats could wrench back control of the House and Senate this November. The Republican majority has eroded from a total of 230 House seats in 1995 to the current majority of 222 seats in the House and 56 in the Senate.

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Steinem addresses feminist principles

By Michael Loatman and Maria Tor | September 20, 2000

Gloria Steinem, an influential leader of the feminist movement and co-founder of Ms. magazine, discussed the tensions between generations of feminists yesterday afternoon at the Law School. Many polls show that today's women are reluctant to call themselves the "f-word": a feminist, Steinem said. An audience of about 200 filled Caplin Auditorium yesterday to hear Steinem, Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, co-authors of the new book, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.

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The changing face of Grounds

By Tina Hong | September 20, 2000

As students traipse around Grounds these days, construction workers, Caterpillar machines and piles of dirt have become a familiar sight.

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Honor convictions fall in 1999-2000

By John McArdle | September 20, 2000

In honor trials, student juries handed down fewer guilty verdicts this year than last, according to Honor Committee case statistics released Sunday night. The number of students asked to leave the University dropped from 19 in the 1998-1999 school year to seven in the 1999-2000 school year, a difference of 63 percent. The statistics track the number of cases that go through the honor system from the investigative phase through the post-trial phase.

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Women's leadership group taps prospective members

By Abby Curran | September 20, 2000

The Women's Leadership Council, which University President John T. Casteen III announced last February to provide greater gender equity at the University, is close to officially forming after many months of planning. The committee recently sent out membership invitations to a small, select group of faculty, staff, current students and alumni, both male and female.

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Five professors awarded national technology prizes

By Heather Klurfeld | September 20, 2000

Several University professors are picking up extra funding for innovative projects. The National Science Foundation announced five University professors have received more than $3 million in grants through the Information and Technology Research Program. Although over 1,400 people applied, only 62 awards over $500,000 were given (including University professors Kevin Sullivan and Jorg Liebeherr) and 148 were less than $500,000 (including University professors Ronald Williams, Barry Johnson and Kevin Skadron). "This record of achievement puts us in an elite class of departments nationally," said recipient Kevin Sullivan, assistant professor of computer science. "This is an amazing yield for U.Va.," echoed recipient Kevin Skadron, also an assistant professor of computer science.

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University ranked 10th for best value

By Christopher Makarsky | September 19, 2000

Nowadays, it seems you can't walk across Grounds without a new college ranking being released. Two weeks ago, U.S.

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Smith lawyers blast UJC in hearing

By Sarah Salwen | September 19, 2000

In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for suspended University student Richard W. Smith argued that the University Judiciary Committee is essentially inefficient and incompetent. The UJC voted in 1998 to expel Smith for his involvement in a 1997 attack on then-first-year College student Alexander "Sandy" Kory.

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Law School begins search for new dean

By Christina Hosenfeld | September 19, 2000

Vice President and Provost Peter Low and other administrators have selected the 12 men and women who are in charge of finding a suitable replacement for Law School Dean Robert E.

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Wise College head may take job elsewhere

By Heather Amrhein and Carol Jun | September 19, 2000

L. Jay Lemons, chancellor of the University of Virginia's College at Wise, announced Friday that he may leave his post to assume the presidency of Susquehanna University if he is offered that position. Officials at SU, located in Selinsgrove, Penn., have chosen several finalists for the position, but Lemons is the only candidate who already was invited to visit the school's campus.

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Four moves to maneuvering yourself through the job maze

By Oneya Fennell | September 18, 2000

Ahhhh, fourth year. The top rung of the collegiate social ladder; pinnacle of days spent studying too much and nights passed partying too hard.

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University TV channels highlight foreign culture

By Daniel Stern | September 18, 2000

University couch potatoes may be surprised at what they find while channel surfing. SCOLA, a new television service, will use University cable services to broadcast news, documentaries and entertainment programming from 40 countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Ukraine and China.

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New CASE director aims to curb student binge drinking

By Genevieve Cruise | September 18, 2000

Susan Bruce entered the University as an undergraduate in 1985 and during her college years she saw two friends' brothers die in alcohol-related incidents. Since her time at the University, Bruce has taken up the cause to prevent substance abuse.

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Asian, Mideast majors to merge

By Christine Buurma | September 18, 2000

Administrators may finally carry out a plan to combine the Middle East Studies and Asian Studies majors and expand the division of Asian and Middle East Languages and Culture into a full department, nine years after drafting the first proposal. Division chairman Robert Hueckstedt met last week with Dean of Graduate Affairs Richard Handler and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Stephen Plog to finalize the plan. Hueckstedt will present the proposal to the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum, chaired by Mathematics professor Donald Ramirez.

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Nader urges voters to back third party

By Brandon K. Johnson | September 18, 2000

Moments before Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took center stage last night, Dave Norris, associate director of Madison House, challenged students to vote according to their consciences in the November election. The Democratic and Republican parties, Norris said, "have already decided what the questions are and don't want Ralph Nader to answer them." When the lawyer-turned-author finally appeared before a packed audience in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium, Nader addressed the need for universal health care coverage, a solution to child poverty, reformation of the education system, increased attention to budget concerns and an end to what he called a "two-party duopoly" in American politics. Nader first criticized the American education system for placing what he feels is too great an emphasis on measurements like grades and standardized test scores. "The most important evaluation of human intelligence cannot be measured by standardized tests," he said.

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Legal threats problematic for venture capitalists

By Alex Rothenberg | September 18, 2000

Picture this: starving pop-artists barely scraping by in a world that has cruelly deprived them of their gaudy chains, private Leer jets, limousine caravans and designer outfits.

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Hopkins to grace Film Festival

By Oliver Longwell | September 15, 2000

It sounds like the plot of the next installment in the "Silence of the Lambs" series: Cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter comes to Charlottesville to visit the alma mater of his "Silence of the Lambs" cohort, FBI agent and ingenue Clarice Starling. It's not happening on the big screen; it's happening right here on Grounds.

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GoCo Food Mart shooting suspect surrenders to police

By John McArdle | September 15, 2000

Charlottesville resident Dominic Morris, accused of shooting an Albemarle County man Sunday morning, turned himself in to city police Tuesday after a two-day hideout in a motel just south of Richmond. Police charged Morris with malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in a threatening manner after a Sunday morning confrontation with Albemarle County resident Bernard Williams.

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Proposal to eliminate choice in housing generates controversy

By Maria Tor | September 15, 2000

After a group of administrators handed down a proposal to eliminate choice between old and new dorms in the first-year housing process, some students are complaining about the lack of student involvement in the decision making. To diversify the traditional first-year housing areas - those on McCormick Road and Alderman Road - an administrative committee suggested random assignment for prospective first-year students last semester.

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Three Charlottesville youths rob employee

By Michael Loatman | September 15, 2000

Three local teenagers used toy guns to hold up a University employee in the Venable neighborhood, robbing her of $7 Wednesday night. The victim, 24, was sitting against a wall Wednesday night on the 100 block of 13th St.