In response to an unusually high number of hate crimes reported over the past several months at Georgetown University, a group of students has formed the Georgetown Unity Coalition. The hate crimes have blacks, homosexuals, Jews and other minority groups. The Coalition hopes to have a strong impact on administrative policies.
University President John T. Casteen III met with the General Assembly House Education Committee Wednesday to defend the University's admissions policies regarding the ratio of in-state to out-of-state students. The discussion was in response to a bill that would prohibit the University from admitting more than 33 percent out-of-state students in 2001. The Committee voted earlier this month not to vote on the bill until next year. Del.
The Inter-Fraternity Council passed a proposal yesterday requiring all pledges to complete 10 hours of community service during their pledge periods. The IFC voted unanimously in favor of the proposal during its weekly presidents' council meeting. This semester's pledges will be the first to face the new requirement, but individual fraternity leaders also may decide to impose the rule on pledges who joined fraternities in the fall. IFC officers will encourage pledges to organize their own service projects but also will help coordinate service opportunities as needed. "I see service as something that can appeal to people of all different backgrounds, but in order to do that [the projects] should be something that they self-select," IFC Service Chairman-elect Patrick Barry said. The IFC plans to work closely with Madison House and the Virginia Service Coalition to sponsor service opportunities. "Fraternities [will not] need to hunt all around Grounds for service opportunities," IFC Service Chairman Peter Leary said. Pledges also will be allowed to count non-fraternity sponsored service activities as long as they document them appropriately. IFC members said they hope pledges will continue to serve the community after fulfilling the 10-hour requirement. Related Links IFC's homepage The program "will help instill the importance of service in the pledges and allow them to carry with them this importance throughout their three and a half years" as fraternity members, IFC President Wes Kaupinen said. IFC members said the new requirement formalizes a long-standing tradition of community service within the fraternity system. "Most fraternities already have service as a component of the pledge process, so we are reaffirming what's already there," said Mike Christopher, IFC vice president for judiciary. Although pledging already is time consuming, the service requirement will not be too difficult for pledges, IFC President-elect Justin Saunders said. The community service requirement is "something that won't add on time to the pledgeship, but [it will] improve the quality of what they're doing," Saunders said. Leary also said community service is a valuable way for pledges to spend time. "I can think of few things that are more important for pledges to be involved in," he said. IFC members hope the program will strengthen relationships between pledges and brothers, Saunders said. "The proposal itself focuses on pledges, but at the same time its implications are more far-reaching than just the pledges themselves," he said.
University Police Sergeant Melissa Fielding said police now are looking into leads on a reported robbery in Lambeth Field Apartments Wednesday.
Between 1994 and 1995, Yaron Svoray, an Israeli-born Jew, spent nearly a year infiltrating Germany's neo-Nazi machinery.
In coming months, Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) is expected to announce a replacement for outgoing University Board of Visitors member Albert H.
Undergraduate researchers soon will enjoy a new source of funding, with the introduction of the Faculty Senate Undergraduate Research Awards. The Provost's Office has agreed to fund the awards for a three-year period, Faculty Senate Chairman David T.
The latest Honor Committee referendum to get rid of the seriousness clause in honor cases involving academic cheating will not appear on next week's Student Council ballot, despite Committee members' vote in favor of the referendum Sunday. According to Article VII of the Honor Constitution - the article that governs amendments - any proposed change to the constitution must wait two to six weeks after being voted on by the Committee to be sent to referendum and voted on by the student body. Committee members said they had hoped to have the referendum to the students in time to be on the Council election ballot.
As the new millennium begins, the computer and biological worlds are moving closer together. By some time this century, new techniques of DNA-based computing may allow computers to laugh at jokes and recognize the difference between cats and dogs.
WASHINGTON, D.C, Feb. 19 - Over 5,000 scientists, 500 journalists and 50 student "session aides" like myself gathered this past weekend for the 152nd annual meeting of "Science in an Uncertain Millennium," and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Early yesterday morning, two masked men walked into a Lambeth Field Apartments suite, tied up its four male occupants and robbed them of their wallets and a watch, according to University Police. The victims described the two suspects as stocky, six-foot tall black males.
The Commerce School has received the largest gift in the school's history - a $7.3 million donation. The donation will finance a system of real-time software and equipment that will enable Commerce School students and faculty to observe and analyze changes in economic markets instantaneously. Bridge Information Systems, based in New York, is the largest provider of financial information services in North America, and is donating the technology to the Commerce School to finance the Bridge Center for Financial Markets. This gift represents the largest contribution ever given to the Commerce School and will be distributed over five years, with a value of at least $1.5 million annually.
On the heels of Florida's decision last week to eliminate race as a factor in its public universities' admissions process, African-American Affairs Dean M.
Student Council passed a referendum yesterday that will allow the student body to voice its opinion on whether Greek governing bodies should be allowed to set their own dates for rush periods.
Both houses of the Virginia General Assembly amended Gov. James S. Gilmore III's (R) budget bill Sunday, which included a proposal to fund Virginia colleges based on "performance agreements." One major change to the bill stipulates the performance agreement proposal will not be considered until next year so the General Assembly can have more time to develop the program.
The Virginia Senate voted 22-16 yesterday to pass a bill requiring all state-supported four-year colleges and universities to appoint one or more students to their Boards of Visitors. The bill amended a House bill by eliminating the exemption of the Virginia Military Institute from the requirement, according to Maj.
Arizona Sen. John McCain defeated Texas Gov. George W. Bush by a slim margin in yesterday's Michigan open Republican primary, prompting the Bush camp to make claims of a Democratic hostile takeover.
The City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County have one of the strongest city-county bonds in the state of Virginia, and it is growing even stronger, said Charles Martin, chairman of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors. But it has not always been that way.
Despite the presidential primaries stealing much of the public limelight, Sen. Chuck Robb (D) and former Gov.
Today Duke University administrators attempted to explain why they did not inform the public until last week about the real cause of death of a Duke junior who died last November, maintaining that it was not a conscious effort to cover up the facts surrounding his death. After a night of heavy drinking, Raheem Bath threw up and then inhaled his own vomit, a process known as aspiration. A few days later he checked into a hospital, having developed bacterial pneumonia.
