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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Greek houses gain access to

By Caroline Morris | September 14, 2000

In an effort to improve the Greek system, administrators from the University and Information Technology and Communication are working with both the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils to provide Greek houses with an ethernet service for about one-third of the cost.

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Civil rights leaders recount experiences

By Sarah Marchetti | September 14, 2000

In an overflowing auditorium at the Law School last night, Henry Marsh, a civil rights activist, spoke about his experiences as a lawyer and political leader in the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Julian Bond, NAACP chairman and University history lecturer, and Michael Klarman, a Law School professor, sat on the panel interviewing Marsh. The discussions focused on the Supreme Court decision in Brown v.

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