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Assailant injures University Heights resident

By Christine Buurma | January 31, 2000

Albemarle County Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman at about 11 p.m. Saturday at University Heights Apartments. Albemarle County Police responded to a report of malicious wounding. A 23-year-old female resident reported that an assailant emerged from behind an exterior stairway at one of the apartment buildings and swung at her with an unknown object he had concealed in his hand.

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Baker opens Miller Center photo exhibit

By Erin Montgomery | January 31, 2000

Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III spoke Friday afternoon about his time in the White House to inaugurate the "Time and The Presidency" exhibit opening today at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. An audience of students, faculty and community members filled Old Cabell Hall Auditorium to hear Baker's speech, "Making History: A View from Inside the White House." Long active in national politics, Baker has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. Baker began his career in public service as Gerald Ford's Undersecretary of Commerce in 1975.

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Students create search engine

By Amanda J. Batt | January 31, 2000

For the past 18 months, fourth-year College student Joel Haspel and his brother, first-year College student Daniel Haspel, have owned and managed AliVE Multimedia Group, LLC, a computer services company.

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Investing club elects managers

By Katie Archer | January 31, 2000

The McIntire Investment Institute, a student-run investing organization, elected new officers in December and will hold its first meeting of the new year today. Third-year Commerce student Andy Schoonover will return as the president this year.

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Honor searches for legal advisor

By Edward Hock | January 28, 2000

The Honor Committee will have to speed up their year-long search for a legal advisor after their current advisor confirmed yesterday that he will not work in the General Counsel's office after the end of this year. Earl Dudley, law professor and general counsel, has worked with the Honor Committee through the General Counsel's office for five years, but said he will resign in May. The move comes as the Committee faces three lawsuits seeking more than $13.3 million. Board of Visitors member Benjamin Warthen said he and other Board members had tried to encourage Dudley to stay, but he had wanted to move on. "At the moment we are disappointed that Mr. Dudley is leaving, but he has other mountains to climb," Warthen said.

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Police launch new program to increase alcohol awareness

By John Clark | January 28, 2000

University Police and the Center for Alcohol and Substance Education have targeted first-year students as the focus of new education and enforcement campaigns against underage drinking. Made possible by a $6,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control, University Police have purchased new educational equipment and allocated funds to substance education groups to help deter high-risk drinking. "The grant really supports work with the police department," CASE Interim Director Alison Houser said.

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Author decries capital punishment as unjust

By John McArdle | January 28, 2000

Over 200 students, faculty and community members rose to their feet and gave Sister Helen Prejean a standing ovation at the end of a presentation she gave yesterday in Wilson Hall on the ethical implications of the death penalty.

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Council decides to restructure Elections Committee

By Shelley Johnson | January 27, 2000

At Student Council's Tuesday night meeting, Council members established new guidelines for the structure of the Election Committee and a calendar for spring elections. In the past, the Elections Committee consisted of one chairperson and one vice chairperson. However, members voted to establish two co-chair positions and four vice-chair positions for the upcoming election.

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Monticello inquiry supports Hemings,

By Margaret Chipowsky | January 27, 2000

After over a year of study, Monticello officials announced yesterday that research has nearly conclusively proven that University founder Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one and maybe more children with his slave, Sally Hemings. Monticello officials commissioned the study after former University Pathology Prof.

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Couric pushes for internet voting

By Sarah Marchetti | January 27, 2000

State Sen. Emily Couric (D-Charlottesville) announced yesterday that she has proposed a resolution to the General Assembly that would form a study on Internet voting in state elections, with the University's Center for Governmental Studies providing staff for the study research. "Internet voting sometime in the not too distant future will be available to the states," Couric said.

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Faculty propose

By Tina Hong | January 27, 2000

The Faculty Senate's Student Faculty Interaction Subcommittee is seeking to promote better student-faculty relations at the University through specific proposals that members said they hope to present to administrators this semester. Robert Davis, environmental science professor and subcommittee chair, said the proposals originated from a Senate-sponsored student and faculty retreat in the fall of 1998 where participants discussed ways to improve faculty-student relations. At the retreat, participants stated impediments to faculty-student interaction, including incompatible faculty and student schedules, faculty members' perceived inaccessibility, the difficulty of initiating contact between faculty and students outside of class and the size of the University. "Some of the ideas were photo class lists and [requiring that] every faculty member have a Web page," Academic Affairs Committee Chairman William R.

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Conference to discuss aspects of mentoring

By Jacqueline Roper | January 27, 2000

Members of the University and Charlottesville communities will meet at a conference tomorrow in order to discuss new mentoring programs and find ways to improve existing ones. The conference will "bring together a wide variety of community leaders ... to share ideas about best practices in mentoring," Madison House Assoc.

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Students feel pressure to sign leases

By Jessica Collins | January 26, 2000

First year students, some officials say, may feel pressured to sign a lease prematurely without knowing what they are getting into. When dealing with off-Grounds housing, problems can range from irresponsible landlords and unplanned expenses to inconvenient locations. But most of all, Dean of Students Penny Rue said she believes students feel pressured to find a place to live in too much of a hurry. "Students get in a market frenzy because housing is limited, so they decide very fast, making decisions far in advance of when they need to.

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Program promotes nursing

By Rakesh Gopalan | January 26, 2000

A Nursing student and a Charlottesville resident have created a program in the School of Nursing that will provide health services to countries that lack adequate medical facilities. Third-year Nursing student Matthew Walden along with Charlottesville resident Rodney Hughes created the group, called Nurses Without Borders, late last semester.

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