At last night's meeting, the New Student Center Committee of Student Council announced the hiring of David Oakland as principal architect in charge of the new student center's initial drawings. Oakland was hired "for feasibility study and conceptual drawings of the new student center," Committee Chairman Steven Reinemund said.
The month-long El Salvador Earthquake Aid Campaign, which combines the efforts of almost every academic school at the University, officially has raised $1,732 to care for earthquake victims.
Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, spoke at the Rotunda yesterday about solving the fundamental issues plaguing our current campaign system. Forbes, a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 elections, spoke to an audience of 100 students, faculty and Charlottesville residents.
To help meet the demand of professionals in understanding information technology, the Media Studies Department is proposing the addition of a new master's degree in digital humanities. The Faculty Senate Academic Affairs Committee approved an initial proposal for the program on Jan.
The morning-after pill may now be easier to obtain, courtesy of a bill before the General Assembly. House Bill 2782 would enable pharmacists to dispense the emergency contraceptive to women.
Imagine 140-degree weather, 100 percent humidity, no water and an army of hostile invaders wreaking havoc on a tiny country.
Bid numbers for spring Inter-Fraternity Council rush increased this year, with 41 more students accepting bids than last spring. Fraternities saw 451 men accept bids to the 33 houses that participated in IFC rush.
Four years after starting to post radar locations online, Charlottesville Police have successfully reduced the number of speeding tickets issued. According to Charlottesville Police Sgt.
University alumni committed to enhancing and improving the College have created the new College Foundation Building and Grounds Committee, designed to address the issues of facilities renovation. The committee, which held its first meeting Friday, is in the middle of its planning stage.
What do the Monroe Society and the Capoeira Club have in common? Well, although one group focuses on the power of persuasion and the other on hand-to-hand combat, both skills will be useful this semester when the two contend for a portion of the approximately $600,000 in Student Activity Fund dollars available to student groups.
University of California President Richard Atkinson recently recommended the elimination of the SAT I as a requirement for admissions.
Student Council members are looking into instating a business minor offered to students outside of the McIntire School of Commerce.
Following a national trend of removing alcohol from fraternity houses, the new chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity will be established as a dry house following an induction ceremony held tonight As a dry house, Phi Delta Theta will not allow alcohol in the chapter house or on chapter property. In tonight's ceremony at the University Chapel, 32 students will become official fraternity members, said Jason Allevato, vice president of the new Phi Delta Theta colony.
The University reported a 4 percent increase in first-year admissions applications in statistics released last Wednesday, regaining some of the ground lost in a nearly 15 percent drop in applications last year.
As a recession looms over the country like a rain cloud, analysts have put in their two cents about what the economic climate will be.
Two University students have made their yearlong vision a reality by creating one of the University's newest Contracted Independent Organizations, Concentus, a group devoted to understanding and examining the differences among the University community. Concentus's mission is "to promote a greater understanding of peoples and their similarities through an examination of their differences," Consentus co-founder and vice president Matt Pritchard said. "Diversity seemed not to have the depth that we'd hoped when we first arrived at the University," Pritchard said.
Thanks to an $8.5 billion endowment, Princeton University will become the nation's first university to implement a financial aid system that does not use student loans.
The University and other Virginia institutions of higher education may face new funding problems after the General Assembly passes the 2001 budget. Budget proposals from Gov.
As the Virginia 2001 election campaign season draws near, both the Democratic and Republican parties are beginning the selection process for their slate of gubernatorial candidates. Mark Warner will head the Democratic ticket for governor in November's election.
The Virginia General Assembly passed the controversial informed-consent abortion bill last week making abortion clinics responsible for educating patients. The bill, sponsored by Sen.
