Although the University's new basketball arena has not yet begun to be constructed, students and administrators already are discussing the role students will have in its development. "We want to assert ourselves early on so that our claims don't get pushed by the wayside," Student Council President-elect Joe Bilby said.
The proliferation of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria could nullify the effects of antibiotics, the miracle drugs of yesterday. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Zyvox, an antibacterial drug that is part of a first new class of antibiotics to be developed in 35 years.
Two of the 14 Contracted Independent Organizations that appealed for more funding from Student Council got what they asked for at Tuesday's hearing, which lasted until early Wednesday morning. Council's Appropriations Committee granted the Virginia Club Ice Hockey team and CAINE, a comic book and animation organization, more Student Activity Fee money than the Committee originally allocated.
Following criticisms of voting practices during this year's Republican presidential primaries, the U.S.
About 98,000 Americans are dying from medical errors each year. Such an appalling statistic is the equivalent of one jumbo jet plane crash per day. The blatant truth of the matter is that we never hear it in quite such harsh terms.
Spectrum Theatre, the Chinese Student Association, and CAINE, a comic book and animation group, appealed their Student Activity Fee fund allocations at the Student Council meeting last night. The SAF is a $39 fee each student pays in addition to tuition for funding student organizations. While 17 Contracted Independent Organizations appealed the Appropriation Committee's decisions, only three of the groups' appeals had been heard at press time. The groups whose appeals were not heard last night will be heard at a special meeting Thursday. Spectrum Theatre appealed its appropriations allocations because it did not receive any money for a new lighting system. It requested about $6,000 in its appeal. The group withdrew its appeal after Chief Financial Officer John Finley promised the group funding for the lights from $23,000 set aside for the purchase of equipment for Newcomb Hall. The Chinese Student Association appealed for an additional $1,000.
City Council candidates discussed their varied views on the Meadowcreek Parkway, city parks and the overall quality of the environment at a debate held yesterday at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church. Candidates were divided on the issue of the Meadowcreek Parkway. "We need to abandon our blind faith in highways," said incumbent Council member and Architecture Prof.
The Inter-Sorority Council voted unanimously Monday night to relax its strict policy regarding sorority members' contact with first-year women before formal rush. The new rush contact policy allows sorority members to talk to first-year women as long as they do not promote or discuss individual sorority houses. The ISC vote abolished the no-contact rule, which limited sorority members to minimal contact with first-year women during the semester before rush. Sorority women had to register with the ISC any time they spent talking to first years.
If you win one merit-based scholarship, there is a good chance you will win another. Merit-based scholarships are established by private donors without tapping into University revenues.
The University soon may host one of 10 Regional Humanities Centers nationwide if it receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The regional center would serve as an educational and research facility available for all the region's residents, focusing on exploring and preserving local history. Encyclopedias, films, radio recordings and other historically significant items would be available at the centers. The NEH is founding the 10 centers based on the idea that by "understanding regionalism, one can really get in touch with the history of the whole nation," NEH spokesman Jim Turner said. The institution housing each regional center would receive $5 million over a five-year period and would be expected to raise $15 million on its own over seven years. The University now is in competition with the College of Charleston to host the South Atlantic Regional Center.
After two more University students reported yesterday that they received suspicious phone calls from a man claiming to be an Honor Committee representative, the Committee is taking steps to better inform students of its phone call policies. A total of three students now have reported receiving phone calls on Sunday night between 1:30 and 2:15 in the morning from a man calling himself "Jack." The man, who spoke in a foreign accent, reportedly told the students they were being brought up on honor charges and that they should meet him at either Espresso Corner or Espresso Royale Café to discuss the charges. According to Vice Chairwoman for Investigations Ginny Rothschild, in the most recently reported phone call, the student thought the caller was one of her friends playing a joke on her.
National College Scholarships For Second Years: *Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship gives outstanding natural science or math-majoring college sophomores and juniors up to $7,000 for a year of study. For Third Years: *Beinecke Memorial Scholarship for need and merit, covers tuition and expenses for about 12 college juniors to finish their senior year and pay for two years of grad school *Barry M.
Following a speech yesterday to a GFAP 101 class, Sen. Chuck Robb (D) defended U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's Saturday morning decision forcefully to seize six-year-old Elián Gonzalez from his U.S.
With an anonymous $1 million gift lining its pocket, the University's Nursing School will be able to recruit a new faculty member with expertise in the field of pediatric nursing. The gift, which will establish a distinguished professorship, sets a new mark as the largest gift to the Nursing School from an individual donor and will be the first $1 million professorship to go before the Board of Visitors, which approves all new funded professorships. "The named professorship allows us to attract faculty members who have done prominent research in the area" and are often known nationally and internationally, Assoc.
In 1997, blacks made up about 20 percent of Virginia's population but about 50 percent of arrests for major felonies such as rape and murder.
An unidentified man called three female University students early yesterday morning, claiming to be a representative of the Honor Committee and asking them to meet with him, according to Honor Committee officials. Committee Chairman Thomas Hall said the call recipients told him the man spoke with an "unidentified foreign accent" and would only give the name "Jack." The caller refused to provide any other personal information to the students. Hall said the caller allegedly told the recipients they were facing honor charges and should meet him at either Espresso Corner or Espresso Royale Caffe on University Avenue. One recipient said she received a call around 1:15 a.m.
At yesterday's forum on the "Climate for Women at U.Va.," panelist Sondra Stallard told an anecdote of a meeting she had with a senior administrator to discuss gender-based salary inequities in the early 1980s.
Four Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity members and one pledge were arrested last Sunday in Fauquier County and charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and opium. Fauquier County Sheriff's Office Capt.
Thomas Jefferson's words of wisdom and the writings of several notable Virginia poets soon will adorn a section of Grounds bordering University Avenue. New York artist Agnes Denes designed a permanent "Poetry Walk" consisting of 20 granite stones bearing writings from Thomas Jefferson.
Fewer than one in five University students, faculty and staff believe that the University administration is sensitive to the needs of non-heterosexual members of the University community, according to a 1994 survey conducted by the Committee on Environment for Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals (CELGBU) at the University.
