Race will be considered as one of many factors in the admissions process this year, said Dean of Admissions John A.
University Rector John P. Ackerly III emphasized the Board of Visitors strong support of diversity in admissions while addressing an overflowing crowd in Jefferson Hall last night. Over 150 students attended Ackerly's speech, which was sponsored by the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society. Ackerly discussed several issues he declared "important to the University," but the continuing debate over the use of race as a factor in admissions dominated the discussion. Ackerly said the Board fears lawsuits over its current admissions policies, but is "committed to maintaining diversity," and is unanimous in its support for maintaining a diverse student body. The University's admissions policy is "legal and defensible in court," he said. Saturday, the Virginia State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People demanded Board member Terence P.
Colleges and universities are hiring more non-tenure track faculty than ever, changing the composition of university departments that have traditionally been filled with more tenured or tenure-seeking instructors.
Classes evacuated Bryan Hall yesterday morning after an unidentified perpetrator called in a bomb threat to University Police. A female-sounding voice left a message on a police telephone line around 8:10 a.m.
Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) said in a letter yesterday that he does not have the power to remove Board member Terence P.
Charlottesville officials said they soon will propose a resolution urging the University to maintain its affirmative action program - emphasizing how the University's current policy impacts the city. The resolution, written by City Councilman Maurice Cox and Mayor Virginia Daugherty, will be voted on at the Oct.
At the dawn of the new millennium, the Internet already has proven itself an invaluable asset in the fields of business, law and science.
Students are used to getting report cards, but now, thanks to a provision in the revised Higher Education Act, teacher-training programs will get report cards as well.
An increasing number of colleges and universities are setting higher standards of computer literacy for students, and the University also is taking steps to achieve that goal. University President John T.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a rape case involving two former Virginia Tech football players which challenges whether Congress has the power to legislate private matters. The U.S.
The University Judiciary Committee plans to have a system in place by next semester that will allow them to track the number and types of cases that go through the system. While the Committee kept case files, it did not have a policy for distributing statistics to the public because they rarely received requests for the data. "When people ask for statistics we give them an estimate for [the cost of] compiling the statistics" and allow them to decide whether or not to gather the data, Committee Chairman Brian Hudak said. But now, Committee members said they hope a statistical database will allow them to analyze what types of cases go through the system and better educate the community.
The recent discovery of Thomas Jefferson's personal scrapbooks at Alderman Library reveals the sentimental side of his complex personality. The four-volume scrapbook -- composed of clippings pasted to hand-made envelopes -- includes political items, scientific information and even romantic poetry.
Police are hoping that DNA fingerprinting will help bring them one step closer to identifying a suspect in the Venable area rape case that shook the University community last month. DNA evidence from the crime scene is being compared to DNA profiles from all of the databanks in the United States.
The '80s were the beginning of the big fitness craze in America. Around the time of the fitness boom came Dr. Robert Atkins, a cardiologist who graduated from Cornell Medical School.
Shortly before Monticello High School students were dismissed Tuesday afternoon, Albemarle County Police arrested a student who confessed to vandalizing the school with racist graffiti. The 17-year-old student, a white male, is a senior who attends the high school.
Babies aren't the only ones - 30 million American adults wear diapers. But it's no laughing matter. Incontinence affects one out of three Americans over the age of 60 and costs $17 billion every year to treat. Researchers in the University Medical Center's Urology Department are working to understand the probable causes and treatments of the disorder. Properly defined, urinary incontinence is the uncontrollable urine loss of a sufficient magnitude to comprise a hygienic problem for the sufferer. Dr. William Steers, chairman of the Urology Department, co-authored the results of a new study published this summer, which says that low levels of serotonin, a brain chemical, may be the reason behind this often embarrassing and restricting problem. Urinary incontinence exists in three forms, categorized by their causes: stress incontinence, which is attributed to obesity and physical exertion; urge incontinence, which is characterized by an overactive bladder; and mixed stress/urge, which has symptoms of both types.
The Academical Village, and its peers across the nation, has been feeling the surge of an ever-growing influx of high school seniors, according to a recent report by the U.S.
For the first time ever, the University's Athletic Department will limit the number of student and student guests admitted to a home football game Saturday.
In an open letter to the University community released last night, University President John T. Casteen III emphasized the necessity of maintaining equal opportunity in admissions. The letter, which was released to The Cavalier Daily, details from a historical perspective Casteen's analysis of considering race as a factor in admissions. "Alongside other Virginia colleges and universities, we have worked over the years to remedy the brutal and specific costs ... of Virginia's history of racial segregation," Casteen said in the letter. Although the University "operates within the rule of law," he said, one of the problems is that "no one is confident now what the law is." Casteen, who was formerly the University's dean of admissions, said race is not the definitive criterion when admitting students and noted that SAT scores or grade-point-averages are not the only measures of success. Earlier this month, University Board of Visitors member Terence P.
The University's ongoing debate over the use of race as a factor in admissions came to Student Council last night.
