Nowadays, it seems you can't walk across Grounds without a new college ranking being released. Two weeks ago, U.S.
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.
Vice President and Provost Peter Low and other administrators have selected the 12 men and women who are in charge of finding a suitable replacement for Law School Dean Robert E.
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.
Ahhhh, fourth year. The top rung of the collegiate social ladder; pinnacle of days spent studying too much and nights passed partying too hard.
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.
Susan Bruce entered the University as an undergraduate in 1985 and during her college years she saw two friends' brothers die in alcohol-related incidents. Since her time at the University, Bruce has taken up the cause to prevent substance abuse.
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.
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.
Picture this: starving pop-artists barely scraping by in a world that has cruelly deprived them of their gaudy chains, private Leer jets, limousine caravans and designer outfits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an effort to reorganize the College administration, plans are underway to hire an associate dean for graduate programs and research - a new position.
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.
It all started when Frankenstein's misunderstood monster turned deadly. Then we had HAL, the apparently innocent computer from 1968's "2001: Space Odyssey" who methodically executed his crew.
"I've got two pieces of bad news," said fourth-year College student Vinay Jain at the start of last night's debate between members of the University Democrats and College Republicans.
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.
University students are finding it increasingly difficult to turn down the "toughest job you'll ever love" -- serving in the Peace Corps. The University boasts a number-one ranking among the top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the Mid-Atlantic region. Sixty-nine University graduates now are serving in the Peace Corps. Regional rankings are calculated every September; national rankings will appear in January.
