Gov. James S. Gilmore III (R) soon will announce the appointments of U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thursday and Friday 40 business-minded students came together with a mission: to deal with a travel publication company's billing mistake. The students were involved in the McIntire Consulting Group's first ever case competition, in which a professional consulting firm presented a sticky hypothetical financial situation to to aspiring young business men and women. Navigant Consulting, which sponsored the event and awarded the winners prize money, gave the students a situation in which a travel publication company had overstated circulation figures to many of its clients. The students had to work through the financial data and present their case to a panel of Navigant consultants who then judged which group had the best solution. The competition began Thursday at 5 p.m., when eight groups consisting of five students each received a case for which they had to come up with a plan of action.
History Prof. Edward L. Ayers earned a presidential appointment to the National Council on the Humanities, which will hold its first meeting of the year next week. President Bill Clinton selected Ayers to serve on the Council, a 26-member group that advises the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S.
In 1959, Ralph Nader jump-started the consumer advocacy movement with a Nation magazine article entitled "The Safe Car You Can't Buy." In 2000, armed with the ideals of the environmental and consumer rights oriented Green Party, Nader is running for president. With a large blue and orange "U.Va.
Although Honor Committee members have said faculty discontentment with the honor seriousness clause was an impetus for their most recent constitutional proposal, some faculty members have expressed mixed opinions about whether the referendum will be effective. Related Links UVA Honor web site The proposal calls for removing the seriousness clause from the honor constitution for cases of academic cheating.
Cavalier Daily Staff Writers Virginia Military Institute cadet Erin Claunch has proved that the college's pioneer female recruiting class has adjusted to the formerly all-male institution. Claunch, a member of the first VMI class to include females, was named yesterday as one of the school's two battalion commanders for next year. As battalion commander - second in rank only to the regimental commander - Claunch will bear a "supervisory responsibility" over four companies of cadets, said VMI's Assistant Public Relations Director Chuck Steenburgh.
Dr. Jerry L. Nadler, Division Chief of Endocrinology and metabolism at the University Health System, and his team of researchers have been awarded a nearly $1 million grant to research why diabetes causes heart disease. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation funded the grant. Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that affects the body's ability to regulate glucose levels.
Recognizing his advocacy of first amendment rights, the National Press Club named Robert M. O'Neil, Law School professor and former University president, the first in a series of "first amendment fellows." The NPC decided in a board meeting in Washington, D.C., Monday night to honor individuals who have worked to educate people about their rights of expression. NPC President Jack Cushman said over the next year the club plans to select 12 first amendment fellows.
Charlottesville Police said yesterday they believe they found the weapon used in the alleged armed robbery on University Circle Friday night. A resident of the 300 block of 14th Street found the weapon in his yard, at which time the resident contacted police, Charlottesville Police Det.
The University continues to fight legal battles in court over the work of the student-run Honor and Judiciary Committees. University lawyers went before U.S.
An old boarded-up Albemarle County house was slated for demolition but saved just in time to rescue boxes of original documents that detail daily life for turn-of-the-century blacks in Albemarle county. The documents, which consist of more than 250 letters, postcards, photographs and educational materials, are an excellent source of information about American black culture during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The artifacts, found in the attic of the old house in Esmont, are the family papers of Benjamin Franklin Yancey, one of the first black educators in central Virginia and founder of the Esmont School for Colored Children, located about 20 miles from the all-white University. Included among the documents are numerous pieces of correspondence in which black students talk about their professors, courses, friends, ministers and daily life. "Dear Mr. Yancey," reads one letter released by University Relations, "Do you have many scholars this year?
Following yesterday's unanimous Supreme Court ruling, public universities across the country now are able to allocate tuition-based student fees to all university student groups, even if some of these groups may be controversial. In 1996's Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin v.
It is hard to imagine information being transferred faster than the speed of light, but new technology in the field of Quantum Information Physics may make computers exponentially faster one day and allow them to crack complicated computer codes in minutes. QI scientists have developed unique switches with unusual properties.
Jorge Luis Borges, renowned for his impressive short stories and poems as well as the impact he had on his contemporaries, has emerged in the form of previously unpublished poems on the pages of Meridian, a University literary journal. Meridian has unearthed two poems by the famous Argentine poet, who died in 1986.
More evidence has been discovered in the Sally Hemings-Thomas Jefferson saga, this time casting doubt on the claims of the descendants of Monticello slave Tom Woodson, who assert Woodson was the product of the Hemings-Jefferson affair. A DNA test on the Rev.
DAVIS, Calif.-Richard Black, vice chancellor for admissions and enrollment at the University of California-Berkeley, has done more than just witness firsthand the far-reaching consequences the end of affirmative action has had on his school.
The University is taking steps toward breaking down international and technological barriers by conducting its first distance learning education course. Students at the Istanbul Technical University now have the opportunity to take an Engineering course taught by a University professor via television screens and other technological resources. Mark Shields, assistant professor of technology, culture and communications, teaches nine Turkish students in his course on Technology and Human Development. Shields and the Turkish students are able to interact with one another over phone lines, but recently have experienced some problems with congestion. While there has been some disruption in teaching because of technical difficulties, Shields said he overcame the troubles by rescheduling and pre-recording some classes. Although the Turkish students do not speak English as their primary language, the language barrier has caused little confusion, Shields said. "They said they have no trouble understanding me ... but they are somewhat reluctant sometimes to ask questions," he said. John Payne, University director of educational technology, said although the Istanbul school is the "preeminent engineering school in Turkey," it does not offer humanities courses. Shields teaches the same course to University students, but he said he modifies the way he teaches the Turkish students "because of the nature of the medium." The University's Information Technology Center gave the international students temporary e-mail accounts so they can interact with Shields' other students through the course Web site. Shields said the Istanbul Technical University is not much different from the University in terms of difficulty of admission and student population, but unlike the University, it offers free education to its students. Despite the high quality of education at the Turkish school, Payne said Adil Ozkaptan, who first thought of the idea for the distance course, believed the level of education at the school still could be improved. Payne said Ozkaptan - an 84-year-old man who immigrated to the United States in the 1940s - conceived the distance learning course as part of a lifelong teaching process for Turkish students.
In addition to surpassing the University's $1 billion Capital Campaign goal in December, funds grew by another $8.58 million in February, bringing the Campaign total to $1.103 billion. According to totals as of Feb.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia unanimously approved a proposal yesterday to establish a Ph.D.
With the effective end of one of the shortest presidential primary seasons in recent elections, Republican Party officials have begun considering alternatives that would allow more states to participate in the delegate selection process. "It was decided Super Tuesday who would be the nominee," said Morton Blackwell, the Republican National Committee chairman of Virginia.
