Police arrested 44-year-old University Parking and Transportation employee Ronald Gene Woodson yesterday after observing him removing change from a University parking meter without authorization, according to University Police Capt.
Jack Warburton, former president of Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity, said only nine out of 40 members in Pi Lamb are minorities - yet Pi Lamb is one of the most ethnically diverse fraternities at the University. The reason for the under-representation of minority membership, according to Sitha Ngan, one of the few Asian brothers in Pi Lamb, is due to the low number of Asians, blacks and Latinos that rush the system in the first place. "Minorities don't rush because they are intimidated by the stereotypically white Greek system," Ngan said.
In a time marked by scandal and distrust of political figures, the Center for Governmental Studies sought to define the role of character in politics through a national symposium hosted at the University Monday and Tuesday. Larry J.
Although it has been two years since former Dean of Students Robert T. Canevari moved formal rush to the spring, the issue still stimulates debate among the Inter-Fraternity Council and some University administrators. Now, even with the release of a detailed financial report compiled by two Darden students, the debate still has not come to a close. While some administrators want to keep formal rush in the spring, fraternity leaders claim spring rush hurts fraternity houses not only financially, but also with overall pledge numbers and with housing situations. The debate over the rush date began during 1997's Fall Convocation, when then-Faculty Senate Chairman Jahan Ramazani made a speech urging the University community to consider moving formal fraternity rush to the spring.
According to a census official, the Charlottesville community may suffer financial consequences because only a small number of University students have completed and turned in forms for this year's census. Hanna Coffey, assistant administrator at the Charlottesville Regional Census Bureau, said less than 20 percent of University students have returned census forms. Coffey said many students think their parents submit the forms for them, but this is not the case for students who live away from home. Low student participation in the census could result in decreased federal funding for the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, she said. Data from students living off Grounds is particularly important because those students reside within Charlottesville city limits, she added. Student participation will affect Charlottesville's census count because students make up a large percentage of the Charlottesville community.
A jury is set to deliberate the outcome of Montaret Davis' trial following the presentation of further evidence today in Charlottesville Circuit Court.
The Honor Committee saw a drop in both investigations and trials over the last year, according to statistics released by the Committee Sunday night. The Committee experienced a noticeable decline in the number of students convicted of honor offenses.
United States Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr defended his investigation of President Clinton yesterday, telling a packed class of 500 GFAP 101 students that he was just doing his job. Starr, who became famous for investigating the scandal between former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton, spoke about the role of a U.S.
A study commissioned by the Inter-Fraternity Council found that spring rush has not financially undermined the fraternity system and was, on the whole, successful. Two Darden students, Edward F.
The Office of Admissions recently notified approximately 4,460 would-be Wahoos of their admission to the University late last week. The number of admissions offers went down from previous years because of the increase in the number of early admissions offers, Assoc.
In the first honor trial open to the public since September 1998, second-year Engineering student Patricia Gonzales was asked to leave the University community Saturday after a student jury found her guilty of cheating on an organic chemistry exam. Third-year College student Matthew Sachs, a teaching assistant in Gonzales' CHEM 241 class, initiated the honor charges.
One of the most influential religious poems of the English Middle Ages - a poem that addresses the nature of divine grace and spiritual redemption - is in the process of being electronically archived. The project, spearheaded by English Prof.
When Willis Greco, assistant trader at Merrill Lynch & Company, saw the Telerate numbers on his Internet hot stocks down by at least 30 percent at midday Friday, the honeymoon of his love affair with tech growth was over.
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno defended the United States' decision to return Elian Gonzales to his native Cuba during her keynote address Saturday at a Law School conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Virginia Journal of International Law. "We are committed to doing what we believe to be the law," Reno said in regards to the Gonzales case. For several months, U.S.
So much for nice guys finishing last. A committee of students and administrators announced Friday that it has named third-year College student Eric Dean Hutter as the next resident of the Lawn's Gus Blagden Room. Often referred to as the "good guy" room, 15 West Lawn is privately endowed in memory of Augustus Silliman "Gus" Blagden III, a 1963 College graduate recognized by his peers as an exceptionally warm and caring person.
There's more to forming an a capella group than blending voices and musical arrangements. As the University's newest team of singers is discovering, a capella groups trying to get off their feet also must worry a lot about finances. Hoo's in Treble, an all female group, started at the beginning of this year.
Sally Hemings may soon have a Charlottesville street named in her honor. Hemings was once a slave of Thomas Jefferson.
Stafford County Circuit Court Judge James W. Haley Jr. approved an agreement Friday made between the families of two girls switched at birth in 1995 at the University Medical Center. The agreement determines the custody status of Callie Conley, the child residing in Stafford County.
A recent U.S. District Court ruling stating that colleges cannot release files from student judicial proceedings endorses the University's conviction that student records from disciplinary proceedings should remain confidential. The Court ruled that student disciplinary files qualify as "educational records" under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which prohibits disclosure of student records that include personally identifiable information or that the students or parents have not authorized for release by the college. The decision emphasized that colleges will be expected to publish annual statistics on the number of crimes on campus, including data on murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and hate crimes.
U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of graduate schools yesterday, naming the Law School number eight in the nation. All the University's graduate schools were ranked in the top tier. The Nursing School was the only school whose rankings improved, moving from 24 in 1998 to 21 this year. The Darden School's number 11 rank was the same last year. The Law and graduate Engineering Schools each dropped one slot, from seven to eight, and from 35 to 36, respectively.
