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The news that the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences will revise its system of fellowship grants for the 2012-13 academic year was met with little fanfare across Grounds.
AS ROTUNDA Administrator Leslie Comstock works to increase students' visitation of the Rotunda, the University Guides are exerting themselves actively to reinforce this drive.
"DIVERSITY" - like "fairness" - has assumed a virtually unassailable position in modern American society.
WITH HER glistening diamonds, violet eyes, eight marriages and status as an old Hollywood elite, Elizabeth Taylor was larger than life.
NUCLEAR disasters such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima often erode public support in nuclear power, and for good reason.
When the athletic department announced Monday it received a $5 million donation from Amy Mitchell Griffin, who played volleyball at the University and graduated in 1998, it was a reminder of the importance of private funds in maintaining quality sports programs.
MOTHER'S Day is roughly a month and a half away, but it is never too early to start thinking about the perfect gift for the special lady in your life. While perusing the Bloomberg Businessweek website last Saturday, I found a little tidbit that Mark Zuckerberg or Travis McCoy might find useful come early May.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin voided a proposed settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a large group of individual authors and publishers meant to allow the technology giant to scan entire libraries of books into a searchable online database.
WE ARE a tight knit group here at the University. A University Guide will be quick to point out the common practice of always greeting people when we walk to and from our classes to highlight the rather genteel Southern atmosphere of Thomas Jefferson's University.
For the past year, the University has waged a legal battle against Attorney General and University alumnus Ken Cuccinelli centered around his demands for access to documents pertaining to research by former Environmental Sciences Prof.
I was disappointed to read Jamie Dailey's column ("Discrimination by interpretation") in The Cavalier Daily on Friday, March 25, in which he asserted that all conservatives and Christians are "soaked in blood" as a result of the suicides of young, gay and lesbian teens. First, I must say that every suicide is a tragedy, regardless of the individual's race, gender, religion or lifestyle.
DEAN GROVES, I really should be working on my thesis at the moment, but I am absolutely furious as a result of two cowards who just perpetrated what is the second unmistakably anti-Semitic affront against me in 24 hours.
THE FIRST Amendment is an interesting thing. It protects Americans' right to practice just about any religion they care to and it protects Americans' right to say pretty much anything about religion - and other things - they care to say. From that perspective, there was nothing wrong with the opinions in Jamie Dailey's column ("Discrimination by interpretation," March 25). Dailey is entitled to have an opinion and he's free to express it.
Students and faculty already feeling the effects of rising tuition and frozen salaries, respectively, were hardly pleased this week when the University's Department of Parking and Transportation announced a $1-per-month increase to Academic Division parking permit rates for the 2011-12 academic year.
