At 2:44 p.m. Monday, Deadspin tweeted out a headline to a story that read: “How an Achilles Tear Affects NBA Players (or why Kobe Bryant is screwed).”
The days of waking up to text messages and phone calls you don’t remember sending or making are over, thanks to third years Joshua Anton (COMM) and Justin Washington (SEAS). Monday evening Apple Inc. approved their App, ‘Drunk Mode,’ which is a 99 cent app that “hides selected phone number from the contact list and history so one cannot send texts or make phone calls while intoxicated for [a period up to] 12 hours,” Anton said.
After hours spent debating, Charlottesville’s City Council came to a compromise on Monday night, preliminarily adopting a Human Rights Commission to address discriminatory practices that exist within the city.
An anonymous user under the name “Root the Box” caused the University’s main webpage to redirect to a picture of the group’s logo, a pixilated white skull on a black background, before going to the @R00tTh3B0x twitter feed Monday night.
The Virginia Board of Health approved permanent regulations on abortion clinics in the state on Friday in an 11-2 vote. Attorney General Cuccinelli certified the regulations on the same day.
Present and past Honor Committee Chairs Evan Behrle and Stephen Nash, third and fourth-year College students, sent an e-mail to University students, faculty and staff yesterday afternoon sharing information about the Informed Retraction and Honor Committee bylaw amendments. Behrle said, “The fundamental purpose of the email [was] to provide legal notice to students” about the change to the Honor System.
Because fraternities are so individualized, a mandatory initiation date not only damages fraternity tradition across the IFC but also damages the particular new member routines of each house.
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Terry McAuliffe announced Friday he raised over $5 million in the first quarter of the Virginia governor’s race. Republican Candidate Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia attorney general, announced he raised $2.4 million in the same time period Monday evening.
As soon as the curtain closed on a surprisingly successful 2012-13 Virginia men’s basketball season, the team and its supporters turned their attention eagerly to next season, when the team was initially expected to return all starters except for senior point guard Jontel Evans and add a slew of talented contributors.
A Curry School Dean and several Virginia students who ran in Monday’s Boston Marathon are safe after two bombs exploded simultaneously at the finish line just before 3 p.m. .
There is simply no better way to spend a gorgeous Charlottesville morning than exploring our amazing brunch scene.
The Honor Committee will vote next week to create permanent bylaws governing the administration of informed retraction, which was made a part of the Honor Committee’s constitution in a referendum approved by the student body in February.
A collection of more than 10,000 digital images from the University’s library will soon be available at The Digital Public Library of America, the first nationwide online public library, the University announced Wednesday.
University President Teresa Sullivan participated alongside some of region’s leading educators and community leaders Saturday in a forum entitled “The State of Education in America: The Cause & The Solution.”
The Range Selections Committee announced Thursday evening the 52 graduate students who were selected as the 2013-2014 residents for the Range rooms in the University’s Academical Village. The East and West Range rooms, adjacent to the Lawn, are awarded each year to some of the University’s “most accomplished graduate students,” in an effort to honor Thomas Jefferson’s vision for the Academical Village, according to the Range website. “This year we had 16 people elect to come back next year,” Cutchins said.
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team reached its milestone 100th consecutive ACC victory Friday with a 7-0 shutout against No. 25 Clemson, and then continued the streak with a 6-1 victory against Georgia Tech Saturday in Charlottesville.
Leading 13-9 midway through the third quarter in a must-win game, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team looked poised to halt its five-game skid against No. 7 Duke at Koskinen Stadium. However, the Blue Devils would take control of the high-scoring contest late in the game, using a 10-1 run to come away with a 19-16 victory in both teams’ final regular season conference game.
Kappa Alpha fraternity’s Fraternal Organization Agreement has been suspended pending University investigation, Inter Fraternity Council President Jake Pittman said in an email Thursday.
The Cavalier Daily obtained salary information for University faculty and staff in 2012 using the Freedom of Information Act.
Johns Hopkins freshman attacker Jenna Reifler unleashed what proved to be the deciding goal with 19.5 seconds remaining in a game the Cavaliers had described as a “must-win.”
