Wine is at the heart of Virginia culture just as much as the legacies of Jefferson, the historic battlefields, foxhunting and the ever-expanding modern landscape of the Washington, D.C.
My father and I used to stand in the kitchen and talk after he got home from work -- he having the customary after-work cocktail while I paced restlessly.
Students were stunned last night as they reacted to the reported murder of Curry School Graduate student, Elizabeth Hafter.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine declared a state of emergency yesterday, ordering state agencies to take all necessary measures to help in the recovery from the flooding and mud slides resulting from recent heavy rains. Charlottesville Fire Marshall Steve Walton related a specific incident of a tree falling on a house on Rugby Ave.
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006, 4:30 A.M. -- University President John T. Casteen, III, met early Saturday morning with the 17 student protesters conducting a sit-in at Madison Hall on behalf of the Living Wage Campaign. Following the meeting, at around 3 a.m., administrators allowed living wage supporters outside of the building to pass some food to the students inside Madison Hall.
Timothy Naftali, director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, has been designated to serve as the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
At the conclusion of Sunday's open Honor trial, third-year Engineering student Steve Gilday was found not guilty of cheating but guilty of lying in regard to the legitimacy of a test he had submitted for a re-grade.
Nearly two-thirds of undergraduate college students around the nation report they have experienced some sort of sexual harassment during their collegiate careers, according to a study titled "Drawing the Line: Sexual Harassment on Campus," conducted by the American Association of University Women. Additionally, nearly one-third of students reported that the harassment was of a physical nature, such as being grabbed or touched in a sexual way, the survey states. The AAUW held a press conference on Tuesday at which the AAUW leadership addressed the survey's findings.
The controversy over whether President George W. Bush broke the law by authorizing warrantless surveillance on communications between American citizens and individuals with suspected ties to terrorism continues this week with Sen.
The academic calendar for the 2006-07 school year released Tuesday night is nearly identical to this year's academic calendar, with notable changes only to the January Term schedule. The similarity in structuring of the 2006-07 and 2005-06 academic calendars is the decision of the University's Calendar Committee, which decided that not enough information about the effects of the numerous changes made to this year's academic calendar had been gathered to make any additional changes to the 2007-06 calendar, said Wynne Stuart, associate provost of academic support and a member of the Calendar Committee. "The Committee worked really hard and talked [extensively] before we decided that we need more info before making changes," she said. The only major difference between this year's and next year's academic calendars was made to the 2007 January term.
