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Health System announces new elderly clinic

By Liz Heifetz | March 30, 2012

The University Health System announced plans Wednesday to open a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) clinic at Martha Jefferson Hospital, in partnership with the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) and the Riverside Health System. PACE is a national program which provides health care to patients receiving Medicare and Medicaid benefits, as well as privately insured seniors in full-time nursing home care. "Nursing homes are expensive," said Larry Fitzgerald, the University Health System's chief financial officer.

Honor elects new leadership

By Liz Heifetz | March 26, 2012

The Honor Committee named third-year College student Stephen Nash as Honor Committee Chair during the Committee's annual retreat held at Graves Mountain Lodge in Syria, Va.

Huguely may seek retrial

By Liz Heifetz | March 19, 2012

Defense attorneys for former University student George Huguely indicated Friday they plan to seek retrial, following the jury's decision Feb.

University teams with Lady Gaga

By Liz Heifetz | March 12, 2012

The University's YOUTH-NEX Center collaborated with American pop singer Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation last month to prevent youth bullying.

Honor rejects retraction plan

By Liz Heifetz | February 13, 2012

The Honor Committee voted 19-2 yesterday evening to dismiss informed retraction legislation which sought to revise the honor system's conscientious retraction through a bylaw change. Batten School Representative Michael Karlik proposed the legislation last month and was among the two Committee members in favor of passing the legislation. "There needs to be a cultural shift among students ... students are reluctant to engage in lengthy trials, but the new IR is an attempt to get at the reluctance by allowing students to approach their fellow peers who they think committed an honor offense without the long, lengthy process," Karlik said. The informed retraction would allow a student to avoid formal honor proceedings by allowing him to admit his mistake after it had been discovered by another party.

Chalk

By Liz Heifetz | September 29, 2010

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" "Hoos for Billy!" How do these slogans really compare? American election slogans go back all the way to the 1840s when presidential candidate William Henry Harrison discovered the key to campaigning: swaying masses.

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