The director of admissions at Princeton University has been placed on administrative lead following accusations that he entered a secure Yale Web site to access the admissions status of 11 Yale applicants. Princeton admission officers allegedly gained access to the private records on the Yale Web site by entering the birth date and social security numbers of students who applied to both schools.
About 350 of the Commonwealth's top political officers, staffers, reporters and pundits came together at the fifth-annual Virginia Governor's Conference held July 18 and 19 to honor former Democratic Gov.
For most people, a family history is just that - history. But former Charlottesville resident Alice Norris' genealogical records have leapt to life, serving as important clues unlocking the University parking garage's archaeological enigma. About three weeks ago, University-hired archaeologist Ben Ford discovered possible remnants of a human burial in a grave shaft under the University's planned parking garage site.
The University, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County each have big plans for growth over the next decade and are working together to avoid stepping on each other's toes while expanding. Representatives from the three entities spoke yesterday in a public meeting to describe and discuss all building projects in the near future.
Five months after the debut of The Hook, an alternative news weekly that targets a readership similar to the C'ville Weekly, the two papers continue to battle for dominance. C'ville Weekly began 13 years ago and pushed aside The Observer as the dominant free weekly paper in Charlottesville. In February, competition arose when C'ville Weekly co-founder and former editor Hawes Spencer started his own paper after being ousted from C'ville by his two co-owners. Although The Hook is not yet turning a profit, Spencer said he firmly believes "the tide will turn," and within a year his paper will be the best weekly paper in Charlottesville. "We have enough funding so our ad sales could dip and we'd still be around for a year," Spencer said. Spencer said he believes The Hook will oust its competitor because his paper places a greater emphasis on hard news than C'ville Weekly does. He also cites the Web site, which is "chock full of stories and useful links" as possessing a distinct advantage over the competition. But according to C'ville Weekly Editor Cathryn Harding, history clearly favors the preexisting paper in such cases.
As the controversy over the University's planned 1,200 car parking garage escalates, local political leaders have gotten involved in mediating the dispute and preventing future arguments. Charlottesville Mayor Blake Caravati, Virginia State Sen.
After news came out that Virginia House of Delegates Speaker S. Vance Wilkins Jr., R-Amherst, settled a $100,000 out-of-court sexual misconduct complaint, many House Republicans began calling for his resignation. Amherst, Va.
Faculty Senate and College officials have refined the monetary awards they plan to offer University graduate students for the next school year, polishing everything from the name of the awards to the methods used to finance them. The Faculty Senate Dissertation-Year Fellowships of about $17,000 will be offered to 11 graduate students completing their last year of education at the University. As the name suggests, the awards are intended to help graduate students obtain funding in their last year of schooling while completing their dissertations.
Though a student's days studying in the classrooms of Cabell Hall or tossing Frisbees on the Lawn are fleeting, some faculty members spend lifetimes at the University.
With the success of the "Science and Society" program co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate and the Institute for Practical Ethics, both groups already are planning for an even more exciting program next semester. In addition to the Senate and Institute, the University's Center for Global Health and the Forum for Contemporary Thought will co-sponsor the events next semester. This semester, the Senate and Institute sponsored a lecture series that focused on the theme of "Genetics and Society," featuring prominent speakers such as Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project. The lectures have "been successful, beyond my wildest imagination," said James Childress, director of the Institute for Practical Ethics. The lecture series will continue into the spring semester, but its focus will broaden to include issues of global health, Faculty Senate Chairman Robert Grainger said. Issues that the lecture series will address include global justice as related to research in developing countries, AIDS as a world crisis, inequalities in socioeconomic status among countries and bioterrorism. "We are in an interdependent world - a fact never more obvious than after Sept.
