Timelines across all social media platforms have been plastered with coverage of Beyonce and Taylor Swift's one-of-a-kind productions for months. While this coverage started as positive, it has turned sour in the past weeks, sparking a debate on which artist has the better tour.
Governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency Tuesday and issued an executive order that increased flexibility and funding for state and local governments to ensure adequate fuel supply.
Allowing the value of the minimum wage to depreciate with inflation puts workers in an increasingly dire economic situation.
The presidency demands political experience, and any “outsider” president erodes the dignity and efficacy of our nation’s highest office.
In a hearing Thursday, Jesse Matthew — who is currently facing a capital murder trial for charges relating to the disappearance and death of former second-year College student Hannah Graham in September 2014 — waived his right to a speedy trial at the Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Jesse Matthew entered an Alford plea Wednesday in a 2005 Fairfax sex-assault case, pleading guilty to charges of attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual assault.
The Center for American Progress, an education think tank based in Washington, D.C., recently released a report calling for greater federal support for higher education in response to investment cuts during the 2008 recession.
The University recently ranked number one on a list rankings schools for their dollar-for-dollar investment value. Graduates from more than 800 universities and colleges across the country were included in the study, sponsored by the research firm PayScale.
Employment of adjunct professors is on the rise at universities across the nation, and concern about the effect of this new hiring model on the university is on the rise as well. Bethany Nowviskie Director of Digital Research and Scholarship and Chair of the General Faculty Council, acknowledged the trend both at the Universty and across the naiton.
University students joined more than 1,000 young protesters to march from Georgetown University to the White House March 2 as part of XL Dissent, a protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline extension. Students sought to pressure President Barack Obama to reject the extension later this year.
University student Patrick Carney will blast into outer space in 2015, after winning a contest pitting him against more than one million other entries for one of 23 spots.
Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds’ condition was upgraded to “good” Wednesday afternoon after he suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted by his son in his Bath County home Tuesday morning. First responders pronounced Deeds’ son Gus, 24, dead at the scene.
A YouTube video created by students at the University of California, Los Angeles, has garnered massive online attention and is sparking debate across the nation about race at institutions of higher education. The Black Bruins, an African-American student organization at UCLA, posted the video last week to voice complaints regarding their university’s low minority enrollment. Junior and group leader Sy Stokes narrates the video with a spoken word poem addressing the school’s statistical gap in minority enrollment, saying only 3.3 percent of the school’s male student body is African-American.
Democrat Terry McAuliffe was elected to serve as Virginia’s 72nd governor last night in one of the most hotly contested statewide races in decades.
The Virginia Supreme Court reversed a jury verdict last Friday in the wrongful-death suit filed by the parents of slain Virginia Tech students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde, two of the 32 victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.
