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.
The Board of Visitors unanimously approved a $1.44 billion budget for the 2002-03 fiscal year at its June meeting, in spite of a significant decrease in state funding. This was the Board's first meeting with its four new members, which Gov.
In an effort to delay construction of the proposed 1,200 car parking garage behind the Cavalier Inn, Charlottesville officials have appealed to top University administrators to postpone the project until the two parties can reach an agreement on the issue. Area residents are hoping to block the project, contending that the parking garage will add to the already crowded intersection at Ivy Road and Emmett Street.
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.
His name graces the field at Scott Stadium, the grounds of the University's Law School and the Institute for American History, Literature and Culture, which currently is under construction as part of the special collections library. The University lost one of its greatest friends and supporters June 8 when David Alexander Harrison III died from complications with Alzheimer's Disease. A 1939 College graduate who also graduated from the Law School in 1941, Harrison proved one of the most generous benefactors to the community, having donated more than $26 million to University projects. "David Harrison was distinguished not only by his generosity but particularly by the breadth of his interests at the University of Virginia," said Robert D.
Six of the teenagers convicted of carrying out assaults on University students received sentences from Charlottesville Juvenile Judge Susan L.
University police are continuing with their investigation of an arson that occurred at the University Medical Center on June 2. Fire and rescue units responded to the alarm, which started at 9:45 a.m in the second-floor corridor linking the hospital's old and new wings.
The University took another important step in the planning of the new basketball arena when the Board of Visitors Building and Grounds committee approved the schematic plans for the venue May 9. The committee unanimously voted to recommend the plans to the Board at its next meeting to be held May 31.
After a year-long, student initiated search, the University will be offering the Chickering Group as the new student health insurance plan. "There was a strong opinion that the University needed to issue a request for proposal to find out what other companies were offering," said Alison Montgomery, director of administration at the Student Health Center. The new plan offers several new services for University students that the previous health insurance provider, Southern Health Insurance, Inc., was not able to provide.
Three University students are under investigation for allegedly planting a mailbox bomb on Bruce Ave.
Four years, eight semesters and countless tests and papers ago, the Class of 2002 began their journey through college that would span across two centuries Many left home without a care in the world, worrying most about staying in touch with that high school sweetheart or getting along with new roommates. As they stuffed all their worldly belongings into suitcases, u-halls and the family car, few could imagine the events they would experience over the next four years that would shape their lives forever.
A few years from now, students may not recognize the current South Lawn. The estimated $125 million South Lawn Project will consist of the construction of a new building on the current B-1 parking lot, a renovation of Cocke and Rouss Hall and the destruction of New Cabell Hall followed by the construction of a state-of-the-art complex on that site. "It is the largest capital construction project the College has undertaken to date," said Joe Grasso, college associate dean of planning and operations. A committee headed by Grasso and College Dean Edward L.
Six graduating University students have received the largest individual scholarships in the nation. Fourth years Anita Gupta, Sarah Hobeika, Esther Huang, Bryan Maxwell, James Puckett and Danna Weiss were among the 50 graduating college students to win the first annual Jack Kent Cook Foundation Graduate Scholarships, announced May 3.
Whoever said nice guys finish last certainly never met Student Council President-elect Micah Schwartz. "I think I'm the most average Student Council president in awhile," Schwartz said.
Those who love the Pep Band will be upset with the athletic department's plans for next football season. Those who dislike the Pep Band will offer a collective sigh of relief. The University's athletic department currently plans to keep the number of Pep Band performances during next fall's football halftime shows to a total of two, said Andrew Rader, associate athletic director for marketing, promotions and licensing.
Tomorrow, students will head out into the countryside northwest of Charlottesville for the 25th annual running of the spring Foxfield Races.
About 20 students stood outside Madison Hall on University Avenue yesterday afternoon to protest against the University's potential ownership of the large binocular telescope, or the LBT project, on Mount Graham, Ariz.
With the nation's capital only a two-hour drive away and a University founded by a former president, many students find themselves drawn to governmental jobs after graduation. To encourage students to consider federal jobs when they graduate, 351 university and college presidents launched a new program Monday entitled "A Call to Serve: Leaders in Education Allied for Public Service." The program is designed to attract more skilled, young people to government positions. At a time when 53 percent of the federal workforce will qualify for retirement within the next two years and 71 percent of the government's senior managers will be eligible to retire within the next four years, there seems to be a demand for this kind of program. While the University has not officially signed on to the program, Ladd Flock, director of University Career Services, said that the University has numerous resources available to help students find government jobs. "We've gotten lots of resource information" on government jobs, said Ellen Tucker, career resource manager at University Career Services. Flock pointed out that government jobs are available even to people with no political background. "You don't have to be a political science, government or foreign affairs major," Flock said.
With the approach of summer, the great outdoors transformsinto a playground for the physically active among us. But for those failing to exercise caution, there is one summertime phenomenon that can spoil the fun in a flash - lightning, of course. Lightning begins with storm clouds, which acquire an electrical charge in ways still unclear to scientists. The important thing is that the top of the cloud is positively charged while the bottom is negatively charged, creating a strong electrical field that repels electrons at the earth's surface deeper into the ground. As the electrons are pushed further and further away, the Earth's surface acquires a strong positive charge. Because of the strong electric field in the cloud, the air around it "breaks down," or separates into positive ions and electrons. The breakdown increases the distance between the electrons and ions, giving the electrons more freedom to move.
Special Collections receives Cabell papers The University Library has gained the papers of former Board of Visitors member and rector of the University, Joseph Carrington Cabell. "The Cabell papers form one of the most comprehensive looks at education, politics, economics, and social and family life in 19th-century Virginia and the United States," said Michael Plunkett, director of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, in a press release. The papers include diaries, letters and financial and legal papers.
