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Asian, Mideast majors to merge

By Christine Buurma | September 18, 2000

Administrators may finally carry out a plan to combine the Middle East Studies and Asian Studies majors and expand the division of Asian and Middle East Languages and Culture into a full department, nine years after drafting the first proposal. Division chairman Robert Hueckstedt met last week with Dean of Graduate Affairs Richard Handler and Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Stephen Plog to finalize the plan. Hueckstedt will present the proposal to the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum, chaired by Mathematics professor Donald Ramirez.

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Nader urges voters to back third party

By Brandon K. Johnson | September 18, 2000

Moments before Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took center stage last night, Dave Norris, associate director of Madison House, challenged students to vote according to their consciences in the November election. The Democratic and Republican parties, Norris said, "have already decided what the questions are and don't want Ralph Nader to answer them." When the lawyer-turned-author finally appeared before a packed audience in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium, Nader addressed the need for universal health care coverage, a solution to child poverty, reformation of the education system, increased attention to budget concerns and an end to what he called a "two-party duopoly" in American politics. Nader first criticized the American education system for placing what he feels is too great an emphasis on measurements like grades and standardized test scores. "The most important evaluation of human intelligence cannot be measured by standardized tests," he said.

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Hopkins to grace Film Festival

By Oliver Longwell | September 15, 2000

It sounds like the plot of the next installment in the "Silence of the Lambs" series: Cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter comes to Charlottesville to visit the alma mater of his "Silence of the Lambs" cohort, FBI agent and ingenue Clarice Starling. It's not happening on the big screen; it's happening right here on Grounds.

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GoCo Food Mart shooting suspect surrenders to police

By John McArdle | September 15, 2000

Charlottesville resident Dominic Morris, accused of shooting an Albemarle County man Sunday morning, turned himself in to city police Tuesday after a two-day hideout in a motel just south of Richmond. Police charged Morris with malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in a threatening manner after a Sunday morning confrontation with Albemarle County resident Bernard Williams.

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Proposal to eliminate choice in housing generates controversy

By Maria Tor | September 15, 2000

After a group of administrators handed down a proposal to eliminate choice between old and new dorms in the first-year housing process, some students are complaining about the lack of student involvement in the decision making. To diversify the traditional first-year housing areas - those on McCormick Road and Alderman Road - an administrative committee suggested random assignment for prospective first-year students last semester.

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Three Charlottesville youths rob employee

By Michael Loatman | September 15, 2000

Three local teenagers used toy guns to hold up a University employee in the Venable neighborhood, robbing her of $7 Wednesday night. The victim, 24, was sitting against a wall Wednesday night on the 100 block of 13th St.

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Greek houses gain access to

By Caroline Morris | September 14, 2000

In an effort to improve the Greek system, administrators from the University and Information Technology and Communication are working with both the Inter-Fraternity and Inter-Sorority Councils to provide Greek houses with an ethernet service for about one-third of the cost.

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Civil rights leaders recount experiences

By Sarah Marchetti | September 14, 2000

In an overflowing auditorium at the Law School last night, Henry Marsh, a civil rights activist, spoke about his experiences as a lawyer and political leader in the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Julian Bond, NAACP chairman and University history lecturer, and Michael Klarman, a Law School professor, sat on the panel interviewing Marsh. The discussions focused on the Supreme Court decision in Brown v.

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University tops Peace Corps list

By Shelley Johnson | September 14, 2000

University students are finding it increasingly difficult to turn down the "toughest job you'll ever love" -- serving in the Peace Corps. The University boasts a number-one ranking among the top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the Mid-Atlantic region. Sixty-nine University graduates now are serving in the Peace Corps. Regional rankings are calculated every September; national rankings will appear in January.

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Funding for undergraduate research increases

By Heather Klurfeld | September 13, 2000

Outstanding students looking for some money to do original research will be in luck this year, since the Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards will increase in both the number of recipients and the amount of money awarded this year. The number of recipients will grow from 25 to 40, said Faculty Senate Scholarship Chairman Bill Kehoe.

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Bionic Ben Hallen

By Sarah Marchetti | September 13, 2000

Engineering is in Ben Hallen's blood. "Everyone in my family for two or three generations has been an engineer," said Hallen, who was appointed Student Council's first chief technology advisor last night. Hallen said becoming an engineer was a natural choice for him and his younger brother Ed, who is a first year and a Rodman scholar like his older brother. Coming to the University was also a natural choice for Hallen, who moved to Europe when he was 12 because his father, a chemical engineer, was transferred to Switzerland.

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Survey finds dissatisfaction on race issues

By Christine Buurma | September 13, 2000

The first-ever survey of student attitudes toward race relations at the University has found that black students are twice as likely as white students to perceive racial inequality in student life at the University. The State of Race Relations, a multicultural University student group founded in November 1999, conducted the survey with the assistance of Government Prof.

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Online retailers join book market

By Emily Rockwood | September 13, 2000

Book shopping can be a confusing ordeal. Just ask Heidi Burns. The French books she bought from an online retailer were "a pain in the butt to send back," after she changed her mind about the class, she said. And the University Bookstore would not let Burns return the "really big bio book" she bought there because she had opened the CD that went along with it. Only the Corner's Student Bookstore would buy Burns' book early in the semester for a used book price.

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Chapters push for alcohol-free frats

By Maria Tor | September 13, 2000

"The 'Animal House' image of the 1970s is no longer tolerated. People are fed up." So reads the general risk management policy of some national fraternities that are pressuring University chapters to completely eliminate alcohol from their houses. At least six University fraternities' national headquarters are pushing for "dry" chapters, which means there can never be alcohol in the fraternity house -- no alcohol at parties, mixers or bedroom mini fridges.

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