The University in collaboration with communications service provider Vonage announced the winners of the Vonage-OpenGrounds “Future of Social Messaging Concept Competition” Friday.
Academical Village Chimney Project workers earlier this month put the finishing touches on Lawn fireplaces, allowing Lawn residents to again use the hearths for warmth.
Democrats dominate the greater Charlottesville area, according to Jefferson Area Community Survey polling conducted throughout October. The survey of registered voters conducted by the University Center for Survey Research found President Barack Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine held sizeable leads against former Gov.
The issue of voter fraud resurfaced last week when Rockingham County resident Colin Small was arrested for attempting to dispose of completed voter registration forms. Small, a voter registration supervisor, worked for an independent private organization that the Republican Party of Virginia contracted to conduct voter registration. “The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office… made an arrest in the investigation of voter registration fraud that began on the afternoon of Oct.
The inevitable approach of the presidential election has partisans scrambling to garner the votes necessary to win, and pundits say the Latino vote could prove decisive on Election Day. When Max Sevilla, director of policy and legislative affairs for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), spoke to University students Friday, he was confident that the Latino vote would be a major, if not pivotal, factor in the presidential election in November. “In the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections the Latino vote played a major role, especially in states such as Florida,” he said.
The University will lose its first and only Vice Provost for the Arts in January. Elizabeth Hutton Turner announced last week she will step down from her position as vice provost at the end of her five-year term.
Emory University last week became the nation’s first top-ranked institution to announce significant program cuts in an increasingly unstable environment of higher education.
