Serving the University Community Since 1890
STUDENTS at the University today were accepted due to strong academic and extracurricular credentials from high school.
GIVEN the enormous differences between the presidential candidates this year, the high stakes for the future of our generation, and the electoral importance of Virginia this year, it is no wonder there has been an uptick in students? interest in the political process.
CHARLOTTESVILLE is one of the most wonderful places to be a student, to raise a family, and to retire.
AS I BECAME quietly furious while reading Jane Mayer?s recently released book ?The Dark Side,? which chronicles our republic?s abandonment of its two-hundred-year tradition of honorable treatment of war prisoners, I pondered a speech from Shakespeare which seared itself into my imagination thanks to its white-hot anger.
AS WE APPROACH the end of another school year a large number of students at the University are planning to move out of their apartments.
VIRGINIA has a long history of denying its citizens the right to vote. Today, there are still more than 300,000 disenfranchised men and women in this state, whose entire adult population in the 2000 census was about 5.6 million.
TURNING out the youth vote could have a decisive effect on the 2008 election. More than any other group, we will suffer the consequences of the misguided policies of the last seven-and-a-half years.
THE $130 million John Paul Jones arena at the University was built with a massive donation from Paul Tudor Jones II and contributions from other donors.
THE PARKING situation at the University has always been a mess. On weekdays, the problem comes down to the fact that too many people want to drive to Grounds where there is simply not enough space to put their cars.
