Charlottesville City Council took an official position on the University's North Grounds Connector project at its meeting last Monday, supporting the plan under the condition that the University address Council's traffic concerns. The North Grounds Connector will link the 250 bypass with Massie Road, which runs past University Hall and continues to the Law and Darden Schools. At the Nov.
The mid-year tuition surcharge that the Board of Visitors approved at their October meeting will be set at $385 for all students, University President John T.
Partying University students might want to think twice about driving in Charlottesville while intoxicated. The Charlottesville Police department soon could step up their patrols for drunk drivers in the city through a $13,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. City Council will vote tonight on appropriating the funds to the police department given to the city as part of a traffic safety grant from the DMV. The grant is likely to be approved with little or no discussion, Council member Rob Schilling said. "Because there's no budgetary impact and it requires no matching funds, I can't see why anyone would question it," Schilling said. The $13,000 in funds will enable officers working overtime to staff sobriety checkpoints and mobile patrols for drunk drivers.
Although some Charlottesville residents altered their daily routine in response to the sniper attacks in the Richmond and Northern Virginia areas with mixed emotions, for others yesterday was business as usual. "We're just concerned.
The Commonwealth Transportation Board launched a project Tuesday to install traffic lights at seven city intersections and synchronize the lights on Emmet Street. "This is something we've been planning and requesting for a number of years," Charlottesville Vice Mayor Meredith Richards said.
As a potential war with Iraq hangs over the nation, some University students are preparing for the possibility of being sent into combat. At a training exercise on Sunday, units in the Virginia Army National Guard's 29th Infantry Division learned they will go on active duty starting Nov.
A consortium of professors published an open letter yesterday in this paper, calling for a convening of the Assembly of Profes- sors on Monday.
In what could be a landmark case deciding the fate of affirmative action in college admissions, students who sued the University of Michigan petitioned yesterday to be heard before the U.S.
Visiting the Miller Center of Public Affairs yesterday morning, former President Jimmy Carter expressed his concerns with the current Bush administration's foreign policy. Carter was the keynote speaker at a rededication ceremony for the Miller Center, marking the opening of the newly constructed Kenneth W.
The University Democrats joined 5th District Congressional candidate Meredith Richards on the steps of the Rotunda yesterday afternoon to launch the Youth to the Booth campaign. Youth to the Booth is a nationwide effort by the Democratic National Committee to encourage young voters and college students to participate in this November
