Whither Lebanon?
By Jason Amirhadji | July 27, 2006TRIPOLI, LEBANON, JULY 20 -- It's been just over a week since I woke up to find myself stranded in a war zone.
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TRIPOLI, LEBANON, JULY 20 -- It's been just over a week since I woke up to find myself stranded in a war zone.
It may not help with the morning walk of shame, but UTS is looking to implement weekend late-night bus service for partygoers and other night owls by the end of the semester.
A young professor meets with a first-year student to discuss an upcoming exam behind closed doors.
In what all parties involved describe as a tragedy, a University student and a local firefighter end up in an altercation after a night of heavy drinking, leaving one dead and the other in prison. One year later, a jury found former student Andrew Alston guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the Nov.
After more than four hours of deliberation yesterday, at 4:00 p.m. a jury sentenced former University student Andrew Alston to three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the Nov.
Defense attorneys presented key testimony from a martial arts instructor and a violent crimes consultant yesterday, suggesting that former University student Andrew Alston acted in self-defense on Nov.
Attorneys presented opening arguments yesterday in the murder trial of former University student Andrew Alston, following four-and-a-half hours of jury selection. Alston is charged with the second-degree murder of Charlottesville resident Walker Sisk, 22, in an early-morning altercation on Nov.
As the University continues to grow in all directions, its presence is increasingly being felt by the city. Though the University owns enough land to meet its immediate expansion needs, using such resources often requires removing existing tenants from their businesses on University property. To facilitate construction of a temporary core laboratory facility on Main Street, the University is planning to tear down a nearby Papa John's once its lease runs out by the end of the year. Similarly, to support the hospital's current expansion, in 2002 the University purchased and removed two well-known nightclubs including Trax, a two-decade old music venue where the Dave Matthews Band once regularly played. "Everything that's run-down, they're picking up," said Elizabeth Coles, a fiscal tech senior in the Medical School and executive vice president of the staff union at the University of Virginia. For those who will staff the new structures, finding affordable housing in the nearby Charlottesville can be difficult, Coles added. "What about affordable housing for employees who are going to be servicing these buildings?" she said.
Fifteen years after the University hospital first moved into its towering eight-story home just south of the Rotunda, the portion of Grounds known as the health systems precinct is once again slated for drastic change. The University's Main Hospital, built at a cost of approximately $230 million in the late 80's, is now undergoing an $87 million expansion and renovation, and more projects are on the way. In a largely procedural move last Friday, the Building and Grounds Committee of the Board of Visitors approved a revision in the University's master plan to accommodate nearly $150 million in additional construction over the next decade. "What we're trying to do is look at the footprint and have it make sense to those who use it," Board Member Mark J.
The Curry School of Education last night announced the second half of its largest donation in history, a $23 million gift from non-alumni Daniel Meyers, 41, who serves as vice-chair of the school's fundraising foundation. The donation will fund a planned addition to the Curry School near its current home in Ruffner Hall, to be named after the late Anthony D.
