At a meeting Monday, Charlottesville City Council adopted budget guidelines to aid in City Manager Gary O'Connell's construction of a financial plan to fund City government for the next fiscal year. Facing a projected $3.2 million budget shortfall, City Council is looking at raising local car taxes next year, as it tries to lower real estate taxes.
Hit hard by Florida hurricanes and puréed by floods in California, tomatoes have faced some challenging months recently.
University students, administrators, and health professionals gathered at an inaugural speak-out vigil last night in order to recognize and bring greater awareness to eating disorders. "Perfect Illusions" co-creators fourth-year College student Anne Fishwick and third-year College student Whitney Snyders, interns at the newly formed University committee U.Va.
Yesterday kicked off the University's celebration of International Education Week, a series of events coordinated through the Lorna Sundberg International Center and intended to recognize and celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange. "I hope that this week will serve as a jumping off point to develop interest in the rest of the world, as well as a personal understanding to treasure it," Center Director Suzanne Louis said. The week is part of a national effort by the U.S.
Aconversation with fourth-year Graduate Arts and Sciences student Jane Mendle will lend more than just a glimpse into the world of psychology.
Students and community activists assembled in Clark Hall Saturday to learn about the health, safety and environmental risks of nuclear power and to gather support for a safe, clean energy future in Virginia. Titled "Virginia at the Crossroads -- Which Energy Future?" the conference was organized around Dominion Power's proposal to build two new nuclear reactors at North Anna, a nuclear facility near Charlottesville. This would be one of the first reactors built in the United States since the meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979. Elena Day, a conference organizer from People's Alliance for Clean Energy, said she wanted young people to start thinking about alternatives to our future energy needs.
ITC officials began an online survey last Friday in an effort to gauge student support for a subscription download music and video service at the University. ITC will operate the online survey until Oct.
