FEB. 26, 2003, was both the day I was most ashamed to be a University student and most proud to be a member of the staff of The Cavalier Daily.
In one of many digressions in a nearly 10-page single-spaced letter that has landed former University Ph.D.
One year to the day after allegations became public that a Facilities Management employee may have improperly accepted gifts from a painting contractor, the University's investigation continues, according to officials. The allegations centered around L.T.
As the Democratic presidential campaigns kick into high gear in preparation for the first primaries and caucuses later this month, candidates must reach out to voters in all corners of the country, from the cornfields of Iowa to the snowfields of New Hampshire and eventually to the South. South Carolina holds its presidential primary Feb.
Students are used to having the sources they cite in their research papers scrutinized by professors and teaching assistants, but not by Uncle Sam. Yet under the Patriot Act, passed by Congress in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks as a way to fight terrorism, the federal government has the power to do just that -- a power it that has left unexercised for now. The act empowers law enforcement officers to obtain library records as a part of foreign terrorism or international intelligence investigations, without having to notify the individual whose records they obtained. "We are not exempt from those requirements," said Madelyn Wessel, special assistant to the vice president of student affairs and a liaison to the University's General Counsel. Though U.S.
This Tuesday, students will have a chance to vote on a referendum to give the First-Year Council president and the transfer student liaison a vote in Student Council next fall. Currently, new transfer students and first years do not have their own elected, voting representatives on Council, though the FYC president and the liaison both are allowed to participate in voting representative discussions.
The number of blacks attending the Law School has dropped substantially since the mid-1990s, despite efforts by administrators to maintain a racially diverse student body. Michael Signer, a third-year Law student and the founder of the U.Va.
If bigger is better, the University will soon be as good as it gets. Many examples of University expansion, such as the new parking garage, new basketball arena and the South Lawn Project, are well known to students. Others, such as the pending acquisition of the 180 to 200 acre Foxhaven Farm by the University's Real Estate Foundation, have gone virtually unnoticed, but nonetheless have implications for what the University and its surrounding areas will look like years down the road. Making a Deal Foxhaven Farm encompasses a wide swath of land to the West of Charlottesville that touches the Bel Air neighborhood and Birdwood golf course to the North and East, the Charlottesville Reservoir in the West and nearly to Fontaine Avenue in the South.
Any community the size of the University or of Charlottesville produces a whole lot of trash, much of which ends up in holes in the ground. University Trash Last year the University produced 12,186 tons of waste.
University students and Student Council members engaged in a free-flowing discussion of topics ranging from diversity to transportation to housing last night, just as planners envisioned when developing Council's first annual Student Forum. Around 100 students, including at least 30 members of Council, attended the forum in Old Cabell Hall, which was named I-N-vision. The event, which was moderated by Council Chief of Staff Noah Sullivan, included multiple 10-minute blocks of time for students to tell Council members their views on first-year life, student groups, diversity, housing, transportation, academics and other concerns. Last night's event did not feature any major confrontations over the diversity initiative that members of the University administration are developing.
