In the afternoons, sunlight filters through the stained glass windows, painting swirls of color on the floor and walls.
On your back, on your arm, on your thigh, on your shoulder, on your foot. Tattoos can be anywhere and it might surprise you the number of University students who have ink underneath their clothes. Third-year College student Bayly Unger had a tattoo inked on her lower back last year.
While universities nationwide saw a spike in the number of freshman applicants seeking admission for the class of 2010, the University's applicant pool remained relatively stable, growing by 1.6 percent according to Admissions Dean John Blackburn. According to an article this past Monday in USA Today, some schools are recording as much as a 21 percent increase in applications, prompting admissions deans around the country to reduce the proportion of acceptances. "I can tell you the [University's] numbers are up slightly -- about 1.6 percent," for regular admissions, Blackburn said. For early decision, the number of applications received is not significantly different than last year, Blackburn added. Because of the modest increase in applications, Blackburn said he thinks getting into the University this year will be slightly more difficult. "Since we're going to be looking for the same size class, we will be slightly more selective," Blackburn said.
MY FIRST year, I intended to give up journalism. I had spent so many nights in the past two years worrying whether I had enough stories and writers at the Lee High School Lance, that I promised myself once I got to U.Va., I would try something new and different.
Thousands of religious and political leaders, family and friends packed the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga.
In 1985 when College second-year Grant Woolard was born, his hometown of Martinsville, Virginia was the "Sweatshirt Capital of the World." A town where bluegrass plays on the radio and NASCAR is the sport of choice, Martinsville had a thriving industry in furniture and textile manufacturing. Today, though, Martinsville is better known for its unemployment and economic difficulties. "It's really just a lot of warehouses that are empty," Woolard said.
Second-year College student and University football player Bryan Lescanec was arrested early Wednesday morning on charges of assault and battery, according to Charlottesville police. Yesterday afternoon, 19-year-old Lescanec, a walk-on running back, was dismissed from the team by head coach Al Groh for "conduct detrimental to the program," the Athletics department announced in a press release. According to a press release from the Charlottesville Police, Lescanec allegedly fondled a 21-year-old University student at A.J.'s Grill and Bar on Elliewood Ave.
Stanford University introduced a new policy concerning graduate students and maternity leave last week, becoming the second university in the United States to offer paid maternity leave for graduate students. The University currently does not have a uniform policy concerning maternity leave for graduate students and the University is not considering creating a policy similar to Stanford's, according to Roseanne Ford, associate vice president for research and graduate studies. Under Stanford's new policy, female graduate students are able to apply for an "academic accommodation period," which lets them remain full-time students with the opportunity to postpone assignments and exams.
I sat in a cushioned chair staring at the colored flowers which peppered the walls and furniture.
The University administration unveiled a bias incident reporting system Tuesday. The new system allows members of the University community to file complaints online, by phone or in person. The University chose to define a bias incident more broadly to encompass incidents that would not necessarily meet the threshold under existing regulations, according to the incident reporting Web site.
