PARIS -- Paris celebrated the 230th anniversary of American independence by commemorating Thomas Jefferson with a 10-foot bronze statue of the former minister to France along the Seine River. The statue of the third American president, who served as minister to France from 1785 to 1789, is the first erected in France.
The search for former University student Chyler Ebersold ended yesterday when one of the many concerned groups looking for him discovered his body shortly after 10 a.m., Charlottesville Police said.
Former University student and UTS bus driver Chyler Adam Ebersold was reported missing Saturday afternoon.
University students returning to Grounds have more to worry about than getting into classes or tough professors -- a rape and a slew of robberies occurred in Charlottesville over winter break.
At the Faculty Senate meeting Dec. 2, members discussed a new policy by which the University would stop paying health insurance premiums for graduate research assistants and begin charging the payments to the students' research grants. Roseanne Ford, associate vice president for research and graduate studies, presented the policy at the Faculty Senate meeting.
At the Charter Act Forum sponsored by the First-Year Council Executive Board last night, students expressed questions and concerns about the proposed charter initiative. Jan Cornell, president of the Staff Union at the University of Virginia, and Alex Stolar, chair of Legislative Affairs for Student Council, both spoke at the event. "We thought it'd be a good idea to show legislators what we think of the act, especially for first years because we'll be the most affected by it," said organizer Laura E.
Last year, a random sample of 917 University students participated in the National College Health Assessment, which was released last month and revealed a 4.6 percent increase over the last four years of college students who said they had received a diagnosis of depression. According to Student Health Director Jim Turner, the University students who participated in the survey were taken from the 2003 graduating class.
In the early hours of Nov. 20, a female student reported a sexual assault to University Police immediately after the incident occurred at around 6 a.m.
In the third Charlottesville homicide of the year, 20-year-old Matthew Ray Nelepa was shot and killed at around 2 a.m.
Area television viewers now have a new choice for their local news consumption thanks to WCAV, a CBS affiliate, which debuted its own Charlottesville nightly news show Nov.
