Undergraduates’ typical culminating class products—hastily scribbled exams, papers slapped together with a lot of caffeine and little sleep—are destined for the dustbin. But the nine seniors in Betsy Roettger’s community design studio put together plans that will help a nonprofit build housing for Charlottesville’s homeless. Single Resident Occupancy housing (SRO) is the next step up […]
Undergraduates’ typical culminating class products—hastily scribbled exams, papers slapped together with a lot of caffeine and little sleep—are destined for the dustbin. But the nine seniors in Betsy Roettger’s community design studio put together plans that will help a nonprofit build housing for Charlottesville’s homeless. Single Resident Occupancy housing (SRO) is the next step up […]
As students cram for their final exams and pack their bags, townies wait with baited breath until they are gone. With such things to look forward to as free flowing traffic on University Townies can reclaim the western half of the city this week. Avenue, easy parking on the Corner, and a jaunt along the […]
Chad Mizelle Age: 19 Year: Freshman Hometown: Newport News Major: Undeclared What’s in your backpack? Laptop, iPod, empty Mountain Dew bottle, notebook, pens, pencils, Kashi TLC Chewy Granola Bar, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.
At a neighborhood meeting and open house they organized December 9, Will Yancey and his team took another step toward persuading Albemarle County to approve the Yancey Mills Business Park in Crozet. However, much of the neighborhood seemed not to notice. Previous Coverage: Heavy lifting ahead for light industrial park Will rural area boundary […]
Heading into last weekend’s 'Advance'—the annual confab held by the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) to talk shop, party hearty, and plan strategy for the coming year—current RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick knew that he might be in for a rough ride.
On a bright, chilly Monday morning two days before Election Day, Edward Thomas and I stand at the perimeter of the bamboo forest at the corner of Cherry and Ridge in Fifeville, not far from where the 35-year-old painter lives. For 10 minutes, we’ve been tracing the sidewalk, searching for a buried path into the […]
Scrooge, Tiny Tim—in some ways we know these characters better than our own family, a phenomenon that presents potential hazards and rewards for any director attempting to
According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report, public universities raised their presidents’ salaries an estimated 7.6 percent last year. UVA President John Casteen ranked third among all public university presidents with $797,048. The previous year, Casteen made $753,672. His 5.8 percent raise came in a year when in-state tuition increased by more than 8 […]
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Evans Finger Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: System engineering What’s in your backpack? Headphones, laptop, laptop charger, pencils, planner, calculator, graphing calculator, econ class ticker, various textbooks: Economics; Physics for Engineers and Scientists; Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send […]