UVA’s School of Architecture has lost two key senior faculty and a dean this year. This might sound like a precipitous situation, but members of the faculty regard the loss as a recurring cycle. “It is normal for a school to have a turnover in faculty,” says Associate Professor William Sherman. “Especially a school […]
UVA’s School of Architecture has lost two key senior faculty and a dean this year. This might sound like a precipitous situation, but members of the faculty regard the loss as a recurring cycle. “It is normal for a school to have a turnover in faculty,” says Associate Professor William Sherman. “Especially a school […]
The UVA football team, which last year set an NCAA record by winning five games by 2 or fewer points, suffered a heartbreaking run-in with the law of averages on November 1, losing at home in overtime to Miami, 24-17. “Well, we’ve been on the other end of that deal before,” said Head Coach Al […]
With 500 buildings and more than 40,000 students and employees, UVA is a big consumer of water and energy. But, as Director of Energy and Utilities Cheryl Gomez explained when the University met with members of various city neighborhood associations, members of City Council and of the city’s Planning Commission at its annual Neighborhood Advisory […]
Erin Conroy Age: 21 Hometown: Purcellville, Virginia Year: Senior Major: Anthropology Erin Conroy What’s in your backpack? Laptop, cable charger, wallet, gum, iPod, cell phone, lip balm, sunblock, gum, ziplock bag of baby carrots, Anthropology folder, Anthropology binder, History of Anthropology course guide and planner, Tylenol, pencil case with pencils, pens and tampon. C-VILLE welcomes […]
Downtown businesses have been anxious about the long winter ahead: Starting January 2, the City of Charlottesville will commence rebricking the entire Downtown Mall, a construction project sure to deter many would-be shoppers. But restaurants with café space got cause to grow even more concerned when they received a letter October 30 from Charlottesville’s zoning […]
Dear Ace: Based on trends from the past few years, what’s the projection for leaf peepers this year? I think it’s going down.—Ray King-Leeves Ray: Last week, with cold weather quickly approaching, Ace busted out his fall wardrobe and carefully packed away (read: threw stuff in a box) his spring/summer accoutrement. Mother Atkins bought him […]
For several years, I’ve known Tamra Harrison Kirschnick as a painter of tangled plant life. The pieces of hers I’ve seen in the past have been large, single canvases, so it was a pleasant shock to enter her current solo show and find that it consists of arrangements of smaller paintings. In each of the […]
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Months after a First Amendment controversy threatened the association, Thomas Jefferson now keeps the company of Edmund Burke. UVA’s branch of The Burke Society, a student group dedicated to understanding the theory of the late British political theorist, had their first major event on campus on October 15. The conservative student group hosted flame-thrower David […]