Wrack up another accolade for UVA. This time, the University, which was ranked 23rd by U.S. News and World Report for its college and ninth for its law school, has been flagged as one of the “IT Schools to Watch” by Computerworld Magazine. Specifically, the Master’s of Science in Management of Information Technology is named […]
Wrack up another accolade for UVA. This time, the University, which was ranked 23rd by U.S. News and World Report for its college and ninth for its law school, has been flagged as one of the “IT Schools to Watch” by Computerworld Magazine. Specifically, the Master’s of Science in Management of Information Technology is named […]
Wondering why school buses are shuttling Hoos from Downtown to the football games this year instead of the usual Charlottesville Transit Service (CTS) buses? It’s not because the city schools are taking over the duty to raise funds or because the yellow is supposed to be a closer proxy to the Cavalier orange. Rather it’s […]
Nothing like a sportswriter to rile the student body into protest. Last week, ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly trashed the UVA athletic department for banning signs at sporting events (“This is un-American. This isn’t Havana.”) and counseled UVA students to bring blank signs to the September 6 football game against Richmond. During the second quarter of the […]
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Dear Ace: You know that large digital display on 29N near Fashion Square Mall that shows the temperature? Is that thing accurate? When was the last time the temperature was calibrated?—Urma Stat Urma: Why yes, actually. Ace knows exactly the display of which you’re speaking. In fact, he can be seen on that side of […]
Well, that was anticlimactic. After a solid year of sly winks and peek-a-boo promises from both candidates, Virginia’s prospect of having a native son co-piloting the presidential ticket went from “Yes we can” to “No you Kain’t” faster than a UVA undergrad streaking the Lawn. No Tim Kaine for Obama, no Eric Cantor for McCain, […]
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.—William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice […]
My dad started to write his first of many books about America’s loss of direction when I began my formal education.
Martha Jefferson Hospital is in the process of narrowing the list of potential partners to redevelop its 13.6-acre Downtown campus, the biggest city project in decades and one that promises to significantly alter the landscape of Charlottesville. The hospital issued a request for developer qualifications (RFQ) that came due August 29, and spokesman Steve Bowers […]
Before she could renovate her newly purchased home on Park Street, Therese Elron had to win over the city Board of Architectural Review (BAR). She weathered two meetings and dozens of questions about trim, brick patterns and the width of railing. “Are you going to paint your downspouts?” asked BAR member Bill Adams at the […]