Supreme court will consider race policies in public schools
Last week the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments in a set of cases regarding racially conscious admissions policies in public elementary and secondary schools.
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Supreme court will consider race policies in public schools
Local impact could be minor—at first
Last week the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments in a set of cases regarding racially conscious admissions policies in public elementary and secondary schools.
grad student funding not up to snuff
If UVA really wants to be a top-notch school, it needs to show grad students the money. At least according to a policy presentation to the Board of Visitors on Friday, June 9, detailing the path of an outstanding research university. The message? Top schools attract top graduate students by paying them top stipends.
hospitality house needs more space
“They\’re not here to see Monticello,” Kay Ward says of Hospitality House guests. Trauma, sickness and ongoing medical treatment in family members, not history, bring visitors to the UVA Medical Center facility. Demand has become so steep, in fact, that the hospital is soliciting proposals for approximately 9,800 square feet of rentable space to expand the affordable accommodations Hospitality House provides patients\’ family members. Increasingly, outpatients use Hospitality House, as well.
Heritage Rep theatre announces season
While other facilities on Grounds sit half-empty during the summer, the busy bees at Heritage Repertory Theatre (HRT) keep UVA\’s Culbreth building buzzing for six weeks of rotating shows.
What’s In Your Backpack?
What’s in your backpack? I.D., wallet, iPod, Amos Oz’s Tale of Love & Darkness
Bagged down
Dear Barry: First off, Ace reminds you that you can always reuse your bags. Shoppers who use their own bags at Whole Foods get a nickel back for each bag they carry (though they are warned not to abuse the systemâso no showing up with 200 bags shoved down your shorts). At Rebecca’s Natural Foods, one worker told Ace that she “always appreciates it” when customers use their own bags.
Mary A. Sullivan is opinionated
Mary A. Sullivan, M.Ed., is a Charlottesville/ Albemarle Teen Pregnancy and STD Preven-tion Coordinator.
The river wild
Dear M. Pure: Well, if there’s one thing Ace appreciates as he gets on in years, it’s fishing, swimming and canoeing⦠and drifting lazily downstream in a raft, drinking beer and ogling women in bathing suits, of course. Fortunately for Ace, the Rivanna River allows him do all of these things. But is it safe?
A simple solution for obesity:
I was walking through the hospital the other day and noticed how many people were using the elevator instead of the stairs.
Al Gore heats up
As the presidential seal filled the screen on the May 13 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” viewers might have expected to see one of the show’s regular impersonators-in-chief. But the fake president who opened the show turned out to be an erstwhile contender: former Vice President Al Gore.