When UVA’s Darden School of Business announced last year that it would offer an M.B.A. for Executives programâan opportunity for those already in the business world to earn a degree in 22 monthsâit was putting its lofty reputation on the line. In an already saturated marketplace of schools with similar programs, UVA was getting an acknowledged late start.
If you’re a UVA student, you probably had a nice nine-day vacation last week (well, unless you visited family). But for the workers at the University’s facilities operations department, when […]
Students who don’t want a month off from school can "party on" during the January term by studying the philosophy behind this "excellent adventure." Some UVA students looking for January […]
When Frederick Gray awoke beside his girlfriend in the wee hours of May 15, 1997, he was disturbed, distraught and saying things she had never heard him say before. Though […]
“How are you doing?” Rarely does a judge speak in such a convivial manner to a perpetrator, but that’s exactly what happens every Thursday morning in Charlottesville-Albemarle Drug Court, a treatment and rehabilitation program for nonviolent felons who are also addicts.
A group of local attorneys know him as Judge Paul M. Peatross inside the courtroom. But they also know him as “Mac” from the golf course, the high school basketball […]
When she was in the third grade, Debbie Wyatt heard about the firing of an old man from her neighborhood A&P store. This was more than 40 years ago, long before age discrimination laws took hold.
Virginia voters just passed an amendment to the State Constitution restricting marriage to the “union between one man and one woman” and banning civil unions. It’s a defeat for gay […]
As City Council begins considering the new budget for Fiscal Year 2008, one theme that sticks from the current budget is how to maintain existing facilities and build new ones […]
The City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County aren’t particularly well known for playing nice in the sandbox of Central Virginia (at least on some issues), but the two governments have decided that if they want working mass transit-he kind more commuters will actually use-hey should collaborate.