The state police and Alcoholic Beverage Control officials are investigating the arrest of Martese Johnson, which triggered campus protests and allegations of racial profiling and police brutality.Johnson “did not appear to be intoxicated in the least” and simply walked off after being turned away, the Trinity Irish Pub said in a statement released Saturday night. It called reports that bar staff were “belligerent” toward Johnson or that he was belligerent to management “patently untrue.” A Breathalyzer test showed Johnson was not intoxicated.
Some students are taking their anger and frustration with the conduct of Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control officers to lawmakers. In the wake of Wednesday morning's incident that sent one University of Virginia student home with 10 stitches after being arrested by ABC agents, another student has started an online petition that asks lawmakers to write a bill that would strip law enforcement powers from ABC officers.
Rolling Stone magazine plans to publish an external review of a widely disputed article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia “in the next couple of weeks,” its managing editor, Will Dana, said on Sunday.
Chanting "Black lives matter" and raising their fists, more than 100 African-American students walked out of a meeting with law enforcement officials here Friday as the University of Virginia community expressed growing frustration in the quest for answers about this week's violent arrest of a black student.
Student leaders at the University of Virginia hosted a public discussion on campus racial relations Friday after a black student was violently arrested by a group of white police officers this week.
For the second consecutive year, Virginia went into the NCAA tournament with a team it believed could reach the Final Four. And for the second consecutive year, Michigan State sent that team home well short of its final destination.
While Pandora’s P, +1.36% shares are down 54% over the last 12 months, partially due to weaker-than-expected fiscal 2014 sales of $906.6 million, its listening hours grew 20% to 20.03 billion hours last year. Pandora pays roughly $0.00012 per song stream to rights holders, according to estimates from University of Virginia professor David Touve. The company expects to break the $1 billion revenue mark in fiscal 2015.
As Congress debates a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, principal Nicholas Petty may well see that happen. The law, which was intended to make sure schools were educating children, particularly the neediest, ushered in an era of high-stakes testing to measure student progress. After more than a decade, the proliferation of tests, and punishments for schools that failed to improve their scores, has angered parents and teachers. It has also set off protests and boycotts of testing. Congress needs to find a way to “let 1,000 flowers bloom” and back away from a punitiv...
Today’s parents enjoyed a completely different American childhood. Recently, researchers at the University of Virginia conducted interviews with 100 parents. “Nearly all respondents remember childhoods of nearly unlimited freedom, when they could ride bicycles and wander through woods, streets, parks, unmonitored by their parents,” writes Jeffrey Dill, one of the researchers. But when it comes to their own children, the same respondents were terrified by the idea of giving them only a fraction of the freedom they once enjoyed.
The influential Drudge Report has been featuring stories about former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a potential Hillary Clinton challenger, but University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato believes it will take a lot more than Matt Drudge to improve O’Malley’s poll numbers. “Every little bit helps, I suppose,” he told CBSDC. “But it’ll take a lot more than Drudge to push O’Malley up in the polls.”
It works like a charm for Dominion. Over the past year, the Richmond-based electricity monopoly pumped about $700,000 into the campaign treasuries of state legislators. Last month, delegates and senators agreed to shield Dominion for at least five years from having to return to its customers possibly $280 million in excess profits. But what if Dominion couldn’t dispense political money, as some other monopolies in the state are banned from doing? Would the governor and General Assembly be as attentive of Dominion?A.E. Dick Howard, a constitutional expert at the University of Virginia Law...
Three states have already implemented paid leave legislation – California, New Jersey and Rhode Island. According to a survey conducted by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, 91 percent of employers surveyed in California said the program had a “positive effect” or “no noticeable effect” on profitability. A study by Professor Christopher Ruhm at University of Virginia showed that in California it was 6 percent more likely for a mother to be working one year after giving birth if she took leave.
For most people, Pluto is just another light in the sky, dimmer than our eyes can detect and blobby through even big telescopes. But when the New Horizons spacecraft enters its orbit this summer, Pluto will transform into a real place whose surface we can all finally see. According to University of Virginia anthropologist Lisa Messeri, other scientists are starting to think of planets in other solar systems – exoplanets – as real places and of themselves as explorers – and the rest of us are almost ready to accept that psychological alchemy. Perhaps finally, if they see it, t...
Chris Christie is struggling and he’s fallen as a top tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new analysis by Larry Sabato and his University of Virginia Center for Politics, which rates candidates’ strength.
Last week, Utah’s governor signed a historic bill that extends state antidiscrimination protection to LGBT people in housing and employment. The law will extend needed protection to tens of thousands of Utah’s citizens. Remarkably, this has happened in a state with a Republican legislature and a Republican governor. That development is remarkable and salutary.
Authored by Nelson Tebbe, Richard Schragger, and Micah Schwartzman.
For David Baldacci ‘86, attending the University of Virginia School of Law inspired his career—as an author.
A swarm of runners took over Davis Square once again on Sunday morning in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.The annual Ras na hEireann U.S.A. – or The Race of Ireland and the United States – drew a total of 2,591 runners, none faster than former University of Virginia track star David Wilson. The 24-year-old resident of Brookline won the race in 15:15, an average pace of 4:55 per mile.
Tony Bennett was at peace. At first inclined to accept the University of Virginia's head basketball coaching position, he had elected to remain at Washington State, a program he had steered to new heights and a school he had come to embrace. But as Bennett dialed Cavaliers athletic director Craig Littlepage, his wife, Laurel, interrupted. "Put the phone down."
(By Alec Horniman, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business) The big idea: The aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution in 1981 was pervasive and devastating. It created an absence of education and training, leaving the nation desperate for people with various abilities. Only reopened public universities and colleges provided higher education. The Education Bureau launched a new form of education called the Self Teaching Diploma Exam. People could study on their own, pass a test and earn a diploma. Thousands tried — only 6 percent passed.
On Friday morning students at the University of Virginia School of Medicine gathered with their families and friends for Match Day. During the event the UVa. School of Medicine Class of 2015 learned where they will continue their education.