The University of Virginia recently acquired a collection of 19th-century American and English books in jackets, amassed by bookseller Tom Congalton of Between the Covers. In a post announcing that acquisition, curator David Whitesell wrote, "Relatively few 19th-century jackets survive in institutional collections, and fewer still are available on the market."
The University of Virginia has confirmed one case of mumps at the Elson Student Health Center and is testing four suspected cases. The university doesn’t have confirmation that the diseases is circulating, said Christopher P. Holstege, executive director of the Department of Student Health, in an email to students Friday night.
Virginia's population is growing, but at a noticeably reduced rate, according to a report by University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center. But Staunton, Augusta County and Waynesboro have increased in population, according to the study.
The infamous column capitals atop the Rotunda at the University of Virginia are finally coming down. They have been covered in black sheets to protect from falling bricks, and now they’re ready to be replaced. They removed the last two on the south wall on Friday, Jan. 30. These capitals had been installed and completed back in 1902 and after a hundred years they really started to crumble. The new capitals are ready to be installed Feb. 9.
The General Assembly is working on bills that could compel college officials to report sexual assaults to law enforcement, but experts and university administrators are both concerned about the problems some proposals could raise. University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan said she’s also concerned about any potential clashes between a state law and federal student privacy law.
Amid the echoes of fall's tumult, Teresa A. Sullivan is seeking more time at the top. Contract talks for the first woman to lead the University of Virginia were expected to begin last month under an extension signed following the ultimately failed bid to oust Sullivan in 2012. A meeting to launch the discussions has not been scheduled.
For mothers, social scientists say, the benefits of paid leave go well beyond the fact that newborns need round-the-clock care and mothers need time to recover from childbirth. In California, for example, the paid leave law doubled typical maternity leaves to six to seven weeks, according to a study by three researchers, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher J. Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel. The increases were striking for unmarried and nonwhite women and those without a college degree, who have been less likely to work at companies with paid leave. Leave-taking among high school graduates rose ...
Since the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration started in 2013, the budget deficit has gotten smaller. But it’s still hundreds of billions of dollars. Sequestration just nibbled at it. At the Pentagon, sequestration forced cuts in training. It meant deferred maintenance, and it limited pay increases. Jim Savage, who teaches politics and public policy at the University of Virginia, doesn’t think much of sequestration.“When you rely upon across-the-board measures, it’s usually the sign of weak management," he says. "It’s also anot...
Married couples can apparently test whether or not they are still in love by asking each other two simple things. University of Virginia economists Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern analysed data from a relationship survey of 4,242 couples that was originally conducted in the 1980s. The original researchers asked couples two questions: How happy are you in your marriage relative to how happy you would be if you weren't in the marriage? and how do you think your spouse answered that question? Participants were asked to grade their answer on a scale of 'much worse' to 'much b...
Martha A. Derthick, a political scientist whose trenchant analyses of typically impenetrable subjects like Social Security, federalism, deregulation and tobacco litigation were praised as “masterful” and “definitive,” died on Jan. 12 at a hospital in Charlottesville, Va. She was 81.
(By Jack Hamilton, assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia) For all our talk of balls lately, one of the weirdest aspects of football is how few people who play the sport have anything to do with them. The vast majority of people on a football field are not supposed to touch the ball; in fact, there are people who play the sport for a living who, if all goes according to someone’s plan, will never lay hands on a football for their entire career. A hugely significant amount of football, the sport, occurs in almost total abstraction to f...
(By Mark Edmundson, who teaches at the University of Virginia and is the author of Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game) What do we talk about when we talk about football? It’s worth asking the question now because, in the past few weeks, there has been more public talk about the game than at almost any time one can remember. We have the deflated balls that (maybe) brought the New England Patriots a significant advantage in a critical play-off game. We have the shrugging Coach Belichick, cowled like a monk in his hoody, saying he did nothing, nothing, nothing wrong. (...
Work is progressing on the University of Virginia’s Rotunda, with workers removing the old, weathered column capitals. Capitals are the uppermost, load-bearing portion of a column. Their replacements were carved in Italy from Carrara marble, famous for its blue-gray hue. They will be installed in February.
Two legislators from Northern Virginia are teaming up to eliminate wording in a state law that exempts the working papers and correspondence of public university presidents from public disclosure. Republican Del. David I. Ramadan, of Loudoun County, and Democratic Sen. J. Chapman Petersen, of Fairfax, have filed bills that would delete the exemption from Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act. The issue came to the fore this fall in the wake of Rolling Stone’s now discredited story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia when university President Teresa A. Sullivan invoked t...
Erin Dyer, a sorority sister and a junior at the University of Virginia, wrote this (very lightly edited) piece after she was told that she and other sorority members on campus would not be allowed to attend fraternity parties on Saturday night. It reminded her of the lyrics to a Beyoncé song: If I were A Boy. Because I am a woman and a member of the Greek system at the University of Virginia, I am not allowed to enter into a fraternity house for a celebration of any sort on January 31st, also known as “Boys’ Bid Night”. If I were a boy, I would have the privilege o...
Presidential approval ratings were found to correlate with lower gas prices, although the two “are not perfect reflections of each other,” according to a 2011 examination by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. The center found the correlation to be true for presidents Jimmy Carter, Obama and George W. Bush. Gas prices leveled somewhat this week, stopping a record four-month daily decline.
On Jan. 29, 1845, a haunting ode about a bird that drives a poet to madness made its debut in the New York Evening Mirror.The poem, of course, was "The Raven," written by former Richmonder Edgar Allen Poe. The poem, with its refrain of "Nevermore," went on to become an American classic.
Two industry powerhouses – America Online Co-Founder Steve Case and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – made a splash recently when they led a report,“Can Startups Save the American Dream?”I very much like this report from the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the ideas in it. However, they missed a significant piece of the answer. While the report focuses on how entrepreneurs can kick-start the economy, it overlooks what we need to do to support the angel investors who fuel the entrepreneurs creating our country’s jobs and innovati...
(Commentary by Kyle Kondik, a Political Analyst at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia) Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, elected to a third term earlier this month, often notes that the presidential cycle is harder for his party than midterms because the electorate is more diverse and Democratic. “For us to win a presidential election, we have to be just about perfect, and the Democrats have to be good,” he told Kyle Cheney of Politico.
Proponents of same-sex marriage contend that most of the state bills are almost certainly unconstitutional. And even in conservative-dominated statehouses, the chances of passage are unclear, given disagreements within the Republican Party on whether same-sex marriage should be a priority issue. Some experts say they could face sharp rebukes from judges who have ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.“I think they’ll be angry,” said Risa L. Goluboff, a law professor at the University of Virginia who studies American legal history. “I think they’ll see this ...