Nicole Bailey, a third-year student at the University of Virginia and editor-in-chief of The Virginia Advocate, was a guest yesterday discussing the election from the point of view of college campuses.
Seen on Facebook earlier last week: "Without Bruce, the Dalai Lama or Obama coming to Cville today, life feels a bit dull here in town. At least The Virginia Film Festival is just a week away..." C'ville, or Charlottesville, has had a lot going on lately.
“If the DNA is not matching up, this is probably a fairly law-abiding person,” said Dr. Janet I. Warren, professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia. “He likely has a job and is going about his business.”
Take a look, for example, at some research conducted by a New York based economist, Thomas Philippon, partly in association with Ariell Reshef of the University of Virginia. They chart the fluctuations of American finance since 1880 and show, firstly, how dramatically finance swelled from the late 1970s to today.
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato said lawmakers who go to bat for other candidates, especially the party standard-bearers, are looking for benefits down the road.
"North Dakota looked like a sure pickup too, and now that is in question," says Kyle Kondik, an expert on congressional races at the University of Virginia.
The fourth annual Will Barrow Memorial Flag Football Tournament will be held Saturday at Virginia's historic Lambeth Field with proceeds going to the UVa HELP Line, a nonprofit, student-run crisis hotline. Established in memory of Barrow, a former Cavaliers defensive midfielder who was found dead of an apparent suicide in November 2008, the UVa HELP Line is an anonymous, confidential telephone service for residents of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia. It is affiliated with the university's Madison House.
The state's results were reflective of Obama's victory as a whole. Of the 50 states, it was the closest to his national average of 52.9 percent of the vote. "It is somewhat of a barometer of what's happening in the country," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia
Thomas Hafemeister, a University of Virginia law professor who researches bioethics and the law, said the issue isn’t crystal clear, that anything having to do with reproduction produces its own parallel questions.
As the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy continues to disrupt the families who are struggling to recover, several colleges and universities -- including U.Va. -- have announced that they will extend their deadline for early admission applications.
Green enterprises are constantly challenging the conventional wisdom that environmental regulation impedes profitability, but a group of innovators are now turning the challenge into a game. The Global Water Games, a collaborative initiative of the University of Virginia and Azure Worldwide, co-founded by Philippe Cousteau and UVA alumnus Andrew Snowhite, has developed a computer-based simulation to demonstrate the interrelation of human activity and natural processes.
Jerry Stenger, director of the climatology office at the University of Virginia, said the central Shenandoah Valley “was not as hard hit as it could have been had the storm changed track, turned inland sooner and gone directly west.”
“None of them had touched a stick until a few weeks ago,” said Wyatt Melzer, a coach who graduated from the University of Virginia in May after playing on a national championship team.
The Choice has invited Greg W. Roberts, the dean of admission at the University of Virginia, to answer your questions about applying early in the blog’s Guidance Office, a forum for college applicants and their families seeking expert advice.
Though it’s still too early to predict how things will shake out, the race could be impacted by several storm-related factors, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
But the biggest speculation right now is whether Congress will exercise its power to set an alternate date for the election. The answer is "not likely." "I think that's pretty difficult to expect," said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "It could happen, but basically every state in the country would have to agree to go along with it, which might be difficult to pull off. That's the question were going to have to address in the next couple days."
“It’s completely out of the control,” said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. He said the spending in Ohio and other Senate races is overkill, with the campaigns so flush that their spending on ads and other items have reached the point of diminishing returns.
Geoffrey Skelley, an analyst at University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Obama’s lead in Minnesota is probably safe (the Center's Crystal Ball rates Minnesota “likely Obama,” with no change on Monday), and even if Romney manages to win it, Minnesota’s electoral votes probably wouldn’t be the deciding ones.
There is also a major expansion under way at the University of Virginia Health System, where in June construction began on the $141 million, seven-story Battle Building at U.Va.’s Children’s Hospital.
Thanks to Will Nelligan for alerting me to this: Kent Germany of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center has produced an online exhibit giving – thanks to Lyndon Johnson’s proclivity for taping his telephone conversations – a fascinating view into LBJ’s response to Hurricane Betsy, a Category 4 storm which made landfall in New Orleans in September 1965.