Virginia Tech is optimistic Gov. Ralph Northam will take executive action in the coming weeks and allow students in the state to capitalize on their name, image and likeness. UVA athletic director Carla Williams, who is part of the NCAA federal and state legislation working group, composed a letter asking Northam to step in. Virginia Tech President Tim Sands and Athletic Director Mike Babcock are among the signatories on the letter.
But the coronavirus pandemic will be more complicated to mark than a trauma in which the enemies and the losses are more clear-cut, said Jeffrey Olick, a UVA sociology and history professor. An event like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 is different from an ongoing collective trauma like poverty, he said, adding, “COVID is something in between.”
(Book review) There are many, many biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, the most exhaustive being Arthur Hobson Quinn’s, first published in 1941, the most concise Peter Ackroyd’s 2009 “Poe: A Life Cut Short.” Nearly all of them, however, are written by literary scholars, poets or novelists. By contrast, John Tresch’s “The Reason for the Darkness of the Night” situates our nation’s most influential writer, as I would claim Poe to be, against the backdrop of what its subtitle calls “the forging of American science.”
Katie Tracy Kishore was an accomplished multisport athlete at James River High School and the University of Virginia. But as a female in the 1990s, she was under no illusion that basketball and/or soccer would ever pay the bills. “Sports was fun,” she says, “don’t get me wrong, and I loved it, and I worked way too hard at it, for sure. But I knew I needed a solid plan.”
"The speaker is describing love as a prison. And imprisonment is really the perfect metaphor to describe being subjugated by love," said Deborah Parker, professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. Her book “Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing” explores how this sense of entrapment gets expressed in the poetry.
On March 1, the state of Virginia decriminalized jaywalking and reclassified it as a secondary offense — meaning people won’t be ticketed unless they’re violating another law. The change also reduces unnecessary interaction with the police. “As long as jaywalking was a primary offense, it was going to be a big source of harassment,” Peter Norton, associate professor of history in the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering and Society, told NBC 12.
On March 1, the state of Virginia decriminalized jaywalking and reclassified it as a secondary offense — meaning people won’t be ticketed unless they’re violating another law. The change also reduces unnecessary interaction with the police. “As long as jaywalking was a primary offense, it was going to be a big source of harassment,” Peter Norton, associate professor of history in the University of Virginia’s Department of Engineering and Society, told NBC 12.
Some schools have faced complaints from graduates or administrators unwilling to let go of beloved founding myths. Kirt von Daacke, a history professor and assistant dean at the University of Virginia, which founded the growing international consortium Universities Studying Slavery, said that the inquiry underway is vitally important, as it is at other institutions, but this academic questioning of the Hopkins evidence is unusual. “I’ve never seen a case,” he said, “where there’s a group of scholars arguing with the findings.”
Jim Wyckoff, a professor of education and public policy at the University of Virginia, said that when school districts decide on which teachers to award tenure to, they are looking for employees who are effective and do a good job with educating students. “Teachers get a lot better over the first five years of their career. ... [School systems are] having to make the decisions about tenure during that improvement,” said Wyckoff, noting that some teachers do have excellent years earlier in their career.
What your shopping addiction really means – from ‘diva’ shoe obsessions to ‘insecure’ make-up lovers
Some parents might overbuy clothing to make up for feeling deprived as youngsters. Allison Pugh, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, says: “Parents don’t like to think about their kids being left out, especially if they are already feeling ‘less than’ in any way. That can really motivate their spending.”
In a court filing, prosecutors are asking why a 46-page questionnaire Holmes wants to use to vet jurors for her trial in three months doesn’t include a single question related to the mental-health defense her legal team was exploring last year. This line of defense hasn’t been discussed in public filings or hearings for almost nine months -- until now. Anne Coughlin, a professor of criminal law at University of Virginia, said it may signal that Holmes has abandoned the mental-health defense, which Coughlin and other legal experts have said would be a tough sell to jurors.
(Commentary) Rachel Harmon, a leading scholar on policing and laws that regulate police behavior at the University of Virginia Law School, confirmed in an email that indeed, police departments are often willing to look the other way or dismiss the seriousness of the previous firings: “As for officers who have already committed misconduct, departments sometimes hire them because they do not adequately investigate, sometimes because they believe the officer deserves a second chance, and sometimes because small and poorly resourced departments have more limited options and an officer with trainin...
William Antholis, CEO of UVA’s Miller Center, said that for leaders, heading to emergency areas affected by shootings or hurricanes is “part of the job, and it's a way of showing that you care.” Migration, Antholis said, is more complicated because officials aren’t dealing only with what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexican border but also at the point of departure.
“It is beyond obvious what they are trying to do. If we have close elections in 2022 and especially 2024, the GOP and their allied far-right groups may very well achieve what they tried and failed to do in 2020 and again on Jan. 6 — steal the election on the basis of completely phony allegations of fraud,” said Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia and founding director of its Center for Politics. “This time, of course, they’ll do it ‘legally’ since they’ve written the laws,” Sabato said.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at the University of Virginia, joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss the latest efforts to get more shots into arms.
The Parish Attorney's Office for East Baton Rouge is seeking to jail a professor after he shared publicly available body camera footage showing a traffic stop where five Baton Rouge Police Department officers strip-searched a minor and then entered the family's home, with guns drawn, without a warrant or consent. Thomas Frampton, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, acquired the video, which was originally obtained and published by Reason.
(Co-written by Craig Volden, professor of public policy and politics) Members of Congress are wrestling with the 97 bipartisan recommendations put forward last year by the newly reestablished Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. Among them are proposals to increase legislative staff pay. Supporters argue that salary increases are needed to recruit and retain the best legislative aides. Yet, the public is skeptical about spending more on Congress, which they judge as not doing a very good job.
The medical director at UVA Health is reporting fewer COVID patients at the hospital, though Dr. Reid Adams cautions people are continuing to get sick. Adams says they are treating around 10 COVID patients as of Friday morning, down from a steady 15 to 20 over the last four to six weeks. However, they are still seeing patients going into intensive care, and dying in some cases.
Experts at UVA Health say the Commonwealth is on track to meet President Joe Biden's goal of 70% of the population vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 4. As of now, 67% of Virginia adults have had at least one dose.
While an analysis from The New York Times predicts Virginia could have 70% of its adult population inoculated with at least one shot within two weeks, some residents remain more at risk of contracting the virus than others even as cases statewide fall to the lowest rates since last April. The gap is due to vaccinations varying significantly among localities, UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute reported in its update Friday.