As state police, elected officials and many other Virginians try to understand how a University of Virginia student wound up on a Charlottesville sidewalk, bloody and prone, one piece of the puzzle is conspicuously absent: Body-camera footage. The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control officerswho arrested Martese Johnson outside a bar early Wednesday were not outfitted with such cameras, even though ABC pledged more than a year earlier to put them on every agent.
The co-owner of the Charlottesville bar that Martese Johnson tried to enter before his bloody arrest said that the University of Virginia student was "cordial and respectful" and did not appear to be drunk.
Colleges and universities nationwide are using education, enforcement and the campus environment to fight the intertwined problems of alcohol and sexual assault. At the University of Virginia, a social network will connect female freshmen with older mentors. Brown University hopes to make it easier for women to report sexual assault.
The second allegation of excessive force against a University of Virginia student in two years has bloodied the reputation of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and renewed concerns about how it uses its police power to enforce drinking laws that date to the end of Prohibition.
Students from seven universities worked Saturday and Sunday to find ways to help people who help older people. The students participated in the “Caring for the Caregiver Hack,” in which they developed high-tech tools aimed at improving the health of caregivers. Competing in the weekend hack were six students each from GMU, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison University, the College of William and Mary, and Lynchburg College.
Two weeks ago, the Albuquerque Public Schools board voted not to participate in a University of Virginia school turnaround program. Last week, however, three APS school board members and four administrators flew to Virginia to attend training seminars for the UVA School Turnaround Program – a signal there still might be interest in it.
Two years ago, Virginia ABC agents in street clothes channeled their inner Eliot Ness and treated a water-carrying University of Virginia student and two sorority sisters like Prohibition-era bootleggers.Last week, uniformed agents of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control held a UVa student face down and bloody on brick pavement, with a knee in his back, as he asked, “How did this happen?”
The University of Virginia Licensing and Ventures Group has agreed to lease 9,640 square feet of office space in the historic Preston Avenue building, joining a beer hall/restaurant and a bicycle shop in moving into the 76-year-old, 38,000-square-foot building.
Last week on the Corner, a University of Virginia student was injured in a takedown by uniformed agents from Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control agency.
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...