“Up until very, very recently, there was no crime. [People assume that] if the woman is drunk ... she's consenting, she wasn't raped. That's not victim blaming — that's saying you weren't even a victim,” said Anne Coughlin, law professor at the University of Virginia.
Ken Elzinga, economics professor at the University of Virginia, a.k.a. Marshall Jevons, has his book, “The Mystery of the Invisible Hand,” reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
Mark Edmundson opens “Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game,’’ with a sentence I could have written: “I grew up watching football with my father.” I too began watching games on television with my dad at age 6, and I too rooted for the New York Giants and remain an avid fan. Edmundson, a University of Virginia English professor and author of numerous books, including the recent “Why Teach?’' (an impassioned and beautifully reasoned defense of liberal-arts education), vividly conveys the sacredness of the Sunday afternoon “football-wat...
Alabama native Kathryn C. Thornton helped set an aerospace precedent for women when she launched with the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on Nov. 22, 1989. In doing so, she became the first female crew member aboard Discovery.
On 7 November 1989, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was elected the 66th governor of Virginia. He differed from the previous sixty-five Virginian governors and every other governor ever elected in any US state: he was black. While Wilder could not have won without the resolute support of African Americans, two-thirds of his total votes were cast by whites. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia explains, ‘a vote for Wilder became a badge of honour – objective proof that they were not racist’.
At the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, spokeswoman Audrey Breen reported that, among Master of Teaching students, 5 percent of the students pursuing degrees to teach are African-American. She noted that 3 percent are Hispanic, 10 percent are Asian and 81 percent are Caucasian.
“Learning styles do not exist,” says Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, US, and the author of Why Don’t Students Like School?. “Not for children with typical development and not for children who have learning difficulties.”
A student's story of being gang-raped at a 2012 fraternity party at the University of Virginia, recounted in detail in an article in Rolling Stone last week, has shaken the university and prompted renewed debate over campus culture, the fraternity system and U.Va.'s response to allegations of sexual assault.
The prosecution of an alleged two-year-old rape case at a fraternity house will be challenging. In an articlepublished by Rolling Stone magazine, the victim, a current UVA student, says she was gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012.
University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves said he knew something had to change within fraternity culture at the university, but he wasn’t aware of allegations as serious as the ones published in a Rolling Stone article Wednesday, where a young woman described being gang raped as a first-year student.
While many media reports proclaim 50 to be the new 30, it can also be said that 70 is the new 50. Today's seniors are embracing their golden years and often look as good or better than they feel. "70 is absolutely the new fifty," says Stephen S Park, MD, the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the President of The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS.org).
Eight students from the University of Virginia School of Law will take part in a multidisciplinary leadership program aimed at giving students a new approach to addressing pressing societal challenges.
Student leaders from several organizations spoke today as part of the student body's continuing reaction to allegations of a gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi.
Student leaders at the University of Virginia on Monday expressed anger and sadness at revelations about an alleged gang rape on campus — and promised to press for a change in culture.
Rape allegations, published late last week in a Rolling Stone article by writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely, have ignited protests on the campus, shocked alumni, spurred a gubernatorial call for an investigation and sent the school administration’s spiraling into crisis. This past weekend, university president Teresa A. Sullivan asked the Charlottesville police to investigate the allegations.
The University of Virginia's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was targeted for vandalism overnight Thursday following a Rolling Stone article's revelation an alleged gang rape took place at the house two years earlier.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) expressed deep concern Thursday about sexual assault allegations at the University of Virginia contained in a newly published Rolling Stone article.
Raw from Rolling Stone’s unveiling of an alleged gang rape two years ago at one of the University of Virginia’s oldest and most prominent fraternity chapters, hundreds of students, professors and alumni of the rallied Thursday at the McIntire Amphitheatre.
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia has voluntarily surrendered its Fraternal Organization Agreement with the University and suspended all chapter activities as an investigation into rape allegations unfolds.