... If a majority of North Carolina voters approve the measure, the state will be the last state in the U.S. to allow criminal defendants the choice.Jeffrey Welty, a professor in UNC’s School of Government, released a report on the amendment earlier this month that he co-wrote with Komal K. Patel, a law student at the University of Virginia. The report was designed as a guide to understsanding key aspects of the amendment. Welty said he hadn’t heard of the amendment until recently.
... We welcome the long-overdue effort to bring the issue of sexual assault on college campuses out of the shadows. ... We are confident that, by using the federal suggestions and developing ideas locally, Virginia can be a national leader in sexual violence prevention.
In 2013, the school approved The William and Mary Promise, which guarantees that in-state tuition will remain constant for a student’s four years of undergraduate study. W&M is the only public institution in Virginia that makes that guarantee. Chadwick is paying a total $53,000 a year for his sons, one a senior and the other a sophomore, but he says, at least it’s predictable.“That’s wonderful. I can budget for that,” Chadwick said. And, he’s quick to add, the value of education in the commonwealth is among the best in the country. U.S. News this y...
Cooney and his colleagues -- Daniel Gilbert, also of Harvard, and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia -- wanted to explore the social costs of enviable adventures. ... The results, reported in a forthcoming article in the journal Psychological Science, were clear. The volunteers correctly predicted that lucking into a special opportunity would make them feel good, better than having a more routine experience. But they failed to realize that this unusual experience would leave them feeling worse later on, after mixing with a group of peers. In short, people are not very good at predict...
Last week I wrote about a study that looked at marital quality (essentially a measure of how happy couples were a few years into their marriage) in light of couples’ premarital histories. The report, which tracked 418 young couples in the several years following their marriage, found that certain prenuptial behaviors (like having kids out of wedlock) were associated with lower marital quality. One association the authors identified was particularly unsettling: “the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be.” The...
As for parents who give their kids skim milk due to worries about weight gain, these efforts may actually backfire: A recent study by the University of Virginia School of Medicine actually found that kids who drink 1% or skim milk have higher Body Mass Indexes than those who drink 2% or whole. Researchers theorize this occurs because whole milk provides a greater sense of fullness, so kids don't get hungry and eat more later.
The University of Virginia has topped the Daily Caller's list of best colleges in America.
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, spoke at the University of Virginia on Tuesday about the increasingly strained relationship between these two countries, along with the hopes of how it can be fixed.
Kislyak spoke to a packed auditorium and took, I think, well over an hour of questions. He spoke frankly, and the questions he was asked by students, professors, and other participants were polite and for the most part far more intelligent than he would have been asked on, for example, Meet the Press.
The Russian ambassador to the United States spoke in front of a packed crowd at Newcomb Hall Tuesday night, defending his country's actions in Crimea and Ukraine.
The theory behind supporting Syria’s non-jihadist rebels has long been that an infusion of U.S. aid could strengthen and unify them. But it’s not even clear that the rebels the U.S. would empower are actually non-jihadist. Citing research by the University of Virginia’s Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Lynch argues that the moderate/jihadist dichotomy that governs much of the American discourse about opposition fighters in Syria doesn’t hold on the ground, where various armed groups have engaged in “rapidly shifting alliances.” As Abu Yusaf, an ISI...
A Virginia economist has developed a new model for gauging how many people are in need of mental health care. He is now in the process of comparing that need to the level of services available. That economist is one of our guests as we consider who is getting necessary mental health care in the Old Dominion. And who is not. Guests:Steven Stern, Ph.D. - The Merrill H. Bankard Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. Author of “Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems”
... One potential undergraduate pathway to a high-paying healthcare career is chemistry. All pre-medical programs require some chemistry courses, including organic chemistry. The University of Virginia's Department of Chemistry explains the benefits of a chemistry degree for aspiring medical students: “Many students declare a major in chemistry because there is a great deal of overlap in the chemistry degree requirements and the course requirements for medical school,” the university's mission statement says. Chemistry is also a versatile undergraduate degree, app...
The bottom line is that the economic numbers add up much better in a society where marriage and families are strong than in those where they are not. Declining birthrates, marriage rates, and increasing singlehood and childlessness are ominous signs.
And if the economic arguments aren’t enough, the emotional statistics should to be.
The National Marriage Project from the University of Virginia offers evidence that married people, with or without children, have significantly less depression than singles; and 57 percent of married women with children felt their lives had an important pur...
... But Broussard is pointing to two big issues that transcend Philadelphia's specific dysfunctions.The first is her discovery that standardized reading tests are really tests of specific knowledge, leading to her logical conclusion that we need to teach kids the material that will be tested if we want them to perform well on tests.This might be a simple insight, but it is hugely important. It is essentially what launched the work of E. D. Hirsch Jr. decades ago. "African-American students at a Richmond community college could read just as well as University of Virginia students when ...
Do you have a decisive marriage?New research shows that how thoughtfully couples make decisions can have a lasting effect on the quality of their romantic relationships. Couples who are decisive before marriage — intentionally defining their relationships, living together and planning a wedding — appear to have better marriages than couples who simply let inertia carry them through major transitions.
In politics, summer is usually a slow time. But with now 10 weeks to go until Election Day, what’s happened while most were at the beach is Democrats increasingly seeing a creeping red tide. It’s not quite at wave level, as the Crystal Ball team at the University of Virginia point out today, but before school let out, Democrats had about an even-money chance of holding onto the Senate. That’s changed.