The Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, which took effect Friday, holds institutions of higher education responsible for the prevention of sexual violence, not just responding to it after assaults occur. The response comes as a growing number of female victims are accusing their institutions of mishandling sexual assault cases. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, whose institution recently held a national conference on sexual misconduct, discusses the issue.
(Commentary by Eric Hoover, a 1997 U.Va. alumnus and a writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education) Everything was fine until someone pelted me with a frozen hamburger patty. It was Nov. 13, 2003, and I’d come to see my beloved Virginia Cavaliers play the Maryland Terrapins in College Park. Before the football game, I was tailgating with other Wahoos when a horde of Terps fans appeared, shouting expletives and throwing stuff at us. We scurried for cover, and then — wham! — something hit my shoulder.
Last month Allstate and the NABC announced their 2014 Good Works Team (which recognizes players for their commitment to community service). One of the five D-1 players selected was Virginia guard Joe Harris, who when not leading his ACC-leading Cavaliers in scoring has donated his time to helping HIV-positive kids and young burn victims. CHD’s Jon Teitel got to sit down with Joe to chat about ending his college career with a run in this month’s NCAA tourney.
(Commentary) Once marriage is required everywhere, the combination of the right to marry and an anti-discrimination law would prohibit private businesses from refusing to serve LGBTQ couples. In those states, some of the same law professors who are signatories to the Arizona letter – notably, Douglas Laycock and Robin Fretwell Wilson – have been arguing for a carve-out for businesses that want to “step aside” rather than provide services relating to a same-sex wedding. So far, they’ve had limited success. But they’ll keep trying, and it’s likely their ...
"For Blackburn's Tennessee donors, this is the kind of weekend they would enjoy and talk about with friends when they got back," said Larry Sabato, political analyst at the University of Virginia. "Many people want schmooze time with the member of Congress, and this can be quite an inducement to writing Blackburn a check at or near the suggested contribution level, plus building a personal relationship for the future.”
Agriculture and forestry are two of Virginia's largest industries with a combined economic impact of $70 billion annually, according to an analysis by the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Combined they provide more than 400,000 jobs in the state.
(Commentary) Douglas Laycock, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, recently noted that the thrust of the bill was simply to refine existing state and federal religious-freedom protections. "These laws", Mr Laycock writes, "enact a uniform standard—substantial burden and compelling interest—to be interpreted and applied to individual cases by courts. They rest on the sound premise that we should not punish people for practicing their religion unless we have a very good reason".
Where can you find big live beetles to pet, stars to explore even in the daylight and more weird, wild, freaky, fascinating things than you can imagine? At the Ruckersville Elementary PTA’s third annual Science Day this Saturday, March 8. The free event is from 1 to 4 p.m. at Ruckersville Elementary School. “Compared to what we have done for the last two years, we are really blowing up the number of activities we are offering,” says Dr. Anthony Remijan, who has been the driving force behind getting students and faculty from the University of Virginia to make the trip up U.S. ...
Buchanan's speech, which elicited a rapturous reception from the convention delegates, and unmitigated horror among liberals, illustrated the accuracy of the argument put forth in a book published a year earlier by University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, entitled, aptly enough, “Culture Wars.”
A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Aviation Administration's only fine against a commercial drone user on the grounds that the small drone was no different than a model aircraft, a decision that appears to undermine the agency's power to keep a burgeoning civilian drone industry out of the skies. The FAA levied the fine against aerial photographer Raphael Pirker for flying the small drone near the University of Virginia to make a commercial video in October 2011.
“The GOP is searching for a candidate with all the right elements to win and who is safe,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of numerous political books. “Paul is trying to sell “a mixed philosophy that’s like oil and water. … Paul is a risk and they don’t want a risky nominee in 2016. They desperately fear a third presidential defeat.”
An advanced manufacturing research center in Prince George County is partnering with the Defense Department. Officials say the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing will partner in the new public-private Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing does research for a group of manufacturing companies under a partnership with Virginia Tech, Virginia State University and the University of Virginia.
Some legal experts say even though no shots have been fired, Ukraine has a potential case that Russia has already committed an act of aggression, given its show of military force and takeover of part of another nation’s territory. “Most importantly, consider the implications for the charter if the answer were that this were not an armed attack: Ukraine could not lawfully use force against Russian troops to protect territory that undisputedly is part of Ukraine,” writes Ashley Deeks of the University of Virginia Law School on the legal blog “Lawfare.”
“Medicaid expansion is closely associated with Obamacare,” Larry Sabato, U.Va. politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, says. “The Republican base is virtually united in opposition to Obamacare, and the GOP nationally is focusing tightly on the subject for the 2014 midterm campaigns. Virginia's House of Delegates is two-thirds Republican, and they are listening to their party's activists.”
Nathan Fountain, a neurologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine who was chair of the November independent advisory panel, hopes that there is room for compromise. “It would have been wrong to approve the drug as a first-line treatment for MS”, says Fountain. “But for more aggressive disease, or for second line therapy, an approval would have been reasonable.”
Joe Harris and Billy Baron are best friends who hit it off from the moment they met as fresh-faced college freshmen. They had so much in common they just knew they had to be roommates. They were coaches' sons. They were sharp-shooting, good-looking guards. They even shared a dream of taking their school to a historic championship. And then, after just one semester, Baron walked away from the University of Virginia.
“Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” focuses on the work of the American artist Joseph Cornell in the 1930s and the 1940s. These years span both Cornell’s emergence and maturation as a visual artist and the heyday in New York of surrealism, the international art movement founded by André Breton in Paris in 1924. This international loan exhibition is a collaboration of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Following a run in Lyon (Oct. 18, 2013 – Feb. 10, 2014), the exhibition opens at The Fralin on Mar. 7 and will remain...
Several sections of the Berlin Wall are coming to the University of Virginia. Four panels of the wall will be on-loan and featured in an outdoor exhibit near the Alderman Library. The formal unveiling is expected in April.