The Rev. Gerald Fogarty, a Jesuit priest who teaches religious history at the University of Virginia and has studied the papacy, says he "wouldn't be surprised if they went for a Latin American this time," specifically Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Latin America and the Caribbean are home to 39 percent of the world's Catholics, according to a recent report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
That notion is bolstered by Republicans in the House who are convinced that the mandatory cuts are the only option for persuading President Barack Obama to rein in spending. “They believe this is the only way to get Obama to cut spending without raising taxes further,” said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
A computer science course at the University of Virginia tested whether the mag-stripe student ID cards at the school were vulnerable to copying and were successful in creating new IDs, according to a report in The Cavalier Daily.
But where she was once, Michele Bachmann: Conservative Firebrand, perhaps she’s now, Michele Bachmann: Conservative, thanks, most likely, to her close shave in November. “A generic Republican would have no problem holding that district as long as he or she wanted it,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst for the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball. “To the extent that she can become a generic Republican is probably good for her.”
But how would one-party arbitration work, exactly? Professor Myron Nordquist of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia calls the situation “quite bizarre.” “For one thing, it is doomed to failure because if the party won’t consent to the arbitration there is then no enforcement," said Nordquist. "How would they expect a country that didn’t want to have a dispute settled by third parties to feel in any sense bound by a decision where they didn’t even participate?”
After a sufficient number of states have ratified an amendment, it can feel like a moot point for legislatures to give belated approval to laws that are already in effect. "Legislative calendars are crowded, and arguing over settled matters isn't a good use of time," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"It's possible those people will emerge, but it's also possible that 2012 might give the establishment a little bit more power," says Kyle Kondik, political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "These incumbents are sort of battening down the hatches and have been for months, if not years as they've seen some of their colleagues get in trouble."
Larry Sabato, who teaches political science at the University of Virginia, says the president is trying to bring the cuts, known in Washington as the sequester, home. “He’s using local economics to show people that the sequester is not simply an odd word," he explains. "It has real world consequences and could cost some of them their jobs.”
The upcoming Virginia and Maryland gubernatorial races have edged on to University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato's "red alert" list due to the possibility that the parties currently in power could get the boot.
The judge can be assisted by two advisers — highly trained lawyers — during the trial. Those advisors can outvote the judge, said Richard Goldstone, a judge for 23 years who served on South Africa's highest court. Goldstone now teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law.
For the new study, Kevin Cross from the UVA-HealthSouth Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, and his colleagues collected information on hamstring tears among soccer players in the NCAA's injury database, which covers a fraction of Division I, II and II schools.
The Phoenix Club of Philadelphia will honor the nation’s best guard in women’s Division I basketball with the Dawn Staley Award. The award will be given to a player who exemplifies the skills that Dawn Staley possessed during her playing career such as “ballhandling, scoring, her ability to distribute the basketball and her will to win.”
University of Virginia police are looking for a middle-age man of Indian descent in connection with an attempted abduction and assault reported Feb. 17.
Milner's underlying argument – that Scouts and church workers would be requesting the type of immediate donations targeted in the ordinance – is questionable, said Risa Goluboff, a University of Virginia law and history professor who is writing a book on vagrancy. "What [the rule] seems like it's doing is targeting people, not conduct," Goluboff said. "The courts historically have suggested that this line of thought is problematic."
A key committee of the University of Virginia’s board voted to back President Teresa A. Sullivan’s plan to significantly boost faculty salaries. It’s a boost that will likely come largely in the form of merit-based pay raises.
Speaking at a school safety forum that included panelists from the city and county schools, Dewey Cornell, a professor at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and youth violence expert, said that schools, overall, are safe.
The University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble will bring vocals, poetry and spoken word into the mix for its latest concert. "Play on Words: Jazz, Song and Poetry" will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.