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According to new data released from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, 10 percent of Virginia households use short term loans. ... These are loans of last resort for many. Most people who take them out have jobs, but do not make enough money to pay the bills or put food on the table. ... UVA Demographer Rebecca Tippett stated, "If you lose your car, you're out your transportation to work, you're out one of your biggest financial assets and you're going to be really hard hit moving forward."

... If you are bitten, University of Virginia emergency room doctors say you have between 24 and 48 hours to get help. A series of shots is standard in rabies cases. UVA Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Dr. Sara Sutherland said "You want to get away from the animal and the best thing you can do is get to stream where you can wash the wound with soap and water."

By Doug Kendall, founder and president, Constitutional Accountability Center University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone and I have both come to Huffington Post many times in recent years to talk about the U.S. Constitution ... This week, we have also taken to the pages of Democracy Journal to debate each other about our respective views of the best way to go about this work. Professor Stone is joined in his side of the debate by UNC Professor Bill Marshall. On my side is University of Virginia Law Professor Jim Ryan, the author of a paper called Laying Claim to the Constitution: The Pr...

By Brian Rosenberg, president of Macalester College Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, it turns out, had it all wrong. It was Jefferson who famously wrote that "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be" ... Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and Franklin the college that became the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to make tangible this vision for higher education in a democratic society. ... What Jefferson and Franklin missed, apparently, is the fact that higher education is instead a co...

The widening gap between the rich getting richer while the majority have flat incomes or lose income causes unhappiness, U.S. researchers found. In 2010, the top 20 percent of Americans earned 49.4 percent of the nation's income, compared with the 3.4 percent earned by the some 15 percent of the population living below the poverty line, U.S. Census figures said. Psychologist Shigehiro Oishi and Selin Kesebir, both of the University of Virginia, and Ed Diener of the University of Illinois said in the last 40 years, "we've seen that people seem to be happier when there is more equality.&quo...

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Richard Bonnie Law professor and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy Loughner likely to stand trial eventually USA Today / June 13 John D'Earth Music professor Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia WVTF public radio / June 14 Robert E. O'Connor Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine Even insured consumers can get caught in fights over paying ambulance bills Washington Post / June 13 Larry Sabato Politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Obama Talks Jobs, Looks for Votes in North Carolina Fox News.com / June 1

Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality. ... At close to 3 a.m. one winter morning this year, a student from Germantown, Md., calling himself “Bigshot3008” kicked off a discussion with a question: “How do you guys feel about biracial (specifically half black, half white) students applying to college as full black, just to get our incentives? I personally think it should be frowned...

By Julian Bond, professor of history at U.Va., chairman emeritus of the NAACP and a scholar in residence at American University ... Because I have spent my life fighting to make ours a more just society for all Americans, I’m a supporter of marriage equality. I believe this to be a fight for civil rights. ... Last summer, after a lengthy trial, a federal court declared Prop 8 to be unconstitutional ... Almost a year later, the case is on appeal, Prop. 8 still remains on the books, and a motion to throw out the case on blatantly homophobic grounds will be heard in federal district court o...

Research by University of Virginia sociology professor Josipa Roksa, detailed in the book “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” co-authored with Richard Arum, indicates that today’s college students are spending less time in study than their predecessors and are failing to improve their critical thinking skills, among other measurements.

President Lyndon Johnson, domineering and manipulative, lives on in American memory as the classic power broker … Yet this is not the Johnson who emerges from volumes seven and eight of The Presidential Recordings, a transcription of his phone conversations from June 1 to July 4 of 1964 [a project of U.Va.'s Miller Center]. ...

... Almost three years ago, we were members of the Miller Center’s bipartisan National War Powers Commission, which proposed a pragmatic framework for consultation between the president and Congress. Co-chaired by one of us and the late Warren Christopher, the commission could not resolve the legal question of which branch has the ultimate authority. Only the court system can do that. Instead, the commission strove to foster interaction and consultation, and reduce unnecessary political friction. The commission — which represented a broad spectrum of views, from Abner Mikva on the ...

Nearly 10 percent of Virginia households have borrowed money from short-term, high-interest payday, pawnshop and auto-title loans to make ends meet. A University of Virginia study released today shows that more than 275,000 financially struggling families in Virginia have turned to alternative financial-service providers to pay for basic needs such as food, housing and transportation. They also are using the high-cost loans to pay for unexpected expenses stemming from job losses, car repairs and medical bills. The analysis of federal banking statistics also shows that black Virginia households...

By Julian Bond, professor of history at U.Va., chairman emeritus of the NAACP and a scholar in residence at American University Today we celebrate the 44th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision that struck down anti-miscegenation laws that forbade African Americans and whites from marrying. In the Loving case, a unanimous court held that marriage is "one of the basic civil rights of man ... fundamental to our very existence and survival." The court also held that "under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not to marry, a person of another race resi...

History prefers to wait to render a verdict, but sitting beneath Davenport Field Monday night, coach Brian O'Connor made a pronouncement that will not be called into question. "Absolutely the most thrilling and greatest win in U.Va. baseball history," he said. "And it happened to come on our own field." A few minutes later, he broke into a big smile as he saw the highlights from Virginia's game against UC Irvine on a nearby TV. It ended with a clip of the dramatic conclusion, then the score. Cavaliers 3, Anteaters 2. Virginia is headed to Omaha for the College World Series...

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Logan Gray Burke College of Arts & Sciences undergraduate Forest Festival Maid Silvia Introduced to Randolph County Community WBOY-TV NBC / June 12 Makenzie Kirk Rising fourth-year College of Arts & Sciences student Makenzie Kirk proves that rugby is not just for men Swva.com / June 13 Tyler Pitt Incoming first-year student Forest Grove High valedictorian is scholar, furniture-maker and reluctant runner OregonLive.com / June 10

Dewey Cornell Education professor and forensic psychologist Kids who kill News of the World / June 12 Anne Coughlin Law professor Anthony Weiner: Morally Repugnant, But No Criminal The New Republic / June 10 R. Edward Freeman Darden professor Warren Watch: the Hollywood Pledge Omaha World Herald / June 12 Bob Gibson Director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership Franklin County residents invoke little-known state law in their effort to oust Sheriff Ewell Hunt Roanoke Times / June 11 Thomas Hafemeister Law professor Stealing From Grandma and Grandpa Fox Business.com / June 13 ...