... Lynn Sanders, Ph.D., associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia, recently completed a study that shows voting may help ease the psychological stress and other mental health problems that stem from being economically, politically or socially disadvantaged. ...
The final day of the Virginia Film Festival showcased a few Charlottesville-area residents' humble roots.
In the second day of this year's Virginia Film Festival, students and filmmakers came together in a forum to discuss the back-stories of the big screen. The Friday forum was hosted in the University of Virginia's Campbell Hall and focused on the role of race and gender in the films.
When world-famous mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell visited Charlottesville in 1929, he chose the perfect subject to talk about. The Englishman decided to explore the topic of cynicism during the lecture he delivered on the evening of Dec. 5, 1929, in the University of Virginia's Cabell Hall.
... Homecoming at UVA centers around the football game, and Saturday's closely fought match-up with Miami was no exception. However, much of the excitement of Homecoming lies in meeting old friends and coming back to the place students called home for four years.
University of Virginia political guru Larry J. Sabato has some bad news for Republicans: Election Day is going to hurt. A lot. 'The political environment could not be more toxic for Republicans,' Sabato said Saturday.
... With the guidance of [Dierdre] Enright and [Mary] Martin, the [U.Va. Innocence Project Clinic's] 12 students are researching cases handed down from the busy caseloads of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and the New York-based Innocence Project. Unlike some other innocence projects, UVa's clinic will handle cases without DNA evidence.
... What goes through the candidates' minds in the final anxious days and hours of an election? These excerpts from oral history interviews about the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan campaigns and from original tape recordings of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon may shed a little light. They were provided by Russell L. Riley, chairman of the Presidential Oral History Program, and David Coleman, chairman of the Presidential Recordings Program, at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs.
U.Va. students and professors discuss how today's Virginians view race and Obama
More than 205,000 students from around Georgia avoided long lines to cast votes for the presidential election. Voting online in a mock election, their choice was Barack Obama by 58.6 percent. John McCain captured 35.5 percent of the vote. Local students are among more than 1 million nationwide who voted in the mock election, sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative, an education program based at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Students at 1,128 schools across the country picked Obama by 60 percent, said Meg Heubeck, director of instruction for the YLI.
Tina Fey
Star of NBC's "30 Rock," which a Television Week critics' poll put as the No. 3 show overall, trailing only "Lost" and "The Wire."
'30 Rock' returns with a lot of Emmys and attention
Chicago Sun-Times / Oct. 30
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/1252001,30-rock-tina-fey-103008.article
Adrienne Kinne
2001 graduate who is a whistleblower against the NSA spying on U.S. citizens that she did as an active duty sergeant in the Army Reserve after Sept. 11
Whistelblower sparks spying probe
Burlington Free Press (VT) / Oct. 31
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20081031/NEWS/810310...