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...In the years since a huge wave of immigrants began pouring into the country, their U.S.-born children are graduating from high school and finding that citizenship may not be enough. Last week, the Virginia state attorney general's office weighed in, saying that schools must look at parents' legal status, because students are considered dependent until they are 24 years old. ... [the] memo emphasized that state law allows exceptions on a case-by-case basis, if students 18 or older can offer convincing evidence that they should be considered separately from their parents. That gives students ...

Virginia's colleges have the right to prevent students – even those with concealed-weapons permits – from carrying firearms on campus if college rules prohibit them, the state's attorney general said here Monday.

Last week David Swanson tried to "stop-loss" Congress. Swanson, a Charlottesville resident who has become a nationally prominent antiwar activist, delivered "orders" to senators and representatives to remain at their posts and not return to their home districts for Easter recess until American troops are removed from Iraq.

... with the next presidential election around the corner, Josh Levy, a third-year University of Virginia law school student, believes it is critical to speak to what he views as America's new "silent majority": those who support or could be persuaded that it is in America's best interest to achieve what Levy and others view as victory in Iraq.

The University of Virginia Cavaliers will go up against the University of Richmond Spiders in the first round of the inaugural 16-team College Basketball Invitational Tournament at John Paul Jones Arena Tuesday. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and will be televised by Fox College Sports.

The University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Liberty Flames, two programs accustomed to participation in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, are returning to the Big Show following uncharacteristic absences. ... U.Va, which made 21 appearances in 22 years before failing to qualify in each of the past two seasons, reappeared with a bang last night. The Cavaliers (23-9), an at-large selection from the Atlantic Coast Conference, were seeded fourth in the Greensboro Region and will meet 13th-seeded Cal-Santa Barbara (23-7) on Sunday in Norfolk.

Amori Yee Mikami Assistant professor of psychology Girls with ADHD more likely to develop eating disorders: study CBC News (Canada) / Mar. 17 http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/03/17/adhd--study.html Glen Robinson A professor at the School of Law and a former FCC commissioner Supreme Court will review FCC's policy on expletives Washington Times / Mar. 18 http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080318/BUSINESS/580075641/1006 Dr. Alan Rogol Professor of pediatrics and pharmacology Growth Hormones Don't Boost Performance Associated Press / Mar. 17 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

'U.Va. Profiles' Spotlights Virtuoso Writer George Garrett George Garrett is widely recognized as a virtuoso author of all genres, but at the University of Virginia he also is known as a compassionate mentor for young writers. He was twice on the University faculty: first in the 1960s and then from the mid-1980s to his retirement in 2000 as the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing and director of the University's Creative Writing Program. http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4524# U.Va. to Test Emergency Alert System This Morning U.Va. will be testing its new emergency no...

...As far as guest curator [Maurie] McInnis knows, this is the first comprehensive survey of art specifically depicting plantation slavery from a slave perspective.

... With the university in a constant state of change, Charlottesville City Council got an update Monday night on the numerous construction projects that look to keep the university moving into the 21st century. "It's not just planning and design anymore," [UVa architect David] Newman explained, "we're actually...finishing projects and that's good for everyone."

Jennifer Jessie A law school student

Tiki Barber Former U.Va. and NFL football star Tiki Barber Visits Local Boys and Girls Club WVIR NBC-29 / Mar. 15 http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=8022070&nav=menu496_2_5 Bryant Stith U.Va.'s all-time leading scorer in basketball who played 10 seasons in the NBA For Stith, There's No Place Like Home / Ex-Cavaliers Star Returns to Coach His High School to AA State Final Once More Washington Post / Mar. 15 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/14/AR2008031403821.html

Robert Bruner Dean of the Darden Business School and author of "The Panic of 1907" JP Morgan chief Dimon known as details man Reuters / The Guardian (London) / Mar. 15 http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7386510 Nicholas Edsall Professor emeritus of history and author of "Toward Stonewall" Does gay 'diversity' require new terms? Southern Voice (GA) / Mar. 14 http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/3-14/news/localnews/8247.cfm John Herr Director of U.Va.'s Center for Research in Contraceptive and Reproductive Health and ContraVac founder At-Home Sperm Test has Global Impact WVIR NBC-29 / Mar....

U.Va. Law Students, Local Attorneys Launch Pro Bono Project Douglas Andre and Rebekah Shapiro are part of a coalition of U.Va. law students and area attorneys who are working together to help veterans with their disabilities claims in a new pro bono project sponsored by the University's Law School, the student-run Virginia Law Veterans, and the Charlottesville/Albemarle Bar Association. http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4504 Tobias Lear Diary Offers Front-Row View of History Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington, chronicled lives and events around him. One of Lear's d...

A student at the University of Virginia has discovered a way to break through the encryption code of RFID chips used in up to 2 billion smart cards used to open doors and board public transportation systems. ..."It turns out it's a pretty huge deal," said van Wyk. "There are a lot of these things floating around out there. Using it for building locks is the biggy, especially when it's used in sensitive government facilities - and I know for a fact it's being used in sensitive government facilities."

Imagine. That's what some fourth-year architectural design students from the University of Virginia School of Architecture did about buildings for the New College Institute in Martinsville. Their professor, Kenneth Schwartz, assigned the class, or architectural studio, a semester-long project to develop design schemes for a residential building with a dining hall or a classroom building with an auditorium for NCI.

...The University of Virginia fares well in both the Senate and House bond packages, as do community colleges... UVa's two largest projects in the bond packages are $77.6 million for renovation of Cabell Hall, the university's largest classroom building, as part of the College of Arts & Sciences South Lawn Project, and $37.9 million for construction of an information technology engineering building for the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Hundreds of people woke up early Saturday morning to run a 5K race at the University of Virginia to benefit Camp Holiday Trails. For 25 years the UVA School of Medicine has organized the 5K race, and this year the event raised over $2,000 for Camp Holiday Trails, a year-round camp in Charlottesville that helps children with special medical needs go to summer camp.

Mystery novelist Walter Mosley, "M*A*S*H" star and author Mike Farrell and Virginia favorite Adriana Trigiani are among the headliners at the Virginia Festival of the Book. The festival will take place March 26-30 in Charlottesville.

...At the heart of their evaluation will be a question that has never been explored: How does a community change when its police officers start checking citizenship? The team of sociologists and law enforcement experts from the University of Virginia, James Madison University and the Police Executive Research Forum will spend the next two years examining the consequences of the policy, which requires officers to check the immigration status of crime suspects they think are in the country illegally. The policy went into effect March 3. ... "Our interviews so far already show that different peop...