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The new transit center is open and now there's talk about making the service fare free. City councilors say they want to start with a fare-free month and if that's successful, it could become permanent. The move is supposed to make the system faster. ...Now, there are no worries over the matter for anyone with a University of Virginia ID. Starting Monday, UVA students and faculty can ride any CTS bus for free.

...Rouss Hall, future home of the McIntire School of Commerce, is getting a major facelift. ...A key goal of the project is to successfully blend the new structure into such a prominent location on the Lawn, Starsia says: 'We want to be complimentary but not overbearing. We're going to have a building that echoes the traditional feeling of the Lawn, but that has state-of-the-art technology built into it.'

A group of university students plans to bike the 7,300 miles to Kampala, Uganda, to raise money for the school they are building for children there who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS. The group is Building Tomorrow and the project is Bike to Uganda. They will be riding Monday through April 6 and hope to raise the remaining part of $32,000 required to build a school.

Paying by the Program Inside Higher Ed / March 26 Public institutions nationwide are increasingly varying undergraduate tuition rates by major. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/26/tuition Web Site Is Designed to Match Admissions Officers and Applicants Chronicle of Higher Education / March 26 Three young entrepreneurs have unveiled a new Web site that they say will help college admissions officers more effectively recruit students. The Web site, called Zinch, allows high-school students to post online profiles revealing their talents, hobbies, and passions -- qualities that do no...

During Busy Admissions Season, U.Va. Blog Calms Anxieties, Squashes Rumors U.Va.'s Charlotte Matthews Wins Poetry Award Plaque Assessments May Help Determine Stroke Risk http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/

Honor elects new Executive Committee UBE special election begins today Gov. signs bill to create suicidal prevention protocol Students discuss racial divide http://www.cavalierdaily.com/

Monday at 7:00pm - WMRA-Harrisonburg 103.5FM Traditional psychology has focused on the elimination or control of negative emotions or neuroses. But Todd Kashdan (George Mason University) is part of a new generation of psychologists exploring the sometimes controversial field of Positive Psychology, which investigates what components of life make people truly happy. Also: Charles McGovern (William and Mary) says that, before the turn of the 20 th century, most Americans grew, built, or traded for what they needed. In the next several decades, we became a society of consumers, buying what we ...

William M. Bass Bachelor's degree graduate Forensic anthropologist to visit MTSU March 27 Sidelines Online / March 26 http://tinyurl.com/2pmu7e Ryan Coonerty Law school graduate History Buff, City Leader Writes Book Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel / March 25 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/March/25/local/stories/05local.htm William Harrell Who earned a bachelor's and two master's degrees New City Manager's Gift: Shrewd Decisions, with a Light Touch The Virginian-Pilot / March 24 http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=121638&ran=27812 Bob Inglis Law school graduate Vote Agai...

Dr. Robyn Boedefeld Medical director of the short stay unit at the Medical Center UVa Medical Center Unveils New Unit WCAV CBS-19 / March 23 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/healthwatch/headlines/6674782.html Dr. Lori Conklin Assistant professor of anesthesiology HSU Names Outstanding Young Alumni Abilene (TX) Reporter-News / March 24 http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_local/article/0,1874,ABIL_7959_5439691,00.html Dewey Cornell A forensic clinical psychologist who is a professor at the Curry School of Education Defense Will Argue Insanity in Oceanfront Triple Slaying The Virginian-...

Corey Barnes Fourth-year in the School of Architecture Piedmont House Gets Helping Hand WVIR NBC-29 / March 25 http://www.nbc29.com/global/story.asp?s=6276059 Emily Frost College student UVA Students Shave Heads in Support of Finding a Cure for Cancer WVIR NBC-29 / March 23 http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6273536 Chad Lane College third-year Local Students Help Improve Piedmont House WCAV CBS-19 / March 24 http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/6687067.html Calder Telep College first-year Local Students Help Improve Piedmont House WCAV CBS-19 / March 24 http://www....

The Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Virginia will be sponsoring a reading by Paul Muldoon this week. The poet will be at the UVa Bookstore at 8 p.m. Thursday.

When Linwood Holton became governor in January of 1970, Virginia had no black state troopers, no black toll-takers on its highways and a long history of denying and obstructing voting rights and public educational opportunities for African-Americans. … Robertson told that story to 300 Virginians who honored Holton on March 21 at a Jefferson Hotel gala sponsored by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.

The Charlottesville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, In and the UVa health system partnered up on Sunday. They held a free health fair for members of the community. It focused on healthy living practices for women of African decent. Experts were on hand to talk about the health risks that mainly affect African Americans.

...Dr. Suratt tested young children who showed poor sleep habits like snoring and sleep apnea. He performed various sleep and thinking studies on them, and what he found was that the majority of kids who snored, tossed and turned in bed, 'did not do well on these tests, on average they did significantly worse and the degree of impairment was similar to what you find with some kids exposed to lead,' said Dr. Suratt.

Best get-- graduate level: Universal president and COO Ron Meyers, who co-founded the influential Creative Artists Agency with Michael Ovitz in 1975, speaks at Darden March 20 as part of its 50th anniversary speaker series. ...Most graduates in Congress: Georgetown University has the most-- 19-- followed by number two UVA with 14 grads, Congressional Quarterly reports on the eve of the NCAA tournament.

The color red symbolizes many things, love and warmth to name a few, but to UVa Health System's Live Red it means a healthy heart. ...Good health is what Club Red is all about. 'Our goal is to get women to take an active interest in their health and also to empower them to begin to talk to their physician or nurse practitioner about their health and to help themselves and their families lead a healthier lifestyle,' said Shannon Janney with the UVa Health System.

Friday, over 50 UVA students poured out to O'Neills on the Corner, but they weren't at the pub to drink. They were there to shave their heads in support of finding a cure for childhood cancer. St. Baldrick's is a national organization founded as a fundraising program for childhood cancer.

...many getting out of jail start right at the Piedmont House, and for 90 days after their release, this is where they call home. On Saturday, members of a service fraternity at UVa gave the house a little TLC as part of their pledge project. ...Students painted, landscaped, and built a porch rail, volleyball court, shed and fence, among a long list of projects. 'When you look around and you've got 90 students here just doing all this for free out of the kindness of their hearts, it really touches my heart,' said Ailiff [a Piedmont House resident.] Students raised the money to pay for the proj...