Seventeen University of Virginia students participating in a sit-in in Madison Hall, U.Va.’s central administration building, were arrested at 7 p.m. on Saturday by U.Va. Police after declining to leave the building when asked. All were charged with one count of criminal trespass. In addition, one of the students was also charged with resisting arrest and another had an additional charge of vandalism. The sit-in began on the morning of April 12 in support of what the students have termed a “living wage” for the University’s entry-level employees. At that time they took up temporary residence on the floor of the building’s front lobby, equipped with sleeping bags and enough food for several days. Additional protestors put up more than a half dozen tents on the front lawn of the building. Full story.

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It was the most lethal outbreak of illness in history: a virulent strain of Influenza A that sent thousands to emergency rooms like the one shown above, and has been estimated to have killed 40 million to 50 million people worldwide. It was the flu pandemic of 1918. Could history repeat itself? Will avian flu be the next plague? Medical experts and scholars at the University of Virginia, including internationally recognized flu expert Dr. Frederick G. Hayden, access the past for clues and weigh in on the consequences of an influenza pandemic. Full story.

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