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Tuesday,
April 25, 2006
THIS
FALL, undergraduate Virginians
attending the University of Virginia will
pay $7,845 in tuition and fees for the
2006-2007 academic year, an increase of
$665 or 9.3 percent above the
2005-2006
figures. The total
cost of education — including tuition,
fees, housing and dining — will
increase by 8.6 percent. Out-of-state students
will pay an additional $1,845 for a total
of $25,945 in
tuition and fees. Their total bill, including
housing and dining, will increase by 7.7
percent. Full
story.
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News Services/Photo: Dan Addison
University
of Virginia Law School graduate Najwa Nabti
(above) is one of nine candidates from
universities in the United States, Europe
and Australia chosen to clerk for the International
Court of Justice, or World Court, in The
Hague. She will also receive the inaugural
Orrick International Law Fellowship, which
provides up to $40,000 for housing, living
expenses and relocation costs. Nabti currently
works in the Department of Justice’s
Board of Immigration Appeals. Full
story.
U.Va.
News Services
John
Stokes (above), one of the organizers of
the 1951 high-school student walk-out in
Prince Edward County, Va., will speak at
the University of Virginia tomorrow at
4 p.m. in the Newcomb Hall Art Gallery.
Stokes and a group of schoolmates met in
secret to plan the protest over the deplorable
conditions at their school. They later
enlisted the legal help of the NAACP, and
their lawsuit eventually was folded into
the U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board
of Education. Full
story.
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News Services
Take
a stroll around Central Grounds today from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and see how the University
of Virginia is participating in Historic
Garden Week. A number of Pavilion homes
and gardens will be open to visitors,
free of charge, and the U.Va. Art Museum
is
hosting
a “Flowers
Interpret Art” exhibit. Many area
sites, in addition to the University, are
celebrating Historic Garden Week
through Saturday.See
list of tours.
Spiritual
Bonds of Communities in Bondage? Tidewater
Chesapeake, 1760-1831 4 p.m., Virginia Foundation for the
Humanities, 145 Ednam Dr. • Speaker: James
Bryant, Sociology & Anthropology, College
of the Holy Cross • Free and open to the public.
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