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Thursday, April 20, 2006

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STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY ADDRESS
President John Casteen III will deliver the annual State of the University Address on Friday, April 21 at noon in Old Cabell Hall.

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

STUDENTS PROTEST FOR LIVING WAGE AT UVA, TENURE AT VIRGINIA TECH
By the Associated Press / April 19
Students at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia took up employee issues in protests Wednesday. About 150 Virginia Tech students marched to the steps of the administration building to protest denial of tenure to a professor and what they saw as insufficient diversity on campus. At the University of Virginia, a rally in favor of a "living wage" for the school's lowest-paid workers was held on the steps of the rotunda across from Madison Hall, the administration building.
    
U.VA. PROFESSORS RALLY STUDENTS WITH 'LIVING WAGE' TEACH-IN
By Melanie Mayhew of the Charlottesville Daily Progress
(Not available online.)PLAN PAYS OFF FOR STUDENTS
By The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress / April 16
Guaranteed admission to college is now one of the fruits of a controversial restructuring package that allows state institutes of higher learning more freedom from Richmond's control. The restructuring law, passed in 2005, requires that four-year schools provide more opportunities for community college graduates who want to transfer. But the law may be having a ripple effect, too.

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

URBAN CHRONICLES / CITIES REBOUNDING, SUBURBS DECLINING, NEW STUDY SHOWS
By Eric Siegel for the Baltimore Sun
Although it doesn't include the city, a just-released study seems pertinent to Baltimore.  The study, by University of Virginia planning professors William Lucy and David Phillips, compared income and housing values in nearly two dozen cities in the first four years of the decade with their surrounding metropolitan areas.  Its findings?  "Per capita income and median owner-occupied housing value increased on average in 22 central cities in large metropolitan areas relative to their suburbs between 2000 and 2004, improving on their performance in the 1990s," they wrote in a follow-up to their book Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs, which postulates that cities are rebounding while some middle-age suburbs are showing increasing signs of decline.

BLACK HOLES / MERGER WILL SEND OUT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES TO ALTER THE FABRIC OF SPACE
By A.J. Hostetler of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Astronomers are learning more about those voracious stellar objects from which nothing, not even light, can escape...Earlier this month, a University of Virginia-initiated collaboration announced finding a pair of black holes spiraling toward a merger into a super-super-massive black hole. This week, researchers using a NASA supercomputer simulated the gravitational waves such mergers produce and their effects on space. And next week, NASA is set to announce another discovery about black holes, which swallow millions and even billions of stars.

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

BEN RUBEOR
Rubeor, student in the College and varsity lacrosse player, was featured in a Baltimore Sun article headlined:
3 YEARS AFTER ACCIDENT, RUBEOR THRIVES AT VA. / BEN RUBEOR GAINED VALUABLE PERSPECTIVE ABOUT LIFE AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT NEARLY ENDED HIS LACROSSE CAREER
by Gary Lambrecht of the Baltimore Sun

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

E.D. HIRSCH
Hirsch, professor emeritus and author of several respected books on core curriculum, was cited  in a MidWeek article headlined:
WHY KIDS NEED A CORE CURRICULUM
By Jerry Coffee for MidWeek / April 19

JEFFREY HOPKINS
Hopkins, an author, former translator for the Dalai Lama and professor emeritus at U.Va. where he has spent the last 32 years teaching Tibetan Buddhist studies and Tibetan language, was featured in an Anacortes (WA) American article headlined:
AUTHOR OFFERS BUDDHIST TEACHINGS BASED ON DALAI LAMA'S BOOK
By Anacortes American staff reports

WILLIAM LUCY and DAVID PHILLIPS
Lucy, the Lawrence Lewis Jr. Professor of Architecture and Planning, and Phillips, associate professor in the School of Architecture, who are the co-authors of the recent book, "Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs," were cited in a Baltimore Sun article headlined
URBAN CHRONICLES / CITIES REBOUNDING, SUBURBS DECLINING, NEW STUDY SHOWS
By Eric Siegel for the Baltimore Sun

  LAUNCHING ROCKETTS / WITH THE LATEST BIG DEVELOPMENT ON THE RIVER, SOME WONDER IF THE CITY'S CONDO BOOM WILL SOON REACH ITS PEAK. DON'T BET ON IT
By Melissa Scott Sinclair for the Style Weekly / April 19
  
LARRY J. SABATO
Sabato, politics professor and director of the Center for Politics, was quoted in a Bloomberg News Service article headlined:
AND SO THE BUSH SHAKE-UP BEGINS. SO WHAT?
By Margaret Carlson for the Bloomberg News Service

KEITH D. VANDERBEEK
VanDerbeek, associate athletic director for business operations in the athletics department, is quoted today in a (Hampton Roads) Daily Press article headlined:
MAKING SENSE OF REVENUE TOUGH
By Dave Johnson of the (Hampton Roads) Daily Press

ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

ELLIOT B. BRANCH
Branch, a graduate of the Darden Executive Program and a candidate for the Alexandria (Va.) School Board, was featured in a Washington Post profile headlined:
ELLIOT B. BRANCH
By Washington Post staff reports

SEAN PATRICK MALONEY
Maloney, a graduate of the School of Law who is running for attorney general in New York State, was featured in a Gay City News article headlined:
PRIDE AGENDA ENDORSES MALONEY'S AG BID / STATE LGBT RIGHTS GROUP GIVES NOD TO GAY DEMOCRAT
By Paul Schindler of the Gay City News / April 19

SUSAN E. TERRY
Terry, who received  a bachelor's in architecture from U.Va., was featured in a Business Wire Press release headlined:
SUSAN E. TERRY NAMED VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, INTERNATIONAL COPPER ASSOCIATION, LTD.
By Business Wire /April 19

CAVALIER DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

FORUM ADDRESSES HISTORY OF SLAVERY AT THE UNIVERSITY

STUDCO LACKS CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN, PROFESSORS HOLD TEACH-IN ON ROTUNDA STEPS

U.VA. TOP NEWS DAILY HIGHLIGHTS

U.VA. NAMES CHERYL BURGAN EVANS AS ITS NEW DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDENT DIVERSITY PROGRAMS

PRESIDENT CASTEEN TO GIVE ANNUAL STATE OF UNIVERSITY ADDRESS TOMORROW AT U.VA.

DRAMA DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT SPRING FESTIVAL OF ONE-ACTS

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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

A WIN FOR ANTI-BIAS POLICIES
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher ed
In a potentially significant legal win for state universities and gay students, a federal judge in California on Tuesday ruled that a public law school may deny recognition to a student group that refuses to abide by anti-bias rules.

CUNY PROGRAM TO HELP BLACK MEN IS CALLED DISCRIMINATORY
By Karen W. Arenson of The New York Times / April 19
A New York advocacy organization asserted that the program violated federal regulations prohibiting discrimination by race or gender.

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