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10 hours ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
Carrying signs that read Hand Off UVA, Protect Academic Freedom, Hoos University Is This? And UVA Stands with Ryan, about two hundred people gathered on the lawn in front of Thomas Jefferson’s historic Rotunda. Jeri Seidman, president of the faculty senate, read part of a resolution passed by that group’s leadership. The faculty senate affirmed its support of President Ryan’s leadership and vision," she said, eliciting loud cheers from the crowd.
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1 day ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
April Wright’s son, Austin, was sentenced to ten years for attempted robbery and assault. He was 19 and had trouble adjusting to prison life, prompting the state to send him to a maximum-security prison – then on to solitary confinement where another prisoner wrote to report on his plight. “He was telling me that they were starving my son," Wright recalls.
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1 day ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
If you’re stressed out in these complicated times, here’s one less thing to worry about. Connor Gillespie at the Wildlife Center of Virginia says animals know what to do when it gets really hot. “They’re adapted to live in these conditions, and in periods where it’s a little more excessive in terms of the heat or the cold, they’ll find shelter. They’ll look for shady areas.
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1 day ago | 
whro.org | Sandy Hausman
April Wright’s son, Austin, was sentenced to ten years for attempted robbery and assault. He was 19 and had trouble adjusting to prison life, prompting the state to send him to a maximum-security prison – then on to solitary confinement where another prisoner wrote to report on his plight. “He was telling me that they were starving my son," Wright recalls.
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3 days ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
On the third anniversary of a supreme court decision that ended this country’s constitutional right to abortion, Ghazala Hashmi, who’s running for lieutenant governor told a crowd of about 200 people what you might expect a Democrat to say.
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4 days ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
It’s a given, in the world of marketing, that people like to try new products— a tendency apparently fueled by the Internet. Lots of young men can be found, for example, consuming super spicy new foods. Matt Stonie was attempting to set a world record. “Fifteen individual blocks of chicken-flavored spicy ramen noodles. Let’s cook these up!”He planned to scarf down all 15 packs of Korean fire noodles in one sitting.
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5 days ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
Joel Gardner got bachelor's and law degrees from UVA, and he’s a devoted alum – donating to his alma mater and reading the student newspaper from his desk in Manhattan. "I was the only investment banker in New York who read the Cavalier Daily online before the Wall Street Journal," he recalls. But since Jim Ryan became UVA’s president, Gardner says, the place has changed in unfortunate ways.
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1 week ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
Rapidan is one of those scenic little towns in the Piedmont, lush and green, with three churches, an historic graveyard and an old mill along the river – powered by a dam which has been in that space for nearly 250 years. Nathan Marshall, who grew up in the area, says during the Civil War General Lee’s men camped on one side of the river, Northern troops on the other, and they met in the middle to be baptized. “There is an account from the diary entries of a pastor who led that congregation.
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1 week ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
Talking about prostate cancer can be embarrassing for men. Treatments can lead to urinary incontinence or erectile dysfunction, and that makes many patients uncomfortable. “Often times people feel isolated. They feel like they don't have anyone to talk with,” says Randy Jones, a professor of nursing at UVA. He developed a questionnaire of sorts to promote discussion in the doctor’s office.
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1 week ago | 
wvtf.org | Sandy Hausman
The film Mountainhead, starring Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman , is one of a half dozen dramas portraying tech executives obsessed with money and status. “We are the smartest men in America. We literally have the resources to take over the world. Boom! The president wants to speak to us.
