**1928**
The first floor of Washington Hall, now known as Andrews Hall, was completed. The ground floor was first used by the biology department. The hall was originally modeled after Rogers Hall, using a similar exterior and interior.

p. **1965**
Several new additions were made to the football stadium, including fiberglass seats in three of the sections and a new game clock. The game start times were also made earlier to allow spectators to go home in the daylight.

p. **1976**
A fire “20 feet high” broke out during a Student Assembly sponsored movie in William and Mary Hall. Thirty Williamsburg firefighters responded to the call within 15 minutes; however, students had already put out the blaze with seven fire extinguishers. Although there were several exits on the upper levels, only one of the doors was unchained. Arson was not suspected to be the cause of the fire.

p. **1983**
The Flat Hat reported that college costs were running 12 percent higher than the previous year and had increased by that percentage on average for the past eight years. A study also revealed that one-fourth of the workforce at the time may have been “overeducated” for the jobs that its members held.

Alfred Brophy, a law professor at the University of Alabama, will be presenting a lecture at the College on the topic of apologies for slavery. He will hold the free lecture at the law school that will end with a question-and-answer session and reception Sept. 20.

p. According to the law school website, “Brophy will discuss the controversy over slavery and apologies generally, the stark divide along racial lines on this issue and some of the moral issues on either side.”

p. Brophy will also address the Virginia legislature’s statements of “profound regret” and discuss the College’s connections to slavery. He will specifically mention Thomas R. Dew, president of the College during the 1830s and 1840s, and his connections to slavery.

p. He’s currently writing about the conception of equality in early 1900s African American culture and its connection to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

The Marshall-Wythe School of Law will be hosting the 20th annual Supreme Court Preview today and Saturday. The event will analyze the Supreme Court’s upcoming year through various panels. The event is sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law and is free to the public.

p. Attendees seeking Virginia Continuing Law Education credit are required to register and pay a fee of $135 at the door.
Today’s program consists of a mock court presentation and two panel discussions in the evening.

p. Saturday’s schedule includes panels on various topics such as business law and individual rights. Panelists include a journalist from USA Today and a writer for The New Republic, a political magazine.

**Tuesday, Sept. 4 —** A professor received a threatening call in Jones Hall. The same person called a 911 line reporting an emergency. **(1)**

p. **Wednesday, Sept. 5 —** A student reported that his ID card was stolen outside of Harrison Hall and $7.00 was used in vending machines. **(2)**

p. — Another bomb threat e-mail was received in an undisclosed place. The building was cleared while officers searched the building. Nothing was found.

p. — A bicycle estimated to be worth $58 was reported stolen outside Old Dominion Hall. **(3)**

p. **Thursday, Sept. 6 —** Authorities were called to a management facility regarding a physical assault event involving intimidation.

p. — A student reported that the parking decal on his vehicle was stolen outside of the Marketplace the previous night. **(4)**

p. — A student reported that his bicycle crank, worth $80, was stolen in the afternoon outside Millington Hall. **(5)**

p. **Friday, Sept. 7 —** A non-student male was arrested for being drunk in public and yelling at females on the street along Harrison Avenue.

p. — The police received a call that a student had been assaulted in the Stadium Lot. Medics were not necessary. **(6)**

p. — A student claimed that her bicycle was stolen from Gooch Hall. The student located her bicycle; she had left it elsewhere and forgotten. **(7)**

p. — A student reported that his bicycle was stolen outside Chandler Hall. The estimated value is $30. **(8)**

p. **Saturday, Sept. 8 —** A student’s vehicle was vandalized outside Zable Stadium. Estimated damage to the car is $150. **(6)**

p. — Another vehicle was vandalized on Harrison Avenue. The estimated damage is $150.

p. **Sunday, Sept. 9 —** A $300 bike was reported stolen in the Old Hospital Parking Lot. **(9)**

p. **Monday, Sept. 10 —** Several DVD’s, estimated to be worth $100, were stolen from the Swem Special Collections Library. **(10)**

p. — A parking decal was stolen from a vehicle on 201 Ukrops Way. **(11)**

p. — Patio furniture worth $1,300 was stolen from Jamestown South. The furniture was reported to be at 101 Griffin Avenue. **(12)**

p. — Lawn furniture valued at $1,125 was reported stolen from Barrett Hall. Three items worth $725 were recovered.**(13)**

**270**
The number of Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapters nationwide. The society was founded at the College in 1776.

p. **20 percent**
The proportion of Americans lacking “functional literacy skills,” according to the UN.

p. **€1.2 million**
The amount, in Euros, that the European Union is paying to enable a small German town to do away with all its traffic signs and lights. It is a test of a new “Shared Space” road safety policy supported by the EU, in which drivers and pedestrians will enjoy equal right of way.

p. **$30 million**
The amount of money that Google is offering to anyone who can be the first to land a robot camera on the moon and transmit high resolution pictures.

Grant Woolard, graphics editor at the University of Virginia’s student newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, was forced to resign Monday after a week of controversy stemming from a cartoon published Sept. 4. The cartoon, “Ethiopian Food Fight,” depicted black men in loin cloths holding random household objects.

p. The strip was criticized by U.Va. students and faculty for being “distasteful, crude and insensitive.” While several students called for Woolard to be fired, chapter president, Brandon Kelley, said that the NAACP did not formally call for Woolard’s resignation.

p. In the Sept. 12 edition of the Washington Post, Woolard said that his intent was to raise awareness for global hunger, but he “lacked the foresight [to anticipate] the reaction.”

p. Members of U.Va.’s administration also condemned the comic in a Sept. 6 letter to the editor, in which they said the comic lacked “discernible journalistic merit.”

p. In a statement published by Charlottesville’s local television news station WCAV, Woolard reiterated that the meaning of the comic was simply misconstrued.

p. Herb Ladley, editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily, told the Washington Post this was not the first time Woolard’s cartoons caused controversy. Other cartoons he published, including one depicting the Virgin Mary with a sexually transmitted disease, caused student protest.

The unbelievable story Leonardo DiCaprio depicted in Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You Can” was a surprisingly accurate account of infamous con artist Frank Abagnale Jr.’s conquests, from the one million miles he flew for free, to the millions of dollars that he conned from major banks in 26 countries during a five year period.

p. Abagnale himself related these stories with amusement, talking fast and listing his tricks as if they were common teenage activities. He recounted his years as a co-pilot for Pan-Am airlines, then a California pediatrician, then as a Harvard Law School graduate on the bar in Louisiana, just to name a few.
The speech, however, was not entirely filled with entertaining anecdotes. Abagnale noted that “it was lonely,” and that he was not proud of his youth.

p. In between stories of fraudulent checks and fake IDs, Abagnale related the harder side of life.

p. “I never went to a senior prom, a high school football game or even had a relationship with someone my own age.”

p. Abagnale said that he was pleased with Spielberg’s portrayal of his young self.

p. “[Spielberg] went out of his way not to glorify the things that I did, and I appreciated that.”

p. Abagnale seemed intent on doing the same. Though his stories were entertaining and his intelligence was obvious, he made it clear that he was still trying to reconcile his past actions.

The James Madison University student government voted Tuesday to censure president Brandon Eickel for plagiarizing the campaign platform of Zach Pilchen ’09, the College’s Student Assembly president.

p. JMU’s student newspaper, The Breeze, reported after a three-hour debate, senators voted by secret ballot not to impeach.
Voting by secret ballot violates the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.

p. “I can honestly say I have learned more from making this mistake than I have from any other class at JMU,” Eickel said, according to The Breeze.

p. A senator told The Breeze that he is resigning from the student government to protest the decision not to impeach Eickel and that he plans to organize sit-ins at future meetings.

The Student Assembly passed several bills relating to the College’s environmental policy and students’ rights at Tuesday night’s meeting.

p. The Presidential Climate Change Commitment bill passed 14-1. The bill asks that College President Gene Nichol affirm his commitment to make the College more environmentally friendly.

p. The bill “urges the College to become carbon-neutral” through a variety of solutions, including the use of solar power.

p. “The bill is a great way to reduce financial strain,” SA President Zach Pilchen ’09 said, citing the $6.5 million that the College spends on coal and natural gas annually.

p. Graduate student Sen. Amanda Rowe MBA ’08 felt that many faculty members supported the bill.

p. Concerned about the use of the phrase “climate change” in the bill’s title, Sen. Joe Luppino-Esposito ’08 said, “I don’t like us making a political statement.”

p. The Enhanced Student Representative Act passed unanimously.

p. The act removes the phrase, “Student must be from charged party’s academic suite” from section IV of the Administration of Student Life Policies. The bill now allows undergraduate students to be represented by graduate students in Judicial Council hearings and vice versa.

p. “There is a lot of criticism of our Judicial Council,” Pilchen said. “People don’t really know what their rights are.”

p. The Finance Omnibus also passed unanimously. The bill updates the finance code. Most of the updates were long overdue and made minor changes, except for a revision that forces the secretary of finance to inform the Senate of proposed funding allocations.

p. Under the revision, any disputes over funding allocations will be debated in the senate. The bill allows for funding to be adjusted and voted on by the Senate.

p. “Student money will 100 percent [be] in student control,” Pilchen said.

p. A bill discussing off-campus spending was also unanimously approved. The bill moves expenses from the Aug. 2007 executive spending account to the consolidated reserve account.

p. The expenses stemmed from the purchase of voter registration and “know your rights in a residence hall” stickers. Both purchases combined amounted to $500.

p. The one piece of new business discussed was a bill sponsored by Sen. Matt Skibiak ’08 regarding the increased presence of police at social events.

p. “You’re not going to stop kids from drinking, you’re going to stop kids from drinking responsibly,” Skibiak said. “They can’t change the nature of college.”

__Nichol sends e-mail to students about College response to budget cuts__

College President Gene Nichol sent an e-mail to students Tuesday explaining the recent 7 percent budget cuts mandated by Gov. Kaine for the College, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. He informed students that the College submitted a draft plan Monday afternoon. The plans will be available after the governor reviews and releases them.

p. The College was originally given a target budget cut of 7.5 percent, but was informed last Friday that the cut had been decreased to 7 percent, Vice President of Finance Sam Jones said.

p. “That’s $3.4 million as opposed to $3.6 million, but we’re still going to continue to make our case with the people in Richmond,” he said.

p. Student Assembly President Zach Pilchen ’09 could not comment on the contents of the proposal.

p. “I can tell you that myself and Lindsey Kraatz, the Grad Council president, were asked for input, and we tried to get as much student input as possible in that very short time,” Pilchen said. “When we release it to the public, I will have a lot of say on it.”

p. Because students and faculty budget numbers are set for this year, the College would have to take steps like limiting hiring or deferring the purchasing of equipment to get through this year.
“The key here is that they are asking us to do a reduction in the current year; however we have all the faculty and all the students for the year, so flexibility is limited,” Jones said.

p. If cuts continue year after year, the College will have to examine cutting positions and programs.

p. Under Virginia law, each year the College has to offer a broad range of graduate and undergraduate programs, maintain high academic standards, undergo a continuous review of its academics, increase its level of externally funded research, increase access to students across the state, assure affordability and admit a certain number of transfer students from community colleges, Pilchen said.

p. “The fact of the matter is that Richmond expects a lot of the College,” he said. “Essentially we have a mission statement, but it is hard to fulfill when we have budget cuts.”

p.Nichol also noted the state’s high standards.

p. “I note that the governor has indicated, just today, the powerful role that higher education plays in the commonwealth’s future — and his strong support for it,” Nichol said in the e-mail. “A 7 percent cut, should it come, will make that value difficult to sustain.”