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Three Cavaliers grab Olympic gold Swimmers McLean, Perdue medal with winning relay teams; Sauerbrunn helps U.S. win women’s soccer By Ian Rappaport
Cavalier Daily Sports Editor
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Former Virginia athlete Matt McLean swam in the qualifying heat of the men’s 4x200-meter relay team.
As millions of Americans watched NBC’s coverage of the London Olympics this summer, three current or former Virginia athletes returned home from the games toting suitcases one gold medal heavier. Swimmers Matt McLean, a 2011 graduate, and senior Lauren Perdue participated on the U.S. men’s and women’s 4 x 200meter relay squads, respectively, during the qualification rounds. Meanwhile, 2007 alumna Becky Sauerbrunn made three appearances off the bench for the gold medal-winning U.S. women’s soccer team, including key minutes during the taut waning moments of the Americans’ semifinal and gold medal game victories. “There’s no bigger honor than to represent your country at the pinnacle of the sport,” McLean
said. “That just made it a great experience.” McLean and Perdue gave way to stars such as Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin in the finals rounds, but they made their mark by winning their respective qualifying heats. In the process, they helped secure the preferred lane assignments in the middle of the pool for the finals, giving their more famous teammates a slight advantage. Swimming second behind leadoff man Charlie Houchin, McLean came up big with a 1:46.68 split to maintain Houchin’s lead for Davis Tarwater and Conor Dwyer . Their time of 7:06.75 set the stage for Phelps, Lochte, Dwyer and Ricky Berens to nab gold in the evening final, Phelps’ record 19th career Olympic medal, and Virginia’s first medal of the Olympics. Please see Swimming, Page B6
Board seeks to move forward
President Teresa Sullivan was reinstated just over two weeks after her resignation in June.
Dragas forms Special Committee on Strategic Planning, offers brief apology for Sullivan ouster By Monika Fallon
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor After attending its annual retreat last Wednesday, the Board of Visitors has turned its attention away from the eventful summer and toward the future of the University. The University needs to move forward, Board members agreed, but the traditions
that the community value cannot be lost. President Teresa Sullivan abruptly announced her resignation in June in a University-wide email, referencing an unspecified “philosophical difference of opinion” with the Board of Visitors. After enduring
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Sullivan resigns, rumors fly about forced ouster by Board of Visitors.
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Rector Helen Dragas informs President Teresa Sullivan that the Board wants her to resign.
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Please see Board, Page A2 Vice Rector Mark Kington resigns amid growing public outcry. College Prof. Bill Wulf resigns in protest of the Sullivan ouster.
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Board convenes Rotunda meeting, names McIntire School Dean Carl Zeithaml interim president.
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1,500 students rally at the Rotunda, demand Sullivan’s reinstatement.
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The Cavalier Daily receives emails indicating the Board forced Sullivan to resign because of disagreements over online education.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell reappoints Dragas to the Board.
University COO Michael Strine resigns after just a 13-month term.
July 17
Board votes unanimously to reinstate Sullivan as University president.
University announces partnership with Coursera for online education starting fall 2013.
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Board meets in Richmond, Va. for annual retreat.
Judge denies Huguely retrial motion Love’s $30 million civil suit insufficient reason for retrial, Hogshire says; sentencing hearing scheduled for next week By Donald Sensabaugh Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
Last semester a murder trial rocked the University community, and this week a Charlottes-
ville Circuit Court judge denied former University student George Huguely’s request for a retrial. Huguely was found guilty of grand larceny and the seconddegree murder of lacrosse player
and University student Yeardley Love, after a three-week trial in February. Huguely’s defense attorney argued this week that Judge Edward Hogshire’s undisclosed
knowledge of Sharon Love’s plans to file a $30 million wrongful death civil case against Huguely violated the Brady Rule, which requires the prosecution to disclose information that
would be favorable to the defendant, if requested to do so, or if it is “obviously helpful” to the defendant’s case, according to Please see Huguely, Page A2
Noise ordinance unaltered Lou’s List survives City Council rejects increased penalties for loud parties
Proposed changes to the City’s noise ordinance would have quadrupled the fine for first-time offenders to $1,000.
summer critiques Popular course-index website remains active despite University criticism By Kelly Kaler
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Cavalier Daily News Editor Incoming first years and returning students can breathe a collective sigh of relief as
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the start of the semester festivities will not be curtailed by a harsher city noise violation policy. Charlottesville City Council last Monday evening shot down
proposed changes to the city’s noise ordinance that would have increased penalties for offenders. Please see Noise, Page A2
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Lou’s List, the popular University course index website, came under fire from University administration this summer for allegedly overloading the Student Information System, the University’s official course index and registration website. “We need to discuss another option for getting this data,” Teresa Wimmer, senior director of Enterprise Applications, told Physics Prof. Lou Bloomfield in a July 30 email that Bloomfield
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published on Lou’s List. Bloomfield is the creator and operator of Lou’s List. Bloomfield said the overload wasn’t caused by his software, but rather could be attributed to another individual’s attempts to scrape data from the University’s system. “I haven’t changed my datamining programs for months, so today was no different from last week or last month,” Bloomfield responded in an email to Wimmer on the same day. At the time in question, Lou’s List operations were maintaining just “0 or 1 active session on SIS,” he added. This means that Lou’s List was mining the same data as 0 or 1 active users on
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