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	The Rotunda (University of Virginia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rotunda (live webcam) – approximate latitude/longitude: N38° 01' 58" W78° 30' 14" – standing 77 feet (23.5 meters) in both height and diameter, is at one end of The Lawn, immersed in the Central Grounds of the University of Virginia and is part of what Jefferson called the "Academical Village".
		The Marquis de Lafayette and James Madison dined with Thomas Jefferson in the Dome Room of the unfinished Rotunda at the University's inaugeral banquet, and Lafayette toasted Jefferson as the "Father of the University of Virginia".
		The Rotunda is the symbolic head of the Lawn and the University of Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Rotunda_(University_of_Virginia) (619 words)

	University of Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the presence of James Madison, the Marquis de Lafayette toasted Jefferson as father of the "University of Virginia" at the school's inaugural banquet in 1824.
		A reform specific to the University of Virginia was one of the first school-sponsored financial aid programs in all of higher learning and, though primitive by today's standards, it included a loan provision for those "needy young men" who were unable to pay.
		In 2004, the University of Virginia became the first public university in the United States to receive more of its funding from private sources than from the state with which it is associated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Virginia (3917 words)

	Rotunda- Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Although the capstone to the University, the Rotunda was among the last buildings to be designed and erected.
		Although the Rotunda became the central image of the University its actual function as a library was problematic.
		On October 27, 1896 a fire largely destroyed the Rotunda and it was subsequently rebuilt to the designs of the New York architect, Stanford White, and his firm, McKim, Mead & White.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /wilson/uva/rotunda/descript.html (436 words)

	World Heritage Sites- Thomas Jefferson
		The Jeffersonian Precinct of the University of Virginia covers a plot of land measuring 28 acres.
		For example, Pavilion II, near the foot of the Rotunda, is 64' from Pavilion IV, whereas Pavilion VIII is 117' from Pavilion X. The length of the gardens in between the inner and outer ranges to the east side of the Lawn is 174'.
		The Jeffersonian Precinct is separated from the rest of the University by roads on the west, north, and east sides and by a wide walkway on the south side.
	www.cr.nps.gov /worldheritage/jeff.htm (777 words)

	US: Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
		University of Virginia The Jeffersonian Precinct of the University of Virginia covers a plot of land measuring 28 acres.
		University of Virginia Jefferson began to design the University of Virginia in 1805 when he wrote to L. Tazewell of the Virginia legislature that large buildings for American colleges were inconvenient, likely to be destroyed by fire, and might harbor infection.
		University of Virginia Management of the buildings in the Jeffersonian Precinct is vested in the Department of Physical Plant and is directed by the Architect for the Historic Buildings and Grounds.
	whc.unesco.org /sites/nom/us-jef.htm (10471 words)

	University of Virginia - Official Athletic Site - On Campus
		The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, who outlined the institution's purpose, designed its buildings, supervised construction, planned the curriculum and directed the recruitment of the first faculty.
		University planners have continued to reserve open space for study and contemplation while renovating historic buildings and erecting modern facilities to keep pace with the changing needs of students and faculty.
		The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Va. The city, located in beautiful central Virginia among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, has the advantage of proximity to metropolitan areas such as Washington, D.C. (120 miles), Richmond (70 miles), and Roanoke (125 miles).
	virginiasports.collegesports.com /school-bio/va-school-bio.html (2172 words)

	QSC Helps Maintain Historical Aesthetic at University of Virginia Rotunda
		As the founder of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson brought an architectural vision to college life built around what he called an "Academical Village." Centrally located within this micro-city at the head of a wide expanse of lawn, the university's Rotunda is a stately domed structure used to host speaking events and boardroom-style meetings.
		The university initially wanted all necessary rackmount equipment to be kept out of the room as well, but ultimately allowed a small amount of space for portable racks that could be rolled in and hidden under tables, then rolled back out when not in use.
		University administrators were pleased with the Rotunda sound system, especially its sonic quality and kind impact upon the structure's interior decor.
	svconline.com /enewsletters/QSC-University-Rotunda-07282005/index.html (576 words)

	American Vision of Harmony by Rachel Fletcher in the Nexus Network Journal vol. 5 no. 2 (Autumn 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The Rotunda's overall diameter of 77 feet is one-half that of the Pantheon, producing an area of one-quarter and a volume of one-eighth the original.
		To produce the University of Virginia, he transformed the classical Greek temple and Roman villa into an "academical village" of hotels and pavilions, hoping that students and teachers of the new republic might convene in the free exchange and pursuit of knowledge.
		The Virginia State Capitol was the first government building designed for a modern republic, the first American work in the classic style, and the first modern public building in the world to adapt the classical temple form on its exterior [Nichols 1976, 169-170; Kimball 1968, 42].
	www.nexusjournal.com /Fletcher-v5n2.html (11827 words)

	Electronic Imprint at the University of Virginia Press
		University of Virginia Press publishes new digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
		Rotunda now has its own gateway page that will serve as an entrance to the publications, where subscribers can read them or search them in depth, and where others can survey the offerings and sign up for a trial subscription.
		EI is supported by funds from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the President’s Office at the University of Virginia.
	www.ei.virginia.edu (254 words)

	Browse the University of Virginia Press Catalogue
		The University of Virginia Press is helping to lead the way in digital publishing in the humanities.
		Rotunda was created for the publication of original digital scholarship along with newly digitized critical and documentary editions in the humanities and social sciences.
		Rotunda is made possible by generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the President’s Office of the University of Virginia.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /electronic_pubs.html (189 words)

	University of Virginia
		While the university represents a major achievement in the history of American education, its architectural scheme was revolutionary and provided a prototype for numerous campus designs.
		The University of Virginia is bounded by University and Jefferson Park Aves.
		The University of Virginia is the subject of an online-lesson plan produced by Teaching with Historic Places, a National Register program that offers classroom-ready lesson plans on properties listed in the National Register.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/journey/uni.htm (457 words)

	CNN - Frat guys, a cow and a rotunda - Nov. 21, 1997
		After years of speculation, the University of Virginia knows the culprits behind a prank that has long been the subject of mystery and local lore.
		More than 30 years later, University of Virginia graduate and current Nasdaq president Alfred Berkeley III has admitted that he and his friends orchestrated the stunt.
		Many universities do, but we don't have many pranks and so it wasn't something we were expecting at all.
	www.cnn.com /US/9711/21/cow.prank (499 words)

	Employer Profile: University of Virginia
		The University of Virginia is located in the small Central Virginia city of Charlottesville, Virginia, 25 miles east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 70 miles west of Richmond and 110 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Nearly 20,000 students attend the University of Virginia, 13,000 of them undergraduates.
		During the fiscal year 2003, research projects at the University of Virginia received $277 million in outside funding from federal, state, and private sources, including $146 million from the National Institutes of Health and $13.8 million from the National Science Foundation.
		The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where urban sophistication and a pastoral landscape combine with the comfort and convenience of a small town, population 40,000.
	chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/8561.htm?pg=i (1134 words)

	Universitas 21 - Member Institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The University’s Academic Division is comprised of these 10 schools: College of Arts and Sciences, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, School of Architecture, McIntire School of Commerce, Curry School of Education, School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Law, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
		Among the University’s highest priorities is a commitment to raise the stature and effectiveness of international initiatives and to incorporate an awareness of international issues throughout the curriculum.
		The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
	www.universitas21.com /members/virginia.htm (566 words)

	Students Against Apartheid Coalition v. O'Neil
		At issue here are certain regulations of the University of Virginia[fn1] that the defendants[, the University’s Rectors and Board of Visitors, and University President Robert M. O’Neil,] are enforcing to prevent the plaintiffs from erecting symbolic “shanties” on certain areas of the University’s campus.
		The plaintiffs are two groups of University of Virginia students who seek to protest the political and racial environment in South Africa and the University’s economic investment in that country.
		But when the University has stipulated that the shanties did not damage the lawn in any way, the court cannot conclude that the current lawn use regulations are the necessary and least restrictive means to protect its sole interest in the esthetic integrity of the campus.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~prh2s/SAAC.htm (3194 words)

	UVa Special Collections Library: Collections
		There are approximately 80 architectural drawings by Jefferson, most of them relating to the building of the University of Virginia.
		The steady growth of its holdings in recent years confirms the University of Virginia as the principal present day institutional collector of Jefferson manuscripts.
		The University of Virginia entered upon the deliberate collection of Jefferson papers only in the present century, long after some other institutions and individuals had taken an interest in their preservation.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/collections/tj (1230 words)

	Thomas Jefferson
		Nearby is the University of Virginia, the original architecture and curriculum of which Jefferson also designed.
		Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., a scholar at the University of Virginia, has written the definitive book on the original buildings, or Academical Village, at the University of Virginia.
		Jefferson's idea for the United States was that of an agricultural nation of yeoman farmers, in contrast to the vision of Alexander Hamilton, who envisioned a nation of commerce and manufacturing.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_jefferson.html (1478 words)

	University of Virginia: A Pictorial History
		The history of the University of Virginia is, like the larger history of the United States, the story of Thomas Jefferson's vision and of how that vision grew into the lively, democratic place we know today.
		During the Vietnam War, when universities were closed nationwide, President Edgar Shannon's address commending students for acting according to their conscience brought condemnation from the governor and a majority of alumni, but it earned the president a standing ovation at commencement the following spring.
		Interleaved with this history are sections displaying the places and themes that have endeared the university and its Charlottesville home to generations of students, who appear in everything from the uniform of the 1830s to the "bare feet and Weejuns" of the 1970s.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /hitchcock.html (625 words)

	Grizzard: Construction of UVA: 1996: Abstract
		A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
		At the time of its initial phase of construction, from about 1817 through 1828, Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia was one of the largest building projects ever undertaken in American history.
		This electronic database consists of 1,750 manuscript documents and a lengthy historical narrative related to the construction of the original buildings of Thomas Jefferson's nineteenth-century architectural masterpiece, the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/grizzard (422 words)

	Scholar, Athlete, and Artist, Edgar Allan Poe At University of Virginia LiteraryTraveler.com
		The university's librarian, himself a student, reported never seeing Poe under the influence of strong drink, indicating that the revels were likely limited to his evening entertainments and to his gambling visits in the village.
		Perhaps the most significant impact of Poe's university days came from the financial difficulties he encountered there, which were the start of a recurring theme that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
		Poe's room, Number 13 on the West Range, is maintained by the Raven Society of the University of Virginia as a shrine to its former occupant.
	www.literarytraveler.com /issue/edgar_allan_poe_author.aspx (1898 words)

	Chris and Rebecca's Wedding - University of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The cornerstone of the University's first building was laid in 1817, with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe in attendance.
		The first class entered the University in 1825, and the first degree was conferred in 1828.
		Virginia's athletic teams have been accompanied by a somewhat confusing array of nicknames.
	www.cs.unc.edu /~brooksc/wedding/uva.html (321 words)

	The University of Virginia
		The University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819.
		As Ada Louise Huxtable has noted in the New York Times, the University is "probably the single most beautiful and effective architectural group of its kind in the country, or in the history of American building." In 1976, the American Institute of Architects proclaimed it one of the outstanding achievements in American architecture.
		In addition, around 8000 staff members are employed in the University and in the University Hospital.
	www.cs.virginia.edu /brochure/uva.html (370 words)

	chapter7: Notes File
		Thorn, TJ said, "has done much of the brickwork of the University of Virginia, and besides some of the other buildings of the best workmanship himself and partner executed the walls of the principal edifice the Rotunda, than which I believe more beautiful and faithful work has never been done in any country.
		Note: 23 See Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 7 April, in PPAmP:UVA Minutes, TJ to Brockenbrough, 16 April, and TJ to Cocke, 22 April 1823, in DLC:TJ.
		University contractor John M. Perry was ill during this time, so much so that he sent his son Lilbourn to collect $500 from Brockenbrough.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /Archive/construction/narrative/html/chapter7.notes.html (2062 words)

	Jefferson Digital Archive
		Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia.
		A comprehensive documentary edition of the papers surrounding the construction of the Academical Village, Jefferson's 19th-century architectural masterpiece at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
		The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson (269 words)

	The Raven Society of the University of Virginia
		Room 13, West Range, Poe spoke earnestly with William Wertenbaker, the University librarian, of his deep regret and declared that he was honor-bound to pay every last cent at his earliest opportunity.
		A pane of glass taken from the window of Room 13, West Range, is on display in the University's Rotunda.
		His enduring influence is evident in the number of visitors drawn each year to the University of Virginia just to get a glimpse of Poe's Room and hear the stories of his early days.
	scs.student.virginia.edu /~ravens/poe.php (962 words)

	"UNIVERSITY-WIDE MARCH TOMORROW NIGHT TO CONDEMN HATE: March Against Racial Hatred Will Culminate at Rotunda with ...
		CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – Organizers of the March Against Racial Hatred expect several hundred University of Virginia students and Charlottesville community members to march to the Rotunda tomorrow night to express their condemnation of racial hatred.
		The March is sponsored by the Committee for Progress on Race at the University of Virginia School of Law and organized with help from students from the School of Medicine, the College of Arts and Sciences, and various University cultural organizations.
		ABOUT UVA CPR: The Committee for Progress on Race at the University of Virginia School of Law (UVA CPR) is a new advocacy group composed of over 100 Law students as well as several administrators and faculty.
	www.law.virginia.edu /home2002/html/news/2003_spr/cpr.htm (931 words)

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