An Awesome Article about UVA in US News

Globalist
Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:35:12 +0000

FYI, here’s a great article about UVA:

JEFFERSON’S PUBLIC IVY
*****By Carolyn Kleiner Butler of U.S. News & World Report
It’s one of the first balmy spring afternoons in Charlottesville, and a clean-cut collection of undergrads and professorial types has taken over the Lawn at the University of Virginia, tossing Frisbees, perusing works of philosophy and literature, and chasing dogs. Strains of the latest pop standards ring out from one of the 54 historic rooms lining the brick colonnades on either side of the lush green, where the most involved, accomplished fourth-year students here reside. … *Indeed, this “academical village,” designed by U.Va. founder Thomas Jefferson nearly 200 years ago, is still the very heart of the institution. … Living on the Lawn is just one of many cherished traditions at U.Va., founded by Jefferson in 1819 to keep the state’s best and brightest in the South. Over time, the institution has evolved into a highly selective public university that provides what many consider an Ivy League-caliber education at a fraction of the cost.