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...Karin Agness, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia (UVA), got the idea for NeW when she returned to college after a summer spent interning for Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) in Washington. "I loved being around other conservative women and wanted to find more women like that at UVA," says Agness, 22, who hails from Indianapolis. "Unfortunately, all the women's groups on campus were really liberal and biased. And when I asked a [women's studies professor] if anybody would be interested in sponsoring a conservative women's group, she just laughed...
...same weekend that UVA's production of The Vagina Monologues opened in February 2005, NeW hosted a lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers, a vocal critic of feminism and author of The War Against Boys. Her lecture, "Sex, Lies and The Vagina Monologues" drew a standing-room only audience and sparked a weeklong debate in the student newspaper...
...Vagina Monologues was something at UVA that no one had challenged because when feminists say something, it becomes fact," Agness says. "It's really important for these conservative women to stand up and take on some of these issues...
...loss spelled the end of the season for Kumar and Ermakov, who finished with an overall record of 10-6. They earned first-team All-Ivy League honors and also won the UVA Fall Classic Doubles title...
...national trend indicating an increase in the number of four year colleges and universities seeking to admit these students. Many colleges try to attract such applicants using articulation agreements, which provide for the automatic transfer of community college graduates to four year universities. Most recently, the University of Virginia (UVA) instituted a guaranteed admissions agreement with the Virginia Community College System, which enables community college graduates who achieve a 3.4 GPA and meet certain course requirements for automatic admission into the UVA College of Arts of Sciences with junior standing. “[We wanted to] encourage community college students...