December 13th, 2012 issue #1150

December 13th, 2012

Person of the Year: The runners up...

UVA President Teresa Sullivan was a shoo-in for the Hook's Person of the Year, but she certainly wasn't the only one who made waves in 2012. From a certain UVA rector to a determined sheriff to an outspoken professor, here are this year's runners-up.

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Person of the Year: UVA President Teresa Sullivan

Two years ago, after Teresa Sullivan was selected as the eighth president of UVA, and the first woman to fill the role, replacing John Casteen, III after 20 years at the helm, an associate dean in the McIntire School of Commerce, George Overstreet, joked that "a reduction in testosterone level can never be bad."Of course, this past summer, we learned that estrogen-fueled leadership can be just as powerful, if not more so.

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The week in review

Worst flu outbreak: St. Anne's-Belfield cancels upper school classes December 7 with more than 80 students and staff stricken. Jack Jouett Middle School reports a similar n...

Kitchen classic: Hernandez remembers his roots

Too busy to make dinner every night? Don't want to give your kids fast food? If you live in the Keswick area, chef Juan Hernandez might have a solution for you. From a comm...

Old bizes: The other people of the year

It would be easy to say that Monticello is the oldest business in town. Easy, but wrong if continuous operation counts. From 1831-1923, the place was more of a privat...

Rose Hill foreclosure not representative of city values

8/20/12 CharlottesvilleStephen L. & Barbara J. Wheeler to Karen M. Wheeler, 111 Hartford Court, $138,500Teresa D. Caddell to Bank of America, 1451 Avon Street, $99,875F...

Property auctions

December 13 at 3:30pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1638 Harris Creek Road Debtors: Sandra K. Meadows, Mary Angela Stephens, Sonja M. Burt Original amount owing:&n...

Campus crushing: Radnor's film is delightful escapism

Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts is an almost unreasonable pleasure about a jaded New Yorker who returns to his alma mater in Ohio and finds that his heart would like to stay t...

Table of contents

COVERPerson of the yearWhen the UVA Board of Visitors axed the school's first female president in June, the school was thrown into tumult and the future of higher education...

Accreditation limbo: UVA placed on 'warning' status by group

Helen Dragas has a new headache. Despite telling the group that accredits the University of Virginia that all governance issues were under control, the UVA Board of Visitor...
Fiscal cliff: Sneak Reviews may not last the month

It's a beautiful, 70-degree December day, and that's killing Mark Tramontin, the owner of Sneak Reviews, a virtually extinct type of retail establishment– the video ...
More tow trouble: Lot owner arrested for brandishing weapon

Three weeks after a towing incident at the former Fry's Spring Exxon station on Fontaine Avenue escalated into a confrontation between a vehicle owner and an allegedly gun-...
Searching for Sage: Family mourns missing teen, demands answers

Two weeks after Dashad Smith vanished without a trace, police remain tight lipped about the progress of the search, and the teenager's grandmother is struggling to cope. "I...
Vigil for Sage: Dozens turn out for missing Charlottesville teen

Approximately 50 people came out on Saturday night, December 8, for a vigil to call attention to the case of missing Charlottesville teen Dashad "Sage" Smith. The 19-year-o...

Legal battles limited to passive panhandling

Your article on panhandling [December 6 cover story: "Season of giving: Is panhandling, vagrancy, destroying the Downtown Mall?"] stated that battles have been fought regar...
Panhandling scary? Buy the Mall

That we are faced with a brazen, organized movement to legislate citizen speech and behavior in a public space is shocking and infuriating. [December 6 cover story: "Season...

DMZ

Walking in the County southeast on Hydraulic Road past the shops at Stonefield. Enjoying the new sidewalk and trees. Headed home. Arriving at the “Main Street” of the...