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THE CAVALIER DAILY Vol. 130, Issue 16 Thursday, January 16, 2020 TYRA KREHBIEL | THE CAVALIER DAILY 2 | www.cavalierdaily.com The Cavalier Daily NEWS CPD issues warning about This week in-brief recent incidents in CD News Staff University, Corner U.Va.’s employee areas minimum wage The City of Charlottesville issued increased to $15 with a press release Jan. 9 requesting infor- mation about recent incidents that start of new year have occurred in the University and Corner areas involving reports of a ANDREW WALSH | THE CAVALIER DAILY The University officially increased man attempting to enter private resi- Local police responded to several instances of a man its employee minimum wage to $15 per dences and loitering in the area. attempting to enter residences since December. hour Jan. 1, affecting roughly 96 percent CPD officers responded to a of the University’s workforce and mark- RILEY WALSH | THE CAVALIER DAILY breaking and entering Jan. 9 on 14th ing the largest salary raise in University The University’s new living wage plan covers 2,085 Street NW, in which the victim said a man knocked on their door and asked to come into the history. The new living wage plan, an- full-time, benefits-eligible employees and 800 apartment. When the suspect tried to step inside, the resident shut the door and the suspect nounced last March and updated in Oc- full-time contracted employees. attempted to enter through another door after looking inside through the window. tober, covers 1,323 full-time employees Charlottesville police responded to several complaints the previous week of a man loi- eligible for benefits as well as more than tering in the area of the 17th Street NW, Chancellor Street and Madison Avenue in a gold 800 full-time contracted employees. minivan during the morning, day and evening hours. Witnesses say he knocked on the door With the rise to a $15 per hour minimum wage, the University estimates that employees of a sorority house but was not permitted to enter. previously earning $12.75 will see an increased annual gross pay by more than $4,500. It will According to the release, a man entered an apartment through an unlocked window in cost the University around $3.5 million this year to implement, including the cost of fringe the area of Preston Avenue at night last month. benefits and compression adjustments for the 762 workers who currently earn between $15 “At this time, it is not known if these incidents are related,” the press release said. “The and $16.25 an hour, according to deputy University spokesperson Wes Hester. Charlottesville Police Department asks that citizens remain vigilant. If you need immediate In October, University president Jim Ryan announced that U.Va. has partnered with its assistance, please dial 911.” major contractors to raise the wages of their full-time employees to at least $15 an hour. According to the University’s Human Resources department, 259 full-time employees of Ar- amark are benefitting from the base wage adjustment. Aramark has also increased its mini- mum hourly wage to $13 per hour for 208 part-time employees, starting Jan. 1. 1.1 1.8 1.9 1.13 U.Va. to discontinue School of Nursing UBike in May amidst receives $20 million gift growing e-scooter to fund scholarships competition The University is preparing to end its bike The University’s School of Nursing an- share service in May as usage has declined about 50 nounced Jan. 8 a $20 million donation from percent since the introduction of electric scooters Joanne and Bill Conway that will provide to Charlottesville last year. UBike was launched scholarship support to more than 1,000 stu- in 2015 to allow students, faculty and communi- dents in the school’s undergraduate pathway ty members to rent bicycles for transportation for the B.S. in Nursing program. This is the on and around Grounds without having to own EMMA KLEIN | THE CAVALIER DAILY Conways’ third donation to the School of a bike. UBike usage has declined about 50 percent since Nursing, and is it the largest single gift in the MARSHALL BRONFIN | THE CAVALIER DAILY Rebecca White, director of University Parking the City launched e-scooters. school’s history. The donation will support undergraduate students and Transportation — which operates the UBike The Conways’ gift will provide scholarship and expand the Mary Morton Parsons Clinical system — said the decision to cease operations was funding for students who transfer into the Simulation Learning Center. driven in part by the city’s dockless mobility pro- University’s B.S.N. program along with regis- gram, which “proved to be highly utilized and available regionally to include Grounds.” tered nurses seeking an accelerated B.S.N. de- Under this program, e-scooter vendors Lime, Bird and VeoRide were allowed to operate gree. The donation will allow for increased enrollment in these programs, allowing students in the city and on Grounds for over a year. Since the scooters’ debut, the city estimates that to complete a two-year bachelor’s degree at a lower cost. 30,000 users have made more than 200,000 scooter rides for a total of 200,000 miles. The school further plans to use the donation to expand its R.N.-to-B.S.N. program to “Utilization of the UBike system peaked in 2018 — the year before the city’s e-scooter pi- satellite locations — like Richmond and Northern Virginia — in order to allow more nurses lot — with about 50 trips taken on the system per day,” White said. “Since the e-scooter pilot access to an affordable B.S.N. program across the Commonwealth. program started in December 2018, UBike utilization has declined about 50 percent while the The gift will also contribute to the development of the School of Nursing’s Mary Morton e-scooter program has generated about 10 times more rides per day than UBike.” Parsons Clinical Simulation Learning Center by providing enough funds to almost double In addition to growing competition from e-scooters, the University’s provider of the the practice space. The center serves as a training resource for students and health profession- UBike lock mechanism and software was not interested in renewing the procurement beyond als, allowing them to simulate and respond to clinical situations. May — further leading the University to cease operation of its bike sharing program. NEWS Thursday, January 16, 2020 | 3 General Assembly to discuss in-state tuition for DREAMers Other policies to be addressed within the 60-day legislative session include raising the minimum wage and advancing gun control measures Jacquelyn Kim | Staff Writer COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Last November, Virginia Democrats took control of the state legislature for the first time in 26 years. Following the end of 20 years panding transit and broadband. 2020 plan, the plan represents a mented students without DACA islative session, more than 200 of Republican control in the November saw Democrats progressive ideal for an improved status. supporters from across the state General Assembly, the newly em- flip and gain control of both Virginia that UDems is strongly Currently, DACA students at rallied in support of SB 183, a powered Democratic leadership chambers of the General Assem- in favor of,” Postal said. the University may qualify for in- bill co-sponsored by University aims to address a wide range of bly, enabling them to determine Student activists on Grounds state tuition, and the University professor and newly elected Del. high-profile legislative priorities, the state’s legislative agenda for have a long history of mobiliza- also recently expanded financial Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, including raising the minimum at least the next two years. The tion related to the legislative pri- aid to include in-state students that would enable a locality to wage, advancing gun control election came five months after orities enumerated in Northam’s with DACA status in the fall of “remove, relocate, or alter any measures, reforming the criminal a period of intense litigation and plan. 2019. However, undocumented monument or memorial for war justice system and requiring in- lawsuits surrounding racial gerry- The University’s employee students without DACA status veterans located in its public state tuition for DREAMers. mandering that ultimately ended minimum wage, including that and out-of-state DACA students space, regardless of when erected.” Governor Ralph Northam, with the redrawing of boundaries of contracted workers, officially remain inelegible for financial Currently, a Virginia statute D-Va., and legislative leaders re- on the Virginia district map. increased to $15 Jan. 1, following aid. prevents cities and towns from leased their “Virginia 2020 Plan” Efforts to encourage and ena- advocacy from community mem- “We want to see U.Va. and removing war memorials. Hud- Jan. 7 that highlights eleven points ble voter registration were bipar- bers, employees and students — President Jim Ryan on the front- son’s proposed bill would enable to be addressed within the 60-day tisan, with many student organ- many of whom are involved with lines in support for the in-state the Charlottesville City Council legislative session. The budget izations hosting events around the Living Wage Campaign, an tuition bills by signing a letter to remove the statue of Confeder- presented by Northam in Decem- Grounds in the weeks leading up organization active at the Univer- we are drafting for [presidents of ate general Robert E. Lee, around ber 2019 proposed a $135 billion to the election. University pre- sity since 1998. educational institutions in Vir- which violence erupted during operating budget for 2020-2022. cincts saw a 469 percent increase Early next week, U.Va.