Although the Math Department has been steadily increasing over the past few years, the Math staff has been inversely decreasing (with professors either retiring or otherwise leaving) and they have not been able to hire any new professors. Fewer classes are being offered and the classes that are offered have hefty waitlists. In accordance with Obama's interest in increasing mathematics and science major graduates (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2074024,00.html), I hope that UVA can participate in this larger goal. As of now, UVA is not making it any easier to finish a mathematics major.

I know that it isnt Phi Psi's property, so I'm assuming its university property, and its actually treacherous trying to walk across there. Lots of broken glass, rocks, no lights... just not a good situation. If StudCo put a sidewalk in there, it'd be one of the greatest initiatives ever.

Seriously, if we had 2 more days off of school for Thanksgiving break, I could go home for a full 9 days. Instead I only get 5 days and 2 of those are travel days. I would be willing to go to school 2 days early during the summer and have a longer break.

For a couple years I've been waiting on someone to figure out that both doors at the top of Nau/Gibson need to be unlocked to relieve the traffic bottleneck that happens multiple times each day. Only one opens and it's been this way for quite some time. Let's get this fixed!

The new new wing of the chemistry building was open 24/7 during the first part of Fall 2011 semester, but they recently closed it to student use after 5:00 PM. WHY? It is a great study area and we should be able to use it all the time.

It would be a good idea to have a few vacuums on hand for students (especially first years) to check out and borrow for 10 minutes at a time. They could be stored in the basement of Page or elsewhere, but I find myself (and many others) needing a vacuum. However, to own a vacuum and store it in a dorm takes up too much space and it's a huge inconvenience. Is this possible to start a check out system and have a few on hand?

If SIS were to notify you by email or SMS when a new grade was posted, when a class opened, etc., this would save a lot of time and bandwidth.

this would be great so I dont die biking or walking. At least add additional lighting so that motorists can see me.

I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY! Why is it that, as a psychology minor, the entire college, regardless of their field of study, has preference over me in my minor to sign up for high demand classes like Social Psychology just because I am in the engineering school? I may never get to take that class! Why are we restricted from so many classes just because someone decided we are different than the other majors? This is not okay!

The bus route is a great idea but it needs to run more often and past noon. Right now the bus comes once every 30 minutes which sucks if you barely miss it because then you have to wait 30 minutes for the next one. Also, it should run all day instead of just in the morning because students travel in that area all day and it makes it really inconvenient for us.

shorten the Northline bus route to Barracks by not looping around and stopping in the U-Hall parking lot and/or the Darden roundabout.

At least once a week, I am riding the bus back to dorms when we get stuck behind a coach bus or a car that doesn't realize it can't drive through the barriers. Why not put up a sign on McCormick Road to let people know that they can not drive through between 7 and 4:30?

When Stadium Road was recently repaved, the cross walk across the road from Montebello Circle to the back of Olsson/Thornton/Rice was not repainted. Can we get that repainted? A lot of people cross there and cars do not stop.

I feel like the "lottery" system is just a terrible way for housing to assign rooms. It should be done in a fairer way, such as those with demonstrated financial need (i.e. students who can't afford to live off grounds) and then by year with such factors as if you've lived on grounds each year, etc etc. Right now it's up in the air that i'll have housing next year, my final year, and in a worst case scenario (not getting housing), I might have to drop out.

I see that you say that Student Council isn't the correct forum for this type of issue, so who should I talk to? There are no outlets that are useful for students in Olsson 120. For one of my classes, my teacher said that he would have allowed our computers (access to collab) for our exams but it was impossible without the proper outlets in Olsson 120. This is a heavily used classroom and I know power strips/outlets would be regularly used.

since we put in money to our CavAdvantage account, could we also withdraw money out of our account if we needed a little cash?

I would like to know why we do not have Labor Day off?? I would rather start school 1 day earlier and have Labor Day off than have to go to class on Labor Day while others are off