Meningitis kills fourth-year U.Va. student
By Mary Frances Czartsy, assistant news editor

A fourth-year U.Va. student, who formerly attended JMU, passed away last Saturday as a result of an unidentified strain of meningitis, an inflammation of the lining of the spinal cord and brain. More...

File sharers walk the plank
By Vinod Narayan, contributing writer

What started out in the mid-1990s as MP3s being uploaded on Web sites with free Web space eventually evolved into the global phenomenon of peer-to-peer software downloads. This was marked by the first network that facilitated this type of practice, Napster. From Napster came the formation of many other filesharing programs that exist today such as Kazaa, Grokster, Morpheus, EDonkey and Limewire, among others. More...