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U-Va. Sit-In Held for Workers' Wages
Seventeen University of Virginia students have been staging a sit-in on campus since Wednesday morning to call for higher wages for support workers, a student organizer and a professor said.
The demonstrators want the university to raise the minimum pay for support employees to $10.72 an hour. The lowest wage at the school is $9.37, officials said.
University officials said the lowest wage had been $8.88 an hour and was increased last month. "We believe the schedules are fair, that they do not constitute what you have represented to the public as poverty wages," University President John T. Casteen III wrote in a letter to students.
-- Maria Glod
Fairfax FATALITY
Woman Hit by Car Near Seven Corners
An 85-year-old woman trying to walk across Arlington Boulevard in the Seven Corners area yesterday afternoon was struck by a car and killed, Fairfax County police said.
Nanh Le of the 3700 block of South George Mason Drive in Falls Church was trying to cross near Leesburg Pike, Officer Richard Henry said. Le was hit by a Toyota Scion driven by a 25-year-old Arlington man, police said. Le was pronounced dead at Inova Fairfax Hospital.
