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46-434: (Redirected from Simon Bolivar University ) Simón Bolívar University may refer to: Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) Simón Bolívar University (Colombia) Simón Bolívar University (Mexico) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with

92-402: A graphic archival photo of bodies in a morgue, to illustrate a story about rising crime rates , led the government to temporarily ban such publications. El Nacional editor and proprietor Miguel Henrique Otero , leader of the opposition movement Movimiento 2D , said that "The editorial reasoning behind the photo was to create a shock so that people could in some way react to a situation that

138-648: A number of the nine police officials imprisoned for participating in the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt , regarded by the MUD as political prisoners, were also nominated, in districts with a real chance of opposition success; winning would require their release due to parliamentary immunity . The MUD is supported by the Movimiento 2D opposition movement led by El Nacional editor and proprietor Miguel Henrique Otero . In mid-August 2010 El Nacional sparked an international outcry when its frontpage publication of

184-466: A plurality of votes. Each coalition was allowed to invite 30 foreign officials to observe the elections. Elections for the National Assembly of Venezuela in the 2000 and the 2005 were conducted under a weak mixed member proportional system, with 60% elected in first-past-the-post electoral districts and the remainder by closed party list proportional representation . This

230-403: A series of unsuccessful legal challenges and dramatic public protests (including a series of hunger strikes) against an alleged government confiscation of part of his farm. The government maintained that his protests were related to land legally owned by his neighbours, and that his final hunger strike came after the disputed land titles had been withdrawn from his neighbours. The government accused

276-516: A technical capacity. Guests from those bodies allowed to observe the final days of the election were not given the technical observation role they had been given in the past. Instead, each alliance participating in the election was permitted to bring "up to 30 witnesses from abroad." The European Union noted that "the Venezuelan National Electoral Council accredited more than 200 international guests to accompany

322-625: A three-fifths majority, which means it would not be able to pass enabling legislation without the aid of 3 non-PSUV members of the National Assembly. The three seats reserved for indigenous peoples were elected from the Foundation for Integration and Dignification , the Autonomous Movement of Zulia and from CONIVE . Chavez called the results a "solid victory." The price on Venezuelan bonds increased on news of

368-582: A turnout of 66.45%. Out of 165 seats, the PSUV won 96, the MUD 64, the PPT 2, and three others were reserved for indigenous parties. The election saw the PSUV retain 58.18% of the Assembly seats. It thus lost its two-thirds majority in the assembly, and therefore would not be able to pass organic legislation on its own, without the support of at least some members of the MUD opposition. The PSUV also did not attain

414-517: Is that of a gateway, which represents the unity of various knowledge and their projections into the future. In 2010, in the dawn of the election day of the parliamentary elections , security forces raided a call center set up by Voto Joven that had been installed in the university, entering with firearms and taking three computers, without a search warrant and violating the university autonomy. As of 2010, Simón Bolívar University has over 38,000 alumni. The closed-campus-style grounds are located in

460-596: The Sartenejas valley, in the municipality of Baruta , Miranda State . Its total surface is approximately of 3,489,000 m . The Simón Bolívar University Library (USB) is an academic library with special emphasis on sciences, mathematics, engineering, and humanities. The library of the USB has, among its special collections, the Ernesto Mays Vallenilla  [ es ] archive. His archive includes

506-652: The World Health Organization 's survey-based estimates, which are three times higher. A September 2010 poll conducted by Alfredo Keller & Associates confirmed that crime was the top concern for Venezuelans heading into the September 26 parliamentary elections, as it had been for some time. At the end of August the death of Franklin Brito due to a hunger strike led to widespread domestic and international media coverage. He had, since 2004, launched

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552-612: The 165 deputies to the National Assembly . Venezuelan opposition parties, which had boycotted the previous election thus allowing the governing Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) to gain a two-thirds super majority, participated in the election through the Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD). In 2007 the Fifth Republic Movement dissolved and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela was formed as

598-569: The Dean position. It offers the following undergraduate programs ( BSc ): It offers the following graduate programs ( MSc , PhD and Specializations): The university fosters a thriving environment for extracurricular activities. Its student clubs are the origin of the most awarded Latin American teams in international competitions. The Model of United Nations team is one of the best in the world. The Harvard National Model of United Nations team has

644-461: The MUD held primaries in 15 electoral districts, with 361,000 voters participating, and selecting 22 candidates (the remaining 143 candidates were chosen "by consensus"). The candidates chosen included Maria Corina Machado (of Sumate ) and Manuel Rosales , the opposition's candidate in the 2006 presidential election and now in exile in Peru (due to corruption charges, which he denies). In addition,

690-605: The QS World University Rankings 2015, the USB has the No. 2 position nationally, while ranked No. 34 in Latin America. In May 1967 the government created a commission composed by Luis Manuel Peñalver, Luis Carbonell, Mercedes Fermín, Miguel Angel Pérez and Héctor Isava to study the possibility of creating a new university that would offer studies to directly promote the economic and social development of

736-645: The Sartenejas Valley in Caracas and seven years later in Camurí Grande Valley, Vargas . Currently has these two locations. Its rectory is Sartenejas headquarters, located in the Baruta municipality of Miranda state. The USB has graduated approximately 25,000 engineers, architects, urban planners and graduates, along with 5,000 specialists, masters and doctors. According to a research by

782-600: The University on 19 January 1970. From the confluence between the name "Universidad Simón Bolívar" and its slogan "The University of the Future", the Venezuelan designer, Gerd Leufert developed the design inspired by the photographic reproduction of an electrical circuit. The figure includes eight semicircular lines and a small rectangle in the center of them, forming a structure similar to a rounded pyramid, whose meaning

828-442: The Venezuelan opposition of acting like "vultures" and desiring Brito's death for their own political ends in the context of the coming election. Poll results are listed in the tables below in chronological order and using the date the results of the survey were published. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. Opinion polls vary widely, but

874-409: The books of his personal Library, in addition to his own philosophical works as professor and researcher. The archive has a particular relevance within the university, not only because Mayz Vallenilla was its founder dean, but because he devoted a large part of his philosophical research to the understanding of the modern human being within the context of metatechnics. Concept that he developed witnessing

920-538: The country's 28.5 million population were eligible to vote. In order to revise the party's statutes, programme, and primary voting methods, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela planned a congress of 772 members representing the country's 759 municipalities. These members were elected by the members of the party in an election held on 15 November 2009. At this congress, beginning on 21 November 2009 and ending in March 2010, members were to debate each weekend over

966-539: The country. On July 18, 1967, the President of Venezuela Raúl Leoni signed a decree which officially founded the university as an Instituto Experimental de Educación Superior focused mainly on scientific and technological research. The original name given to the university was Universidad de Caracas ; however, the first name of the Central University of Venezuela was also "Universidad de Caracas" and it

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1012-697: The countryside over those in the city. As usual in Venezuela, the voting took place on a non-work day, and the sale of alcohol was banned starting the day prior to elections. Four domestic NGOs registered 624 observers each. Unlike the election in 2005, major independent election observing organisations such as the Organization of American States , the European Union and the Carter Center were not invited to observe this election in

1058-497: The day of the election. No long-term international electoral observation missions participated." Foreign observers were warned in a full-page newspaper advertisement "not to interfere with the nation's internal affairs." An opposition spokesman said that "If observers were allowed to watch the campaign, they would have seen the abuse of power and of public resources and public media." The government's Roy Chaderton said that foreign observers were present and that comments like this from

1104-493: The election results, described by Bloomberg as "Chavez's worst setback at the ballot box since taking office in 1999". According to Reuters, "The new parliamentarians do not take their seats until January, so Chavez has a compliant Assembly for three months more to push through legislation." After the election, the Spanish newspaper El País suggested that the PSUV and the MUD would have finished with 80 seats each had

1150-564: The failure of the 2004 recall referendum . By April 2010, the MUD included around 50 political parties, of which 16 were national in scope and the rest regional, and received support from some other social organisations and opinion groups. The main parties included in MUD are the traditional Democratic Action and COPEI (which held power from 1958 to 1998); the left groups Movement for Socialism , Radical Cause and Red Flag Party ; and more recently established parties A New Era , Justice First and For Social Democracy ("PODEMOS"). In April

1196-515: The government has done absolutely nothing about." The incident brought further international attention to the issue of Venezuela's crime rates (having already received widespread attention as a leading issue of public concern), and was followed by an article in The New York Times , reporting Venezuela's murder rate was higher than that of Iraq, although the comparison used Iraq Body Count 's numbers derived from media reports rather than

1242-613: The government-aligned GIS XXI (directed by former Chavez interior minister Jesse Chacón ) consistently gives poll predictions more favourable to PSUV than other pollsters. GIS XXI's predictions for the February 2009 constitutional referendum just before polling day tallied closely with those of the independent Instituto Venezolano de Análisis de Datos (IVAD), and both closely matched the outcome (a nearly 10 percent margin of victory for approval); opposition-linked companies were predicting heavy defeat as late as December 2008. In August 2010,

1288-477: The law, and said that Diaz could be prosecuted for making false accusations. Díaz requested the CNE open administrative proceedings, but after extensive internal discussion the CNE declined. The opposition electoral coalition, Coalition for Democratic Unity (MUD) rejected the CNE decision, and said it illustrated CNE's lack of independence and willingness to justify violation of electoral rules. Around 17.5 million of

1334-404: The leading government party. Nationally, the popular vote was split equally between PSUV and MUD, but PSUV won a majority of the first-past-the-post seats and consequently retained a substantial majority in the Assembly, although falling short of both two-thirds and three-fifths super majority marks. Of the 165 deputies, 110 were constituency representatives elected on a first-past-the-post ,

1380-465: The little one that leads them out (see Nuestros Símbolos | Universidad Simón Bolívar ). A brief history and description :The sculpture creation started in 1975 when Gabriel Martin Landrove, a USB architect student, won an institutional contest. Construction took place until July 5, 1991, when Phd Professor Stefan Zarea conducted the final works and inaugurated it. The artistic concept was inspired by

1426-419: The morning dew condensed over a tree sleeve falling down into another one. The sleeves are represented with 576 metal trowels arranged as a 48 by12 matrix in a conical truncated structure that allows the water to create multiple small waterfalls. This huge structure can rotate over its own vertical axis and the movement is produced by a pelton wheel dispose at the lower level of the conical structure. The rise of

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1472-503: The most "Best International Delegation" Awards in the history of the conference (5 times), the World Model of United Nations team has won the "Best Large delegation award" 3 times. The Baja SAE has ranked top 5 during 10 continuous years. The student clubs are very organized and disciplined teams. They typically have strict admission processes and put a strong focus on hard work and commitment. Several myths and legends are part of

1518-446: The new standards of the party, in which are included voting and selection method for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The main Venezuelan opposition parties had boycotted the 2005 parliamentary election , unexpectedly withdrawing just before election day, despite a dispute over the voting process apparently having been resolved with the support of the Organization of American States (OAS). Eleven deputies subsequently defected to

1564-466: The newspaper Últimas Noticias published what it said was the result of an unpublished opinion poll by Datanálisis, which showed the PSUV was likely to win 124 of the National Assembly's 165 seats, which would give it a two-thirds majority. Datanálisis later clarified that the results were a February 2010 extrapolation of the results of the last national election, the 2009 constitutional referendum. Complete results were available on 28 September, showing

1610-554: The opposition or declared themselves independent. In June 2009, it was reported that the opposition parties were planning to create the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (Coalition for Democratic Unity, MUD) a coalition that would include all of the opposition parties which might select unique candidates for the upcoming elections. A previous opposition umbrella group, the Coordinadora Democrática , had collapsed after

1656-427: The opposition were "part of the media terrorism they like to practice". The CNE monitors political advertisements during campaigns, and reported that for a 3-day period at the end of August, opposition ads made up 60.3% of the airtime given to such ads, across the five main channels Venevisión , Televen , Globovisión , Tves and Venezolana de Televisión . Over half the total opposition ad time of around 80 minutes

1702-451: The party list proportion to 30%. In addition, the law completely separated the district vote and the party list votes, creating a more parallel system. Previously, parties winning nominal district seats had had these subtracted from the total won under the proportional party list. Under the new law, in 2009, electoral districts were redefined in a way that has been accused of favouring the PSUV, particularly in giving more weight to votes in

1748-476: The profound changes and advances in computer science and forecasting the possibilities of artificial intelligence. His book, The Foundations of Meta-Technics, sought to capture an understanding of a trans-human logic and, with it, of a new human identity for the XXI century. In Recent years the lack of resources contribute to deteriorate the infraestructure. In September 2021 the professor Alejandro Teruel resigned to

1794-562: The same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simón_Bolívar_University&oldid=1007883399 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sim%C3%B3n Bol%C3%ADvar University (Venezuela) The university began academic activities in 1970 in

1840-544: The second stage of its restoration with the restart of the conical structure including their rotational movement. It is left for the close future, the restoration of the mirror pools, water filtration systems and night illumination. 10°24′37″N 66°52′52″W  /  10.4104°N 66.8812°W  / 10.4104; -66.8812 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election The 2010 parliamentary election in Venezuela took place on 26 September 2010 to elect

1886-455: The student's culture: La Cebolla : The logo of the university is called "La Cebolla" or "the onion" in Spanish in contrast to its technological symbolism (it was inspired by the photograph of an electric circuit). It was designed to represent a group of doors one into another, a metaphor for the hard work and effort students have to do in order to walk from the big door that leads them in, to

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1932-495: The system in 87 electoral districts, 52 elected on a party list system (two or three deputies per state of Venezuela , depending on population), and 3 seats were reserved for indigenous peoples, with separate rules. Additionally, 12 representatives were chosen for the Latin American Parliament . There was initially a dispute between alliances that participated in the election as to which alliance received

1978-418: The water to the top and its rotational momentum is produced by hydraulic force drive by an electrical pump. There is also a tree level shallow pool, a top circular viewer and an intricate circular walk sides that complements the design. The university turns it on during special occasions, like graduations, and since 2008 is under heavy maintenance program. On January 19, 2010, the maintenance department finished

2024-553: Was an adaptation of the system previously used for the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies , which had been introduced in 1993, with a 50-50 balance between voting districts and party lists, and deputies per state proportional to population, but with a minimum of three deputies per state. For the 2010 election, the Ley Orgánica de Procesos Electorales (LOPE) (Basic law of electoral process) among other changes reduced

2070-437: Was on Globovisión . Media controlled by the government gave "blanket coverage to the PSUV's campaign and token, hostile interviews to opposition candidates". In early September, one member of the five-person CNE, the pro-opposition councillor Vicente Díaz, publicly accused Chavez of breaking campaign laws by using state-run television to "berate rivals and praise friends" during the election campaign. Chavez denied breaking

2116-511: Was still known by that name. Members of The National Academy of History, the Bolivarian Society of Venezuela and other important institutions expressed their wish to relate the name of El Libertador Simón Bolívar to the name of the recently created university, which resulted in the change to the name of Universidad Experimental Simón Bolívar in 1969. Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla was the rector when president Rafael Caldera inaugurated

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