2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Support for the proposal
Explaining some of the choices he made in his budget proposal, President Obama said that "we've got to make a decision if we're going to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans or if we're going to make smart investments necessary to create jobs and grow our economy and expand opportunity for every American."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Opposition to the proposal
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) called Obama's proposal "his most irresponsible budget yet," arguing that "American families looking for jobs and opportunity will find only more government in this plan." The Speaker also that said that "this budget is a clear sign this president has given up on any efforts to address our serious fiscal challenges that are undermining the future of our kids and grandkids."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Opposition to the proposal
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee said that "it's disappointing that the president produced a campaign document instead of putting forth a serious budget blueprint that makes the tough choices necessary to get our fiscal house in order."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Expected impact
Reuters referred to the yearly requirement that the President submit a budget proposal as an "annual ritual," saying that as soon as it would be released, "lawmakers will promptly ignore it." However, the proposal does "highlight" policy proposals and allow Democrats to contrast their plans with those of Republicans.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Expected impact
The Associated Press reported that many of Obama's suggested new taxes have been ignored in the past by Congress, as have many of his ideas for increased spending. Due to the mid-term elections in November 2014 and the ongoing campaigns for re-election, Congress was not expected to act on many of Obama's proposals. Politico reported that "very little of it is expected to become law - or even be seriously considered via legislation on Capitol Hill."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Political reactions, Expected impact
Even the Obama Administration itself admitted that this budget proposal was not expected to be used to build a budget. Politico reported that "the White House isn't even pretending that this year's budget is a governing document" and that this was "a budget he would implement in an ideal world."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, House Republican proposal
On April 1, 2014, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan unveiled the Republican budget plan. The plan would cut $5 trillion in spending over 10 years, and envisions that increases in economic growth would increase tax revenue and balance the budget by 2024. Under the plan, 10-year military spending would increase by $483 billion, while nondefense discretionary spending would decrease by $791 billion. The budget would also repeal the Affordable Care Act, including reversing its expansion of Medicaid, and cap the food stamp program.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, House Republican proposal
Republicans had previously considered not drafting a budget plan because the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 was considered to have largely settled disputes about budget levels, but House conservatives had insisted that a plan be drafted that would support them in the upcoming 2014 elections. As of April 1, Senate democrats did not plan to draft their own budget. The Ryan plan used an accounting mechanism called dynamic scoring, which attempts to predict the macroeconomic fiscal impact of the policy changes, which was not typically included in budget proposals.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, House Republican proposal
Newspaper The Hill called Ryan's proposal the "mainstream GOP budget," contrasting it to other Republican alternatives such as the budget proposal offered by the Republican Study Committee.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, House Republican proposal
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) criticized this proposal, saying "the Republican budget asks not what you can do for your country, but proclaims your country refuses to do a thing for you."


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Other proposals
The Republican Study Committee offered their own budget proposal, one that would spend only $2.8 trillion. This budget proposal was defeated by a combination of all Democrats with 97 Republicans. The final vote total was 133–291. This budget proposal would balance the federal budget in four years, in comparison to the Ryan proposal, which balances in 10 years. Conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America urged Representatives to vote for this budget, while Democrats argued that this proposal cut too much spending.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Other proposals
The Democratic Caucus in the House also offered their own budget proposal, one that was rejected in the House in a vote of 163–261 on April 10, 2014. The Democratic Caucus's budget proposal had 31 Democrats vote against it. The proposal would have spent $3.1 trillion in 2015 and was considered similar to the plan offered by President Obama. The plan had provisions to extend unemployment insurance for another year and raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) criticized the proposal, saying that Democrats are "encouraging us to borrow more, and borrow more, and borrow more, and never lay out any plan whatsoever for paying that money back to the children from whom we are borrowing it".


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Other proposals
The Congressional Black Caucus's budget proposal would spend $3.26 trillion, reverting the cuts to food stamps and lengthening the time period over which people can receive unemployment insurance. Their proposal was voted against in a vote of 116–300. Of the six budget proposals that received votes in the House, this was the proposal that would have spent the most money in 2015.


2015 United States federal budget, Budget proposals, Other proposals
The Congressional Progressive Caucus proposal would spend $3.2 trillion and included higher taxes on millionaires. It would also end the sequester. The House voted against this proposal 89–327 on April 9, 2014.


2015 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation
The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 funded the government through a continuing resolution through December 11, 2014. On September 17, 2014, the House passed the bill 319–108, and on September 18, 2014, the United States Senate passed it 78–22.


2015 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation
OnDecember 11, 2014, the House passed the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, popularly called the "cromnibus" bill, combining an omnibus spending bill funding the federal government through October 2015, with a continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security through February 2015. The House passed a two-day continuing resolution (a "CR" for short) at the same time, to prevent a government shutdown untilthe Senate could take action.


2015 United States federal budget, Related fiscal legislation
OnFebruary 27, 2015, a one-week continuing resolution was passed just hours before the Department of Homeland Security was to shut down. The full-year appropriations bill for Homeland Security was passed on March 3, after Republican House leadership dropped demands to attach provisions rollingback Obama's executive actions on immigration.


2015 United States federal budget, Total revenues and spending, Outlays by budget function
These tables are in billions of dollars. A green cell represents an increase in spending, while a red one indicates a decrease in spending. Outlays represent funds actually spent in a year; budget authority includes spending authorized for this and future years.


2015 United States federal budget, Total revenues and spending, Outlays by budget function
* The Global War on Terror was broken out as a separate budget function in the House budget, but was included as part of National Defense in the Obama administration budget.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections
The 2015 United States gubernatorial elections were held in three states in 2015 as part of the 2015 United States elections. In Kentucky and Mississippi, the elections were held on November 3, and in Louisiana, as no candidate received a majority of votes at the primary election on October 24, 2015, a runoff election was held on November 21. The last regular gubernatorial elections for all three states were in 2011. Democrats won the open seat of term-limited Republican Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, while Republicans reelected incumbent Phil Bryant in Mississippi and picked up the seat of term-limited Democrat Steve Beshear in Kentucky.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections, Kentucky
Two-term incumbent Democratic Governor Steve Beshear, was unable to run for a third term in 2015 due to term limits established under the Kentucky Constitution. To succeed Beshear, Democrats nominated Attorney General of Kentucky Jack Conway. Conway's running mate was State Representative Sannie Overly. For the Republicans, businessman and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014 Matt Bevin ran on a ticket with Tea Party activist and 2014 State House candidate Jenean Hampton. Bevin narrowly defeated Agriculture Commissioner James Comer to win the Republican nomination. Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, ran as an independent, polling well enough to appear in the Bluegrass Poll gubernatorial debate. Bevin ultimately defeated Conway, winning 53% of the vote to Conway's 44%.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections, Louisiana
Two-term incumbent Republican Governor Bobby Jindal was term-limited in 2015 and thus unable to seek reelection. Under Louisiana's jungle primary system, all candidates, regardless of party, appear on the same ballot. The primary was held on October 24, 2015, with Democrat John Bel Edwards at 40% of the vote and Republican David Vitter at 23%. As no candidate won a majority of the vote, a runoff election between Edwards and Vitter was held on November 21, 2015. Edwards won the runoff election with 56.1% of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to win a statewide election in Louisiana since 2008.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections, Louisiana
Three Republicans ran for the office: Public Service Commissioner and former Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Scott Angelle, incumbent Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne and U.S. Senator David Vitter. Potential Republican candidates included former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs and former U.S. Representative Rodney Alexander, Louisiana State Treasurer John Neely Kennedy, State Senator Gerald Long and former governor, former U.S. Representative and candidate for president in 2012 Buddy Roemer.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections, Louisiana
Three Democrats ran: 2011 candidate Cary Deaton, Minority Leader of the Louisiana House of Representatives John Bel Edwards and minister Jeremy Odom.


2015 United States gubernatorial elections, Mississippi
One-term incumbent Republican Governor Phil Bryant nominated for a second and final term. He had won a resounding victory over his Democratic opponent four years earlier, carrying 61% of the vote. Truck driver Robert Gray was nominated by the Democrats to oppose Bryant in the general election. Bryant won the election in a landslide, winning 67% of the vote to Gray's 32%.


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike
On February 1, 2015, United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) announced that "more than 5,200 USW Oil Workers at 11 refineries in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and Washington are on strike against the industry’s unfair labor practices". The list of charges alleged by NSW filed with the NLRB included: bad-faith bargaining over the companies’ refusal to negotiate over mandatory subjects, impeded bargaining for the companies’ undue delays in providing information, threatening workers if they join the ULP strike and others.


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike
As of March 3, 2015, about 6,550 workers were on strike at 15 plants, including 12 refineries with a fifth of U.S. capacity. It was the first time since 1982 that U.S. oil workers have walked off their jobs to protest working conditions. The National Oil Bargaining talks began in 1965 and are part of the U.S. oil industry's Pattern bargaining process.


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike, Refineries (and plants)
The USW announced a strike on February 1, 2015, at the following refineries:


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike, Refineries (and plants)
The strike was expanded on February 6, 2015, when workers at BP Plc-operated refineries in Indiana and Ohio were told to begin a work stoppage the following day:


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike, Refineries (and plants)
In a text message (Saturday morning; date TBD), the USW announced plans to expand the strike to Motiva facilities at Convent, La., and Norco, Louisiana, and to the Shell Chemical Plant at Norco.


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike, Refineries (and plants)
The U.S. refinery strike widened on February 20, 2015, with workers at the nation's largest refinery walking off jobs. Shortly after talks between union and oil company representatives ended on the night of the 20th, the union notified Motiva Enterprises of a strike by its members at the company's 600,250-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.


2015 United Steel Workers Oil Refinery strike, Replacement and returning workers
Shell alleged (according to a letter to employees from Aamir Farid, VP Manufacturing, Americas) that it has been training “relief employees” to operate its Deer Park refinery as well as its Norco chemical plant in Louisiana. By March 3, 2015, up to 180 employees, out of 800, at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Deer Park, Texas, refinery decided to return to work.


2015 UnitedHealthcare season
The 2015 season for the UnitedHealthcare cycling team began in January at the Tour de San Luis. The team participated in UCI Continental Circuits and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal
The 2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal involved National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules violations committed by the University of Louisville (U of L) men's basketball program. The scandal centered around improper benefits given by former Director of Basketball Operations and Louisville player Andre McGee to prospective players and former Louisville players.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Katina Powell
In October 2015, Yahoo! Sports reported that the University of Louisville was investigating allegations made by Katina Powell, who described herself as a madam. Powell alleged that she had been paid several thousand dollars from 2010 to 2014 to provide women to dance for and have sex with Cardinals players and recruits. Many of the alleged parties took place at Minardi Hall, the men's basketball dormitory; others took place at off-campus locations.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Katina Powell
The allegations came out in advance of the release of Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen, a book written by Powell and Indianapolis-based investigative journalist Dick Cady. In the book, Powell named Andre McGee, a former Cardinals assistant and in 2015 the team's director of operations, as having paid her for these services.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Andre McGee
McGee graduated from Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley, California in 2005. McGee enrolled at Louisville in the fall of 2005 where he played for the Cardinals until he graduated in 2010. As the starting point guard his senior year in 2009, he led the Cardinals to the Big East regular season and tournament championships, earning the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament and advancing to the Elite Eight. He also helped U of L to the Elite Eight in 2008 and started 57 career games for the Cardinals.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Andre McGee
After his playing career at Louisville, McGee served as a program assistant and Director of Basketball Operations under Rick Pitino from 2010 to 2014. It was during this time that McGee committed NCAA violations by acquiring and paying for striptease dances and sexual acts for prospective players and players on his current roster. The violations occurred from December 2010 until June 2014.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Findings
The NCAA found the University of Louisville's head coach, Rick Pitino, guilty of a Level I charge. The NCAA Bylaws 11.1.2.1 and 11.1.1.1page:19;  require the Head Coach to monitor all recruiting activities to ensure that they are complied with. Pitino failed to monitor that Operations Director Andre McGee complied with the NCAA rules, when Pitino gave McGee recruiting responsibilities.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Findings
The NCAA found the University of Louisville's Basketball Operations Director McGee engaged  in  unethical  conduct  and  failed  to cooperate  when  he  refused  to  participate  in  interviews  or  provide relevant information to the enforcement staff during the investigation, which constituted violations of NCAA Bylaws 10.01.1, 10.1, 19.2.3, and 10.1-(a).page:16


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Penalties
Though Pitino was set to be suspended for the first five games of the ACC season in 2017–18, Louisville fired him before the season started.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Penalties
The program also had 123 wins from December 2010 to April 2014 vacated, including the 2012 Final Four and the 2013 national championship. The Cardinals were the first to have a men's basketball national title vacated by the NCAA. They will also face a monetary fine for money the university made from advertisements during the Final Fours and National Championship.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Penalties
The university filed an appeal, but the NCAA upheld the findings and punishments on February 20, 2018.


2015 University of Louisville basketball sex scandal, Penalties
On September 30, 2019, a group of players on the 2012–13 team who were not involved in the rules violations settled a lawsuit they had filed against the NCAA. Most of the settlement was confidential, but one portion was authorized to be revealed—while Louisville's team records (including the national title) remained vacated, all honors and statistics for these players were restored. Most notably, Luke Hancock, a plaintiff in the suit, was once again officially recognized as the Most Outstanding Player of the 2013 Final Four.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident
The University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racist incident, known as SAE-OU racist chant incident, occurred on March 7, 2015, when members of the University of Oklahoma (OU) chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) were filmed performing a racist song that used the word "nigger" and referenced Jim Crow.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident
After a video of the incident was published, the SAE's OU chapter was closed and two of its members were expelled.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Incidents recorded on video
On March 7, 2015, videos were recorded while fraternity members and their dates were riding on a chartered bus to the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, where an event celebrating the national organization's Founder's Day was being held. In the video the students are heard singing a chant to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It". Below is how the chant was sung.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Incidents recorded on video
Besides the chant's use of the word "nigger", the lines "You can hang him from a tree" and "but he'll never sign with me" referenced two key elements of the Jim Crow era; lynching and racial segregation, with the latter being in the form of denying admission to minorities, particularly African Americans, into the fraternity.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Incidents recorded on video
The video of the incident was reported on by The Oklahoma Daily on Sunday March 8, and also posted online by student group OU Unheard.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Incidents recorded on video
An additional video emerged showing the fraternity's house mother, Beauton Gilbow, using the same word "nigger" while singing along to a rap song at the fraternity in 2013. Gilbow later stated that she was singing along at the time to rapper Trinidad James' song "All Gold Everything", which heavily uses the same racial pejorative, and apologized for any offense.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, SAE chapter suspended
On March 8, 2015, the national office of Sigma Alpha Epsilon disbanded the OU chapter and suspended or expelled its members. Simultaneously, OU officials ordered the closure of the chapter house and gave SAE members until the end of March 10, 2015 to move out. Two days later, the fraternity's Greek letters were removed from the house and a padlock was placed on the facility's gate. Officials also blocked off the parking lot with barriers and caution tape and changed the locks.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, SAE chapter suspended
At a March 18 press conference, the national SAE office apologized and vowed to promote diversity. The fraternity strongly denied that members had been taught the song, and stated they were investigating additional racist incidents. Elsewhere, the University of Texas said it was looking into claims the chant was used by SAE members there.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
University of Oklahoma president David Boren ordered the expulsion of the two students who led the chant, Michael Levi Pettit and Parker Rice. Through two letters addressed to them, Boren stated that the expulsion was deemed proper as they "played a leadership role" in creating "an extremely hostile learning environment". The action taken by the university was based on school's Student Rights & Responsibilities Code. Rice and Pettit, both Dallas natives, have since re-enrolled in the Austin and Dallas branches of the University of Texas, respectively.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
The LA Times reported that Boren appeared to be alluding to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination at universities receiving federal money. However, the expulsions may have been a violation of the students' first amendment rights. First Amendment law specialist and UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh asserted that President Boren's actions were unconstitutional. Oklahoma State University media law associate professor Joey Senat stated that the chant was offensive but is still protected free speech.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
Glenn Reynolds, a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, expressed the opinion that as a former U.S. senator, Boren should have known that the university was breaking the law in expelling the two students. A Washington Post article reported that a Sigma Chi fraternity successfully challenged similar action taken against them by George Mason University in 1992.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
On March 13, alumni on the board of OU's SAE chapter hired civil rights attorney Stephen Jones to look into the legal issues involving the chapter's suspension and eviction of members from its fraternity house at OU campus. The national office of SAE stated that it was not involved in retaining Mr. Jones and was unaware of his intentions, and that board officials with the OU local chapter had stopped communicating with them since the chapter was closed on March 9.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
On March 25, Levi Pettit apologized publicly for his actions. Parker Rice issued an apology earlier on March 10, 2015 and added that he led the chant under the influence of alcohol, while also stating that the chant was "taught to them". Protesters later gathered outside the Rice family home in Dallas and protested his actions.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
In response to Rice's apology, an anonymous member of the chapter who was present in the chapter house on the day of the incident but absent from the bus during the chanting, confirmed in an interview that the students and members of the chapter were drinking alcohol in the chapter house before the incident.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Students expelled
OU president Boren suspected that the chant was learned on the fraternity's leadership cruise but the SAE national headquarters issued a statement that the chant is not one of their sanctioned songs and they would never allow such chant to be sung, stating that any member or chapter who adopts hostile chants are dealt with severe punishment. However, both the national headquarters and Boren state that the chant was informally shared during the leadership cruise by other members.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
The SAE-OU chapter's only two African-American alumni, Jonathon Davis and William Bruce James II, defended the house mother, Beauton Gilbow, over her actions and voiced out their support for the chapter's closure. Davis has stated that his co-members and batch mates in the chapter would never allow discriminatory behaviour to take place while James re-echoed Davis' statements and stated that he disowns the people in the videos.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Meanwhile, a student from the rival Oklahoma State University, who also bears the name Parker Rice, became the subject of hate mail and death threats in a case of mistaken identity. Unlike the Parker Rice in the racist chant who was a Dallas native, the other Parker Rice, was a native of Oklahoma and was an electronics engineering graduate of OSU who had returned to the same institution to study an Asian Studies course majoring in Japanese as a preparation for his move to Japan. He admits his membership at the Oklahoma State University chapter of Alpha Phi Omega while condemning the racist chant incident. The Oklahoma-native Rice later posted on social media that he has no connection to SAE and that he was not the Parker Rice in the video.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
In response to the video the Oklahoma Sooners college football team held arm-in-arm protest vigils instead of attending practice.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Several news media reports highlighted the fact that SAE, which was founded before the American Civil War in the South had a history of discriminatory incidents.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Robby Soave of the Reason Foundation wrote that the OU had failed to expel a freshman football player "caught on tape punching a female student in the face" in 2014. He concluded, "if anybody was going to be railroaded off campus without so much as a hearing, you would think it might be perpetrators of actual violence, rather than perpetrators of offensive speech (which is not actually a category of crime)."


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe television show blamed the fraternity brothers' use of the word on hip hop music.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Actor and Delta Tau Delta alum Will Ferrell said the incident might be an argument to end the entire college fraternity system. "The incident in Oklahoma, that is a real argument for getting rid of the system altogether, in my opinion, even having been through a fraternity," he told The New York Times.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
On March 23rd, United States President Barack Obama responded to the incident during an interview with the Huffington Post. Obama said it was "not the first time that somebody at a fraternity has done something stupid, racist, sexist," and that it was likely not the last. He commended University of Oklahoma President David Boren for his swift action, and the OU community's response to the video.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Reactions
Beginning in 2015, first year students and faculty have been required to take a five-hour course on diversity. Although several news outlets have connected the training to the chanting video, the course was announced in January, prior to the incident, in connection with a rumors of a "Cowboy and Indians" theme party being planned by a different fraternity.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Chapter house repurposed
On March 10, 2015, OU regained priority over the property. The former chapter house was leased to SAE by OU and was not SAE property. Instead, the chapter house had always been under the ownership of the University.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Chapter house repurposed
The outer wall of the building was vandalized with black spray paint on the day of the incident, and was promptly removed by the University.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Chapter house repurposed
At the beginning of the 2016 academic semester, the former SAE chapter house became the location for OU's University Community Center, which houses the Disability Resource Center (DRC) and the Student Veterans' Association. The seizure of the fraternity house became an opportunity for the DRC to expand, since the center was previously a small wing at Goddard Health Center and had been searching for a location to expand to.


2015 University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism incident, Aftermath, Chapter house repurposed
Within the Student Veterans' Association's lounge, there is a small exhibit a part of the Henderson Scholars Program in the lower lobby of the former chapter house, to notable university alumni such as Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher who performed a significant role in the civil rights movement in Oklahoma.


2015 Upper Austrian state election
The 2015 Upper Austrian state election was held on 27 September 2015 to elect the members of the Landtag of Upper Austria.


2015 Upper Austrian state election
The election saw major losses for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), the traditional major parties of Austrian politics. This was matched by huge gains for the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which doubled its vote share to 30% and overtook the SPÖ to become the second largest party. The Greens also made small gains, while the liberal NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS) failed to enter the Landtag on its first attempt, taking 3.5%.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Background
The Upper Austrian constitution mandates that cabinet positions in the state government (state councillors, German: Landesräten) be allocated between parties proportionally in accordance with the share of votes won by each; this is known as Proporz. As such, the government is a perpetual coalition of all parties that qualify for at least one state councillor. Despite this, parties still establish formal coalitions to organise cabinet positions and ensure a Landtag majority for legislative purposes.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Background
In the 2009 state election, the ÖVP consolidated its lead over the SPÖ, which suffered a huge loss of 13.4 percentage points. Meanwhile, the ÖVP came up one seat short of an absolute majority. The FPÖ also made substantial gains (6.9 points) and moved into third place ahead of the Greens. The ÖVP won five councillors, the SPÖ two, the FPÖ one, and the Greens one. The ÖVP formed a coalition with the Greens.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Electoral system
The 56 seats of the Landtag of Upper Austria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between five multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 4 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with any remaining seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Contesting parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, three parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Aftermath
The result was a major breakthrough for the FPÖ, not least of all because the party captured three state councillors. This put pressure on the ÖVP, which no longer held a majority in the state government. They declared they were not willing to form a coalition which would only have a one-seat majority in the state government, essentially ruling out any coalition with either the SPÖ or Greens alone. The Greens pushed for a three-party coalition with the ÖVP and SPÖ, but Pühringer instead sought an agreement with the FPÖ.


2015 Upper Austrian state election, Aftermath
This was ultimately successful, though Pühringer distanced himself from the FPÖ, describing the situation as a "working agreement" rather than a coalition, stating that both parties were given great freedom to operate independently. The coalition was condemned by SPÖ federal Chancellor Werner Faymann, but supported by ÖVP Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner. The new government took office on 23 October.


2015 Uruguay Open
The 2015 Uruguay Open is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is the eleventh edition of the tournament which is part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay between November 16 and November 22, 2015.


2015 Uruguay Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Uruguay Open – Doubles
Andrej Martin and Hans Podlipnik-Castillo won the title, defeating Marcelo Demoliner and Gastão Elias 6–4 , 3–6 , [10–6]


2015 Uruguay Open – Singles
Pablo Cuevas is the defending champion, and despite returning to defend the title, he lost to Guido Pella in the semifinals.


2015 Uruguay Open – Singles
Pella went on to win the title, defeating Íñigo Cervantes in the final 7–5, 2–6, 6–4


2015 Uruguayan municipal elections
Uruguay held local government elections on May 10, 2015, electing the intendente of the 19 departments that are the administrative divisions of Uruguay, as well as 112 local governments.


2015 Uruguayan municipal elections
This was the second time that both intendentes and alcaldes were elected simultaneously.


2015 Uruguayan municipal elections, Background
In the municipal elections of May 2010, the Partido Nacional had won 12 departments, the Partido Colorado 2 departments, and the Frente Amplio 5 departments.


2015 Uruguayan municipal elections, Background, Canelones
A former stronghold of the Colorado Party, Canelones has been held by the Broad Front coalition since 2005, and once again this party was the winner:


2015 Uruguayan municipal elections, Background, Montevideo
In the capital of the country, the National and Colorado Party ran as a common list. The candidates were as follows:


2015 Utah State Aggies football team
The 2015 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Aggies were led by third-year head coach Matt Wells and played their home games at Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium. This was Utah State's third season as members of the Mountain West Conference in the Mountain Division. They finished the season 6–7, 5–3 in Mountain West play to finish in a four-way tie for second place in the Mountain Division. They were invited to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where they lost to Akron.


2015 Utah State Aggies football team, Before the season, Departures
The Aggies lost both their Defensive and Offensive coordinators (DC Todd Orlando to Houston and OC Kevin McGiven to Oregon State)


2015 Utah State Aggies football team, Before the season, Departures
Among notable player losses to graduation were S Brian Suite, LB Zach Vigil, DE B.J. Larsen, WR Ronald Butler, and OL Kevin Whimpey. Another notable loss was QB Darrel Garretson announcing that he would be transferring to Oregon State University.


2015 Utah State Aggies football team, Before the season, Departures
On June 29, it was announced that Bruce "JoJo" Natson was released from the team for violation of unspecified team rules.


2015 Utah State Aggies football team, Maverik Stadium upgrades
On May 18, 2015, demolition began on the west side of Maverik Stadium to make way for a new concourse, press box, and luxury box complex. Construction lasted throughout the season, and as a result, the stadium's capacity was temporarily reduced.


2015 Utah State Aggies football team, Game summaries, Boise State
The Aggies' victory over the Broncos marked not only the first win over Boise State since 1997, but also the first home victory over a ranked opponent since defeating Fresno State in 1991.


2015 Utah Utes football team
The 2015 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by eleventh year head coach Kyle Whittingham and played their home games in Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished the season 10–3, 6–3 in Pac-12 play to finish in a tie for the South Division title. Due to their head-to-head loss to USC, they did not represent the South Division in the Pac-12 Football Championship Game. They were invited to the Las Vegas Bowl where they defeated rival BYU.


2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident
The 2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident occurred on 20 March 2015. The Dehradun Varanasi Janata Express (train number 14266) derailed near Bachhrawan in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, northern India, resulting in at least fifty-eight deaths and 150 people being injured.


2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident, Accident
At 09:10 local time (03:40 UTC) on 20 March 2015, a passenger train overshot a signal at Bachhrawan, Uttar Pradesh, India. The locomotive and two carriages were derailed. The train was reported to be carrying more than 400 passengers and 85 members of staff. The train was the Janata Express from Dehradun to Varanasi. The driver reported by radio that his brakes had failed, and that he could not stop the train. It was diverted into a siding and crashed through the buffers at Bachhrawan.


2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident, Accident
Photographs show that the carriage next to the locomotive was severely telescoped, it was reported to have been packed with passengers. Fifty-eight people were killed, and more than 150 were injured. A preliminary report published by the Ministry of Civil Aviation reports 39 dead and 38 injured passengers. A team of doctors from the King George's Medical University in Lucknow was dispatched to the scene of the accident. The injured were taken to the King George's Medical University and Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow, or to a hospital in Rae Bareli.


2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident, Investigation
An investigation was opened into the accident by the Commission of Railway Safety. Brake failure was stated by unidentified railway sources as the cause of the accident. The train's driver and guard were seen by witnesses signalling that there was a problem with the train.


2015 Uttar Pradesh train accident, Investigation
Provisional findings of the Commission of Railway Safety discussed on a conference in October 2015 report a “discontinuity of brake pipe pressure between the train engine and the trailing load of passenger coaches caused by wrong position of additional cut out cock provided in the brake pipe of the locomotive which is not having the safety features specified in the design against inadvertent or unauthorized operation.”


2015 Uttlesford District Council election
The 2015 Uttlesford District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Uttlesford District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2015 Uzbek League
The 2015 Uzbek League was the 24th season of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence in 1992. Pakhtakor were the defending champions from the 2014 campaign.


2015 Uzbek League, Teams
Sogdiana Jizzakh and FK Andijan remained for 2015 Uzbek League edition due decision of UzPFL to expand League to 16 teams from 2015 season. Shurtan Guzar and Kokand 1912 promoted to 2015 League as 2014 First League winner and runner-up.


2015 Uzbek League, Relegation play-off
The one leg relegation play-off match between 15th placed team of Uzbek League, Sogdiana Jizzakh and runners-up of 2015 First League, Oqtepa was played on 25 November 2015 in Olmaliq. Sogdiana won by 2:1 and remained in League.


2015 Uzbek presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 29 March 2015. The result was a victory for incumbent President Islam Karimov, who received over 90% of the vote. Karimov's win gave him a fourth consecutive term as president, dating back to 1990.


2015 Uzbek presidential election, Background
A constitutional law on presidential elections was approved by the Senate on 23 March 2012, which required presidential elections to be held 90 days after parliamentary elections. Elections to the Legislative Chamber were held over two-rounds, the first on 23 December 2014 and the second on 4 January 2015.


2015 Uzbek presidential election, Background
The law change effectively shortened the term of incumbent President Islam Karimov by several months, as under the previous law, the elections would have been held on 27 December 2015. Though the constitution limits presidents to two terms in office, the Central Election Commission allowed Karimov to run again, arguing that Karimov had only served one term since the constitution was adopted in 2002, and that his previous two terms before that should not count.


2015 Uzbek presidential election, Conduct
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe stated that the Uzbek poll lacked genuine opposition. Steve Swerdlow at Human Rights Watch called the vote a "sham election". Observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation called the election "open, free, and democratic," and said it had proceeded "openly and democratically," respectively.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup
The 2015 Uzbekistan Cup was the 23rd season of the annual Uzbek football Cup competition. The Cup draw was held on 12 February 2014 in Tashkent. Final match was played on 17 November 2015.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup
The competition started on 1 April 2015, and will end in November 2015  with the final to be held at the Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium in Tashkent. Lokomotiv Tashkent, the defending Cup winner and 2014 Cup semifinalists, Pakhtakor, Bunyodkor, Nasaf Qarshi start in 1/8 final stage of the Cup.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup
The cup winner is guaranteed a place in the 2016 AFC Champions League.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup, First round
First round matches were played on 1 April 2015 to define teams of Round of 32.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 32
The one leg matches will be played on April 28–29, 2015.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup, Round of 16
The sixteen winners from the Round of 32 were drawn into eight two-legged ties.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup, Quarterfinals
The first leg matches were played on 4 July (Metallurg Bekabad - Lokomotiv Tashkent, Pakhtakor-2 - Nasaf), 8 July (Pakhtakor - Semetchi Kuvasoy) and on 9 July (Sogdiana Jizzakh- Bunyodkor)The second legs matches were played on 7 July (Lokomotiv - Metallurg Bekabad and Nasaf - Pakhtakor-2). The second legs matches Pakhtakor - Semetchi Kuvasoy and Bunyodkor - Sogdiana Jizzakh will be played on 28 July 2015.


2015 Uzbekistan Cup, Semifinals
The first leg matches to be played on 11–12 August 2015. The second leg matches on 15–16 September 2015.


2015 Uzbekistan First League
The 2015 Uzbekistan First League was the 24th season of second level football in Uzbekistan since independence in 1992. It is split in an eastern and western zone, each featuring 12 teams. As of end of the season Obod won championship and promoted to Uzbek League for 2016 season. The runners-up, Oqtepa after lost by 1-2 in one leg relegation/play-off match against Sogdiana Jizzakh on 25 November 2015 remained in First League.


2015 Uzbekistan First League, Competition format
League consists of two regional groups: conference "East" and "West". The season comprises two phases. The first phase consists of a regular home-and-away schedule: each team plays the other teams twice. The top eight teams of the first phase from each zone will be merged in one tournament and compete for the championship. The bottom four teams of each zone after first phase will play relegation matches to remain in first league.


2015 Uzbekistan First League, Competition format
The draw of the 2015 season was held on 18 February 2015. First League joined FK Yozyovon, Sementchi Kuvasoy. Each regional zones comprises 10 teams. The Tashkent teams Obod, FC Istiqlol and Lokomotiv BFK to play in "West" zone.


2015 Uzbekistan First League, Second phase, Championship round
Final standingsThe last matchday matches were played on 7 November 2015


2015 V de V Challenge Monoplace
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2015 V de V Challenge Monoplace
The 2015 V de V Challenge Monoplace was a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2015 season was the sixth V de V Challenge Monoplace season organized by the V de V Sports. The season began at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 22 March and finishes on 10 October at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.


2015 V de V Challenge Monoplace
The season was dominated by RC Formula driver David Droux who won 15 from 17 races. Julien Falchero lost 185.5 points to Droux and finished as runner-up. Gilles Heriau completed the top three in the standings. Riccardo Cazzaniga, Charly Bizalion, Alexandre Jouannem, Aleksey Chuklin and Xavier Benecchi were the other drivers who was able to finish on podium during the races.


2015 V.League 1
The 2015 V.League 1 (known as the Toyota V.League 1 for sponsorship reasons) season was the 59th season of the V.League 1, the highest division of Football in Vietnam. The season began on 4 January 2015 and finished on 20 September 2015.


2015 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2014 season.


2015 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule Changes
In season 2015, a team standing on the 14th position was relegated to V-League 2. There was no play-off match as usual between team standing on 13th at V-League 1 and the second-position team at V-League 2.


2015 V.League 1, Changes from last season, Rule Changes
Also, one club was only allowed to register 2 foreign players plus one naturalized player. Becamex Bình Dương and Hanoi T&T could register one more AFC player due to the qualification for AFC Champions League.


2015 V.League 1, Teams
Đồng Tháp were promoted after winning the 2014 V.League 2 championship, but in November 2014 they decided to withdraw from the league altogether. They later revered their decision once sponsorship was found to fund the side for the coming season.


2015 V.League 1, Teams, Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 V.League 1, Teams, Foreign players
V.League teams are allowed to use two foreign players and one naturalised player


2015 V.League 1, Awards, Annual awards, Team of the Year
Nguyễn Xuân Thành (Becamex Bình Dương) Lê Đức Tuấn (FLC Thanh Hóa) Danny van Bakel (FLC Thanh Hóa)) Hoàng Vissai (QNK Quảng Nam)


2015 V.League 1, Awards, Annual awards, Team of the Year
Nguyễn Văn Quyết (Hà Nội F.C) Moses Oloya (Becamex Bình Dương) Đinh Thanh Trung (QNK Quảng Nam) Phạm Thành Lương (Hà Nội F.C)


2015 V.League 1, Awards, Annual awards, Team of the Year
Hoàng Đình Tùng (FLC Thanh Hóa)) Nguyễn Anh Đức (Becamex Bình Dương)


2015 V.League 2
The 2015 V.League 2 (referred to as Kienlongbank V.League 2 for sponsorship reasons) was the 21st season of V.League 2, Vietnam's second tier professional football league, which began on 11 April 2015 and finished on 29 August 2015.


2015 V.League 2, Changes from last season, Team changes
The following teams had changed division since the 2014 season.


2015 V8 Supercar season
The 2015 V8 Supercar season was the nineteenth year in which V8 Supercars contested the senior Australian touring car series. It was the 56th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship, now known as the International V8 Supercars Championship, and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.


2015 V8 Supercar season
The season began on 26 February at the Adelaide Street Circuit and finished on 6 December at the Homebush Street Circuit. 2015 featured the nineteenth V8 Supercar Championship, consisting of 36 races at 14 events covering all six states and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as an event in New Zealand. There was also a stand-alone event supporting the 2015 Australian Grand Prix. The season also featured the sixteenth second-tier Dunlop V8 Supercar Series, contested over seven rounds. For the eighth time a third-tier series was run, the Kumho Tyres V8 Touring Car Series.


2015 V8 Supercar season
The series championships were won by Mark Winterbottom (V8 Supercar Championship), Cameron Waters (Dunlop Series) and Liam McAdam (Kumho KVTC) respectively.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series
The 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series was an Australian motor racing competition for V8 Supercars, staged as support series to the International V8 Supercars Championship. It was the sixteenth annual V8 Supercar Development Series and the fourth to be contested under the "Dunlop Series" name.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series
The series was won by Cameron Waters driving a Ford FG Falcon.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers contested the 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series:


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, Teams and drivers
The 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series featured a new race number allocation system. Each year since the series began in 2000, the race number pool was shared with the main V8 Supercars Championship, meaning that numbers used in that series could not be used in the Dunlop Series. For 2015, an individual number pool was allocated to each series.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, Calendar
The 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series was contested over seven rounds. The calendar was released on 18 November 2014.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, Calendar
Note: In the above table, "Event" refers to the V8 Supercars Championship meeting at which the Dunlop Series round was contested.


2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, Points system
Series points were awarded in each race as per the following:


2015 VCU Rams baseball team
The 2015 VCU Rams baseball team was the program's 45th season fielding a varsity baseball program, and their third season the Atlantic 10 Conference.


2015 VCU Rams baseball team
Led by Shawn Stiffler for his third season, the Rams had their most successful baseball season in program history. The Rams advanced to the NCAA Super Regional for the first time ever, and won their first ever Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament. It was the program's return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010.


2015 VCU Rams baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2015 VFF National Super League
The 2015 VFF National Super League was the Vanuatu qualifying competition for the 2015–16 OFC Champions League and the 2017 OFC Champions League for clubs outside of Port Vila.


2015 VFF National Super League
The team who qualified for the 2015–16 OFC Champions League is Amicale FC. The team who qualified for the 2017 OFC Champions League is Malampa Revivors.


2015 VFF National Super League, Matches, Group Stage
From Group A, Big Bay FC advanced in first place and Malampa Revivors advanced in second place.


2015 VFF National Super League, Matches, Group Stage
From Group B, Blue Rovers FC advanced in first place and Vaum United FC advanced in second place.


2015 VFF National Super League, Matches, Group Stage
From Group C, Ifira Black Bird F.C. advanced in first place and Amicale F.C. advanced in second place.


2015 VFF National Super League, Matches, Group Stage
From Group D, Erakor Golden Star advanced in first place and LL Echo advanced in second place.


2015 VFL season
The 2015 Victorian Football League season was the 134th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition.


2015 VFL season
Fifteen teams competing in the league. The season commenced on Friday 17 April and concluded Sunday 27 September with the VFL Grand Final, won by Williamstown, who defeated Box Hill Hawks by 54 points at Etihad Stadium. It was Williamstown's 14th top division premiership.


2015 VFL season, League membership
The size of the league reduced from sixteen teams to fifteen for the 2015 season, following the withdrawal and disbanding of the Bendigo Football Club. Bendigo had enjoyed stability from 2003 until 2012 in a reserves affiliation with the Australian Football League's Essendon, but following Essendon's establishment of a stand-alone reserves team in 2013, Bendigo had struggled to remain competitive as a stand-alone club. In June 2014, half-way through what would finish as its second consecutive winless season, the club concluded that it was not financially viable in the long term and announced it would play out the 2014 season before folding.


2015 VMI Keydets baseball team
The 2015 VMI Keydets baseball team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Keydets returned to the Southern Conference after an eleven-year hiatus in the Big South from 2003 to 2014. VMI was led by first-year head coach Jonathan Hadra, who replaced longtime Keydet skipper Marlin Ikenberry. Ikenberry resigned following the 2014 season for a career in private business, and was the Keydets' all-time winningest baseball coach.


2015 VMI Keydets baseball team, Personnel
VMI lost two of its starting pitchers following the 2014 season. Senior left-hander Connor Bach graduated, and was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 21st round of the 2014 MLB Draft. Additionally, junior pitcher Reed Garrett was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 16th round, and chose to leave school early to pursue a career in baseball. Garrett played with the Spokane Indians, the Class A-Short season affiliate of the Rangers. The Keydets also graduated left fielder and backup catcher Eric Mayers, as well as relievers Berkley Hawkins, Campbell Henkel, and Travis Thomas.


2015 VMI Keydets football team
The 2015 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. It was VMI's 125th football season and the Keydets were led by first year head coach Scott Wachenheim. They played their home games at 10,000–seat Alumni Memorial Field at Foster Stadium, as they have since 1962. This was VMI's second season as a member of the Southern Conference, following 11 seasons in the Big South Conference, which followed 78 years in the Southern Conference. They finished the season 2–9, 1–6 in SoCon play to finish in last place.


2015 VMI Keydets football team, Personnel, Coaching staff
VMI will be led by first-year head coach Scott Wachenheim, a native of California and a 1984 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Wachenheim was previously the offensive line coach at Virginia under head coach Mike London. He replaces Sparky Woods, who compiled a 17–62 record in seven seasons at VMI. Shortly following a home loss to The Citadel, VMI chose not to renew Woods' contract, and several weeks later announced the hire of Wachenheim.


2015 VMI Keydets football team, Personnel, Coaching staff
Wachenheim introduced an almost entirely new coaching staff his first year on post. Coordinating the offense is Dustin Ward, while the defensive coordinator is Tom Clark who served two stints at William & Mary as a defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. There were only two holdovers from Woods' staff: wide receivers and tight ends coach Brad Robbins, and linebackers coach Justin Hamilton, a 2006 graduate of Virginia Tech. Also new to the staff is running backs coach Tim Maypray, who played football at VMI and graduated in 2010 before a brief stint in the Canadian Football League.


2015 VMI Keydets football team, Schedule
VMI released its schedule on February 3, 2015. The schedule features six home games and five road contests. VMI will face Ball State on the road in the season opener on a Thursday night. The home opener will be September 12 against Pioneer League member Morehead State. The Keydets will play one team from the commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, after not playing a team from Virginia in 2014. VMI will host conference rivals Samford, Chattanooga, Wofford, and Western Carolina, and will travel to Furman, Mercer, and The Citadel.


2015 VTV Awards
The 2015 VTV Awards (Vietnamese: Ấn tượng VTV - Ấn tượng 2015) is a ceremony honouring the outstanding achievement in television on the Vietnam Television (VTV) network from August 2014 to July 2015. It took place on 6 September 2015 in Hanoi and hosted by Đinh Tiến Dũng, Thành Lộc & Minh Hà.


2015 VTV Awards, In Memoriam
Celebrating 45 years since the first TV program was broadcast, the In Memoriam part tributes several important former leaders in VTV history.


2015 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2015 VTV Cup Championship will be the 12th staging of the international tournament. The tournament will be held at the Bạc Liêu Gymnasium in Bạc Liêu, Vietnam.


2015 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2015 VTV9 Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup was the 9th staging. The tournament was held in Quảng Trị,Vietnam.


2015 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pools composition
VTV Bình Điền Long An (Host) Tiến Nông Thanh Hóa  April 25 Sports Club  Malaysia Tenri University


2015 VTV9 – Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2015 Vaahteraliiga season
The 2015 Vaahteraliiga season was the 36th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between June 11 and August 31, 2015. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs, and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXXVI the Helsinki Roosters won fourth consecutive championship, this time against the Seinäjoki Crocodiles.


2015 Vaipae-Tautu by-election
A by-election was held in the Cook Islands constituency of Vaipae-Tautu on 31 March 2015. It was won by Mona Ioane, the Cook Islands Party candidate, consolidating the ruling party's slender majority in Parliament.


2015 Vaipae-Tautu by-election, Context and candidates
In the July 2014 general election, the contest for the Vaipae-Tautu seat had been won by Cook Islands Party candidate Mona Ioane, who went on to serve as Education Minister in Prime Minister Henry Puna's government. Ioane's election to Parliament was voided by the Court of Appeal on 17 December, reducing the Puna government to a minority government. The by-election would therefore be crucial both to the government and to the Opposition Democratic Party. If they won the seat, the Democrats "could assume power in coalition with the One Cook Islands Movement" (OCIM). OCIM leader Teina Bishop indicated his party would not run a candidate against Democratic candidate Kete Ioane, and would in fact support the latter's campaign.


2015 Vaipae-Tautu by-election, Context and candidates
The by-election was initially due to be held on 17 February 2015. But Democratic Party candidate's Kete Ioane's sudden death on 13 February led to a postponement. The election will now be held on 31 March. At the start of March, the One Cook Islands Movement reversed its decision not to stand against the Democrats, and announced Amiria Davey as its candidate. The Cook Islands Party maintained Mona Ioane as its candidate. The Democrats selected Kete Ioane's widow, Teina Ioane.


2015 Valais Cup
The 2015 Valais Cup was an international football tournament that is part of the Valais Football Summer Cups. Matches were played in July in Switzerland and France. It was the third running of the competition, following the 2014 edition. The tournament consisted of four matchdays for a total of five matches.


2015 Valais Youth Cup
The 2015 Valais Youth Cup is an international football tournament that features four youth teams. It is played at the Complexe Sportif du Bout du Lac in Le Bouveret, Switzerland.


2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election
The 2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Vale of White Horse District Council in England. This was held on the same day as other local elections. In 2015, the council seats were contested against redrawn ward boundaries. The whole council was up for election and the Conservatives retained control, with an increased majority of seats.


2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election, Ward Results
Note: both Katherine Imogen Burton and James Alexander Sweeten stood under the ROAR label.


2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election, Ward Results
Note: both Jonathan Charles Bowden and Anthony Bryant Patrick Mockler stood under the ROAR label.


2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election, Ward Results
Note: both Tanya Louise Nunn and Andrew Charles Toombs stood under the ROAR label.


2015 Vale of White Horse District Council election, Ward Results
Note: both Trevor Cook and Christine Margaret Woodward stood under the ROAR label.


2015 Valencia City Council election
The 2015 Valencia City Council election, also the 2015 Valencia municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of  Valencia. All 33 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


2015 Valencia City Council election
The unveiling of a string of corruption scandals during the 2011–2015 period, coupled with allegations of abuse of power and perceived poor management of the economic situation, had taken its toll in the ruling People's Party (PP), which went on to suffer a dramatic decline, losing over half of its vote share and city councillors and scoring its worst result since 1991. The election turned into a surprisingly close race between the PP and Valencianist coalition Compromís, which nearly overcame the PP as the most-voted political force.


2015 Valencia City Council election
The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV), unable to capitalize on the PP losses, continued its long-term decline and fell to fourth place, its votes being gained by both Compromís and newly created Podemos-led Valencia in Common coalition. Centrist Citizens (C's), contesting a municipal election for the first time, turned into the third political force thanks to its capture of disenchanted PP voters, while historical United Left of the Valencian Country (EUPV), standing within the Acord Ciutadà coalition (Valencian for "Citizen Agreement"), failed to achieve enough votes to win seats on the City Council.


2015 Valencia City Council election
As a result of the election, with the PP unable to command a majority of seats in the City Council even with the support of C's, incumbent Mayor Rita Barberá was ousted from office after 24 years, being succeeded by Compromís candidate Joan Ribó. The 2015 election marked the end of the two decade-long PP political dominance over both the city and the whole of the Valencian Community, losing control of the regional government, as well as that of all provincial capitals and most major cities in the region, to left-wing coalitions and alliances.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Electoral system
The City Council of Valencia (Valencian: Ajuntament de València, Spanish: Ayuntamiento de Valencia) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Valencia, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Electoral system
Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Valencia and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:


2015 Valencia City Council election, Electoral system
The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Electoral system
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Valencia, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Background
People's Party (PP) candidate Rita Barberá was appointed to a sixth term as Mayor of Valencia after her party won a fifth consecutive absolute majority in the City Council in the 2011 election. Then-ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) had suffered a serious decline in popular support nationwide after Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government had been forced to approve unpopular austerity measures to try to tackle the economic situation. The PP benefitted from the PSOE's collapse, which helped cement its landslide victory by an absolute majority of seats in the 2011 general election held on 20 November and paving the way for the investiture of Mariano Rajoy as new Prime Minister.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Background
However, the PP in the city of Valencia had already shown signs of political wear in the 2011 election—when it suffered a slight decrease in support—as a result of Barberá's continuous tenure as city Mayor since 1991, as well as the unveiling of the Gürtel corruption scandal in 2009. The scandal would result in regional President Francisco Camps' resignation in July 2011, just one month after taking office, with Alberto Fabra succeeding him as regional premier.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Background
The following years saw the unveiling of a series of corruption scandals that affected the PPCV, involving party MPs, mayors, local councillors, two Courts' speakers and that also reached former regional President José Luis Olivas. The regional party leadership also had to cope with accusations of illegal financing as well as possible embezzlement in the additional costs incurred in the Formula 1 project and Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 visit to Valencia, accusations that also reached Barberá's local government.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Background
At the same time, both the regional and local governments had to deal with the effects of an ongoing financial crisis. The regional executive was forced to ask for a bailout from the central government headed by Rajoy in July 2012, with its economic situation remaining severe because of high unemployment and debt. The decision of Fabra's government to close down RTVV, the regional public television broadcasting channel, because of financing issues, was also met with widespread protests.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Background
The 2014 European Parliament election, which resulted in enormous losses for the PP in the entire Valencian Community, paved the way for the rise of new parties Podemos, Compromís and Citizens, with the PSOE local branch, the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV), finding itself unable to gain any of the PP's lost support. As a result, the ruling PP faced the 2015 election with a severe decline in popular support, an increase of electoral competitiveness and the shadow of corruption looming over the local PP leadership.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Parties and leaders
Below is a list of the main parties and coalitions which contested the election:


2015 Valencia City Council election, Campaign, Issues
In April 2015, Compromís denounced Mayor Rita Barberá's expenses using public funds during 2011 and 2014, believing they could be embezzlement as they were not related to municipal functions but to party acts. The leaked bills, a total of 466 throughout the legislature amounting to expenditures of 278,000 euros, included payments for air travel, train tickets, car trips, hotels and restaurants. Compromís candidate Joan Ribó commented that "at a time when there are 85,000 unemployed in Valencia and it is the city with the highest number of evictions per capita, it is obscene, unsupportive and unethical to find all these luxury expenses".


2015 Valencia City Council election, Campaign, Issues
During the election campaign, the public prosecutor announced that it would open an investigation into Barberá's expenses, which it would link to the already ongoing investigation on her because of luxury gifts worth 7,600 euros she would have allegedly received between 2007 and 2009 from a public body chaired by herself. The unveiling of such practices was dubbed as the "Ritaleaks case"—in reference to Rita Barberá's name—by opposition parties, which believed that such expenses were part of a larger scheme that maintained an illegal funding of the Valencian PP through public funds. The expenses scandal dominated the political landscape during the campaign, with Barberá herself being frequently booed during outdoor political acts in markets. She responded by saying she was being the target of a defamation campaign orchestrated by Compromís, and denied committing any wrongdoing or misuse of public money.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Campaign, Issues
Another related scandal, the "Imelsa case", shook the PP campaign as EUPV leaked recordings allegedly belonging to public entity Imelsa former director, Marcos Benavent. Such recordings involved senior party officials, such as Xàtiva Mayor and President of the Valencia Deputation Alfonso Rus, in an alleged illegal financing network of the Valencian PP. The PP denounced Rus and expelled him from the party just 20 days ahead of the election, but he refused to withdraw as candidate and continued campaigning as an independent; the PP being unable to contest the local election in Xàtiva in a separate list.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 17 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Valencia.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Opinion polls
Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll


2015 Valencia City Council election, Aftermath, Consequences
As election results were known, Mayor Rita Barberá conceded defeat to Joan Ribó from Compromís, whose surprise results (9 city councillors and 23.3% of the vote) allowed him to be appointed as new Mayor through an alliance with both the PSPV and the Valencia in Common coalition, as all three commanded an absolute majority of seats together. The PP had hoped to rely on support from newcomer centrist Citizens, but its 6 seats, together with the PP's 10, meant that they fell 1 seat short of an overall majority. Compromís' historic result came mostly at the cost of a declining PSPV, which fell to fourth place and obtained its worst result in history.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Aftermath, Consequences
In her concession speech, Barberá stated that "I come with dignity, pride and gratitude to all Valencians that have allowed me to be Mayor for 24 years". On her party's result, which lost half of its 2011 vote and city councillors, she commented that "it is a bad result, I will not hide from it". The shock from the PP collapse was such that, in a spontaneous reaction after learning of the election results, Barberá was recorded by cameras as saying "¡ Qué hostia!...¡Qué hostia!" (Spanish for "What a whack!... what a whack!") while embracing a party colleague amid tears.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Aftermath, Consequences
The PP had still hoped that a last-minute failure from the three left-wing parties in reaching an agreement would allow Barberá to be re-elected to the post, as under the Spanish municipal electoral law, the candidate of the most-voted party was to be automatically elected in the event that no other candidate received an absolute majority of votes in the first round. However, on 13 June, Joan Ribó was appointed as new Mayor of Valencia thanks to the votes of the PSPV and VALC.


2015 Valencia City Council election, Aftermath, Consequences
Barberá, who had renounced her seat in the city council the previous day, did not attend Ribó's appointment. The new PP local leader, Alfonso Novo, congratulated Ribó on his election and said the PP would maintain "institutional loyalty, but also firmness and exemplariness" in the new party's role as "opposition and control."


2015 Valencia City Council election, Aftermath, Consequences
Just seven months later, on 26 January 2016, a major police operation in Valencia would result in the arrest of several high-ranking members from the Valencian PP regional and local branches, as a consequence of the ongoing investigation on the PP's corruption in the region during its time in government. Several days later, on 1 February, all 10 PP city councillors in the Valencia City Council, including Novo himself, would be charged for a money laundering offense, related to the party's illegal financing in the Valencian Community. Judicial investigation pointed to former Mayor Rita Barberá also being involved in the scandal—that also covered the possible illegal funding of her 2015 election run—with her arrest or imputation only being prevented by the fact she had legal protection as an incumbent senator.


2015 Valencia Open
The 2015 Valencia Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 21st and the last edition of the Valencia Open, part of the 250 Series of the 2015 ATP World Tour. The tournament was formerly part of the ATP World Tour 500 series but was downgraded starting this year. It was held at the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain, from October 26 through November 1, 2015.


2015 Valencia Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Valencia Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Valencia Open – Doubles
Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău were the defending champions, but they chose to compete in Basel instead.


2015 Valencia Open – Doubles
Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky won the title, defeating Feliciano López and Max Mirnyi in the final 7–6(7–4) , 6–3 .


2015 Valencia Open – Singles
Andy Murray was the defending champion, but chose not to participate this year.


2015 Valencia Open – Singles
João Sousa won the title, defeating Roberto Bautista Agut in the final in three sets, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4.


2015 Valencia Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighteenth and final round of the 2015 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia on 8 November 2015.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Background
This was the last race for Bridgestone, who had been the sole tyre supplier since 2009, as the sole tyre supplier in MotoGP, before they are replaced by Michelin for 2016. It was also the last race for the ART and Forward Yamaha bikes. After a court trial involving Valentino Rossi's clash with Marc Márquez in the previous race, the FIM staff and CAS rejected Rossi's appeal of suspension of three penalty points given for purposely pushing Márquez wide, and declared that he would start the round from last place.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Race
Championship hopeful Jorge Lorenzo had taken pole position and took the start, and led from start to finish, closely shadowed by Honda duo Márquez and Dani Pedrosa, who were buffers preventing Rossi from reaching the second position he'd needed to become champion. Rossi fought up to fourth after being allowed to pass by numerous other riders, but had no prospect of catching any of the three top riders and so cruised home. Lorenzo was subject to heavy pressure by the Honda riders during the final lap, but held on to claim his third MotoGP and fifth overall title.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, Moto2
Dominique Aegerter was replaced by Joshua Hook after the second practice session.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Classification, Moto2
The first attempt to run the race was interrupted following an accident involving multiple riders in the opening lap. For the restart, the race distance was reduced from 27 to 18 laps.


2015 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eighteen has concluded.


2015 Valencian regional election
The 2015 Valencian regional election was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 9th Corts of the Valencian Community. All 99 seats in the Corts were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


2015 Valencian regional election
While incumbent President Alberto Fabra's People's Party (PP) remained as the party with the most votes, it lost 24 seats and 22 percentage points compared to its 2011 result, and lost the absolute majority it had held in the Corts  since 1999. This result was attributed to the party's management of the economic crisis, as well as the various corruption scandals that affected the PP throughout the entire 2011–2015 period, some of which were unveiled just weeks before the election. The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV–PSOE) came second, with 23 seats, 10 fewer than in 2011 and  the worst electoral result in its history.


2015 Valencian regional election
Three other parties achieved representation, of which two were newly formed since 2011: Compromís, with 19 seats, Podemos and C's. EUPV, the main party in a coalition of other forces known as Acord Ciutadà (Valencian for "Citizen Agreement"), did not reach the 5% minimum  threshold to achieve representation and therefore lost all of its seats in the Corts. Turnout was, at 69.6%, the lowest since 1999. Subsequently, Alberto Fabra announced he would retire from his party's leadership in the region after a PSPV–Compromís coalition with Podemos' support expelled the PP from the regional government after 20 years in power. Ximo Puig from the PSPV–PSOE was elected as new regional President.


2015 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Corts Valencianes were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Valencian autonomous community, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Government. Voting for the Corts was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Valencians abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado).


2015 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 99 members of the Corts Valencianes were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 39 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations on the condition that the seat to population ratio in any given province did not exceed three times that of any other.


2015 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 1 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought election. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


2015 Valencian regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Corts Valencianes expired four years after the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election Decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of the Valencian Community, with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 22 May 2011, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 22 May 2015. The election Decree was required to be published no later than 28 April 2015, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Corts on Sunday, 21 June 2015.


2015 Valencian regional election, Overview, Election date
The President of the Government had the prerogative to dissolve the Corts Valencianes and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Corts were to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.


2015 Valencian regional election, Background
The 2011 regional election had resulted in the People's Party increasing its absolute majority despite losing votes, thanks to the collapse of the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country vote, which scored its worst historical result up to that point. However, after 16 years of uninterrupted rule, corruption scandals involving the PP began to erupt. Two months after the election, President Francisco Camps resigned because of his alleged implication in the Gürtel case, being replaced as President of the Generalitat Valenciana by Alberto Fabra.


2015 Valencian regional election, Background
The following years saw the unveiling of a series of corruption scandals that rocked the PP, involving party MPs, mayors, local councillors, regional councillors, Courts' speakers and former regional president José Luis Olivas. At one point, up to 20% of the party MPs in the Corts Valencianes (11 out of 55) were charged in different corruption cases; a joke popularized at the time said that they would become the third political force in the Corts Valencianes, only behind PP and PSOE, if they were to form their own parliamentary group. The regional party leadership also had to cope with accusations of illegal financing as well as possible embezzlement in the additional costs incurred in the Formula 1 project and Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 visit to Valencia.


2015 Valencian regional election, Background
At the same time, the regional government had to deal with the effects of the ongoing financial crisis. Despite the community's decision to ask for a bailout from the central government headed by Mariano Rajoy in July 2012, its economic situation remained severe. Fabra's government had to close down RTVV, the regional public television broadcasting channel, because of financing issues; a decision which was met with widespread protest.


2015 Valencian regional election, Background
The 2014 European Parliament election resulted in enormous losses for the People's Party, which, in the largest Valencian cities, lost almost half of its votes in percentage terms compared to the previous elections. Both the economic crisis and corruption helped hasten the party's decline, which had already seen support drop in opinion polls since 2011. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party found itself unable to gain any of the PP's lost support and lost votes too, to the benefit of until then minority parties such as United Left, Union, Progress and Democracy, Citizens or the newly created Podemos party.


2015 Valencian regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 50 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Corts Valencianes.


2015 Valencian regional election, Opinion polls
Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll


2015 Valparaiso Crusaders football team
The 2015 Valparaiso Crusaders football team represented Valparaiso University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Dave Cecchini and played their home games at Brown Field. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 1–9, 1–7 in PFL play to finish in a three way tie for eighth place.


2015 Valparaiso Crusaders football team, Schedule
± College of Faith didn't meet NCAA accreditation guidelines and all stats and records from this game do not count.


2015 Valur season
The 2015 season was Valur's 95th season in Úrvalsdeild and their 11th consecutive season in top-flight of Icelandic Football.


2015 Valur season
Along with the Úrvalsdeild, the club competed in the Lengjubikarinn and Borgunarbikarinn.


2015 Valur season
Ólafur Jóhannesson head coached the team after signing a 3-year contract following the departure of Magnús Gylfason on 6 October. He was by former Valur player Sigurbjörn Hreiðarsson. Ólafur and Sigurbjörn coached Haukar in the 2014 season.


2015 Valur season
On 15 August Valur won the Borgunarbikarinn after beating KR in the final 2–0.


2015 Valur season
Valur ended the season in 5th place in the league. Patrick Pedersen won the golden boot with 13 goals in 20 games.


2015 Valur season, First Team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Valur season, Pre-Season, Reykjavík Cup
Valur took part in the 2015 Reykjavík Cup, a pre-season tournament for clubs from Reykjavík.


2015 Valur season, Pre-Season, Reykjavík Cup
The team played in group B along with Leiknir R, Víkingur R, ÍR and Þróttur R. Valur finished second in the group behind Leiknir R with 7 points, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Kristinn Freyr was the highest goalscorer in the group with 6 goals.


2015 Valur season, Pre-Season, Reykjavík Cup
In the semi final game against Fjölnir, Sigurður Egill scored the only goal to put Valur through to the finals.


2015 Valur season, Pre-Season, Reykjavík Cup
On 9 February Valur won Leiknir R in the final 3–0. Sigurður Egill scored the first goal on the 8th minute and Kristinn Freyr doubled the scoring on the 27th minute from the penalty spot. On the 37th minute Sigurður Egill was sent off after getting his second yellow card for a dive. Valur held on and managed to score their third goal through Þórður Steinar following a corner.


2015 Valur season, Lengjubikarinn
Valur were drawn in group 3 in the Icelandic league cup, Lengjubikarinn, along with ÍA, Stjarnan, Keflavík, Grindavík, Haukar, Fjarðabyggð and Þór.


2015 Valur season, Lengjubikarinn
Valur finished second in the group behind ÍA with 5 wins and 2 draws, 17 points. Patrick Pedersen was their highest goalscorer with 6 goals in 6 games.


2015 Valur season, Lengjubikarinn
On 16 April Valur lost to Breiðablik in the quarter-finals 5–1. Patrick Pedersen scored Valur's only goal from the spot on the 42nd minute to level the score 1–1. Breiðablik than took all control of the game and scored 4 more goals.


2015 Valur season, Borgunarbikarinn
Valur came into the Icelandic cup, Borgunarbikarinn, in the 32nd-finals and were drawn against Selfoss. Valur won the game comfortably 4–0, with a hat trick from Patrick Pedersen.


2015 Valur season, Borgunarbikarinn
In the 16th-finals the team was drawn against Fjarðabyggð. Valur won the game 4–0.


2015 Valur season, Borgunarbikarinn
In the quarter finals Valur was drawn against Víkingur R. Valur won the game 2–1 with Iain Williamson scoring the winning goal in the 80th minute.


2015 Valur season, Borgunarbikarinn
On 7 July Valur was drawn against KA in the semi-finals. Valur won the tie on penalties after the game had ended 1–1. Valur had controlled most of the game but only managed to score one goal, an equaliser through Orri Sigurður after Elfar Árni had put KA ahead on the 6th minute.


2015 Valur season, Borgunarbikarinn
Valur became Borgunarbikarinn champions on 15 August after defeating KR 2–0 in the final. Bjarni Ólafur opened the scoring on the 72nd minute with a header following a corner and Kristinn Ingi secured the win on the 87th minute. This was Valur's 10th Cup win with the last one coming in 2005.


2015 Valur season, Squad statistics, Appearances
Includes all competitive matches. Numbers in parentheses are sub appearances


2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
The 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 35th event in the history of the Vancouver International Film Festival, was held from September 24 to October 9, 2015.


2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
The festival's opening gala film was John Crowley's Brooklyn, and its closing gala was Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light.


2015 Vancouver Stealth season
The Vancouver Stealth are a lacrosse team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team plays in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2015 season is the second season in Vancouver, though it will be the 16th in franchise history. They previously played in Everett, Washington, San Jose, and Albany, New York.


2015 Vancouver Stealth season, Regular season, Current standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2015 Vancouver Stealth season, Transactions, Entry Draft
The 2014 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 22, 2014. The Stealth made the following selections:


2015 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season
The 2015 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season is the Whitecaps' fifth season in Major League Soccer, the top tier of soccer in the United States and Canada.


2015 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Major League Soccer, Regular season, Results
Last updated: October 25, 2015Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2015 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season, Cascadia Cup
The 2015 Cascadia Cup will feature nine matches total, six of which feature the Whitecaps, three of which will be hosted at BC Place: two against Seattle Sounders FC, and one versus the Portland Timbers. Portland will host two matches at Providence Park, and Seattle will host one at CenturyLink Field.


2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team
The 2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Commodores played their home games at Hawkins Field as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They were led by head coach Tim Corbin, in his 13th season at Vanderbilt.


2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Previous season
In 2014, the Commodores finished the season 3rd in the SEC's Eastern Division with a record of 47–19, 17–13 in conference play. They qualified for the 2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament and were eliminated in the second round. They qualified for the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, and were selected to host the Nashville Regional, which included Oregon, Clemson, and Xavier.


2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Previous season
The Commodores won their first three games of the regional, defeating Xavier by a score of 11–0, Oregon by a score of 7–2, and Oregon again, this time, 3–2, to advance to the Super Regional, of which they were hosts. In their first game against Stanford, the Commodores won 11–6, before dropping the second game, 4–5. In game three, Vanderbilt won, 12–5, to advance to the College World Series.


2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Previous season
In the College World Series, Vanderbilt defeated Louisville and UC Irvine to advance to the semifinals and play Texas. In the first match-up with the Longhorns, the Commodores dropped their first game of the College World Series, losing 0–4. In the second game, the Commodores won 4–3 in ten innings, advancing to the College World Series finals to play Virginia.


2015 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team, Previous season
Vanderbilt opened the finals against Virginia, the #3 national seed in the tournament, with a 9–8 victory. The Commodores proceeded to drop the second game, 2–7, before winning game three, 3–2. Vanderbilt were crowned national champions, their first championship in program history.