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The 2012 Richmond Spiders football team is faced with yet another change.
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The 2012 Richmond Spiders football team is faced with yet another change.
The Atlantic 10, the University of Richmond's athletic conference for all sports except football, has added Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler University for the 2012-13 seasons. With these additions, the A-10 has 16 teams, though certain schools do not participate in certain sports.
Though its regular season ended with the Coca-Cola Wofford Intercollegiate tournament last week, the University of Richmond men's golf team competed in and won the first ever Black and Blue Cup this weekend over Virginia Commonwealth University.
The University of Richmond's cross registration program allows students to take free courses not offered on campus at other schools, though earning a spot in these classes is not guaranteed.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will host SPEaster, a philanthropic event to raise money for the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls at 11 a.m. April 7 on the Westhampton Green.
Despite losing 68-55 to the University of Virginia Cavaliers in the second round of the postseason WNIT tournament, Richmond's women's basketball team exceeded expectations this season. The team went 23-9, falling three games short of the school's 26-game win record.
Professors at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are co-hosting the 20th annual French Film Festival from March 29 to April 1 at the Byrd Theatre in Carytown.
On Tuesday, March 20, University of Richmond will participate in the annual statewide tornado drill sponsored by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service.
Professors at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are co-hosting the 20th annual French Film Festival March 29 - April 1 at the Byrd Theatre in Carytown.
SpokenSilence, University of Richmond's only creative writing club, hosted its first event of the year, a poetry jam, in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall, Friday, Feb. 24. The program, co-hosted by the Cultural Advisers, featured an open mic for all Richmond and Westhampton students to share any sort of creative writing, including raps, songs and other verse.
Every day, throughout the state, and all over the country, people undergo all kinds of medical procedures. To have these procedures done, a preliminary procedure is performed to eliminate potential risks and surprises.
Nico Doreste's comparison between a medical procedure and rape in his submission, "Government rape: Ultrasounds," to The Collegian last week was beyond ridiculous. It may be news to Nico, but women willingly have instruments stuck into their vaginas by doctors all the time. Making that kind of procedure mandatory, given the desire to have an abortion, is hardly rape.
According to a new bill that was passed in the Virginia State Senate and that is undergoing debate in the House, a Virginia woman who wants to have an abortion would be required to have a transvaginal ultrasound test before the procedure can be performed.
Students and faculty toured the Virginia Holocaust Museum and dined with Holocaust survivors last Thursday. This program was the first of two in the "Out of the Ashes: Stories of Survival" series co-sponsored by Richmond's Hillel, a campus network that explores and celebrates Jewish life.
After working at the University of Richmond for 20 years, English professor Daryl Dance is retiring this spring, but be careful when mentioning the word retirement around her. "I want to make it clear, that what we're calling retirement and talking about as retirement, I don't look at as retirement in that sense of the word," she said. "I've got a lot on the agenda."
Every week students eagerly pick up The Collegian to read the "UR Busted" section, and every week someone's iPod or laptop has gone missing. Now, imagine setting down your purse or book-bag in D-hall and coming back to discover it's no longer there. Of course, you can cancel your credit card and it's a pain that you no longer have your cell phone, but can you imagine if your loaded Glock went missing too? Whoops.
A lot of things have been said about Southern politics, and very few of them are nice. Last week the Virginia General Assembly flooded into Richmond, marking the beginning of the 2012 session. The bitterness and bickering began on the first day.
Two big scoring runs by Virginia Commonwealth University, one in each half, killed any chance the Spiders had at coming out victorious Friday night on their rival's home court.
Military families cheered courtside Sunday at the women's basketball game against the University of Virginia, in an appreciation program that honored the service of armed forces.
As if facing an Atlantic Coast Conference team wasn't tough enough, the University of Richmond women's basketball team had to do it hours after it was announced that two players, including the starting point guard, were leaving the team.