Photo Gallery: International Month Opening Ceremony
International Month festivities begin with an official opening ceremony at the Carole Weinstein International Center on Friday.
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International Month festivities begin with an official opening ceremony at the Carole Weinstein International Center on Friday.
The University of Richmond's sixth annual African Film Weekend, on Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct. 30, will feature four films that take place in Haiti, a few of which were made by Haitian filmmakers.
Last Wednesday, University of Richmond librarian Lucretia McCulley shook hands with President Barack Obama in the same room where she once hosted her son's high school graduation party.
This November, students will perform the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, "Rent," in the Alice Jepson Theatre.
This year, for the first time, students at the University of Richmond have the option to major in film studies.
When Julie Stevenson arrived in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this past May, never having taken a single Spanish class, she had 12 weeks to help design and establish a new accounting system for Asociacion de Mujeres del Altiplano (AMA), a non-governmental organization whose members didn't speak English.
Exactly fifty years ago this fall, rumors began to fly that the University of Richmond was going to have its very own radio station.
We walk a few yards away from the cafe and begin to hear the screams. It is a woman's voice, shrill and Italian. We get closer and see that she is crouched on the ground beside a park bench shrieking: "GIULIO! AMORE! AMORE!" over and over again.
It's a beautiful morning in the piazza, and the bus driver's son is dead. He died in a car accident the night before, and the bus driver just found out. As a student in the UGA Studies Abroad program in Italy, I have been living out of suitcases for a week in various Italian cities, and the driver's job today is to take us all to Cortona, our new home. Everyone is solemn as we wait in the park with our hundreds of suitcases, which he will soon help us load onto the bus. Does one go to work on the day one's child dies? In this case, apparently so.
Members of the the University of Richmond's DEX business fraternity and the Western Henrico Rotary Club sponsored a campus tour and trip to a men's basketball game on Sunday for children in the community identified by the Tuckahoe YMCA as underprivileged.
The final week of the fall 2008 semester included numerous holiday celebrations and performances. Carriage rides carried students around campus on Wednesday, Dec. 3. For the first time, President Ayers hosted a winter wonderland celebration at his home. His backyard was transformed into a dining area with desserts and appetizers, sheltered underneath a large decorated (and heated) tent. The synchronized swimming team performed in front of hundreds at its annual holiday show in the Natatorium on Thursday and Friday nights. And the a capella groups came together in the Tyler Haynes Commons for their annual holiday show.
For the first time, the annual Relay for Life was held on campus Nov. 1. Cancer survivors, supporters and students walked around the lake from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in support of finding a cure for cancer.
In the final days of the 2008 Election, both political parties stormed in and around Richmond trying to muster up support before Tuesday's contest.