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(02/23/12 7:04am)
It's Sunday night and snowing. I have already slid and fallen once and changed out of sodden boots twice. I'm on the phone with my mother and I'm about to put an end to my procrastination. My stack of reading is on the table in my apartment, just begging me to start flipping pages.
(02/16/12 5:35am)
A montage of media clips flickers into focus in front of my armchair, and a matter-of-fact voice says: "There is a moral panic in America over young women's sexuality."
(02/02/12 4:46am)
It disturbs me to find places on campus I have never seen before. In the past week, I've found three. My first discovery is a random bathroom in Weinstein Hall - nothing special. My second discovery occurs when my professor unlocks a mysterious door in the journalism department to reveal a recording room with sound boards and a skylight.
(01/26/12 5:56am)
When I was a freshman, contraception was a joke. The pail of complimentary condoms outside each resident adviser's door led to laughter - but was always empty - and free condom stickers cheerfully adorned bulletin boards and mini-fridge doors.
(01/19/12 5:45am)
The side of my face is smushed against the carpet in a room in the Tyler Haynes Commons. A group of my girlfriends is sprawled around me, and we are all in rest-mode after an endless day of classes, homework and sorority rush. We are killing time before a meeting and the sounds from a YouTube segment bubble out of my friend's laptop.
(11/21/11 2:53pm)
The first LGBTQ history bus tour of Richmond hosted by the university rolled through the downtown streets Saturday. The tour was led by Beth Marschak, Richmond alumna and author of "Lesbian and Gay Richmond."
(11/17/11 3:17am)
During the pre-dawn hours of daylight saving time, the sidewalks of Charleston, S.C., were pulsing with the flurry of discombobulated people who had spent their extra hour out at the bars. My friend, Harry, swung me onto a side street en route to my brother's house. We dipped through an opening in the trees and walked across a parking lot toward a small, obscure building.
(11/10/11 5:19am)
A University of Richmond student said he and his apartmentmates were disgusted when they discovered mold on the their bathroom wall during their first week on campus this semester. The student, junior Jesse Lucabaugh, said he and his apartmentmates reported the finding to their resident adviser in the University Forest Apartments.
(11/10/11 1:43am)
A small group of University of Richmond students gathered in the kitchen of their rabbi's home Friday night for the first retreat organized by UR Hillel, the Jewish student organization on campus. They worked the secret ingredient, Halloween candy, into their replication of an Iron Chef dessert competition to the soundtrack of a Pandora playlist, UR Hillel member, Jamie Bieber said. The winning group crafted a cake with whipped-cream frosting and Three Musketeers bars blended into the batter.
(11/03/11 12:10am)
When I was traipsing around Scotland during my semester abroad, I noticed that the plastic bags at Tesco, the mainstream supermarket, were streaked with the slogan: "Every little helps." For the life of me, I could not figure out what the missing noun was.
(10/27/11 2:48am)
Ever since my roommate burned a copy of a Dispatch CD for me, roadtrips have turned into private, alternative rock concerts that rattle my rearview mirror in its frame.
(10/20/11 4:11am)
I have this vision of myself this time next year. I am bumming around in the darkness of my parents' basement wallowing in my inability to latch onto some noble, writerly pursuit.
(10/06/11 2:39am)
When I was studying abroad in Scotland last fall, my phone was used only for emergencies and quick calls. But my laptop was my lifeline.
(10/05/11 3:48am)
More than two dozen t-shirts were draped across a table in the rainy-day light of the Tyler Haynes Commons Monday. Pamphlets fanned out across another table by the shirts. They included Counseling and Psychological Services and Action Alliance brochures, which ranged in topic from safety planning to emotional abuse. The shirts were decorated with paint and marker as part of the Clothesline Project organized by Women in Living and Learning.
(09/29/11 2:43am)
I have never understood the addiction that some people seem to have to bottled water, let alone water itself. I hardly drink anything that lacks the fizz of carbonation, the lemon tang of Crystal Light or the bitter bite of coffee.
(09/22/11 7:47am)
Two hundred fifteen students have pledged their commitments to improving the greater Richmond community by volunteering through the Center for Civic Engagement.
(09/15/11 4:01am)
I spent the better half of my Labor Day morning dancing to the Pussycat Dolls. I'm not the most skilled when it comes to interpretive dance, so I was utterly spastic when I tried to imitate the movements of the dancing silhouette on the screen.
(09/14/11 2:25pm)
At the dawn of freshman orientation week, a resident in Marsh Hall was watching football with his roommate. "Every time a good play happened, we heard a bunch of people cheering," Michael Marino said. The two wondered if their hallmates were watching the same game, so they wandered down the hallway to a lounge that had been converted into a quad.
(09/08/11 8:23am)
I don't function well without my iPod. I live parts of my days by playlists - alternative while I walk, symphonic while I write, trippy while I space out and rap while I run. Music affects my emotions to make me mellow, perky or adrenaline-rushed, and listening is a habit I hate to do without.
(08/31/11 3:52am)
Fasting is a strange and time-slowing experience. In 24 hours, a fast brings self-awareness and a shift of perspective. The morning is cramped with hunger and the afternoon droops into a headache and a dull sense of lethargy. Then night comes and a forgetfulness of what it ever felt like to be full sinks in. But something else happens, too -- you forget that you are physically hungry.