Obama requests war powers from Congress
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President Obama requested that Congress approve further military action against the Islamic State last week, but some say the appeal is long overdue.
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President Obama requested that Congress approve further military action against the Islamic State last week, but some say the appeal is long overdue.
America has been at war for most of its existence. Our predecessors fought wars all over the planet, and our generation is no different. Many of us are too young to remember the start of our ongoing involvement in the Middle East, but we’ve certainly grown up with it constantly playing in the background. I am too young to remember well an America at peace, but with Iraq “finished” and Afghanistan drawing to a close, that prospect appears to be returning. Or so it would seem.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.’s annual Stepping 101 competition will take place Jan. 29 instead of during the fall semester in order to coincide with the arrival of the professional step company, Step Afrika!
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Barack Obama showed a serious desire to implement his plan of two years of tuition-free community college for young people who are, as he put it, “willing to work for it.” His initiative has been stirring some controversy in Washington, D.C., and beyond ever since he first made his ideas public.
About 150 audience members rose to their feet in applause after an emotional keynote address from President Ed Ayers at Richmond’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemoration ceremony Monday evening.
When the buzzer sounded Sunday afternoon, the scoreboard in the Robins Center favored the Spiders heavily. Not only had Richmond's women's basketball team routed George Mason, but the Spiders limited the A-10 conference’s top scorer to just 10 points, her lowest total of the season.
After a slow first half offensively, the Richmond Spiders were able to ramp up the intensity in the second half to defeat the South Alabama Jaguars 65-54.
University of Richmond President Ed Ayers was one of 36 U.S. private university presidents to make more than $1 million in compensation in 2012, according to a report released last week by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
University of Richmond President Ed Ayers went to the White House Dec. 4 to pledge the university's commitment to increasing the number of underrepresented students graduating with degrees in STEM fields.
The Richmond Spiders out-toughed the Howard Bison this evening and won the first of four games in the Gothic Classic tournament 54-41. Despite the Howard run at the end of the first half, Richmond built a big enough lead to hold them off going into their respective locker rooms.
The guru behind Richmond football’s nationally ranked offense the past three years has accepted a job coaching quarterbacks at Clemson University, according to an email sent to players by Carl Kotz, director of football operations.
Sunday night during Midnight Munchies, the pre-finals extended hours in Heilman Dining Center, a group of at least 20 people protested issues of social and racial equality.
The Spiders’ most successful season since 2009 ended Saturday when the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers won by shutting down Richmond’s often high-powered offense and running the ball with power and authority.
University of Richmond recognized World AIDS Day on Monday with stickers, buttons and flavored condoms in the Tyler Haynes Commons.
The Richmond Spiders of early November looked like a mediocre football team. But the Richmond Spiders of the past two weeks have looked like a dangerous and formidable playoff team.
The tradition of a cappella continues at University of Richmond with The Sirens' annual Holiday Concert on Dec. 3. The concert will feature all four of the university's a cappella groups – The Sirens, Choeur du Roi, The Octaves and Off the Cuff – at 9 p.m. in the Pier.
Issues regarding campus sexual assault have routinely garnered national attention throughout this year, as everything from White House plans to investigate Title IX violations, to mattress-carrying advocacy efforts by undergraduate sexual assault survivors, to last week’s harrowing story of a gang-rape at UVA, have thrown the national spotlight onto how colleges confront this widespread scourge.
The Richmond Spiders played perhaps their most complete game all season at William & Mary, defeating the Tribe and earning a spot in the FCS playoffs for the first time under coach Danny Rocco.