Mortar Board battles childhood illiteracy in Richmond
Many Richmond children don't have access to the books that could offer them a bedtime tale, classroom read-aloud or companion for their blanket fort.
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Many Richmond children don't have access to the books that could offer them a bedtime tale, classroom read-aloud or companion for their blanket fort.
Last Tuesday marked Earline Roots' 12th anniversary as a Heilman Dining Center cook. Throughout each of those years she has relied on the Route 16 bus to get to and from work, unless she could find a carpool. But come January 2010, the route reduction within the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) will change that.
About 350 children and their families came out to Old Fraternity Row this past Saturday to paint pumpkins, play games and walk through a haunted house at the University of Richmond's 11th-annual Trick or Treat Street.
In the well-funded race for the House of Delegates between two Spiders, the Republican incumbent prevailed.
The University of Richmond has responded to 20 complaints by copyright owners about unauthorized use of intellectual property on campus this year.
Theft
The University of Richmond hosted the 2009 Bonner Congress for the first time since the conference's 1997 inception, giving 170 Bonner Scholars from colleges across the United States an opportunity to further their service projects and combat student apathy on their campuses.
The Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness expanded the scope of its cancer awareness month campaign, shifting the focus from breast cancer to all types of cancer this year for the first time.
A few of the cadets from University of Richmond's ROTC program grumbled about the cold, rainy early morning weather at 5:45 last Thursday as they filtered onto the grounds of the new E. Claiborne Robins Stadium for PT - physical training - their morning exercise routine.
The University of Richmond Women in Math and Science Initiative is providing a forum for women interested in the sciences, mathematics and computer science to meet and discuss the issues surrounding the fields that often lack women.
More than 75 study abroad programs in 30 countries were represented at the University of Richmond's Study Abroad Fair in the Alice Haynes Room last Thursday.
T-shirts bearing messages such as "Stop the violence" and "We will fight back" hung from a clothesline on the lawn outside the Boatwright Memorial Library on Tuesday afternoon as part of the Clothesline Project, a movement to raise awareness about violence against women.
The University of Richmond's policies regarding workplace violence have been structured to create an environment in which potential acts of violence - such as the one that led to the death of a Yale graduate student last month - are managed before they intensify.
The University Police has seen a sharp increase in the number of golf carts being stolen and damaged during the past few months - a crime which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, according to Virginia law.
Students will not be able to bring their parents and siblings to a University of Richmond home football game this coming Family Weekend because of conflicts between the university's and the football conference's schedules.
The University of Richmond placed the Kappa Sigma fraternity on one month of social probation on Sept. 16, after one of its members unintentionally sent a sexually explicit e-mail this summer to various faculty, staff and administrators.
The elimination of Expository Writing as a requirement has sparked an e-mail debate among faculty about the future of student writing instruction. Meanwhile, the First-Year Experience (FYE) committee met again last Thursday to develop how the new freshman seminars will assume that task.
Former Virginia Gov. George Allen told a group of 50 students and community members in Jepson Hall Tuesday night that the United States could be the Saudi Arabia of coal and that Virginia could be a leader in breaking America's dependency on foreign oil.
The cadets of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps stood in the parking lot outside of Atlantic House at 6:50 a.m. last Saturday checking and rechecking to make sure their 35-pound rucksacks were fully packed.
Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds are in a constantly tightening race for Virginia's governorship, but at the University of Richmond the excitement level seems low - a factor that some think might spell trouble for Deeds as the election approaches.