Fraternity lodge culture to change on football game days
On Saturday, Sept. 18, the dynamics of a typical lodge will be completely different: the parties will start at 9 a.m., and liquor will be permitted.
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On Saturday, Sept. 18, the dynamics of a typical lodge will be completely different: the parties will start at 9 a.m., and liquor will be permitted.
During the first weeks back, some students may have noticed more new faces than usual while walking around campus.
University of Richmond students may have noticed that some significant changes have been made to the campus during the summer, including updated classrooms, computers and other electronic equipment.
With the opening of the E. Claiborne Robins Stadium around the corner, construction workers have been moving quickly toward finishing up new roadways and Queally Hall, the 37,000-square-foot addition to the Robins School of Business.
Time to break out the welcome mat. Spider football is home.
Lora M. Robins, whose family has supported the University of Richmond and the greater Richmond community for more than 40 years, died Sunday at age 98.
As the game clock ticks down to 1 p.m. Sept. 18 — the inaugural game at Robins Stadium for the University of Richmond Spiders football game against Elon University — athletic department officials are ticking off their checklists when it comes to game day information and preparation.
The Gameday Committee, a group of campus leaders assigned to make plans for the opening of E. Claiborne Robins Stadium, held a forum on Tuesday to discuss its progress and answer questions from the community.
E. Claiborne Robins Stadium will bring Spider football to campus for the first time in the program's history, but the stadium's limited capacity will force student-ticketing protocol to change.
With 11 seconds left during the FCS quarterfinal game last month, the Richmond Spiders were mere clock ticks away from reaching their third-straight national semifinal. But when those 11 seconds slowly disappeared, so did many of the people that helped put together the magical run of the last three seasons.
The new on-campus stadium will require three changes next year to maximize parking during home football games: moving student cars, limiting campus events and using the intramural fields for overflow parking.
After 81 seasons, it is time to say goodbye to the home of the University of Richmond football program.
"The very first overtime game played at the Division I-AA level was our game against [the University of Massachusetts] in '87. We beat UMass, which was coached by Jim Reid at the time, before he came here, and we won 52-51 when their kicker missed an extra point. I still remember his name to this day: Silvio Bonvini. ... We didn't even know what was going on in the booth. Ray Tate literally got up and walked downstairs to the coach's booth right in the middle of the game and asked them what the heck overtime was all about."
"I think what I'm most looking forward to is just being on campus, as simple as that sounds. ... People will see the real value of football. We had the highest number of students ever, at [Homecoming]. I think being on campus, students will get more involved. The facility's going to be so much nicer."
The University of Richmond's plans to "move Spider football home" are still being developed as the university awaits approval of a special-use permit from the City of Richmond, but some neighbors are still not sure they're on board with the plans.
This Homecoming Weekend promises to be as strange as it will be memorable, because those who were my peers just a few months ago will be returning to campus as members of that distant and ever-growing faction that is "alumni."