Community installs chaplain during Family Weekend
The Rev. Craig Kocher was installed as the university chaplain and Jessie Ball duPont chair of the chaplaincy Saturday night at the Cannon Memorial Chapel.
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The Rev. Craig Kocher was installed as the university chaplain and Jessie Ball duPont chair of the chaplaincy Saturday night at the Cannon Memorial Chapel.
Despite taking an entirely Arts and Sciences class schedule, my most thought-provoking lessons this week came from the Business School.
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.
...or why our culture has made it this way
Dear Sorry Senior Self,
It's been almost a month since a driver killed a pedestrian 10 minutes from my house. Alcohol? No. An idiot 16-year-old who just got a license? No.
The University of Richmond set records this year for the number of alumni donors who attended Richmond as undergraduates, the amount of money donated by all donors and attendance at alumni events.
Absurd: (adj.) ridiculously unreasonable; having no rational or orderly relationship to human life. From the French absurde, from the Latin absurdus: deaf, stupid. No alternate pronunciations. But alternate connotations for sure.
About 40 incoming freshmen athletes took their library skills and alcohol education classes before the semester in an effort by class coordinators to make the first-year requirements more convenient for students and staff.
"It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. ... A young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled." - Jonathan Swift.
Michelle E. Wamsley will become the assistant vice president of foundation, corporate and government relations for the University of Richmond Sept. 16.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - J. Krishnamurti
University of Richmond sophomore Keaton Cristobal and a friend launched a nationwide, free textbook exchange Web site for college students last Wednesday.
It was a word I had rarely heard until arriving at the University of Richmond on that scorching, second-to-last week in August for freshman year. A few months in an all-girls dorm would quickly change that. A few years would expose a pervasiveness in student vocabulary that not even separate, coordinate colleges could prevent. Calorie.
Tze Loo, an assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond, will travel to Tokyo, Japan, in July to continue research on the Shuri Castle at Waseda University through a yearlong fellowship.
The School of Continuing Studies created unrealistic graduation expectations while providing sparse guidance for assembling thesis review committees, according to dissatisfied disaster sciences graduate program students.
HYPOTHESIS: The B-School is actually a secret fraternity where members take pong lessons ... in suits.
Regardless of whether you know who Stephen Sondheim is (don't feel bad, I didn't either until covering his campus visit), the Father of Broadway's words should still strike a chord: The only things worth doing are the ones that scare you.
Although a life's accomplishment for many people would be changing the life of one person, for University of Richmond honorary alumnus and trustee emeritus W. Dortch Oldham, who died Feb. 26 at 89, his duty was to help as many as he could.
After earning a first-round bye, the University of Richmond women's basketball team will begin the Atlantic 10 tournament in the quarterfinals at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte's Halton Arena in Charlotte, N.C.