Weekly Roundup | Week of March 23
By Sophie Dulog | March 24, 2025Happy Monday Spiders! Get ready for a week of sweet events like a waffle making truck and a cookie baking class in the Demonstration Kitchen.
Happy Monday Spiders! Get ready for a week of sweet events like a waffle making truck and a cookie baking class in the Demonstration Kitchen.
Junior Arju Patel won the Richmond College Student Government Association presidential race on March 23.
SpiderBoard’s “The CAVE” won the student lodge name and design competition as announced by the University of Richmond’s student governments on Instagram on Feb. 11.
Be sure to mark your calendars and check out the wide variety of events happening this week.
About 70% of undergraduates voting in a survey sent out by the student governments support the renaming of Mitchell-Freeman and Ryland halls.
The University of Richmond's Student Center for Equity and Inclusion will host the sold-out Black Excellence Gala on Feb. 18 after a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
The Faculty Senate voted in favor of a resolution demanding more student, faculty and staff representatives be added to the Naming Principles Commission.
The Marriage Pact sent out emails on Friday night with students' individual matches and the compatibility percentage of the partnership.
Using the name Alexander Tom, a person wrote in the email that they had ties to the "Children Christian Lifeline."
Disaffiliation, for Lawrence, is meant to disrupt operations. Lawrence said he had gone back and forth when deciding whether to disaffiliate.
“I didn’t have a fever; I didn’t really have a headache; I didn’t really have a stomach ache,” she said. “It was just a general achy feeling.”
WCGA will cease all normal operations — including weekly meetings — but will still hear student concerns.
Once the motions to disaffiliate and preemptively approve SOBAC recommendations were passed, Polcari resigned from his position as RCSGA president and swore in Lawrence.
The Faculty Senate voted to offer a credit/no credit option for students and adopted a statement calling for the renaming of Mitchell-Freeman and Ryland halls.
Miquell Shaw, a member of the Africana Studies Student Committee, recalled a one-on-one conversation he had with Crutcher in summer 2020 at Crutcher’s on-campus home.