Opinion
Learn to love adventure
By Lex Reynolds | April 24, 2008I've heard the saying that life is a dance, but sometimes I look around, and feel like I am stuck playing a game at a sleepover party.
I've heard the saying that life is a dance, but sometimes I look around, and feel like I am stuck playing a game at a sleepover party.
I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you those who contacted me in response to my last article on grief.
First and foremost, I am not writing this article to in any way lessen or demean the plethora of negative feelings that have resulted from the Cousins incident.
I had the strangest experience the other day. While I was stretching in the gazebo, a lonely duck paddled through the inactive lake.
The University of Richmond, pending completion of the Westhampton College Deanery addition, may have the highest amount of "study space" per capita in the country. Of course, it makes perfect sense; you don't become an Ivy League school with beanbag chairs.
More colleges are implementing campus-wide smoking restrictions across the country, with many becoming smoke-free entirely. But because there has not been any strong desire expressed by students and faculty to make the University of Richmond campus smoke-free, university administrators said no one should count on the school being added to the list of smoke-free schools anytime soon. According to the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation, more than 70 colleges and universities across the country have implemented smoke-free policies for their campuses as of Oct.
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." And sadly, if all goes according to plan, I will reluctantly be initiated into that same group about six months from now.