Multiple types of media affect our perceptions and realities about all aspects of our lives. Such has been the case recently at the University of Richmond involving a social event sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. As it often happens, the use of social media provides information without full context or accuracy.
Everyone in the world is connected by the desire to be happy. There are thousands of articles out there on how to achieve and preserve happiness, yet people are still seeking desperately that coveted secret to contentment.
My first day of teaching in 2007, Jerome showed up 15 minutes late and disrupted my entire class, ensuring that everyone knew that he had finally arrived.
I would like to reply to both of your writers, Ben Panko and Elliot Walden, about "Guns on campus." As a faculty member, I may bring a perspective to the debate over guns that few students or colleagues share.
It disturbs me to find places on campus I have never seen before. In the past week, I've found three.
I would like to reply to both of your writers, Ben Panko and Elliot Walden, about this topic. As a faculty member, I may bring a perspective to the debate over guns that few students or colleagues share.
Contact cartoonist Peter Anton at peter.anton@richmond.edu
Every week students eagerly pick up The Collegian to read the "UR Busted" section, and every week someone's iPod or laptop has gone missing.
Before I say anything else, let me make it clear: any liberal (or person) who calls himself an American should believe in the Constitution.
I have resigned myself to the pathetic fact that I will be living in my parents' basement for the rest of my life, hoping that they love me enough to support me for years to come while I wallow in the sad realization that I will never get a job. As a second-semester senior, I'm moderately to majorly freaking out about my life post-graduation.
When I was a freshman, contraception was a joke. The pail of complimentary condoms outside each resident adviser's door led to laughter - but was always empty - and free condom stickers cheerfully adorned bulletin boards and mini-fridge doors. Sex was a joke, too.
Study abroad is not a vacation. You're not going to be staying in a luxurious hotel, you're not going to be eating at five-star restaurants and you're not going home in a few days.
Readers, if you're anything like me and you've spent part, much or the entirety of your college journey hooking up with people hoping that maybe, just maybe, one of these frat stars will be the one who acts like a decent human being and texts you the next morning to ask you to coffee sometime, followed by an invitation to a casual lunch, which is then logically followed by dinner and then, eventually, couples cooking, homeworking and holding hands on your way to the mail room, let me tell you, there is hope. Now, you all know that I'm the first one to frump around and complain about how my foreseeable future includes me being an old cat lady well-versed in Jane Austen and flower genera, but the impossible has happened.
Two years ago last week, Haitians were suffering and dying after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ravaged their country while I and other sorority girls of the University of Richmond prepared to prep and welcome new recruits.
The side of my face is smushed against the carpet in a room in the Tyler Haynes Commons. A group of my girlfriends is sprawled around me, and we are all in rest-mode after an endless day of classes, homework and sorority rush.
A lot of things have been said about Southern politics, and very few of them are nice. Last week the Virginia General Assembly flooded into Richmond, marking the beginning of the 2012 session.
Dear Editor, Ms. Kuta complains that "Allah says the goal of Islam is to take over the world." (Sura 8:39) If Allah says that His goal is to make the world Muslim, it is His goal.
First of all, nice scoop and reporting by The Collegian and reporter Markie Martin on the article entitled "Jepson leader involved in Tillman case." When I first read the article, I was surprised but I went on with my day.
"It has to be one or the other: either admit that the present social arrangement is just and then defend your own rights, or admit that you enjoy certain unjust advantages, as I do, and enjoy them with pleasure," Oblonsky says to his half-brother Levin in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." "No," Levin says, "if it was unjust, you wouldn't be able to enjoy those benefits with pleasure, at least I wouldn't be able to.
On Oct. 20, the Muslim Law Students Association hosted Azizah Al-Hibri, a Richmond law professor, and Randolph Marshall Bell, ambassador and president of the First Freedom Center, in a town hall event with the express purpose to clear misinformation about Shar'iah and its practice in the U.S. In his coverage of the event, Collegian writer Tanveer Ahmed misunderstood the purpose of that meeting and published an article stating that Islam had no basis in science and criticized organizers of the meeting for "not tackl[ing] the issue of undue divinity provided to edicts that are many eons old, and are inherently arbitrary." When this line was later removed from online publication, Ahmed complained of the media being circumscribed by a "sickness of balance" - an insistence on balance for balance's sake. Arising from this discussion were several responses, ultimately unfairly thrusting Islam into scrutiny both on The Collegian's website and in print.
