Opinion
Armenian genocide
By Mike Padovano | April 16, 2009One week before the German invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler outlined his official plans in a widely unknown speech.
One week before the German invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler outlined his official plans in a widely unknown speech.
This is in response to the article about the on-campus parking and the kiddies who were brilliant enough to reach $1,000 in fines.
A girl was murdered a few days ago at Gettysburg College. I knew her, but not very well. In fact, I've only met her once.
I'll never forget the afternoon my brother Patrick told me he was gay. It was the summer before my junior year of high school, and Patrick, who had been out of college for more than a year, was visiting my family for the weekend from Washington, D.C.
Earlier this week, I came across a comic strip from Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin's words struck a familiar chord with me.
Who is the most dominant athlete in the history of sports? This question is more or less impossible to answer because of the tremendous range of accomplishment and competition across everything that we consider to be sport.
I read Maura Bogue's opinion piece last week in The Collegian and found it entertaining. With humor, stereotyping is common, but I thought I should address some of it for those who are not making the journey over the lake.
Liz Monahan is not doing laundry because she will be on Facebook for the next 10 years of her sad, sad life. Our generation has no paper trail.
During the last couple of weeks, our country seems to have fallen victim to an out-of-control populist bonfire.
"A sociological first expedition down the B-School Trail" HYPOTHESIS: The B-School is actually a secret fraternity where members take pong lessons ... in suits. LITERATURE REVIEW: An early lesson at Richmond: bypass the "major" question.
The current economic crisis has left dozens of states scrambling to come up with new, innovative ways to balance their budgets.
From a woman of the 21st Dark Ages To the editor: I was gratified to see Carson Feld's response, "P.O.W.: Prisoner of womb," to the recent anti-abortion article in The Collegian.
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ... That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact." -- Ralph Ellison,"Invisible Man" When you look in my direction, do you see me, or am I invisible to you?
As students of the University of Richmond, we are generally not surprised when someone accuses the administration of being obtrusively paternalistic.
When I was in college at Virginia Tech, I was into football and hanging out with my friends. You may consider it nothing short of a miracle, but I remained (and still remain) friends with several of my buddies who were Spiders, like yourself! If there's one thing campus life in general has taught me, it's that people love labels.
Contact cartoonist Steve Minnich at steve.minnich@richmond.edu
Dear Readers, Welcome to a new year! Transition is over, and I now face the daunting task of filling Megan Wilson's shoes as the editor-in-chief of The Collegian for the 2009-2010 year.
You probably noticed the hordes of alums walking around campus last weekend, children in tow or reuniting with their old cohorts.
I spent most of my Saturday night walking around campus. I don't know exactly what I expected to see on my stroll, but I unfortunately didn't catch any goose murderers or spot any alumni rekindling old flames in the bushes.