I'm starting to wonder if Hollywood film reviewers are being paid to say that movies this year are decent when they're actually so boring it's almost criminal that someone funded the making of them.
The movie "Drive" follows a character who is based on a superman-type persona, barely speaks and is also as awkward as Ryan Gosling's character in "Lars and the Real Girl." Sure, he's a stoic superhero with a secret identity but he's also awkward, makes strange decisions and gets involved with really obvious crime kingpins.
Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a nonprofit program that trains service dogs, has made University of Richmond one of its training sites. Cathy Foldesi, regional coordinator for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, and her husband, Les, meet in the North Court courtyard the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month to host training sessions. The program teaches puppies the behavioral skills they need to become service dogs.
While a group of teenage boys cast fishing hooks into the James River at the Manchester Docks, I somberly gazed toward the city, contemplating the first view that African slaves had of Richmond. "This view has not changed in over 200 years," said Ralph White, manager of the James River Park System.
The University of Richmond's Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art is showcasing the Annual Student Exhibition in the Pickles Gallery located in the Modlin Center.
Do not touch your face while you read this. Seriously. You're doing it now, aren't you? Well, congratulations.
Being young - only in fourth grade - it was hard for me to understand the extent of the catastrophe that had occurred.
Journalists played an imperative role in informing the world about the attacks through their coverage, and the staff members of the Collegian in September 2001 were no different.
Ten years ago the idea of going to war for ROTC cadets may have been a nebulous one, said Lt. Col.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mike Clements, who graduated in 2004, was in his University of Richmond dorm room when the first plane hit the North Tower. Clements said that after hearing about the crash, he and fellow students were unsure whether they should stay home or go to class.
Ten years ago on Sept. 11, three Richmond staff members were in shock and disbelief over what was occurring in the nation.
I first heard about 9/11 when I met my mum outside my school. She told me what had happened and at that point everyone still thought it had been an accident.
It sometimes feels like once you've been to one Mexican restaurant, you've been to them all. But that's not how I feel about Plaza Azteca on Broad Street.
At the dawn of freshman orientation week, a resident in Marsh Hall was watching football with his roommate.
The ancient Greek gods could not be more proud of our Richmond seniors-- last Thursday, we somehow managed to pull off an exact reenactment of a toga party in 1450 B.C.
This may be the best espionage movie I've ever seen. Let me qualify that by stating that this is not a Bourne/Bond explosion and gadget extravaganza where nameless henchmen are mowed down by the dozens.
About 30 students per year visit the University of Richmond's Counseling and Psychological Services staff to seek treatment for anorexia or bulimia, according to Peter LeViness, director of CAPS. A 2006 National Eating Disorder Association poll revealed that 20 percent of students on college campuses suffered from disordered eating of some type.
When he learned to ice skate on Westhampton Lake as a child, Harold Wainwright Jr. said he had never dreamed he would become a father-figure to 170 Richmond College students every year. Wearing his faded gray uniform, high socks and a smile, Wainwright, 53, comes to the University of Richmond five days a week to clean South Court. Wainwright has been working at the university since 2004.
As I woke up at 8 a.m. the morning after the senior toga social, I realize that I was the victim of a vicious sharpie attack (despite abiding by the golden rule of "not passing out with my shoes on"), and I couldn't help but smile.
Hot, sticky weather did not keep University of Richmond students inside Friday night when White Panda came to campus. The Campus Activity Board-sponsored concert was held in the Greek theatre where the students filled the green steps with glow stick necklaces, some sitting on others shoulders for a better view. "It was fantastic," senior Chelsea O'Neil said.
