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Caught in the Web: Game Day

Tailgating: - The student tailgating area is located in the upper sections of the Special Events Lot - Possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages while tailgating is permitted only in Lots B3 and B5, adjacent to the stadium - Tailgating sites will open four hours prior to kickoff - Tailgating is limited to the space in which your vehicle is parked - Tailgating is not permitted during the football game and all lots must be cleared within an hour after the conclusion of the game (except when a post-game event has been scheduled through the University Services & Events Office) September 18, 12:40 PM Home opener pre-game events - Free rally towels for all 8,700 fans in attendance - National anthem will be sung by UR alum and Lion King Broadway star Chauntee Schuler - Sky divers will bring in the game ball - All first year students present at the game will form the human tunnel as the team enters the field. Ticketing: - Student ticketing is now online - Students must claim their tickets in advance on a first come, first serve basis - Tickets must be printed and brought along with their student ID - All ticket details can be found at www.RichmondSpiders.com under the "Ticket" button and "Student Ticketing" tab Cheering: The "Old School" Spider Cheer -I'm Spider born and Spider bred -And when I die, I'll be Spider dead. -So rah rah for Richmond, rah rah for Richmond! -Rah rah for Richmond, U of R! Parking: - Parking lots will open four hours prior to kickoff - Roadways cannot be blocked for any reason and more than one parking spot cannot be used - Vehicles, including motor homes, will not be permitted to park in campus parking lots the night before an event - If you arrive on campus displaying a football parking permit, you will be directed to that lot - If you arrive on campus and do not have a football parking permit, you will be directed to a general parking lot. - Students with an X or G permit must move their vehicles to the designated area off Crenshaw Way by 2 a.m. - Vehicles that are illegally parked will be towed beginning at approximately 2 a.m. Seating: - Seating for students is reserved in "The Web" at the North End Zone - The bleachers have a capacity of approximately 1,600 seats and are the closest seats to the field - If not all 1,600 tickets are claimed by students on a game-by-game basis, the tickets will be put on sale to the general public the week of that game - Students will only be permitted to enter E.

Student interns in Guatemala

When Julie Stevenson arrived in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this past May, never having taken a single Spanish class, she had 12 weeks to help design and establish a new accounting system for Asociacion de Mujeres del Altiplano (AMA), a non-governmental organization whose members didn't speak English. Three months later, Stevenson, a senior, said she had completed her task and had even been able to act as a translator for service groups from the United States that had come to work with the organization. Stevenson said she had taken Spanish classes during the first six weeks of her stay, and by the third or fourth week she was able to talk to everyone at her internship without a translator. Stevenson got her first taste of Guatemala during the spring of her sophomore year, she said, when she went on a spring break trip sponsored by the University of Richmond and organized by the Highland Support Project (HSP), a non-profit based in Richmond that works with AMA and other Mayan communities in Guatemala. "One of the reasons I really wanted to go to Guatemala and live and work abroad was to learn about other cultures," Stevenson said.

Behind the scenes of the safety shuttle

This September, a group of girls stood outside their dorm in a large cluster waiting for a ride to a party.

Student launches jewelry line website

When entering a University Forest Apartment on campus, a visitor would expect to see band posters, gaming systems, photographs and sports paraphernalia.

Behind the Syllabus: Robert Phillips

Courtesy of Robert Phillips What do you do on the weekends? Some combination of work (school, scholarship and yard), and sports watching (season tickets to UR football and basketball, large HD-TV, and myriad Little League events). What's the craziest thing you did when you were in college? In the immortal words of Tron Carter, "I plead the fif." What's one thing your students would never guess about you? I'm surprisingly good at Super Mario. If you could take a year off to do anything, what would you do? If I could take a year off, I would see a lot of live music, mountain bike/snowboard depending on the season and play poker.

UFA coordinator bringing baby home

Bernard Little, area coordinator for the University Forest Apartments, Atlantic House, Pacific House and Thomas Hall, and his wife, Krystal, will be bringing their baby home to the University of Richmond's campus.

Non-art majors display their work

In the quiet of the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art in the Modlin Center for the Arts lies a variety of artwork: from acrylics on paper and oils on canvas, to pen and ink drawings and charcoals, to photography and ceramics and even a video display. This is the museum's annual student exhibit, where 30 works of art from 27 University of Richmond students, plus alumni, are displayed.

Behind the Syllabus: Arts and Sciences

Courtesy of William Anderson William Anderson What do you do on the weekends?

Boatwright exhibit commemorates UR football

As Michael Whitt, a sports historian who works as the special projects assistant at the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, walked down the stairs into the library, he casually mentioned that some of the items in the "UR Football Comes Home" exhibit had belonged to his father. "It's a lot of smiles and a couple of tears," Whitt said about curating an exhibit containing some of his deceased father's possessions. As Whitt described the history of University of Richmond football, he also offered a glimpse into his family's connection to football at the university. Whitt's father, the Rev.

Hidden gems on display at gallery

Not too many University of Richmond students visit the Lora Robins Gallery, an on-campus museum hidden behind the large wooden double doors in front of Lakeview Hall. "Very often we hear seniors saying, 'I've walked by this every day for four years.

Behind the Syllabus: Nicole Sackley

Courtesy of Nicole Stackley What do you do during the weekends? Chase my toddler around the playground.

Video: Heliotrope Project

Heliotrope, the wooden sunflower sculpture that was outside Boatwright Library starting March 20, was moved by the Land Art and Landscape class to the Westhampton Lake Saturday, April 10. The sculpture was constructed by the class as a culmination of a semester studying different kinds of land art throughout history.

Video: UR Games hosts Live Action Role Play

Students from UR Games gathered in the Lower Forum April 14 to participate in a Live Action Role Play. Live Action Role Play from Jordan Trippeer on Vimeo. Contact videographer Jordan Trippeer at jordan.trippeer@richmond.edu, videographer Brittany Taylor at brittany.taylor@richmond.edu and videographer Jon Ojanguren at jon.ojanguren@richmond.edu

Behind the Syllabus: Erling Sjovold

Courtesy of Erling Sjovold What do you do during the weekends? I tend to the intricate and shifting schedules of my four children.

To dine or not to dine: The Grill at Patterson and Libbie

The Grill at Patterson and Libbie will likely suffer the same fate as its predecessor, Freckles, if it keeps serving up below-average American food.

Question of the week: What are you listening to right now?

Featured Flick: Date Night

Tina Fey and Steve Carell are a boring married couple that, on a Mark Ruffalo fear-inspired whim, goes to a restaurant, steals someone's reservation and ends up being chased by crooked cops.

Where will you be this summer?

"What should one wear to an interview for an internship? What about for a job?" Dress professionally, which usually means a suit.

Featured flick: Clash of the Titans

The evil runt twin of the movie "300" and "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" got together and made a baby named "Clash of the Titans." It is also an example of why Hollywood's sudden obsession with the quick, easy and cheap version of 3D will fail miserably if studios apply the method to every movie they shove out into theaters. Aside from being fuzzy and hard to follow with the glasses on, there are plenty of plainly bizarre problems with this Perseus rip-off/remake of the 1981 film of the same name that should have made someone at the production studio shelve this thing. Basically, Perseus is the son of Zeus who goes to slay Hades after he kills Perseus's family.

First Fridays breathes new life to city

On the summery night of April 2, First Fridays East connected First Fridays Art Walk to Richmond's eastern corridor and drew in an even larger crowd than last month, including President Edward Ayers. The event comprised four venues ? the University of Richmond Downtown, the Library of Virginia, St.