Administrators at the University of Richmond sent an official statement commenting on the withdrawal of the charter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity Beta-Beta chapter to all the presidents of the university's fraternities and sororities on Thursday, Dec.
On Tuesday, Nov. 20, twelve University of Richmond faculty members and staff played in a Bald Basketball halftime game to support David Dean, an economics professor who was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma. Dean's friends and colleagues raised awareness of Dean's disease at the men's basketball game against Wofford College; many of them have shaved their heads to support him as he goes through chemotherapy.
When centenarian Jim Mims woke up the morning of Dec. 1, he was unprepared for the early birthday present he received: more than 20 people laboring outside his house, performing outdoor chores. Approximately 22 people from the University of Richmond's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and the Bon Air Rotary Club came to the aid of Mims that morning to help clean his yard, his roof and the surrounding land. Jonathan Shannon, one of Lambda Chi's current vice presidents, the fraternity's philanthropy officer and a junior at the University of Richmond said that just over half the current brothers planned on attending. "If someone needs help, it's natural to help them," Shannon said of the reason behind the high number of volunteers who jumped at the opportunity to help a fellow alumnus.
The word on Wall Street is: don't go to Wall Street, go to China or North Dakota, said Robins School of Business Dean Nancy Bagranoff when she concluded the panel discussion "The Word on Wall Street" on Nov.
A cigarette butt caused the brush fire that forced Robins Hall residents to evacuate on Monday night, said Beth Simonds, university police captain. "The cigarette ignited a fire in the mulch pile between Robins Hall and the admissions office," Simonds said.
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The week before thanksgiving break, the organization Stop Hunger Now allowed students to donate meal swipes at the dining hall to raise money for its meal-packaging event in the spring, Adrienne Piazza said. Piazza is the coordinator of student development and educational programming and in charge of the on-campus effort to promote the organization and its cause. "Although I am not certain how many meal swipes we raised this year, in the past years we've raised around $1500, that goes towards the meal packaging event," Piazza said. The biggest event held by the Center for Civic Engagement issued coalition, is the meal-packaging event that takes place in the February, she said.
Intimidation Nov. 11, 12:54 a.m. An unknown offender verbally intimidated two Richmond College students in the 1600 block of the University Forest Apartments. Liquor-Law Violation Nov.
With a national outbreak of meningitis and the recent presence of chickenpox on campus, the Student Health Center has been on high alert. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving break, a student's chickenpox was diagnosed, but has fully recovered, said the staff of the student health center.
New electronic dorm-room locks were installed in Lora Robins Court during the summer, allowing residents to open their rooms with only their Spidercard and a pin code. Starting in September, each resident was able to program her room's device to recognize her Spidercard and a pin that she assigned to it.
Three of the four University of Richmond a cappella groups will compete at the A Cappella Sing-Off in Busch Garden's Christmas Town on Dec.
Mining the Dispatch, a computer analysis program launched two years ago in the Boatwright Library Digital Scholarship Lab by Robert K.
Employees of the University of Richmond Emergency Medical Service purchased an SUV to help respond to on-campus calls more efficiently. "The new, quick-response vehicle will allow us to improve patient care and will put us on the same level as other similar collegiate EMS organizations around the country," said campus police officer Beth Simonds. Before the purchase of the SUV in October, UREMS first responders had two methods of transportation: They could either respond to calls on foot or drive their personal vehicles to the scene, while still abiding by all of the Virginia state traffic laws, Simonds said. Because the vehicle is still being outfitted by Richmond Ambulance Authority, UREMS is currently still responding by the two traditional methods, Simonds said. But, the new SUV is expected to be in service at the beginning of the spring semester, Simonds said. The primary function of the vehicle will be as a BLS (basic life support) non-transport vehicle. It will bring the UREMS first responders from wherever they are on campus to the location of the emergency in a timely fashion, but without the capability of transporting a patient to the hospital, said Richard Jamesley, the president of UREMS operations. "One way the vehicle will improve campus safety is it will allow UREMS to carry more advanced equipment that normally cannot be carried in a standard First Responder bag," said Matt Palmisano, the vice president of UREMS operations.
Nancy Bagranoff, dean of the University of Richmond Robins School of Business, has been elected to the board of directors for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is currently the only educator to hold this position, she said. "Accounting education is important, and they [board members] recognize that they want someone with that background on the board," Bagranoff said. Darrell Walden, chairman of the university's accounting department, said Bagranoff was one of two academics to have served on the AICPA's board.
When the University of Richmond basketball program plays in the Governor's Hoop Holiday Classic on Dec.
The number of students transported from campus to the hospital for alcohol-related illness this semester is already more than double the total from the fall of 2011. Before Thanksgiving break, 43 students had been transported to hospitals for alcohol-related illness, Richmond Dean Joseph Boehman said.
When religion professor Frank Eakin was cleaning his mother's house after her death, he opened a drawer and stumbled upon a note from former Richmond professor and colleague, Philip Hart, he said. The note was sent unbeknownst to Eakin to his parents during his undergraduate career, and described the pleasure Hart had felt getting to know him, Eakin said.
During the holidays, it is important for people to be with their families and not have to worry about where they will live, senior Greg Lauritano said. Lauritano hopes inLieu Giving will help make that a reality for victims of Hurricane Sandy, he said. inLieu is a crowd-funding site where people ask for donations, rather than gifts, for their birthdays, weddings, graduations or holidays.
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Broadcast journalist and founding member of National Public Radio Susan Stamberg spoke about the importance of a liberal arts education and her career as a cultural correspondent on Tuesday afternoon in the Jepson Alumni Center. "When done really well, a broadcast interview gives 34 million listeners the illusion that they are eavesdropping," Stamberg said to a large audience that nearly filled the Robins Pavilion. Stamberg became one of the first hosts of the NPR show All Things Considered, and has been inducted to both the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the National Radio Hall of Fame. After over 20,000 interviews, Stamberg said that her favorite interview was with author and literary journalist Joan Didion in 1977.
