The announcement that the University of Richmond is cutting the men's soccer and men's track and field programs to add men's lacrosse has sent shockwaves throughout the university community, including alumni, athletes, students and faculty. The Board of Trustees ultimately made the decision, said Jim Miller, Richmond athletic director.
Despite the announcement that their team will be eliminated at the end of the 2012-2013 season, the six men who are on the University of Richmond track team, but do not also hold spots on the cross country team, have decided to finish out their education at the university. Even though the majority of the track team members are also members of the cross country team, not all students appear on both rosters.
The Octaves, University of Richmond's oldest a cappella group, discovered Monday that it was runner-up for the Zipcar and Ford September Students with Drive Competition. Zipcar, a car sharing and car club provider, partnered with Ford to create the Students with Drive program, a monthly competition in which five winning clubs receive driving credit to use toward group transportation, according to the program's Facebook page. As a September finalist, The Octaves won $1,000 worth of Zipcar credits.
The Robins School of Business will host a panel led by women to discuss job options and how to balance work and life in the field of finance. The event, "Women in Finance Panel: Lenses on Successful Careers in the Financial Services Industry," will be held in Queally Hall's Ukrop Auditorium from 6 p.m.
Editors note: Senior Charlie Hudson spoke with The Collegian before the team was asked to not speak to the media. Yesterday, about three hours before the varsity club lacrosse team had its first practice of the season, Charlie Hudson, a senior player, sat down for an interview about the team's soon-to-be NCAA division I status. "It was definitely exciting," Hudson said, remembering how the team reacted to the announcement.
The Westhampton College senior and first-year classes celebrated Proclamation Night on Sunday in the Robins Center to highlight the importance of women's leadership, friendship and the Honor Code. Proclamation Night is usually held in Cannon Memorial Chapel, but was moved to the Robins Center this year because of the large sizes of the senior and first-year classes. During the ceremony, first-year women signed the Honor Code and wrote a letter to their senior selves, while senior women read the letters they had written as first-years. "It's really important to continue the heritage of women's education," said Juliette Landphair, dean of Westhampton College.
Bobby Ukrop of Ukrop's Homestyle Foods said he enjoyed friendly competition, but preferred outcomes that were win-win for both parties, during his talk at the Robins School of Business on Thursday. "We've been lucky," Ukrop said of his company's success, "but the harder you work, the better luck you have." Ukrop played basketball for Richmond in the 1960s and said he had applied his knowledge of teamwork to his stores.
Elena Kagan, associate of the U.S. Supreme Court, told an audience of law students, professors and invited guests that she approached opinion writing the same way she prepared to teach law classes: by breaking down an argument and using analogies and hypothetical situations to make ideas stick. "I try to drop the legalese and express things the way people would in normal conversation," Kagan said during her speech on Sept.
Journalism Professor Robert Hodierne's Afghanistan military documentary, "Afghanistan: The Surge," is to be aired Thursday Sept.
Sunny Jain, leader of the Brooklyn-based band Red Baraat, wants the University of Richmond to dance tomorrow. "People are going to dance," Jain said.
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Despite the University of Richmond Police Department's efforts to be a campus resource, some students have expressed concern about approaching officers because they fear getting in trouble for breaking rules. According to the police department's website, an overwhelming majority of crimes reported on campus in 2008, 2009 and 2010, were incidents involving liquor law violations. There has to be some concern from students that if they get too out of control, they will be held liable for their actions, said Chief of Police David McCoy. "I don't want it to feel like we're infringing, or that we're somewhere we shouldn't be," McCoy said, "but the reality is that high alcohol leads to high risk, and if there is high risk, we have to have police around the area." Senior Kelsey Guttormsen thinks there are officers who would rather help students than get them in trouble, but that many officers seem to be jumping on opportunities to accuse students of breaking the rules, she said. "If I needed to contact someone for help in the future, I would probably seek help outside of the campus police," Guttormsen said. Some underclassmen had different views on the police department.
The new Richmond on Broad Cafe will give students a way to use their dining dollars as they contribute to the university's presence downtown, said Bettie Clarke, executive director of campus dining. The new cafe opened on Monday, Sept.
About 8,000 runners dressed head to toe in white began the 5k Color Run, and arrived at the finish line in an explosion of color. The Color Run began and ended at the Richmond International Raceway, and participants covered the three-mile course, which included four "color zones." Volunteersand fans armed with squirt bottles showered the runners with a different colored powder at every kilometer. Participants ranged from young children to adults, including many University of Richmond students.
The University of Richmond won a 2012 award honoring its superior fundraising program in the category of overall improvement. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) recognized Richmond after considering 1,011 eligible institutions, selecting 429 and awarding 30, said Julie Solomon, assistant vice president for development. "For the school overall it's a statement that we're doing the right things in terms of the programs we've put into place, and the alumni have been responding with gifts," Solomon said. CASE considered a many factors when judging the schools including: the pattern of growth in total support, evaluation of what contributed to the total support figure, overall breadth in program areas and their patterns of growth, pattern of donor growth among alumni donors and other individual donors and total support in relation to the alumni base. "It was surprising.
Junior women will be asked to wear black dresses to Ring Dance, and escorts will no longer be a part of the ceremony, starting with the class of 2016. Ring Dance will still be held in The Jefferson Hotel and will look to emphasize the class ring and academic accomplishments of the women, said Kerry Fankhauser, associate dean of Westhampton College.
Liquor Law Violations Sept. 14, 11 p.m. A Richmond College student was referred to the dean for a liquor law violation in Marsh Hall. Sept.
The "Be One" campus-wide campaign will continue to focus on highlighting and improving the University of Richmond's sustainability and decreasing the campus' carbon this school year. "Be One" aims to educate the Richmond community about the different ways that everyone can help turn goals of sustainable actions into sustainable habits, said Megan Zanella-Litke, the sustainability coordinator. "Often, the list of sustainability problems in the world can become overwhelming and makes it seem like individual actions won't help," Zanella-Litke said.
The Getty Mart at 7000 Three Chopt Road stopped selling gasoline at the beginning of May. Bags now cover the gas pumps.
Three people arrested last school year on charges of stealing $6,225.70 in textbooks from the campus bookstore to support drug addictions have been found guilty in the Richmond Circuit Court.
