The trial of University of Richmond football player Jimmy Speros is set for 9:30 a.m. on June 11, following his preliminary hearing in the John Marshall Courts Building on Monday. Speros arrived at the courthouse early Monday accompanied by his father, Jim.
Professors at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are co-hosting the 20th annual French Film Festival March 29 - April 1 at the Byrd Theatre in Carytown. Francoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, a French professor at U of R, founded and designed the three-day festival along with her husband, Peter Kirkpatrick of VCU. "It started as a very small event with only five films, and we didn't have the money to invite any directors and actors from the films," Ravaux-Kirkpatrick said.
A series of planned renovations will add more than 20,000 square feet of study and work space to Boatwright Memorial Library, library officials said. The renovations will attempt to separate quiet and collaborative study areas more logically and increase the amount of work space in the library, said Kevin Butterfield, the director of bibliographic and digital services and interim university librarian. The major phase of the plan is to remove all of the shelving from the large rooms farthest from the main doors on the first and second floors and open up that space for individual and group study areas, Butterfield said.
On Tuesday, March 13, the Office of Sustainability hosted a transportation celebration in the Forum where they re-introduced the green bikes to campus, displayed a Chevy Volt and its refueling station and had informational transportation games for students. The event was part of "RecycleMania," an eight-week, nation-wide competition designed to make campuses more environmentally friendly through energy conservation, waste reduction and increased recycling.
IMAGES, the University of Richmond's student organization that promotes positive body image, is hosting its fifth-annual Love Your Body Week March 19-23. "This year's theme is 'We All Know Someone,'" said IMAGES president Caraline Mikkelsen.
Three speakers discussed regulations for patent rights regarding medicine on a global scale as a part of the 24th Annual Emanuel Emroch Lecture at the University of Richmond School of Law on Thursday. As part of the 11th annual symposium put on by the Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, Richmond law professor Cynthia Ho gave the key-note address in which she explained the basics of patents and how they relate to pharmaceuticals in international markets and societies.
Students, faculty and members of the Richmond community filed into the International Center Commons March 13 to witness the Ambassador of Japan to the United States give his opening remarks in remembrance of Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki joined several panelists at Japan's Earthquake: A Year in Review, a gathering to remember the events of last year's March 11 disaster and to commemorate the progress Japan has made since. Other panelists included Scott Allison, University of Richmond professor of psychology, Andy Anderson, founder of the Taylor Anderson Memorial Gift Fund, Nancy Bagranoff, dean of the Robins School of Business, Martin Chapman, Virginia Tech research associate professor of geophysics, and Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, University of Richmond professor of political science. Wesley Julian, University of Richmond graduate student and media relations coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago, was the driving force behind this commemoration that began taking shape in the fall of 2011. "In March, I experienced the great east Japan earthquake firsthand in Miyagi Prefecture," Julian said.
The university recently improved its LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rating from three stars to four on the Campus Climate Index.
Pi Beta Phi is hosting Ballin' for Books on Friday in the Weinstein Center to support its philanthropy, First Book, and to collect donations for Churchill Activities and Tutoring (CHAT), according to Meredith Schlussel, the sorority's vice president of philanthropy.
University of Richmond School of Law Professor John F. Carroll died Thursday afternoon from "natural causes," according to Linda Evans, assistant director of media relations at Richmond. Carroll was an assistant clinical professor of law and the director of the intellectual property and transactional law clinic.
Alumnus Keith Reynolds, RC '03, applauded Evan Harris, president of the Richmond Junior Class Cabinet, for having started a tradition where student leadership could connect with outside networks for a cause that benefited the Richmond community. "Tonight is the kickoff," Reynolds said during his speech at the Richmond Junior Class Cabinet charity reception for Ginter Park Elementary School Thursday night at the Jepson Alumni Center. Reynolds was an introvert -- confused and lost -- in his undergrad years, he said, but after working at BB&T and Business Network International, he realized he could make a difference. "I want to connect with students who are doing what I wish I had done," Reynolds said. As the growth specialist for the Synergy chapter of Business Network International, Reynolds wants to be an active alumnus and use his network to encourage people to use their voices and connections to promote causes, such as the cabinet's charity reception, he said. Jack Wisnefske, a Richmond College Student Government Association senator, came to support the reception because he is a friend of Harris, and he has volunteered in Richmond Public Schools in the past, he said. "People always talk about the disconnect between UR and the Richmond community," Wisnefske said.
Amina Gautier, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, spoke in Keller Hall at 7 p.m.
The University of Richmond's ensemble-in-residence, eighth blackbird, recently won its second Grammy Award and will be playing at the university March 14. The ensemble has been working with the University of Richmond for almost 10 years, and the group has been together for a total of 16 years, Timothy Munro, the group's flutist, said. The group won this Grammy for Best Small Ensemble Performance.
Joanita Senoga started the Circle of Peace School in 1994 and hopes the new chicken farm will be one way to provide funding to rebuild the school, she said.
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University of Richmond offensive lineman Jimmy Speros is scheduled to appear in court at 9:30 a.m.
A standing-room-only crowd of more than 500 students packed the Alice Haynes Room at the University of Richmond Monday night to watch sorority sisters sashay down the runway for Kappa Alpha Theta's third annual KATwalk fashion show. The show was split into two parts: a fashion show by sorority members wearing clothes loaned by Richmond boutiques and a "walk-off" competition featuring 16 campus organizations.
Richmond football offensive lineman redshirt sophomore Jimmy Speros was arrested Wednesday afternoon on felony charges of hit-and-run causing personal injury, and if he is convicted could face up to 10 years in prison, according to a report by Nick Dutton and Angela Pellerano of CBS6. According to NBC12's Andy Jenks, Speros was later released on a $3,500 unsecured bond on Wednesday and will appear in General District Court today. According to CBS6, Speros, who was driving a pick-up truck, collided into an SUV that was going east on Patterson Ave.
SpokenSilence, University of Richmond's only creative writing club, hosted its first event of the year, a poetry jam, in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall, Friday, Feb.
Theft from Building Feb. 22, 5:58 p.m. An RC student's MacBook Air laptop, valued at $1,200, was stolen from Weinstein Hall. Feb.
