The number of students choosing to create their own major has increased exponentially over the past five or six years, said G.
Members of the University of Richmond's newly established TOMS Campus Club want to help get shoes to children in developing countries such as Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa, senior Lauren Graf said. According to its website, for each pair of shoes the TOMS company sells, it donates a new pair to a child in need.
The BARK Club visited the Bandit's Adoption and Rescue of K-9's (BARK) on Friday, Feb. 3, its first visit of the semester to volunteer and play with the shelter's dogs. On Jan.
After working at the University of Richmond for 20 years, English professor Daryl Dance is retiring this spring, but be careful when mentioning the word retirement around her.
The Alice Haynes Room of the Tyler Haynes Commons was empty except for four blue medical chairs in the center of the floor.
Campus Conservation Nationals is hosting Richmond's second "Dorm Wars," a national sustainability competition from Feb.
Douglas Hicks, professor of leadership studies and religion, has been appointed provost and dean of faculty at Colgate University.
Student leaders discussed new ideas for collaboration between on-campus organizations and heightened communication between the organizations and the study body during the second Student Leader Town Hall Meeting. The second Student Leader Town Hall Meeting was held from 6 p.m.
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This summer, senior Mike Yeomans accepted an unpaid internship with Friends of the Children in New York City and commuted to his internship from his parents' house in the suburbs of New Jersey. Yeomans said that getting the internship he had wanted had been logistically easy because he had known he could commute from his parents' house.
Wikipedia blacked out. Google slapped a black censor bar across its homepage. One hundred ten law professors, two of whom teach at the University of Richmond, signed an open letter to Congress.
The Annual Fund, which directly benefits Richmond students, continues to grow despite the recession.
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 28, 2:32 a.m. The window of a WC student's 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe was broken into with a champagne bottle.
Thomas Haynesworth, a Richmond man who was charged with a series of rapes and later exonerated, spoke about his feelings throughout the 27-year process at the T.C.
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Dwayne Foster, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said that Saturday morning's fight had been made a bigger deal than it actually was because of the videos posted online, and The Collegian's reporting of the event. "I definitely think videos being posted on the website, even through The Collegian was disgusting," he said.
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The University of Richmond's Office of Undergraduate Admission has received 10,121 applications for entry into the Class of 2016. Gil Villanueva, dean of admission, said that the number of students who applied for admission this year was the highest number of applicants in the school's history.
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 18, 4:05 p.m. The windshield of an RC student's 2009 Nissan X-Terra was hit by a baseball in the R-16 Lot.
In eight days, four people stole more than $5,000 in textbooks from the campus bookstore to buy heroin, campus police said. Caitlin E.
