On Feb. 4, members of the junior class of Westhampton College will file into the Jefferson Hotel in long, white dresses, their faces beaming.
University Dining Services will introduce a Text-n-Tell program to the Heilman Dining Center next month allowing students to go mobile with food suggestions. Jerry Clemmer, residential dining director, and Blake Widdowson, retail operations director, first heard about Text-n-Tell at the 2011 National Association of College & University Food Services conference in Dallas, Clemmer said. Text-n-Tell allows students to send feedback straight to dining services from their cell phones.
Members of GreenUR are continuing to protest coal burning at the University of Richmond. In October 2011, members staged a die-in that was intended to lobby for the elimination of coal burning at the University of Richmond's steam plant and, though the plant's coal usage has been reduced greatly over the past year, the protest's impact on this fact may be minimal. The steam plant, located behind the Tyler Haynes Commons, had been burning coal almost exclusively until this past summer, when it increased its use of natural gas.
Cuba is infamous. Hearing its name conjures images of cigars, mobsters, dirty dancing and dictatorship.
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Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 1, 6 p.m. An unknown person kicked in the gate to Robins Stadium.
University officials ended a three-year partnership with Union First Market Bank and signed a two-year contract with BB&T Bank in September. Richmond chose BB&T Bank after reviewing proposals from a credit union and three other banks: Union First Market Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, said Louie Love, Richmond's director of treasury services. "BB&T offered the best proposal and they were in complete agreement to write the proposal the way that the university [officials] wanted without any changes," Love said.
George Allen, the former governor of Virginia who is running for U.S. Senate, visited the University of Richmond and told students he would be "like a dog on a bone" to make his campaign plans a reality for building a brighter American future. Allen addressed approximately 100 people in his black leather cowboy boots for a joint meeting of the Richmond City GOP, the University of Richmond College Republicans and the Greater Richmond Young Republicans. Allen said he was inspired by the cohesiveness of the three hosting organizations, and that it was "great to see young people interested in government who are involved and care about the future of the country." Economic issues, energy resourcing and Medicaid were three of the most important topics of Allen's discussion.
Junior Greg Lauritano said he had felt violated and angry on the Saturday after Thanksgiving break last semester.
Readings, dance and song honored Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday afternoon during the university's annual community gathering. The commemoration, Martin Luther King Day, 2012:Dream, Think, Act, was held at 2 p.m.
The University of Richmond community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 2 p.m. tomorrow with a campus-wide gathering at Camp Concert Hall. The day honors the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Students froze while walking, tying shoes and checking cell phones this afternoon in an effort to spread awareness about worldwide human trafficking. Students Stopping the Trafficking of People (SSTOP) sponsored the demonstration in honor of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Jan.
With the start of 2012 only a few hours away, The Collegian took a look back at the top 11 stories of 2011.
A Richmond Circuit Court acquitted University of Richmond and Kappa Sigma junior Sebastien Fauchet Dec.
The suspect in Tuesday morning's incident that prompted campus police to fire two shots turned himself in to the Henrico County jail Tuesday night, following a day-long search. According to information released by the university, Connor T.
The first LGBTQ history bus tour of Richmond hosted by the university rolled through the downtown streets Saturday.
Some students of the University of Richmond want to see change on the campus, and the Student Activities Board is helping to make some of those changes. The first official Student Leader Town Hall met on Thursday, Nov.
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Members of Westhampton College and Richmond College Student government associations held a joint meeting on Oct.
This year's leader-in-residence for the Jepson School of Leadership Studies is a U.S. Army general who was reprimanded for her role in misleading the public about the death of Pat Tillman, a former all-pro defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals turned Army Ranger, who was killed by his own platoon in Afghanistan in 2004. Sandra Peart, dean of the leadership school, said she had consulted with colleagues at Jepson and the university to choose Maj.
