Students, faculty and members of the Richmond community attended a screening of "Reporter," followed by a talk with the director, Eric Metzgar, at 7:30 p.m.
A steady stream of cars flowed through C-Lot Tuesday for the University of Richmond Police Department's Vehicle Safety Day. Officers began their checklist by asking students to start their engines and turn on their headlights, turn signals and hazard, brake and reverse lights.
Where have Friday classes gone? Students have noticed fewer classes on Fridays, and while some professors say their departments aren't changing, others say changes are being made to their schedules. The science department still prefers to teach Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday classes, chemistry professor Lisa Gentile said in an email response, but other schools such as the Business School and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies have seen changes over the last few years. There have been several factors that have led to fewer Friday classes, most notably a scheduling overhaul that goes back several years, said Bob Nicholson of the Robins School of Business. Just before the 2008 fall semester, Richmond changed from a credits system to a units system, he said.
Tomorrow night the University of Richmond Journalism Department will present a screening of the award-winning documentary "Reporter" and a talk by the director, Eric Daniel Metzgar at 7:30 in the Alice Haynes Room. Metzgar is riding his bicycle from New York to Richmond to help support fundraising for Women for Women International, an organization that supports women who were victims of war or other conflicts.
University of Richmond Emergency Medical Services (UREMS) wants to make sure you know what to do in a medical emergency.
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Former University of Richmond football coach Latrell Scott was sentenced to 10 days in jail Thursday morning by a Henrico County judge. Scott, who was arrested in August for his second DUI in a 5-10 year span, will serve the time on weekends, starting at 8 p.m.
Larceny Nov. 3, 9:08 p.m. An RC student reported his red Scott Mountain bike, valued at $700, stolen from University Forest Apartment 1505. Nov.
This month a new canned-food drive at University of Richmond will help feed the hungry by giving food and money to the Central Virginia Food Bank. Student organizations have united joined to run URThankful, the replacement of Trick-or-Treat Street (TOTS), the Halloween-themed festival held on Old Fraternity Row for children. "Trick-or-Treat Street was a way for the University of Richmond community to come together and support a cause, not just as an individual fraternity or sorority chapter," said Garrison Weaver, a member of the interfraternity council. This year the Oct.
The number of first-year women rushing sororities is up 10 percent from last year at the University of Richmond, said Alison Keller, who has been the director of Greek Life for the past 27 years. "This year, 56 percent of first-year women are registered and last year there were 46 percent," Keller said. Female students were required to register and attend sorority interest socials, which acquainted them with the Greek system at Richmond. Keller attributes the increase in sorority interest to the sororities' ability to lead, encourage, be philanthropic and embody sisterhood, she said. Women find out their bids, or sorority offers of membership, the week after returning from winter break. "It is a mutual selection process," Keller said.
The class of 2012 senior class gift committee is focused more on participation than a dollar amount, co-chairman Dwayne Foster said. "Alumni satisfaction is one of the factors that goes into our ranking," Bryarly Richards, co-chairwoman of the committee said, "and they factor that by how much alumni give back.
The revised lodge policy, which requires attendees to register by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday for any lodge party occurring that weekend, will now limit the number of lodge parties students can register to attend to two. "I was hoping that people would only sign up for that which they would go to," said Alison Bartel Keller, director of Greek life.
A University of Richmond student said he and his apartmentmates were disgusted when they discovered mold on the their bathroom wall during their first week on campus this semester.
A small group of University of Richmond students gathered in the kitchen of their rabbi's home Friday night for the first retreat organized by UR Hillel, the Jewish student organization on campus.
Richmond's own 'ravishing' Rho Rho chapter of Delta Sigma Theta held a fundraising effort and shoe drive as a part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month for a second year.
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The two burglaries that occurred in the University Forest Apartments last week could have been avoided, campus police officer Angela Combs said. "Theft is the biggest and most preventable crime we have on the campus," Combs. With the most recent timely warning sent through the university e-mail notifying students of the burglaries, students were reminded to secure their apartments and residence hall rooms when unattended.
I agree with the diagnosis, oft-cited by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, that establishment media is losing its way because of its insistence on balance for balance's sake.
More than 300 students attended Spider Mayhem at the Weinstein Center Friday night to mark the beginning of the University of Richmond's basketball season. The pep rally featured men's dunk, 3-point and tuition half-court shot contests.
Cultural Alternative Events is a new series of programs sponsored by Common Ground which offer activities for students who are looking to break away from the party scene and have a mellow Saturday night, Lisa Miles, assistant director of Common Ground, said. The cultural advisers program started last February with a dozen students dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the residence halls, Miles said.
