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.
Jonathan Benjamin, a junior point guard for the Spider basketball team, has spent his fall semester balancing schoolwork, a varsity sport and Official Visit ActiveWear, the clothing line he started during the summer of 2011. Benjamin said he had always wanted to start a creative clothing line for athletes since "generic gray sweatpants" usually characterized their wardrobes. "A lot of us like to get dressed up," he said.
University employees and family members of Mark McGill, a deceased facilities employee, spread throughout the forest surrounding the Westhampton Lake to play in the Mark McGill Disc Golf Tournament on Sunday. Staff and students were invited to attend the tournament, which was held around 2 p.m.
Larceny Oct. 26, 10:18 a.m. A WC student reported her iPhone, valued at $100, stolen from the 700 block of the University Forest Apartments. Oct.
Halloween night brought many University of Richmond ghosts out to play for "UR Haunted," a Jeter and Freeman Hall connection held in the Westhampton Deanery. UR Haunted invited students to take a candle-lit tour of the deanery and listen to the legends of its haunting, one of which includes the tale of Dean May Keller, who lived in the deanery until her death in June 29, 1964, according to urhistory.richmond.edu. Keller still resides in the deanery, but now it is her spirit that lives on, according to the legend. "My favorite part was that the stories were real," sophomore Fatima Al-Bassam said.
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The campus bookstore is now selling ITSERA, a line of fair-trade purses developed by a father and daughter alumni team to benefit women who are exploited in Thailand's sex industry. ITSERA, the Thai word for freedom, features woven leather purses crafted by women who were once a part of, or at risk for, sex trafficking in Pattaya, Thailand.
After completing an almost two-year colonization process, the Alpha Chi Zeta Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha has become a nationally chartered chapter.
