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Common Ground hosts Saturday alternative events

By Rachael Bilney | November 3, 2011

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.

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Men's basketball player designs line of clothing

By Markie Martin | November 3, 2011

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.

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Disc golf tournament held to honor deceased employee

By Keon Monroe | November 2, 2011

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.

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Police Report: 11/3/11

By The Collegian | November 2, 2011

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.

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Students take ghost tour of Westhampton Deanery

By Valerie Jama | November 1, 2011

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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Bookstore sells charity purses

By Erin Moyer | October 27, 2011

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.

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Professor speaks at Occupy Richmond

By Keon Monroe | October 27, 2011

A University of Richmond professor spoke last Sunday at what he said was one of the most significant social movements in recent years, Occupy Wall Street's (OWS), "Occupy Richmond." This movement is a byproduct of the original OWS demonstrations and has rallied protesters in Kanawha Park in downtown Richmond since Oct.

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Stepping competition unites organizations

By Taylor Cloonan | October 26, 2011

Vowing to "Protect Richmond from the ordinary," members of University of Richmond's Pi Beta Phi sorority won Stepping 101 on Friday night with their military-themed "GI Pi Phi" routine in the Robins Center. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. reached out to local, historically African-American fraternities and sororities who are known for stepping, and paired members with the Panhellenic sororities, said Dwayne Foster, president of the Alpha's Upsilon Gamma Chapter.

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Freshman performs musical set at a packed Cellar

By Caroline Merritt | October 26, 2011

Freshman George Washburne played for a packed Cellar Tuesday night. After beginning with an acoustic set, he was then joined by sophomores Ian Atchison on the bass and Andrew Robie on the drums, junior Owen Hutchinson on the back-up guitar, and high school friend Cody Reifsteck on the saxophone. As it turned out, most of the crowd was not witnessing Washburnes' music for the first time.

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Club fundraiser supports dog rescue charity

By Keon Monroe | October 24, 2011

Dogs barked and howled around Westhampton Lake Sunday afternoon, in a fundraiser for a nonprofit that helps abandoned or abused animals. Bandit's Adoption and Rescue of K-9's (BARK) is a Richmond-based organization, that works to rescue dogs from animal shelters that would have been euthanized.

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Organizations decorate golf carts for Homecoming

By Sarah Bowers | October 22, 2011

Student organization members decorated golf carts in the University Forum on Oct. 21, and Oct. 22, to represent their student organizations in a Homecoming golf cart parade. The golf cart decorating contest and parade, sponsored by the unifying events committee, guaranteed golf carts to the first 20 students organizations who registered to participate, according to the general contest rules.

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Students must register to attend lodges

By Rachael Specter | October 20, 2011

Richmond officials developed a new guest-list policy for fraternity lodges which became effective yesterday. Alison Bartel Keller, director of Greek Life, said that the new policy was a result of a rise in concern for students' safety and student health. The online registration is for all students who would like to attend a lodge function, Keller said.

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SOBAC works to improve request process

By Taylor Cloonan | October 20, 2011

The Student Organization Budget Appropriations Committee (SOBAC) is working with student activities to improve the funding process for student organizations after deadline confusion last spring and flat-lined funding led to widespread budget cuts. The SOBAC funding application process begins in the spring, Max Vest, director of student activities, said.

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