On Saturday, Sept. 18, the dynamics of a typical lodge will be completely different: the parties will start at 9 a.m., and liquor will be permitted. Lodge events, along with other tailgating sites, will open four hours prior to the kick-off of the University of Richmond's first on-campus football game against Elon University in the new E.
University of Richmond students presented their summer research this afternoon in Gottwald during the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Symposium. The poster session, which took place from 3 p.m.
A slew of on-campus crimes at the University of Richmond were reported last weekend, ranging from assault to breaking and entering. Three Richmond College students were victims of assault between 2 a.m.
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Daniel Jose Custodio, a poet who founded the Slam Nahuatl local slam poetry group in 2008, said he thought anytime an artist depends on an institution, he or she is compromising the art. "The artists really have to go beyond the channels of institutions, beyond the university, beyond getting the grant money or the pat on the back [to create change]," he said. Two years ago, Custodio created the End Hunger slam poetry series in which Slam Nahuatl troupe took the proceeds from their shows and provided a single mother and her two children with funding for an entire year's worth of groceries. Custodio was one of six artists who discussed the role of art in creating social change at a panel discussion Sept.
Theft from Motor Vehicle Sept. 3, 11:56 a.m. A Maryland License plate, valued at $20, was stolen from a Westhampton College student's silver Honda in R-lot. Vandalism Spet.
Once upon a time, there was a mystical, magical land where beer grew on trees, boys only wore pants and bowties that looked like the Easter bunny threw up on them and textbooks, cigarettes, microwaveable burritos, alcoholic beverages and other pleasantries could be purchased with special currency that magically refilled itself each semester (or with one desperate call to Mom). This special land was where young idiots from New Jersey (like myself) would go to endure rigorous training to become successful accountants, surgeons, journalists and other boring professions that we swore in third grade we would never succumb to.
Two Westhampton College students reported to campus police Saturday that a male intruder had entered their apartment around 5 a.m.
Nearly an hour after GreenUR's bike sale began, all 13 bikes were sold. Braving what would normally be considered an early morning, Richmond students gathered in the Forum before 9 a.m.
The sixth annual One Book, One Campus: Dialogues in Social Justice program will commence this September and will continue until March 2011.
From curry and naan to a new pastry chef and desserts, the Heilman Dining Center -- known as D-Hall -- has many new food choices this fall semester. To meet the students' demand for new ethnic foods, an Indian bar opened the first day of classes.
A housing crisis in 2009 changed Gray Court, a previously all-male dormitory, into a co-ed environment. Administrators said there are currently no plans to revert Gray Court to a single-sex dormitory. Co-ed housing provides the housing department at the University with more flexibility because suites can be divided between male and females, said Carolyn Bigler, the assistant director of student housing.
Three University of Richmond students were assaulted on campus between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Saturday, Sept.
The University of Richmond's Career Development Center received a bronze ranking from Out for Work, an organization that works with college career centers to improve the quality of support for LGBTQ students transitioning from school to the workplace. Out for Work distributed the survey ? its first ? to 1,500 colleges throughout the United States last spring.
As dozens of seniors walked to class on Thursday morning, they sported the same fluorescent wristband on their arms.
Exactly fifty years ago this fall, rumors began to fly that the University of Richmond was going to have its very own radio station. One year later, on Nov.
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University of Richmond Phone Services may follow the University of Virginia's recent decision to remove landline telephones from residence halls. "By April, we may make the recommendation, and could possibly do it next summer," said Doug West, director of Student Telecom Services.
