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Thursday, October 31, 2024

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Photo Gallery: The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues, which is performed internationally around Valentine's Day to support V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, opened Friday night and was performed again Saturday night in the Tyler Haynes Commons. The accompanying audio features background music, cheering fans, an introduction to The Vagina Monologues performed by the student directors and comical sounds of orgasms performed serially by all of the performers. Contact staff photographer Tanveer Ahmed at tanveer.ahmed@richmond.edu


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Richmond names new executive director at Modlin

Deborah Sommers has been named executive director of the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond. She will take on her new position July 1. Sommers will be responsible for a number of performances and events at the Modlin Center including: the 45-event Great Performances Series, three main stage productions by the university's theatre and dance department and the University Players and Dancers, 30 musical performances in the Department of Music's Free Concert Series as well as community events and performances throughout the year. Sommers also will direct and teach Richmond's arts management program. Sommers was impressed by the faculty, students, staff at Modlin Center and overall environment at Richmond when she visited the university in January, she said. "Hearing that I would be a part of this amazing community, I was so excited to be going to the university," she said. Sommers has been the director of programming at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts since 1992. Before joining the Quick Center, Sommers was company administrator of the Performing Arts Center at the State University of New York at Purchase, coordinating the professional season programming, artists and residencies.


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Can I live on campus forever?

Oddly enough, you can. If you are a student, alumnus, faculty or staff member, trustee or immediate family member of any of those people, you can choose to have your body rest eternally in the University of Richmond's Columbarium and Memorial Garden. A Columbarium is a burial vault for human ash remains and is derived from a Latin word meaning "a place where doves nest." The Columbarium to the left of the Cannon Memorial Chapel has 2,884 niches that can each hold two urns.


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Police Report: 2/18/10

Theft Feb. 9, 11:58 a.m. A Westhampton College student's iPhone, valued at $600, was stolen from Boatwright Memorial Library. Harassing Communications Feb.


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Crisis in Congo

Members of the University of Richmond's Sigma Chi and STAND chapters are co-sponsoring award-winning poet and rap artist Omekongo Dibinga to speak about the crisis in the Congo on Wednesday, Feb.


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New radios will allow EMTs to get help sooner

Student emergency medical technicians will, as of this semester, be able to communicate with nearly all public safety organizations in the area using a two-way radio system. The student EMTs are members of UREMS, a first-responder agency that has about 25 active members and is composed entirely of undergraduates.


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Author presents methods to navigate through "Guyland"

The rules of manhood dictate that men exhibit no feminine behaviors, earn a sizeable paycheck, remain composed in times of crisis and act aggressively from middle-school age through adulthood. But these rules often create a world in which its other inhabitants ? women and men who do not comply with the code ? endure adverse, pervasive treatment. During an on-campus discussion Wednesday night, author Michael Kimmel explained the effects of this code, as defined by another researcher, and provided possible solutions for how men and women could navigate through "Guyland," the intricate, cultural world of young men between the ages of 16 and 26 that Kimmel analyzes in his book of the same title. Kimmel's appearance, coordinated by Chaplaincy director of arts and education Camisha Jones, was a culmination of the year-long One Book, One Campus initiative, first sponsored by the Office of the Chaplaincy five years ago to compel students, faculty and staff to talk about issues affecting the campus.


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What is that room on the side of the library?

Disclaimer: I am president of a campus ministry that is funded by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, which is a partner organization with the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. You walk by it every day if you have a class on the Richmond College side of campus.


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Police Report: 2/11/10

Burglary Feb. 4, 9:47 a.m. Cash in the amount of $150 was stolen from a Richmond College student in Gray Court. Liquor Law Violation/ Illness Feb.


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University of Richmond closed at 10 a.m.

Wed., Feb. 10, 1:30 p.m. University of Richmond communications sent an e-mail to all students, faculty and staff this afternoon to confirm that all classes had been cancelled as of 10 a.m.


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Richmond a great value, despite price

The Princeton Review has included the University of Richmond on its list of the 50 best-value private colleges in the nation. According to a USA Today article about the list, the selection criteria included more than 30 factors in three areas: academics, costs and financial aid. "It's wonderful to be regarded as a best value, particularly during weak economic times," said Gil Villanueva, the assistant vice president and dean of the Office of Undergraduate Admission.


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Employees stay on campus for students during storm

While students were packing snowballs in the midst of a winter storm on Saturday afternoon, Jerry Clemmer, general manager of University Dining Services, was searching for batteries so he could inflate air mattresses for the 18 dining services employees who would be spending the night on campus. The University of Richmond received more than 11 inches of snow on Jan.


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SASD students take fight to the state

About 30 University of Richmond students from the Student Alliance for Sexual Diversity lobbied the General Assembly on Tuesday for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. In Virginia, people who identify themselves with the LGBT community are not currently protected from workplace discrimination, but a new bill may end that policy.


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Police Report: 2/04/10

Theft from Motor Vehicle Jan. 26, 1:52 p.m. A Westhampton College student's Georgia license plate, valued at $20, was stolen from N-lot. Jan.