The University Police has seen a sharp increase in the number of golf carts being stolen and damaged during the past few months - a crime which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, according to Virginia law. The police have reported 13 incidents of stolen or damaged golf carts since Aug.
When University of Richmond students register for their spring classes in a few weeks, they will not have term PIN cards for the first time. The PIN card - an index card printed with a student's name, class year, student ID number and a series of numbers that serve as a password for the student to register - will be replaced with a new online system, the BannerWeb online activation system, Registrar Susan Breeden said. In the past, students received the PIN cards during meetings with their advisers, Breeden said, and the PIN card system was designed to ensure that students attended their advising meetings.
Larceny Sept. 29, 1:15 p.m. A Richmond College student's blue mountain bike was stolen from outside the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness.
Multiple construction projects on campus have changed where people can park, causing a lot of angst for faculty, staff, students and, believe it or not, Parking Services members.
University of Richmond staff members now have the opportunity to cultivate their writing skills both professionally and creatively through the university's new Staff Writing Project. The Staff Writing Project Web site consists of resources for writing on the job, writing and speech center assistance, GED preparation, English as a Second Language tutoring and book discussion participation.
Arts Around the Lake featured approximately 100 local area artists who displayed and sold their artwork Sunday around Westhampton Lake.
The Rev. Craig Kocher was installed as the university chaplain and Jessie Ball duPont chair of the chaplaincy Saturday night at the Cannon Memorial Chapel. The chaplain installation service - only the second ever at the University of Richmond - marked the official welcoming of Kocher by the Richmond community and served as an expression of trust in his leadership.
The Richmond College Student Government Association sustainability committee is working on a proposal to add green roofs and solar panels to the Gottwald Science Center. Sophomore Jerry Giordano, RCSGA sustainability chairman and vice president of Green UR, the University of Richmond's environmental club, is in charge of creating the proposal with the help of two fellow RCSGA senators, junior Chris Repas and senior Gabe Gigliotti. The green roofs and solar panels would be used to conserve non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and coal, Giordano said. There are three roofs on Gottwald: two lower roofs and one higher roof.
You may have noticed that the coffee cup sleeves from 8:15 at Boatwright are not an ad for Starbucks, but have the faces of University of Richmond alumni who seem to be doing some awesome things with their post-Liberal-Arts lives.
Students will not be able to bring their parents and siblings to a University of Richmond home football game this coming Family Weekend because of conflicts between the university's and the football conference's schedules. Officials at the university's Office of Parent Programs schedule Family Weekend two to three years in advance, wrote Lisa Van Riper, assistant vice president for communications, in an e-mail.
Richmond students are fulfilling the Richmond Promise one step - or curb cut - at a time, thanks to the accessibility map that the Introduction to Geographic Information Systems class created last fall. Accepting the task to increase inclusive diversity, one component of President Edward Ayers' Richmond Promise - the university's Strategic Plan for 2009-2014 - faculty initiated a response to the need for greater handicapped accessibility.
The University of Richmond placed the Kappa Sigma fraternity on one month of social probation on Sept.
Larceny Sept. 21, 5:32 p.m. A Blackberry, valued at $500; Blackberry hardcase cover, valued at $35; and a Blackberry memory card, valued at $30, were stolen from a Richmond College student's gym bag in the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness.
University of Richmond fraternities will be hosting more lodge events on the same nights this semester in an effort to cut costs. The main expense for fraternity events is security, which consists of University Police Department officers patrolling the lodges. "People may or may not realize that frats pay for [lodge] security," said Alison B.
Witnesses for the defense in alumnus Adnan Hajizada's hooliganism trial testified Tuesday that the activist was the victim of an attack, while prosecution witnesses said they did not see who started the fight in an Azerbaijani cafe July 8. The prosecution called the cook, Araz Allahverdiyev, from the restaurant as well as three police officers who arrived after the fight.
The elimination of Expository Writing as a requirement has sparked an e-mail debate among faculty about the future of student writing instruction.
Former Virginia Gov. George Allen told a group of 50 students and community members in Jepson Hall Tuesday night that the United States could be the Saudi Arabia of coal and that Virginia could be a leader in breaking America's dependency on foreign oil. "You'll hear from these pompous elites, that Americans are addicted to oil," Allen said.
Students alternated between laughs and gasps as Aaron Black read minds, performed illusions and cracked jokes Friday night. He opened the show by informing the audience that a performance of his had recently been named Show of the Year at the Boulder Festival. He followed up by saying, "My mom was so proud when she wrote that review." He delved into the magical portion of the show by appearing to push a glass bottle entirely through the midsection of a stunned volunteer.
Members of the Westhampton College class of 2013 took part in the annual Proclamation Night ceremony Sunday, Sept.
Downtown Richmond's second-annual InLight Festival Fright night transformed the area from East Broad to East Grace streets into a luminescent exhibition of contemporary art. The festival, presented in association with the non-profit 1708 Gallery, was designed to showcase the work of 26 international artists and to promote the arts as a form of community involvement - a theme that was also addressed earlier that evening at UR Downtown's open house. Highlights of this year's festivals included a large video projection on the facade of Verizon headquarters, a project by Brooklyn artist Ed Purver and performance art featuring dancers donning recycled-paper costumes illuminated by LED lights.
