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Professor creates online blog to promote poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley once declared "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." With April being National Poetry Month Dr. Tricia Stohr-Hunt, a University of Richmond professor of education and children's literature expert, celebrates the beauty of poetry and its authors through her online blog The Miss Rumphius Effect.


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What's up with YouTube?

Google, which owns YouTube, signed a contract with a few media companies last Thursday to feature TV shows and movies on the Web site, according to an article in The New York Times.


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Collegian, former online editor earn top honors

The Collegian received first place for best overall college newspaper Web site from the Society of News Design, and Richmond College named one of the site's key architects the member of the class of 2009 who made the greatest contribution to his class. Dan Petty, the former online editor of The Collegian, won the "Most Significant Contributor Award" for the senior class on April 20 at the Richmond College Senior Dinner.


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Mock trial ends year with top-10 finish at national tournament

The University of Richmond's mock trial team established itself as a national power in the courtroom at the National Championship Tournament (formerly called the Gold Flight National) this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa, finishing eighth in its division. This year's finish marks the highest finish ever for the team, which just completed its most successful season to date, said captain Katy Groover, an attorney on the team.


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Returning abroad students have difficulty readjusting

When Sarah Woodis unpacked her belongings in her room in North Court in January, images of the hills of Galway came to mind, she said. Woodis, like many University of Richmond junior-year students who study abroad, did not expect her return to campus to be difficult.


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Hoongle shut down after Google policy violation

Hoongle.org, the search engine started by three University of Richmond students who sought to end world hunger, was shut down by its creators on Friday. Google found that the popular social justice endeavor violated the terms of its advertising policy, said David Whitehead, one of the founders of Hoongle. According to Google, the fact that Hoongle generates a donation of a product constitutes an incentive for people to use the search engine, said Whitehead.


Sports

Women's tennis wins A-10 Championship

The University of Richmond women's tennis team parlayed a No. 1 seed into an Atlantic 10 Championship Sunday, dethroning reigning conference champion Temple University 4-0 and ensuring the team a spot in the NCAA Championships next month. The Spiders won their sixth A - 10 Championship behind strong play from the entire team.


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Musical piece co-funded by Modlin Center wins Pulitzer

A musical piece co-commissioned and premiered by the Modlin Center for the Arts last year has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in music. Steve Reich, a world-class musician and composer, was awarded the prize in music for his piece entitled "Double Sextet," which premiered in Camp Concert Hall on March 26, 2008.


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Sniff-Stick wins second annual UR Business Pitch Competition

In the second annual UR Business Pitch Competition, the Sniff-Stick, presented by senior Dan Brunt and Christopher Genualdi, won first place and the $2,000 prize. Brunt and Genualdi pitched the Sniff-Stick, a "breath mint for your nose," to a panel of five judges from outside the school. "This is the first time we've pitched the idea to potential investors," Genualdi said.


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Kaine to give commencement address to Class of 2009

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will deliver the commencement address to University of Richmond students in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business and Leadership Studies on May 10 in the Robins Center. Officials in the university's communications department confirmed the commencement speakers ahead of the official announcement at 5 p.m. Kaine was elected to the governorship in 2005 and taught legal ethics for six years at Richmond.


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Police Report: 4/16/09

Vandalism April 4, 2:01 p.m. A wall on the third floor of Gray Court was smashed, creating a hole measured at 4-feet tall by 2-feet wide and containing a beer bottle.


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Marketing, fashion and the media large part of eating disorders, speaker says

The final event during the WILL/WGSS/Quest Speaker Series took place on Tuesday April 14 in the Alice Haynes Room. Susan Bordo, renowned author and scholar of feminist, cultural and gender studies, spoke to a predominantly female audience on the subject, "Beyond 'Eating Disorders:' Why We Need to Rethink Everything We Thought We Knew." Historical conceptions of eating disorders, she said, are a result of a combination of fashions in the medical world. In the old days, anorexia was conceptualized as a form of hysteria, she said.


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Where ... can we park?

Warning: My column (dubbed the Rice Report by some Collegian staffers) this week will be full of quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.


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Students organize global injustice conference

University of Richmond senior Mark Mendez said he hoped students would be motivated to address issues of global injustice after participating in the on-campus conference he had organized, "Through the Eyes of a Child." The conference will host speakers and organizations on a wide range of issues - from human trafficking in Southeast Asia to an organization that uses sports as a means to help people in conflict-ridden areas recognize their commonalities.