Assault Feb. 25, 3:19 p.m. -- A University of Richmond police officer was assaulted while serving a summons to a woman off campus in the City of Richmond.
The University of Richmond Arts and Sciences graduate school admitted its last class of students in 2008 and will move its Liberal Arts program to the School of Continuing Studies That's according to Kathy Hoke, associate dean of arts and sciences.
The man who runs the university's mental health programs says he believes most students at the University of Richmond "are operating on a regular basis very close to their breaking point." Dr. Peter LeViness, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, said he knew there were students on campus who never came to CAPS, but were functioning daily in in an unhealthy mental state. "We would like to get them to lower that threshold so they're not so close to their breaking point," he said. CAPS is currently in its second year of providing free online mental health screenings to students, but only a small number of students have taken the evaluations, and many remain unaware that the service is available. The CAPS Web site offers multiple self-assessments, each designed to recognize a number of problems, which include depression, alcoholism, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety and post-traumatic stress. CAPS pays an annual subscription fee to link to various evaluations on the Web, one of them being through mentalhealthscreening.org. The organization's Web site describes the benefits of the surveys, saying that taking them "offers students a year-round venue to explore and identify symptoms of: mood and anxiety disorders/eating disorders/harmful and hazardous alcohol use and to seek timely and appropriate help from their counseling and health services centers." With roughly one-third of Richmond students going to CAPS at least once during their four years at Richmond, LeViness said CAPS treated roughly 12 percent to 13 percent of the student body each year, including law school students.
Video When Sadia Gado Alzouma invited her friend to visit Richmond last weekend, she intended to show her a stunning campus set against the backdrop of a warm spring-like day. Instead, Alzouma, an international student from Niger, saw her first snow and took photos of a campus draped in white after a significant snowstorm struck the university Sunday evening and continued into Monday, burying the campus under 7 inches of snow. The university canceled all undergraduate, law and continuing studies classes, and all scheduled events for Monday.
This article is the second in a series about issues facing the GLBTQ community at the University of Richmond. On a recent Wednesday night, a handful of University of Richmond students went to a nondescript looking bar in downtown Richmond for "College Night." Inside on the dance floor, lights flashed brilliantly as scantily dressed women moved in sync next to well-dressed men, hip-hop and techno thudding from giant speakers.
As the Greater Richmond Transit Company considers cutting its bus service to the University of Richmond, campus administrators are creating a marketing plan they hope will increase ridership among students and staff. Earlier last year, Human Resource Services contacted GRTC to purchase bus passes for its employees, said Lisa Miles, coordinator of Common Ground and a member of the Common Ground Action Committee on accessibility and transportation. The administration ultimately decided to commit to investing in bus passes for employees because it would help fulfill the community engagement aspect of the Strategic Plan, would assist employees who may not otherwise have a means of transportation to the campus and would reduce the carbon footprint of the university, said Carl Sorensen, associate vice president for human resources. As of fall 2008, all University of Richmond employees have access to free GRTC passes, and about 70 staff members use the Route 16 bus regularly, Sorensen said.
The Richmond and Westhampton College Government associations are working with the Office of Student Development to create a Student Programming Council, which would help the student governments of reaching a long-time goal of improving and increasing funding opportunities for student organizations and club sports. Matt Whittaker, president of the Richmond College Student Government Association, said increasing funding for student organizations had been the biggest project that he had worked on during his time at Richmond. "This has been the thing that I wanted to hang my hat on," he said. Although student organizations were given a one-time $40,000 grant last year, Whittaker said he did not expect any money to come in this year. "It was awesome last year when we got the $40,000 grant," he said.
A crucial career moment for University of Richmond law professor Adrienne Volenik came not from a triumphant trial, but from an early loss. As a student at the University of Maryland, working in a law clinic similar to the one she now directs at Richmond -- UR Downtown's Family Law Clinic -- Volenik and a teammate represented a young man who had been charged with a serious delinquency.
Former University of Richmond men's tennis coach Steven Gerstenfeld pleaded guilty Feb. 25 to one count of attempted receipt of child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine and supervised release after prison for at least five years up to life.
Honor Council member Chris Mihok found himself on the opposite side of the bench when he was accused of plagiarism and lying on a large portion of his Russian 210 exam. But the storyline was entirely fictional.
March 3, 9:58 a.m. -- Despite temperatures in the teens and some icy roadways and sidewalks, the University of Richmond will be open today and operating on a normal business and class schedule, university officials announced at 5:30 a.m. Students braved bitterly cold temperatures -- around 17 degrees -- on the way to classes this morning.
The worst winter weather in eight years slammed into Virginia Sunday night into Monday morning, leaving about seven inches of snow at the University of Richmond campus and forcing the cancellation of Monday classes. Send your storm photos to pix@thecollegianur.com, and we could publish them on this Web site. Contributing Photographers: Leigh Ann West, Phil Page, Kayleigh Hall and Stephanie Granderson. Contact staff photographers Leigh Donahue, Dan Petty, Bob Quaintance and Stephanie Rice
Corrections Appended When Sadia Gado Alzouma invited her friend to visit Richmond this weekend, she intended to show her a stunning campus set against the backdrop of a warm spring-like day. Instead, Alzouma, an international student from Niger, saw her first snow and took photos of a campus draped in white. Amid blustery winds, cracking tree limbs and flickering lights, dozens of Richmond students relished in a rare snowfall Sunday night. Seizing makeshift sleds -- trash bags, dining hall trays, and Tupperware container covers, among them -- throngs of rowdy students swarmed the hills in front of Boatwright Library and behind the Modlin Center, throwing snowballs and sliding down mountains of white, wet powder.
The Robins School of Business has jumped from No. 20 to No. 12 in BusinessWeek Magazine's 2009 rankings, released online late Thursday. The school was ranked high in several of the survey's categories, including a No.
Gray Court residence hall will be partially converted to a co-ed dorm next year, a move which will continue a policy of giving students more housing options while freeing up Jeter Hall for renovations, university officials said. Gray will still have single-sex housing options, with one wing as male and another as female, but the plan includes one section set aside as completely co-ed. The dorm will have 12 residence life staff members, five male and five female resident assistants and a male and female head resident, said Patrick Benner, associate dean for residence life. Benner said the co-ed dorm would fall under the supervision of the Richmond College dean's office.
Vandalism Feb. 17, 10:21 a.m. -- A scoreboard on Crenshaw Field was spray painted.
A friend you know threw an apartment party a few nights ago. When she woke up, came downstairs, she found empty to half-empty cans -- everywhere.
If the University of Richmond and its basketball team want to boost student attendance, the solution might be to allow the fraternities to open their lodges for tailgating before games. On Saturday, Feb.
One University of Richmond professor will give a lecture about what he or she would want to tell his or her students if it were his or her last lecture. The professor will be chosen out of nominations from the Richmond student body, and will speak at the Jepson Alumni Center April 7. Senior Erin Fields, biology major, said she created the program at Richmond with the help of Juliette Landphair, Dean of Westhampton College, and two other Westhampton students, Adrian Bitton and Sarah Latimer.