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Student government seeks more organization funding

By Laurie Guilmartin | March 5, 2009

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.

Faculty & Staff

YWCA names professor woman of the year

By Jill Cavaliere | March 5, 2009

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.

Sports

Ex-tennis coach pleads guilty to child porn charge

By Nick Mider | March 3, 2009

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.

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University opens Tuesday after first snow day in three years

By Dan Petty | March 3, 2009

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.

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Photo Gallery: 2009 March Snowstorm

By Dan Petty | March 2, 2009

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

Campus-life

In winter weather, students venture out for sledding, snowball fights

By Jimmy Young | March 2, 2009

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.

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Gray Court to go co-ed

By David Larter | February 26, 2009

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.

Faculty & Staff

"Last lecture" program intended to inspire students

By Laurie Guilmartin | February 26, 2009

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.

Faculty & Staff

Some faculty and staff assume the role of student, too

By Maura Bogue | February 26, 2009

Robert Plymale -- or Computer Bob as he's known in facilities -- began working at the University of Richmond in maintenance and landscaping in June 1988 and started taking classes that fall. Fifteen years later, he completed his bachelor's degree in information systems with a minor in business through the university's School of Continuing Studies.

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Honor week raises awareness of cheating

By Jimmy Young | February 26, 2009

Students attending universities with honor code policies are far less likely to engage in cheating behavior than schools that lack policies, a university professor said Wednesday at the first event of Honor Council's Honor Week. Don Forsyth, professor of leadership studies, addressed the reasons why people cheat, the consequences for their behaviors and outlined steps that can be taken by universities across the country to ebb cheating. Forsyth identified several reasons for cheating, including the desire for higher grades, the need to atone for class time missed because of illness, the propensity for students to help a struggling classmate and simple ignorance as to what "cheating" actually includes. He acknowledged that researchers have had trouble gauging how often people cheat because most studies rely on anonymous surveys.

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Recession forces increase in endowment spending

By David Larter | February 26, 2009

The University of Richmond endowment has lost about 19 percent of its endowment during the past year, losses that total almost $320 million in market value, which has prompted the university administration to begin spending a greater portion of the endowment. The endowment loss equals the budget deficit of the entire state of Nevada and is almost $100 million more than the Texas Rangers were sold for in 1998. In an e-mail to faculty and staff sent Feb.

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UR Law class of 2014 will be first required to take LSATs

By Avril Lighty | February 26, 2009

Good grades alone will no longer suffice for automatic admission into the T.C. Williams School of Law for Honors Law program participants, Associate Dean of Admissions Michelle Rahman said. The Honors Law program was established for students of exceptional academic merit with an interest in law when they applied to undergraduate school at the University of Richmond.

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