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Alumnus describes Obama's 'nearly flawless' campaign

By David Larter | February 12, 2009

An alumnus who was a field director in Iowa for Barack Obama's campaign told a political science class Wednesday about a nearly flawlessly executed campaign that targeted only 250,000 voters in 3 million -- a strategy the campaign used nationwide to win. The alumnus, Tripp Wellde, fell in love with politics during an internship in Washington when he was an undergraduate.

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Scholar uses Poe's works to portray themes of terror

By Sawyer Weirman | February 5, 2009

Edgar Allen Poe's works can be used to illustrate that in this "Age of Terror," terrorism, not terror, is the enemy in the new millennium, said Poe scholar Gerald Kennedy. "It is the act of terrorism that affects the soul of a reader," Kennedy said, "but this only becomes apparent after the horror occurs." Through the Edward C.

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Early decision numbers withstand weakened economy

By Amelie LeBreton | February 5, 2009

Despite the long list of depressing statistics about job losses and market failures, the early numbers from the Undergraduate Office of Admission at the University of Richmond signal a surprising success. "Our Early Decision numbers were up," said Pamela Spence, dean of admission. Against predictions, applications for the early decision option in November increased by 8 percent with 299 applications, up from 283 last fall. The number of applications received for the early decision option in January matched the number from last year with 92 applications.

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ROTC Leadership Lab Day

By Guv Callahan | February 5, 2009

While most of the University of Richmond's students were asleep at 6:45 a.m. last Saturday, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets were already 15 minutes into their three-mile morning run. The cadets chanted as they ran, their voices echoing across campus. "I was trying to wake some people up," freshman cadet Patrick Coughlin said.

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JuicyCampus.com squeezed dry; shuts down today, says founder

By Stephanie Rice | February 5, 2009

Founder and CEO of JuicyCampus.com, Matt Ivester, announced that the Web site would be shut down as of today after a loss in revenue because of the bad economy, according to a press release from Ivester that was also posted on the site's blog. The site has continuously received an average of one million unique visits a month, the release said, but online advertising revenue for the site dropped significantly as the economy weakened.

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ETC offers more organic and vegan-friendly food options

By Allie Artur | February 4, 2009

The University of Richmond's Everything Convenience store, or ETC, has just gotten a lot more convenient for both organic food lovers and vegans. ETC, the on-campus market, has expanded its shelf items to include more foods that do not have meat or dairy and also more that do not contain any additives or chemicals. Although the store has been open for more than two years, it was not until this year that Dining Services really started diversifying the food options at ETC.

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Bill would allow faculty at Virginia public colleges to carry firearms

By Nick Mider | February 4, 2009

If Virginia State Del. Robert G. Marshall has his way, faculty members at public colleges and universities in the state could carry concealed handguns to class. Marshall, R-13th District, has introduced House Bill 1656, which would allow full-time faculty members with concealed handgun permits to carry firearms on campuses of public institutions of higher education. Although carrying a gun on a university campus with a permit is legal in Virginia, campus administrators can prohibit students and employees from doing so.

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Endowment plummets 15 percent, but officials downplay losses

By Sarah Blythe-Wood | February 4, 2009

The University of Richmond's endowment has fallen 15 percent since December 2007, from a $1.7 billion high to $1.45 billion as of October, but it's difficult to predict how it will continue to fare in response to the deepening worldwide recession. President Edward Ayers has said the university expects to make a "modest" increase in tuition, room and board -- one that could send Richmond's price tag above $50,000 per year. Before the economy took its calamitous tailspin this fall, Richmond climbed from No.

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NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' investigator to visit campus

By Maura Bogue | January 29, 2009

"Dateline NBC" correspondent Chris Hansen will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, about his series, "To Catch a Predator," and his career in investigative journalism in Camp Concert Hall in the Booker Hall of Music. The event evolved from a Dennis Hall ritual that began three years ago when students would gather Sunday nights in David Howson's suite to watch the show.

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Commons construction halfway finished

By Maura Bogue | January 29, 2009

Contractors have finished more than half of the Tyler Haynes Commons' $3.19 million renovation. Although the apologetic signs on its entry doors have found their home for the rest of the academic year, the phased improvements have kept the building open.

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Modlin director to take position at Texas

By David Larter | January 29, 2009

After building the Modlin Center for the Arts from scratch, executive director Kathy Panoff will be leaving after this semester to restructure the art center of the sixth-largest university in the nation. Panoff will begin her tenure at the University of Texas at Austin to be the director and associate dean of the school's Performing Arts Center, and she leaves Richmond with seemingly universal praise for a job well done. "Kathy has been a great gift to the university," President Edward Ayers said.

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Q&A with Chris Hansen

By Dan Petty | January 29, 2009

From the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, to India's child sex-trade and the counterfeit prescription drug program in China, Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen has gained notoriety and praise for investigating issues largely cloaked from the public's view. But Hansen is, perhaps, most widely known for his work with "To Catch a Predator" -- Dateline's 12-part investigative series into men who solicit sex from underage girls in Internet chat rooms. "Take a seat," he often told the men in a clear, firm, authoritative voice when first confronting them in the home on national television. Each of the some 250 men "To Catch a Predator" has exposed yields different conversations and the possibility of slightly different outcomes, all of which combines for television that is the apotheosis of high-stakes drama. And that's where critics begin to take issue with the series, which has, for now, gone into an indefinite hibernation. Dateline's work with law enforcement agencies throughout the country on the show and its decision to pay consulting fees to the organization Perverted Justice -- the online Internet predator watchdog group Dateline partners with -- has raised the ire of critics who charge the show crosses journalism's sacred ethical boundaries. In 2006, a string operation in Murphy, Texas, drove one man, Kaufman County assistant district attorney Louis Conradt Jr., to shoot and kill himself as police closed in on his house.

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