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Police Report: 10/9/08
By The Collegian | October 9, 2008Illness/Liquor Law Violation Oct. 3, 9:21 p.m. A Westhampton College student was taken from the Intermural Fields to St.
Illness/Liquor Law Violation Oct. 3, 9:21 p.m. A Westhampton College student was taken from the Intermural Fields to St.
By Elizabeth Hyman Collegian Reporter If you stopped by the Pier on Tuesday night and watched "A Beautiful Mind," you were helping, if only indirectly, to raise the awareness about mental health disorders. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a national event that is being brought to the University of Richmond for the first time by student-run organization Active Minds.
In one of the labs in Gottwald Science Center lies a bacterium that kills nearly a million people every year. Taking on that bacterium is Prof.
By Paige Zorniger Collegian Rerporter This week's RCSGA meeting convened with guest speaker Elyse Kenealy explaining an important program offered by an organization called "Camp Kesem." The children who attend the camp have parents who currently suffer or have suffered from cancer. The program is offered to the families free of charge, and Kenealy is hoping to get financial support from RCSGA to help send at least one student from the university to a learning seminar in California that will train to work at the camp. In terms of Homecoming, senate members announced that all the decorations for Homecoming week had been ordered, including banners to hang in the Tyler Haynes Commons as well as prizes that will be given out during the week.
By Mary Morgan Collegian Reporter This week's Westhampton College Government Association meeting featured Provost Steve Allred, Chief academic officer at the university, who discussed his work on the Strategic Plan.
By Michael Gaynor Collegian Reporter The National Endowment for the Humanities has just awarded Andrew Torget, director of the university's Digital Scholarship Lab, a $19,942 grant for research and an academic conference on data visualization in the humanities. The one-year-old Digital Scholarship Lab uses data visualization to find new perspectives on massive quantities of information that would otherwise be impossible to untangle.
Hello, everyone. I'm Dan Petty, the online editor of The Collegian. I'll be live-blogging alongside Collegian news assistant Stephanie Rice.
By Jenn Hoffman Collegian Reporter Kids rode ponies, parents met political candidates and families mingled over boxed barbeque at the fourth annual Republican Round-Up at Innsbrook Pavilion in Glen Allen, Va., on Sept.
The University of Richmond's tornado warning siren malfunctioned Monday, prompting a campus-wide e-mail and phone alert. The tornado warning system is tested on the first Monday of every month at 1:25 p.m.
By Zachary Stewart, Megan Stephenson and Kimberly Leonard Collegian Reporters University of Richmond student reactions from the 2008 vice presidential debate held at Washington University in St.
Larceny Sept. 20, 9 a.m. A blue 21-speed Raleigh mountain bike valued at $200 was stolen from the 2000 block of the University Forest Apartments.
By Taylor Engelson Collegian Reporter Writing doesn't become easier or less nerve-wracking said Peter Carey, a two-time Booker Prize winner who came to Richmond yesterday as part of the 2008-09 Writer Series. "You live with uncertainty and doubt, and you should," he said.
Students are suffering the consequences of a weekend of drinking that ended in five students being rushed to St.
The Collegian: Presidential Election 2008 1.
University of Richmond students and faculty gathered in Whitehurst living room at 9 p.m. on Thursday for a vice presidential debate viewing party and post-debate reaction forum, where some students said they thought Gov.
By Michael Gaynor Collegian Reporter If you've been tuning in to the campus radio station recently, you're most likely getting a speaker full of static instead of the usual indie-rock riffs and underground hip-hop rhythms. That's because after 30 years of broadcasting from the third floor of the Tyler Haynes Commons, WDCE 90.1 FM is moving to a new location pocketed in the North Court basement. The move is the result of continued renovation to the Commons.
By Elizabeth Hyman Collegian Staff Although they may seem like simple underwater creatures, sponges could hold answers to many questions about evolution that University of Richmond biology professors Malcolm and April Hill are researching with a recently awarded grant from the National Science Foundation. "Assembling the Tree of Life: The Porifera Tree of Life Project" will be an investigation into the evolutionary relationships among sponges.
The benefits and distinctiveness of the new Living and Learning programs are coming into view after five weeks of school have put them to the test in and out of the classroom. "The strength of Living and Learning is that it just brings people that are different together that would normally be fragmented," said sophomore Dan Colosimo, a member of the Civic Engagement House. There are five year-long Living and Learning programs that comprise 16 students each, including a resident adviser -- Civic Engagement House, Spanish in the Community, Political Campaign House, Earth Lodge, and Life, Literature and Art. Each program includes a class related to the house theme as well as academic and social activities.
Nearly 52 percent of University of Richmond undergraduate students favor Barack Obama over John McCain for president, while the number of students who identify as Democrats, Republicans and Independents is virtually the same, according to a survey conducted last week by The Collegian. Obama carried a 20 percent advantage over McCain in the survey, results that are comparable to the 20 percent advantage Obama has among 18- to 25-year-olds in Virginia. Obama and McCain are tied in state polls, just one month outside of the election, but the latest survey from The Associated Press, released yesterday, showed Obama had surged 7 percentage points ahead of McCain nationally.
A University of Richmond marketing class is getting hands-on experience while it develops several potential marketing schemes for a Merle Norman makeup studio that's expected to open in The Shops at Willow Lawn on Oct.