"With affirmative action being overturned, it is important to ensure the playing field is even," Kasti said. "Students should be assessed equally on their merits, not given an unfair advantage based on legacy status or alumni connections."
“It’s important to find spaces for students of different backgrounds to have that home away from home, especially one that honors their cultural heritage,” Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Hunter Bonton said.
“It’s really inconvenient because the lot is quite large, but we have to park in the half that’s furthest away from our dorm,” said sophomore Lily Greisch.
“I’m a senior, and I feel like since freshman year for me […] it’s gotten like a lot more liberal here […] in my political science classes, I am very outnumbered,” senior Maya Marino said.
“We heard a loud bang but we thought it was maybe the dumpster truck or construction,” Ballout said, “Nothing shook, nothing rattled at all, it was a loud sound but we didn’t think that anything actually hit the school.”
“University of Richmond graduates, compared to graduates of most other colleges and universities in the U.S., should expect to have more choices when they graduate and throughout their careers,” Yarnell said. “I hope to increase the range of choices that students and alum will have throughout their working lives.”
Goodwin has spent over five decades studying presidents and won a Pulitzer Prize in history for her book on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
A Critical UR Alert was sent campus wide telling students to evacuate the building and stay away from the residence hall until further notice.
Fourteen first-year students fled their rooms around 1:30 a.m. after a maintenance fix on a broken toilet went wrong, resulting in a propulsion of water similar to the one seen in Gray Court last Friday.
“I drank [sewage],” said sophomore Arantza Pereira, whose ceiling tiles fell through from the water damage. “It’s in my hair.”
From international students to university professors, spectators gathered at the University of Richmond on Tuesday night to witness the first head-to-head matchup between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
On May 25, the University of Richmond basketball program announced that Beckwith had passed away a day earlier. He was 60 years old, and had dedicated much of his life to the Spiders.
The show was one of two during STC’s Improvathon, a bi-annual fundraiser for Art 180, a local non-profit organization that provides access to arts for low-income children, according to Doro, a junior and member of the troupe. STC stayed up for 24 hours during the improv marathon, which was located on Westhampton Green this year.
Richmond and Virginia State Troopers arrested multiple Virginia Commonwealth University students Monday night, firing tear gas and pepper spray to break up a pro-Palestine encampment in a chaotic clash on its Monroe Park campus.
On April 27, as nearly every seat in Camp Concert Hall filled for Elvin's memorial service, his lasting impact was on display as those who crossed paths with him over the years gathered not to mourn, but to celebrate every stage of his life.
The basket, along with a tall, acrylic vase and a suitcase bursting with similar red textiles, were the centerpieces of senior Adrien Tyler’s 2024 A&S Symposium project “Contains Multitudes”, which they said was an expression of their own internal dialogue told through a visually compelling depiction of “viscera” and “gore”.
Robin Brooks, special advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke with students at the University of Richmond about democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe on April 17.
Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Jason Motlagh spoke with University of Richmond students and community members about his time pursuing underreported stories in Afghanistan, Haiti and Myanmar on April 15.
The University of Richmond hosted three reporters on April 10 for an event called “Stories Beyond Borders: Chronicles of Courage” that focused on their coverage of underreported women who were taking back the narrative.
At the beginning of the spring semester, the University Facilities announced in an email that the bridges connecting the Richmond and Westhampton sides of campus would be indefinitely closed for repairs. For months, students have been waiting for the bridges to reopen.
