“I've seen things that both are really encouraging and then candidly, other things that make me a little bit more frustrated with the pace of change,” Karen Welch, panelist and director of investments at Spider Management Company said.
Twenty-three University of Richmond students protested alongside roughly 75,000 people as a part of the Climate Strike in New York City, the biggest climate strike since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louise Lockett Gordon, Virginia Department of Health epidemiologist supervisor for the Richmond and Henrico Health districts, said that COVID-19 cases have been rising across Virginia since July.
“I think that it’s a good addition, since mental health needs to be talked about a little more [on campus],” Harris said. “There’s always a little more to be done.”
“This organization uses music, a universal language, to bond all kinds of different people under this one cause and build awareness. Because the more that people know, the more we can take back our power over time.”
In his presentation, Reeves focused on issues regarding boys and men falling behind educationally, the shrinking percentages of men in fields like academia, psychology and early education and the decline of male mental health.
Texas police charged a former sophomore at the University of Richmond with felony invasive visual recording and assault after they said he hid his mobile phone camera in a woman’s restroom at a local pool June 8 in Conroe, Texas.
The University of Richmond will no longer see race or ethnicity in its admission process after the United States Supreme Court ruled to strike down affirmative action.
High school graduate Shawn Jackson and his father, Renzo Smith, were killed. Five others were treated for life threatening and minor injuries.
“Last year we just had an expectation that we were going to win the nationals, and we weren’t even considering the steps we needed to do before that,” Ciorba said.
“We offer a few different options to share, recognizing that survivors are not homogeneous, and have varying needs,” Kaylin Tingle, UR’s healthy relationships and violence prevention educator, said.
“You have basically no rights to protest,” Preis said. “When I say rights, what I mean are rights protected by the government.”
The University of Richmond’s School of Arts & Sciences hosted its 38th annual student symposium Friday, showcasing a culmination of students’ research and learning from last summer through this school year.
“I hope to see more of a culture about caring about sustainability at UR that is beyond the people in this room but more so campus wide,” Salters said.
Seifrit is disappointed in Earth Lodge’s cancellation and is unsure if he will apply to serve as an RA for an LLC again next year, he said.
The event began with the Cancer Survivor and Caregivers Celebration, during which participating community members walked around a track in the Weinstein Center.
The Spider Dash, co-organized by Dining Services, donated $4,400 to CARITAS in an effort to reduce food waste and give back to the greater Richmond community.
University of Richmond President Kevin Hallock and Vice President of Advancement Martha Callaghan announced that Carole and Marcus Weinstein will donate $25 million to build a new learning center in a statement emailed to the UR community.
GreenUR, a student-run environmental defense organization at the University of Richmond, held a protest on March 25 advocating for the divestment of the school’s $3.2 billion endowment from fossil fuel companies.
The University of Richmond Faculty Senate wrote and unanimously passed a climate justice resolution calling UR to take action on the climate crisis.
