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By The Collegian | November 7, 2013Click here to download the November 7, 2013, full PDF edition of The Collegian.
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Zachary Jesse, a third-year student at the University of Richmond School of Law, has been involved with the Moot Court Board, repeatedly served as a justice for the Law School Honor Council and is a recipient of the law school's most prestigious, $30,000 John Marshall scholarship. He is also a registered sex offender who pled guilty to aggravated sexual battery in 2004. It is unclear why a registered sex offender was admitted on scholarship to the law school when it is unlikely that someone with that offense would be allowed to practice law in Virginia.
1914 was a big year for the University of Richmond. The school moved from its downtown location to the current campus, Westhampton College was founded and in November, students published the first issue of The Collegian, making the university's weekly, student-run newspaper nearly 99 years old. Steve Nash, the senior research scholar and professor in the journalism department, has shared a role as a faculty adviser for The Collegian with Michael Spear, the department chair, since the 1980s. Nash said when he had arrived at Richmond there had been no type writers in the journalism department.
Citizens of Virginia elected Democrat Terry McAuliffe as governor in Tuesday's election, choosing him over Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis.
Governor of Virginia will be Terry McAuliffe's first elective office. The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee gained stature through his work leading two Clinton presidential campaigns: Bill's in 1996 and Hillary's in 2008.
Although Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the Virginia gubernatorial election, Democrat Ralph Northam won the lieutenant governor race and Republican Mark Obenshain will be the next attorney general, disillusionment was the big winner on Tuesday.
Even though the gubernatorial election in Virginia was significant for the state and for the country, it held special value for a few University of Richmond students who voted for the first time. The result was too close to call for most of the night, and the candidates fell into what Kerri O'Brien of ABC News in Richmond called on her Twitter feed a "[s]tatistical dead heat." Just as much of the Virginia electorate was split on whom to vote for, three Richmond freshmen each chose to vote for a different candidate. The crowd was small for the election-viewing party in the Alice Haynes Room at Tyler Haynes Commons.
Starting January 2015, the Medical College Admission Test will include a new section that will test pre-medicine students' knowledge of psychology and sociology and incorporate biochemistry and statistics into previous sections of the exam. The changes to the exam will require pre-med students to take college-level courses in biochemistry, psychology and sociology, increasing the number of prerequisite classes from eight to 11, according to a press release from Kaplan Test Prep.
The landscaping team at University of Richmond has planted an orchard behind the Heilman Dining Center, and Thursday, Oct.
The Richmond Rowdies have big plans for the start of basketball season Friday, Nov. 8 against University of Delaware in the newly renovated Robins Center. Buffalo Wild Wings will start serving free wings at 5 p.m.
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Journalist and filmmaker Madiha Tahir presented her 20-minute documentary, "Wounds of Waziristan," Nov.
I have heard a lot of good things about Selba, and it was on the top of my list for this season's Restaurant Week. I made reservations for my friend and me online for 6 p.m.
Students who do not want their diplomas to indicate whether they were Richmond College or Westhampton College students can ask for a college-neutral diploma and they will receive it. Monday, Oct.
Virginia's Libertarian candidate for governor, Robert Sarvis, called himself an alternative to the two traditional candidates for governor in a public forum on campus last week. Sarvis spoke for 30 minutes in the Ukrop Auditorium as part of the Richard L.
As part of her job as head of resource acquisitions and delivery at Boatwright Memorial Library, Anna Creech procures free trials of various database programs for student and faculty use.
Kevin Smith said he had decided to play basketball for coach Chris Mooney at University Richmond because it was the first school that really made him feel as though they had to have him.
The Museum Studies class is curating an exhibit that focuses on Soviet-Jewish immigrants who left behind family, friends, language and professional identity to create a new life in Richmond, Va.
Homecoming brings to mind football and fall. But for some seniors, it is a chance to be crowned king or queen of the school.
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