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Photo Gallery: Trick or Treat Street 2013
By Kylie McKenna | October 28, 2013Contact photographer Kylie McKenna at kylie.mckenna@richmond.edu
Contact photographer Kylie McKenna at kylie.mckenna@richmond.edu
The academic calendar, including semester start dates and days off, might be tweaked to better accommodate the university community, starting next school-year. Provost Steve Allred and vice president for student development Steve Bisese have been discussing these potential changes with the student government bodies.
An electrical wiring malfunction triggered a fire in University Forest Apartment 603 Friday afternoon, filling the unit with black smoke and causing the neighboring apartments to evacuate, a firefighter said.
University of Richmond offered media outlets a sneak peek into the future of Spider basketball Thursday, unveiling the $17 million renovations to the Robins Center. Taking their seats around noon, athletic director Keith Gill, women's head basketball coach Michael Shafer and men's head basketball coach Chris Mooney gave a press conference from the center of the newly polished and painted hardwood floor.
"Don't let someone else define what 'having it all' means for you," said Leslie Griles, one of five panelists at Thursday's "Women, Leadership, and Leaning In" discussion.
Modern-day slavery expert Kevin Bales told a group of University of Richmond community members that by unlocking the science of slavery, they too can be heroes, nerds and abolitionists. Bales, co-founder of Free the Slaves, a nonprofit organization dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide, shared science, stories and laughs with a full room of spectators in Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley Room last night. A new scientific view of global slavery has opened up new progression within the modern day anti-slavery movement, Bales said. "We're at the beginning of the end of the fourth great anti-slavery movement," he said.
Damage/Destruction of Property/ Vandalism Oct. 19, 9:34 a.m. A window pane valued at $50 was broken in New Frat Row. Oct.
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, and her "Lean In" message about women in the workforce have gained national recognition and started a national conversation in the past few years.
As part of the Digital America class she taught as an American studies special topic in the spring semester, Meghan Rosatelli and her students collaborated on a trial of a publication website bearing the same name as the course.
If you saw a gaggle of 3- and 4-year-old children in the Heilman Dining Center on Monday, it was not a very young group of prospective students on a tour. Alpha Phi Omega, the University of Richmond's coed service fraternity, is currently hosting its "Friends Fun-raiser," said sophomore Sam Shalom, the event's coordinator.
Richmonders who were adventurous enough to partake in slightly further-flung folk music on the Friday after their own renowned festival were rewarded with a resplendent celebration of Hungarian nationalism at UR's Modlin Center for the Arts. No shabby post-Soviet troupe of vagabonds, the dancers and musicians of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble proved that those dark days have long since vanished into the eastern twilight.
Approximately 40 students participated in Delta Sigma Theta sorority's fourth annual Lupus Walk on Oct.
Many students involved in Sophomore Scholars in Residence (SSIR) programs traveled to different domestic and international cities over Fall Break. The travel location of each program depended upon the budget, course and existing partnerships with experts and organizations in the sophomores' areas of study. The Business of Science program went to Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
University of Richmond SpiderBoard is sponsoring the 15th annual Trick or Treat Street, or TOTS, from 12:30-4:30 p.m.
"An assault weapon doesn't exist," said Kyle Linardo, a junior majoring in leadership studies and political science.
The Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness will be hosting a fitness challenge called Fitness Frenzy during November in honor of its 25th anniversary. \0x200B"Fitness Frenzy is going to be a great program for students because they will get to learn about and experience many of the various programs that the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness has to offer," said senior Laura DelPrato, a fitness assistant at the gym.
Contact photographer Renee Ruggeri at renee.ruggeri@richmond.edu
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"I think that we did see some mud flicking, but not necessarily as much as we're seeing in PAC-funded ads on our television screens," Richmond Scholar Erik Lampmann said after attending the event he helped plan, Thursday's Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series featuring Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate and current Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. The format for Thursday's discussions was McAuliffe and Cuccinelli each sitting down separately with university President Ed Ayers for public 30-minute interviews. Ayers asked the candidates questions about healthcare, bipartisanship and the government shutdown, the environment, higher education, civil liberties and the job market.
"This is what happens when you piss off someone's mom," Judy Shepard said in her speech to 250 students, faculty, staff and community members on Tuesday night.