UR updates software to address ongoing Wi-Fi issues
By Katie Castellani | October 5, 2022University of Richmond Information Services conducted a software upgrade on Sept. 23 to address the ongoing Wi-Fi issues on campus.
University of Richmond Information Services conducted a software upgrade on Sept. 23 to address the ongoing Wi-Fi issues on campus.
University of Richmond students are hosting the third annual flu shot clinic from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 6, 13 and 22.
The University of Richmond's Department of Theater and Dance's first mainstage production of the year, "Smart People," was canceled on Sept. 30 because of cast and crew members testing positive for COVID-19.
This fall at the University of Richmond, professors can request that students wear masks in class, but hybrid teaching is no longer an option for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jenna Ellis, a UR law school graduate and legal adviser to former President Donald Trump, testified before a grand jury investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
After a month of owl attacks on community members, one ended up in a catch-and-release trap on Sept. 22, but it was gone by the time proper authorities could relocate it.
About 65 community members for gathered for a climate strike on Sept. 23. The protesters called for the University of Richmond and the federal government to take action against climate change.
Several buildings across the University of Richmond’s campus lost power at around 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 after one of Dominion Energy’s circuits malfunctioned.
The Board of Trustees voted on Sept. 23 to rename the University of Richmond Law School because of its former namesake’s enslavement of at least 43 people.
Information Services has not identified a cause of the problem and is working with the network vendor, Aruba, to devise a solution.
University of Richmond students moving into on-campus housing found unwelcome visitors in their apartments.
Students at the University of Richmond shared concerns about not having a COVID-19 dashboard and instead, having to rely on a once-a-week update on active COVID-19 cases via SpiderBytes.
Senior Emma Sloane, the stage manager of the show, said that when cast members started to feel unwell and one student tested positive, the directors canceled the show planned for Friday, Sept. 2.
While former Rector Paul Queally stepped down from his position earlier this year, he continues to shape UR-related conversations — this time through the UR alumni Facebook group.
UR alumnus and advisor to former President Donald Trump, Kash Patel, ‘02, was named in an FBI investigation into Trump’s potential mishandling of classified documents.
The University of Richmond post office will undergo renovations this fall to include temporary lockers for package and letter pick-up, replacing the old P.O. boxes.
URPD is investigating a Sept. 3 altercation between several students and a delivery driver in which a first-year student was filmed repeatedly punching and kicking the driver’s car and fighting the driver. The delivery driver pulled a gun as the student continued to taunt him.
University of Richmond’s Police Department officers will use body-worn cameras in an effort to de-escalate conflict and bias during interactions within the campus community.
Both students and faculty have encountered agitated owls. Incidents have occurred on both sides of Westhampton Lake between the hours of 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Legro will stay at UR as a professor of political science after the summer, Hallock said in the Sept. 1 announcement. A replacement has not been found.