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SSTOP hosts "Stand for Freedom" to end human trafficking

By Gaby Calabrese | April 14, 2013

Members of the University of Richmond organization, Students Stopping the Trafficking of People (SSTOP), hosted a 27-hour demonstration, "Stand for Freedom," in the University Forum to protest and share information about modern slavery. The demonstration took place from Thursday, April 11 to Friday, April 12, over a period of 27 hours to honor the 27 million lives that are currently trapped in modern slavery, said senior Joell Maisano, a member of SSTOP.

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University orchestra performs end-of-semester concert

By Jamie Edelen | April 13, 2013

The University of Richmond Symphony Orchestra, made up of both student and community musicians, performed mostly American contemporary music at a performance at 7:30 in Camp Concert Hall Wednesday night. Everything went as planned and the musicians performed for a full audience, said Alexander Kordzaia, the orchestra's director. Kordzaia conducted the first half of the show, and Patrick Cavalheiro, a guest conductor from Brazil, led the group for the second half.

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Skipping Pig Roast for various reasons

By Marie Jayme | April 11, 2013

Although many students take the short walk to the lodges, and alumni travel back to Richmond to attend Pig Roast annually, not all students are able to attend the Spring tradition. Some members of the men's tennis, men's golf and women's lacrosse teams were not able to go to Pig Roast because of their athletic obligations. The women's lacrosse players do not know what they are missing because they have never been to Pig Roast, said Tara Coyle, a senior on the team. "As a Division I athlete, you will miss out on some opportunities," Coyle said, "but having the chance to play the game you love with a group of amazing people is the best opportunity to have." Other students may have preferred to go about their Saturday just as they would any other weekend. "I think the estimates have been that 16 to 20 percent of the student body does not drink," said Rick Mayes, political science professor.

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Forum gathers audience of 25 for panel on student voice

By Kylie McKenna | April 11, 2013

A push for more transparency by the university administration will be only as effective as students want it to be, Patrick Love, Richmond College Student Government Association president, said at the campus forum Tuesday. Change is based on the students' input, hard work and diligence, he said to a gathering of about 25 students and faculty members at this year's Forum at the Forum outside Gottwald. The Forum at the Forum is an open discussion in which all students, faculty and community members are invited to voice their concerns, comments and questions to a group of selected panelists.

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Richmond to host Greek Games to benefit Special Olympics

By Avery Shackelford | April 10, 2013

University of Richmond will host the fourth annual Greek Games, an athletic competition among Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University students that benefits Special Olympics Virginia, at noon this Saturday. This is the first time the games have been held on Richmond's campus, said Jen Darsie, Special Olympics intern and junior at Richmond.

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Take Back the Night: Students speak about sexual violence

By Katie Davidson | April 10, 2013

Take Back the Night, a night designed to spread awareness about sexual violence, was comfortably crowded on Tuesday night in the forum where about 200 returning and new students listened and shared stories about sexual violence. Kerry Fankhauser, associate dean of Westhampton College, has been organizing the event for six years, she said.

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Federal Reserve Bank President offers solutions at Richmond

By Scott Himelein | April 10, 2013

The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond spoke at the University of Richmond Tuesday and offered a financial solution to one of the United States' largest economic problems. Jeffrey Lacker, president since 2004, suggested that resolution planning is the best possible solution for financial markets to end the problem and phenomenon known as "Too Big to Fail." He offered the solution in a speech at a Global Society of Fellows conference titled "When Public Investment is No Longer an Oxymoron: Fiscal Policy in Liquidity Trap Conditions," held in the Alice Haynes Room in the Tyler Haynes Commons.

Meet Beavis, the new Ford Focus that joined the University of Richmond's ZipCar program.
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Zipcar program expands with addition of third vehicle

By Mara Lugo | April 10, 2013

The Zipcar program at University of Richmond has recently expanded with the addition of a red Ford Focus, dubbed "Beavis," which now joins two other cars brought to campus with the start of the program during the fall 2011 semester. Over the summer, a representative for the Zipcar company contacted Natalia Green, director for parking services, about the possibility of adding another vehicle to reflect an increase in the number of reservations, Green said. There are currently 385 members of the program at Richmond, including faculty, students and staff, she said. Although Green hoped the new car would be of a slightly bigger model, the hatchback-style sedan stayed within the goal of remaining environmentally friendly, she said. The three cars are stationed next to Westhampton Lake, which might make it obvious for prospective students and their families that bringing a car to campus is not a necessity, Green said. Before to the addition of the new car, there were occasions when the Zipcar vehicles were not easily accessable without booking far in advance, freshman Alex Beman said. "It's been useful when they are available," he said.

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Richmond students' Facebooks "turn red" for marriage rights

By Jessica Racioppi | April 10, 2013

On Tuesday, March 26, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) asked people to change their Facebook profile pictures to a pink-on-red equal sign avatar to show support for marriage equality as the Supreme Court met to decide the future of same-sex marriage in the United States. In accordance to the Supreme Court hearings on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, approximately 2.7 million people changed their profile photos, according to data analysis published by Eytan Bakshy, a researcher on the Facebook Data Science Team. The following day, the court heard arguments on the related question of whether the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples, should be overturned. Many University of Richmond students changed their profile pictures to show support, including junior Lee Oberg.

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Career Services a resource for those considering graduate school

By Gaby Calabrese | April 10, 2013

As the school year comes to a close, members of Richmond's senior class are preparing for life beyond college, whether that means starting a career, traveling, returning home or pursuing higher education. Although graduate school is common among Richmond students, the majority of graduates tend to enter the workforce before pursuing an additional degree: approximately 14% of the class of 2012 went straight to graduate school, said Anna Todaro, an assistant director at Career Services. The majority of Richmond students who attend graduate school primarily come from the School of Arts and Sciences and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, Todaro said.

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Title IX training required of all sorority members

By Olivia Simons | April 10, 2013

University of Richmond is taking measures to increase the awareness of sexual abuse by requiring sorority members to participate in Title IX training. All freshmen, sophomore and junior sorority members are required to attend Title IX training, the first session of which occurred Sunday, said Kerry Fankhauser, Westhampton College associate dean and Title IX coordinator. Two more sessions will be offered Sunday, April 21, between 1 p.m.

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Lot R12 is closed until August for construction in the Commons

By Jamie Edelen | April 10, 2013

The parking lot next to the Tyler Haynes Commons, which is usually reserved for faculty, staff and Student Activities vans, has closed to create space for construction. Lot R12 will provide a staging area for contractors to fix the building's roof, Charles Rogers, director of design and construction said.

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Quidditch team to attend World Cup in Florida this weekend

By Mia Webber | April 9, 2013

The University of Richmond club Quidditch team will be attending the Quidditch World Cup in Kissimmee, Fla., this weekend. The team will be sending 21 players to the tournament, where it will compete with 80 other teams. "It truly is a World Cup," said sophomore, Julia Baer one of Richmond's team captains.

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Student to receive Norris Eastman Scholarship by end of month

By Brooke Knetzger | April 9, 2013

For the first time in two years there will be a new recipient of the Norris Eastman Scholarship at the University of Richmond. The scholarship, established in 1996 by memorial gifts given in Norris Eastman's name, originally was created to benefit a University of Richmond student studying health and sports science.

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Global Health students hold banquet for Partners in Health

By Mia Webber | April 9, 2013

Students from the Global Health Sophomore Scholars in Residence program hosted a banquet to celebrate and raise money for Partners in Health, an organization that strives to improve the healthcare conditions of poor communities around the world. As part of their capstone project for the SSIR, sophomores Alejandra Garcia-Narvaez, Leslie Kinnas and Whitney Schwalm organized the banquet, which took place on the evening of April 2, in the Alice Haynes Room in Tyler Haynes Commons.

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Greek organizations host spring philanthropy events

By Renee Ruggeri | April 8, 2013

Certain Greek organizations at University of Richmond have held or are planning spring charity events to raise money for their national philanthropies. The Pi Beta Phi sorority hosted its annual Ballin' for Books basketball tournament Wednesday, March 20, in the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness, said junior Emily Shuman, Pi Phi's vice president for philanthropy, who organized the event. Pi Phi raised $560 from the tournament, which will go to the national Pi Beta Phi Foundation, particularly its literary fund that benefits First Book, Shuman said.

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More than 200 students attend WCGA's annual Bellis Fest

By Molly McGrath | April 6, 2013

Bellis Fest, Westhampton College Government Association's annual spring festival, gathered more than 200 students Friday afternoon in the University of Richmond Forum. \0x200B Junior Sara Krauss, chairwoman of WCGA's External Affairs committee, said she had been concerned about the weather all week and was happy with the how the day had turned out. \0x200B"The sun is out," Krauss said.

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