Providing opportunities for students to speak freely and think on their feet is an obligation that Linda Hobgood, director of the Speech Center, said she took seriously. On Tuesday, April 9, the seventh annual Forum at the Forum will take place on the University Forum in front of Gottwald Science Center from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Campus security has made plans to follow its usual protocol at this year's Pig Roast. There will be no big change in police procedures this year, Steve Bisese, vice president for student development, said.
Pandora radio will be limiting free mobile listening to 40 hours per month to help balance the increasing royalty costs of music. The personalized radio application has been facing rising royalty rates over the last three years, co-founder Tim Westergren said in an email to Pandora users, and these rates are scheduled to increase up to 16 percent in the next two years.
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The University of Richmond Honor Council held its annual Honor Week last week at Jepson Hall, with new programming that included a guest speaker from Harvard University and a business panel on ethics. The Honor Council carried out its traditional events, with a mock hearing performed by members of the councils on Tuesday, and a screening of the movie, "School Ties," on Thursday to conclude the week's festivities. Because the Honor Council operates under a two-strike system, the group tries to be both educational and punitive, said senior Lacie Horak, the previous chairwoman for the Westhampton College Honor Council. During Honor Week 2013 the councils wanted to emphasize the educational component by raising awareness about statutes, what the honor code is and what the honor council does for the community, Horak said.
A large number of psychology majors and small class sizes make it difficult for these students to register for classes. Upon returning from a fall semester abroad, junior Hilary Rushton, a psychology major, was only able to enroll in one upper-level psychology class for the spring semester.
Some student-athletes believe that the $15 million designated to renovate the Robins Center should be dispersed throughout the athletic department rather than focusing specifically on improving the existing basketball and football facilities, said Matt Zink, center fielder for the Spiders baseball team. Zink understands that basketball is a revenue-generating sport, he said, but he would like to see more equal distribution of funds set aside for renovating athletic facilities.
With such a high percentage of students living on campus, student life at the University of Richmond is focused on community and a 24-hour education. According to the Richmond Web site, 89 percent of undergraduate students live on campus, which classifies it as a mainly residential campus. "It's part of why people come here," said Steve Bisese, vice president for student development.
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On the evening of Wednesday, March 27, Delta Gamma hosted its first philanthropic volleyball tournament, Anchor Slam, to raise money for Service for Sight. Jen Darsie, Delta Gamma's vice president foundations, said she had organized the tournament because she had wanted the Zeta Gamma chapter to have a team-based philanthropy event.
As of Tuesday, 15 cases of mumps have been confirmed on campus, said Dr. Lynne Deane, the director of the Student Health Center.
This year, the number of students who have visited Counseling and Psychological Services for anxiety and stress has almost doubled since CAPS Director Peter LeViness came to the university 11 years ago. LeViness said that he expected this number to exceed 600 by the end of the school year.
Students in the Digital America course are creating a journal that offers all students at University of Richmond the chance to publish work that deserves a life beyond the classroom. The journal is an opportunity for current students to come together and discuss how their world is different from generations past, and to engage ideas that will shape their future, Meghan Rosatelli, instructor of the course, wrote in an email. The hope is that students from all over the university and beyond will get involved, she said.
Changes in Atlantic 10 membership will shift this summer as four teams leave for other conferences, while George Mason University will join the University of Richmond in the 13-team league. It was announced at a press conference Monday that the school would join the A-10 about a week after it was confirmed that Xavier University, Butler University, Temple University and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte would depart from the conference. A-10 Commissioner Bernadette McGlade said that the announcement of George Mason's admittance into the league was not necessarily linked to announcements from the departing teams. Richmond men's basketball coach Chris Mooney said he had heard rumors of the team joining the league last year when the conference had expanded. Richmond Athletic Director Keith Gill said the departure of several teams and the addition of George Mason would affect conference play, but it would be difficult to determine which sports would be impacted more. "George Mason will be strong in some sports and not the others," he said.
The University Police Department has established a walking escort service on weekend nights for any Richmond students who feel unsafe walking across campus alone. From 9 p.m.
Two professors hosted a forum Tuesday evening in Dennis Hall for students to discuss their desire to have more open conversations about sexual assault, gender dichotomies and social life on campus. Political science professor Monti Datta and Spanish professor Carlos Valencia decided to host the forum after discussing the issue with Richmond College Associate Dean Patrick Benner because of the number of sexual assaults reported on campus, Datta said. About 15 students, mostly women, attended the forum in the first-year, male residence hall where Datta lives. Datta said he believed the lack of men present at the forum had to do in part with the subject matter, which could be uncomfortable or scary to talk about. The conversation began with a focus on the culture of the lodges but shifted toward a discussion about rape and sexual assault on campus. Some women at the forum said they thought there was a culture of blaming the victim on campus, which Datta said was the most shocking part of the discussion for him. "It's heartbreaking that there is a common expectation about a woman crying wolf," he said. Between 2 and 8 percent of reported sexual assaults are false, according to the National Center for the Prosecution of the Violence Against Women. Students discussed the difficulty in understanding the gray area between consent and sexual assault. "We need to find a way to make consent sexy," said Christine Parker, a student at the forum. The students agreed that to help people understand the definition of sexual assault, it was necessary that men and women have conversations on the topic together, even if the university mandated those discussions. "This is an issue that everyone is involved in and everyone is affected by," Parker said.
Junior Mimi Mudd was elected Tuesday as president of the Westhampton College Government Association for the 2013-2014 term. After the day of voting, Mudd won the election, barely beating out the opposing candidate, Meredith Combs.
Based on student voting, political science professor Rick Mayes was selected to give the second of University of Richmond's Last Lecture Series, which will be held at 7 p.m.
On the evening of Thursday, March 21, students, faculty and members of the Richmond community came together to commemorate late American composer John Cage through the presentation of a multifaceted artistic experience. Joanne Kong, director of accompaniment and coordinator of chamber ensembles, said the event would include a centennial concert in Camp Concert Hall followed by a Musicircus throughout the rest of Booker Hall. Cage was also the mastermind behind the Musicircus.
Senior Evan Harris came to the University of Richmond intending to become a lawyer until he met the president of the Alumni Association and his personal mentor, Sam Kaufman. When he met Kaufman during his third year, Harris didn't know anyone who he could talk to about pursing a degree in law, he said.
