Members of University of Richmond's Omicron Phi chapter of the national service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega attended the 42nd Biennial National Convention in Anaheim, Calif., Dec.
Camp Kesem held "Kesemania," its annual week of fundraising and awareness efforts, this week, with the goal of increasing the number of campers attending the 2013 program, said Samantha Meeker, Camp Kesem co-chairwoman. Camp Kesem, which means "magic" in Hebrew, is a national organization that holds an annual camp for children ages 6-16 whose parents have or have had cancer.
Schedule changes are not unusual to the sorority recruitment process at the University of Richmond, but this year's schedule was met with mixed responses from potential new sorority members and current members. Recruitment has started on Sunday in past years, so that change was not that drastic, said senior Elle Wilkinson, recruitment chairwoman for Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
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"There are two wolves inside every person, and the wolf that wins is the one you choose to feed," Curt Tofteland said as he began his speech about his evolving program Shakespeare Behind Bars. Tofteland spoke in the Jepson Alumni Center at 7 p.m.
Josh Urban, host of the monthly rock show "The Signalman" on campus radio station WDCE, is the man behind the station's new initiative, RVA Worldwide. The initiative is "designed to connect local and regional bands with DJs on WDCE," according to information released by RVA Worldwide. RVA Worldwide is not a particular show on WDCE's station, but rather, an idea Urban has embodied in his show and that he hopes other DJs on the station will adopt as well, she said. "This is making it official," Urban said about giving a name to the idea of supporting local, independent musicians.
The University of Richmond men's basketball team helped collect 216,000 pounds of food for the Federation of Virginia Food Banks when they participated in the Governor's Holiday Hoops Classic, said Kathy Erhardt, Director of Development for FeedMore. On Dec.
The One Book, One Campus program will be accepting suggestions for the 2013-2014 book until Thursday, Jan.
Six new food stations and bars will open this month at the Heilman Dining Center, Glen Pruden, executive chef at the dining hall, said. The new choices are a ramen station, a burrito station, an artisan grilled cheese station, a revamped Indian bar, a chicken wing bar and a Philly sub bar, Pruden said. Pruden, who has worked at the university for 35 years, said the difference between the stations and the bars is the way the food is served.
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has awarded the University of Richmond science faculty members a three-year, $77,200 Beckman Scholars grant for student research. The money will go toward laboratories, research tools and traveling.
Two Westhampton College seniors launched Richmond Compliments, a Facebook page with more than 1,300 members of the Richmond community, this December. The two women agreed to an anonymous interview with The Collegian over Facebook message under the Richmond Compliment abbreviation "RC." RC said that the two women trusted each other to keep their identities confidential and worked well together and communicated frequently about potential improvements. "The irony is that we have never met each other in real life," RC said. The creater of @URSpotted, a twitter account that launched in January 2012, said in an anonymous interview with The Collegian that it hoped to resume tweeting this spring, having been fueled by a little healthy competition from Richmond compliments. @URSpotted said: "I envy the creators of Richmond Compliments.
Upon entering the Alice Haynes Room Monday to watch President Barack Obama's second inauguration, students and faculty were greeted by a life-sized cardboard cutout of a smiling photograph of Obama. Obama began by reminding the audience, "what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith ... what makes us American is our allegiance to an idea." About 10 people gathered to watch the president's live speech on TV. Though acknowledging the United States' adherence to the Constitution created by the Founding Fathers, Obama emphasized that the country must make the adjustments to it that must be made together, as the world begins to change. "Fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires action," he said. Some of these changes are the end of the decade-long war and the beginning of economic recovery, Obama said. The nation "cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it," he said.
David Weinberger, an acclaimed author, technologist and internet researcher, will speak about the expanding internet industry and its impact on libraries at the University of Richmond next month. The lecture, which will take place at the Jepson Alumni Center at 2 p.m.
Almost every seat was filled in Camp Concert Hall on Monday as students, faculty and members of the Richmond community gathered in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
In order to help students keep up with their health and fitness related New Year's resolutions, the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness held a Resolution Solutions event on Tuesday, Jan.
Before winter break, Westhampton College students donated money toward holiday gifts for their custodial staff, and this year they raised the most money ever, said Sarah Everette, Westhampton College area coordinator. The Westhampton Residence Life staff received $1,400 in donations from students, $200 more than last year.
Sally Green of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond captured her audience with her humor as she discussed her career working for the Federal Reserve. A crowd of about 60 business professionals and students drinking their morning coffee gathered at 7:30 a.m.
Bobby Ukrop, one of Richmond's largest donors during the past several years, has resigned from the university's Board of Trustees, as first reported by Richmond BizSense. Ukrop, who graduated from UR in 1969, had served on the board for 13 nonconsecutive years before stepping down at the board meeting on Dec.
The Board of Trustees met today at the University of Richmond for its regularly scheduled meeting.
The University of Richmond board members were greeted Thursday on the third floor of the Tyler Haynes Commons by wraps, pasta salad, chips, brownies and about 50 students holding signs in support of reinstating the men's track and field and soccer programs. The Board of Trustees members, who made the decision in September to cut the two programs in favor of adding a men's lacrosse team, will meet again tomorrow, where board member Bobby Ukrop will present a case for the teams' reinstatement, said soccer alumnus Bret Myers. Track members originally decided to stage Thursday's protest when a source, who does not want his or her name shared, told the runners where and when the luncheon was taking place, said Kyle Ragan, a senior on the track team. Matthew Groff, a sophomore track member, thought the demonstration went better than expected, he said. "We didn't know how many people were going to come out," he said.
