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Letter: Students desiring a vacation abroad need not apply

By admin | February 26, 2009

To the Editor: For the fall semester of 2009, 343 students have applied to study abroad. There is significant interest in studying abroad at Richmond in recognition of the fact that an academic international experience is an essential part of today's liberal arts undergraduate education. According to the latest Open Doors publication from the Institute of International Education, Richmond ranks among the top U.S.

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25 things I learned at UR

By admin | February 19, 2009

Your experience at this university is what you make of it. There are some things that you get used to; there are other things that you learn to avoid.

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Letter: From a trustee to closeted students

By admin | February 19, 2009

As an alumnus of Richmond College and a current trustee of this great university, I offer my own voice to a recent dialogue on campus sparked by the "Letter from the Closet" from Anonymous and by the online response from Amicus last week.

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Global economic policy and Blink 182

By Michael Gaynor | February 19, 2009

For those of you hoping to start your weekend out on the right foot, here's some good news to get you going: After four long years of silence, Blink 182 has decided to reunite and record a new album. At this point you've probably thrown this paper up in the air in celebration or your tears of joy have stained the pages, so I'll pause for a second to let you find a new copy. Got it?

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Letter: UR Amnesty International Focusing on AIDS awareness

By admin | February 19, 2009

By John Waller, Alex Borwick, Caroline Doyle Richmond Law '09, Westhampton College '12, Westhampton College '11 "Amnesty International is a global movement of individuals fighting to protect the basic human rights of individuals worldwide." Members of the UR Amnesty International Chapter have raised both money and awareness for human rights issues through events such as letter writing campaigns and film screenings.

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Straight out of Compton (Vol. 4)

By Susie Compton | February 19, 2009

What was last Friday? It was "the night the lodge went wrong." For some, the complications of a lodge being shut down ruined the night, but I had ended up experiencing the joy of random fun.

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The Closeting

By admin | February 19, 2009

By Ben Fancy Richmond '09 There has lately been a great deal of negativity surrounding GLBTQ issues on this campus.

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A Call For Tax Code Reform

By Jarrett Dieterle | February 19, 2009

The first few weeks of the Obama presidency have been marked by both triumph and embarrassment. From the left's perspective, Obama triumphed in enacting a gargantuan spending bill that is supposed to pull our economy out of its current doldrums.

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10 more lodge themes

By admin | February 12, 2009

By Trey Murray Richmond College '08 Editor's Note: The Collegian recognizes that this opinion submission may be offensive to some members of the Richmond community, but it does not necessarily reflect the views of The Collegian staff.

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Straight Out of Compton (Vol. 3)

By Susie Compton | February 12, 2009

As I thought about things I wanted to write about this week, I was struck by how most "opinions" people (including myself, not going to lie) tend to revolve around complaining about something.

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D-Hall to go?

By Michael Gaynor | February 12, 2009

I don't go to D-Hall too much these days. Blame it on the "trayless everydays" scare, the long lunch lines or maybe that the Mongolian Grill has lost much of its luster after three years.

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A Mad-Lib Opinion Column

By Michael Gaynor | February 12, 2009

In addition to making the prerequisite series of fart jokes in my opinion column each week, part of my job as your assistant opinion editor is to motivate you students to write in with your own thoughts, rants, points of view, secret teacher crushes, etc. There are two ways to do this.

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The Music of Itchy Hearts

By Michael Rogers | February 12, 2009

So here I was on the corner of Broad and Madison Street Friday night listening to four people in a folk(ish) band scream my name aloud in front of about 15 people with crowds nearby. I thought to myself, "Now this is really something that would never happen on our campus: There are four college-aged people playing acoustic guitar, stand-up bass, violin and accordion and stomping on a hubcap for percussion." I hadn't really planned on getting called out, but then again, I don't usually plan on these sorts of things (not that I really could), and quite frankly, it made my night. My mom always said it was one of her biggest regrets of parenting -- that she didn't make us learn to play an instrument.

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Greetings from Mexico!

By admin | February 5, 2009

Courtesy Lisa Brancheau and Lindsey Ryan By Lisa Brancheau and Lindsey Ryan Westhampton College '06 Greetings from south of the border!

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Keynesianism revisited

By Jarrett Dieterle | February 5, 2009

After taking the United States off the gold standard in 1971, Richard Nixon uttered his now infamous and oft-mocked saying, "We're all Keynesians now." Keynesianism would later run into a road-bump called stagflation, and be tossed to the backburner of the metaphorical economic theory stove.

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10 coolest states

By admin | February 5, 2009

By Benjamin Telsey and Stephen Hess Richmond '09 Let's be honest, there is really nothing going on at UR between the time classes end on Friday and forties at four.

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