Most weekday mornings around 8:30, hundreds of University of Richmond students grumble and groan as they wake up and prepare for their morning classes. By this time, junior Jordan Furtado will have already woken up, gotten dressed and driven to campus for a 6 a.m.
After years of classes and outside work and a year-long senior thesis class, three University of Richmond senior studio art majors will display their work as part of the senior thesis exhibition. The artwork of the three seniors, Elizabeth Ygartua, Kellie Morgan and Jon Henry, will be displayed at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, located in the Modlin Center for the Arts from April 13 to May 3. More of their work will be displayed concurrently at the Wilton Companies Gallery at the University of Richmond Downtown, according to a university press release. Much of the work was produced during the two senior thesis classes, which consisted of a fall class of seven students, followed by the option to apply for entry into the exhibition class for the spring, Henry said. Morgan said the class, which was taught by a different professor each semester, had been a transformational experience for her and that she had appreciated having two perspectives help her find her voice in her work. Erling Sjovold, an associate professor of art, taught the class in the fall and said he had wanted to get students started over the summer in order to get them early feedback. "The art can be experimental or research-based," he said.
Dozens of students, faculty members and administrators will be "arrested" on phony charges as part of UR Busted, a charity fundraiser sponsored by the University Police Department. Students and university employees can donate $10 to file an arrest warrant for a friend or colleague.
Alexandra Hamlet, a University of Richmond graduate and Richmond, Va., native, will be returning to campus to sign copies of her first book, "The Right Guard," from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
A series of planned renovations will add more than 20,000 square feet of study and work space to Boatwright Memorial Library, library officials said. The renovations will attempt to separate quiet and collaborative study areas more logically and increase the amount of work space in the library, said Kevin Butterfield, the director of bibliographic and digital services and interim university librarian. The major phase of the plan is to remove all of the shelving from the large rooms farthest from the main doors on the first and second floors and open up that space for individual and group study areas, Butterfield said.
In its first full season under varsity status, the University of Richmond men's lacrosse team moved to 3-0 to start the season after a recent trip to Florida. The team posted a season-opening win at Eastern Carolina, 17-5, before traveling to the University of Miami Feb.
A standing-room-only crowd of more than 500 students packed the Alice Haynes Room at the University of Richmond Monday night to watch sorority sisters sashay down the runway for Kappa Alpha Theta's third annual KATwalk fashion show. The show was split into two parts: a fashion show by sorority members wearing clothes loaned by Richmond boutiques and a "walk-off" competition featuring 16 campus organizations.
The University of Richmond men's basketball team opened its game Saturday night at Xavier University giving up 16 straight points to the Musketeers.
A cacophony greeted visitors the second they entered the door, as raucous yells and laughter filled the air.
Kevin Alloway was sitting in the Jepson Quadrangle, watching an improvisation show, when, out of the black of night, a pair of balled-up socks whizzed past his head.
