Twelve-year-old Soham Apte could not stop smiling as he put down his instrument and walked off the stage at Saturday's "Experience India," an event hosted by the South Asian Student Alliance.
Lodge culture is not the only social option for students at the University of Richmond. In a panel discussion, Rabbi Andrew Goodman of the chaplaincy and Westhampton College Dean Kerry Fankhauser took on the issues of gender, sexuality and mental health as they relate to the Richmond campus, from Greek life to religion. Goodman said: "The problem lies with the fact that college students do not have enough cultural frames of reference to see that the lodge culture doesn't have to be the default.
