School is now in session. To those of you who are arriving fresh from states in the North and further South, the city (and outskirts) of Richmond may seem the same as it always does.
Dear Members of the University Community, I have had the opportunity to talk with many of you individually and in groups about this year's 10th Year Reunion Recognition of the Jepson School. In meetings with me, in the pages of The Collegian, and in public fora, a number of you have expressed concern that the positions of the organization led by one of the recipients of that recognition are not consistent with the spirit of inclusivity that prevails at Richmond and that animates much of The Richmond Promise. The decision about the recipients of this year's recognition was ultimately my own, when, as Dean, I accepted the recommendation of the selection committee.
Unfortunately, this is not a reaction to Victoria Cobb and the Jepson Award. Instead, this is a reaction to something not as publicized.
I have a friend on this campus ... Who was told by an on-campus psychiatrist that she was an irresponsible [black] woman because she had gone to the hospital. Who was told she wouldn't be able to deal with UR's workload because she was Latina. Who was asked by a staff member why she didn't get to know more of the black men on campus, upon hearing that she was in a relationship with an Asian guy. Who was in a dining situation and a comment was made to the group about the lack of diversity on the sides of the tables.
I read with great interest your recent story on the retirement of University of Richmond Police Chief Robert C.
As I will be attending the University of Richmond in the fall as a freshman, I decided to look at the school newspaper, The Collegian.
Confederate flags EVERYWHERE. "The South will rise again" stickers and banners all over the place.
Spring is in the air, and we at UofR know what this means: beautiful people strewn across the lawns and crowded into the gym, toning their bodies and perfecting their tans. Pastel polos and flowery sun dresses speckle campus in such a way that the man in the moon mistakes our dear school for a field of blooming flowers. As sophomores, juniors and seniors already know (and as first-years are finding out), this is the time of year that defines our student demographic; as spring outfits and attitudes unite, there is no time of year here that more emphatically depicts our student population as homogeneous. Most of us have heard or said the statements that resound throughout campus based along this vein of homogeneity, and we know they usually tend to be negative (i.e.
Victoria Cobb's alumni leadership award was only days old when her foundation promptly thanked the University of Richmond with an insulting stab in the back.
I am sure you have seen it all over campus and maybe for a brief second you contemplated what it is about.
If you are not yet aware, an alumnus of the University of Richmond is currently a political prisoner in Azerbaijan for speaking out against a corrupt government and advocating for his and his peoples' right to a free democratic government. Adnan Hajizada graduated from Richmond in 2005 where his father said he learned what democracy and freedom mean.
Dear Collegian, In banning submissions under pseudonyms last year, The Collegian made a grave mistake.
Dear Fellow Students, It has come to our attention that there has been a resurgence of derogatory statements made about fellow members of the University of Richmond community on the Internet. Our intent is not to pinpoint a certain Web site that facilitates this type of behavior; rather we seek to raise awareness and to create a community of respect, responsibility and acceptance.
I remember back to the early 1990s (yes, I do - I was 4 years old and my memory was fully developed) when the inquiry as to "What's up?" stood as delicately as a tightrope walker upon the line between familiar and frequent integration into casual conversation. That it has since become the most regularly posed question among Americans between the ages of 10 and 25 can mean only one thing: The question is yet unanswered. This implication is backed by quite a sufficient amount of empirical evidence.
Dan Letovsky's recent piece, "Obama's treatment of Israel unfair, dangerous" (April 1, 2010), levies a strong, well-argued criticism against President Obama's controversial dismissal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the planned expansion of Israeli settlements in contested East Jerusalem. He criticizes what he considers to be harsh treatment by Obama, citing Israel's status as one of the favorite sons of the United States, and points out that Israel is still the only democracy in the region. He parades around the standard argument for why Israeli suffering seems to exonerate it of its misdoings, instead calling upon the world to take issue with Arab countries for their faults.
Personal finance is an important aspect of each of our lives, whether we would like to admit it or not.
So the weather gets better. The birds chirp, the bees buzz, the pants start coming down and the the shorts keep rising.
To quote: "What kills me about news reports on this issue is that they focus on what feminists think ... Do people claim that the Holocaust was a Jewish issue or that slavery was an African issue?
Hurricane Katrina. It seems like forever ago that I remember seeing the news about the devastation of New Orleans, watching the news and seeing people getting rescued from the roofs of their houses and seeing almost the entire city filled with water. As soon as the storm happened, I wanted to go down and help, but I never got the opportunity. This spring break, I was finally able to go with a group from campus called the Collegiate Disaster Relief Team.
In my four years at Richmond, we have stolen nothing from the school, but it has stolen one thing from us: an outdoor grill.
