Tarrant's Cafe is relatively off the beaten path for those who frequent the culinary mecca that is Cary Street and the Fan.
UR Glee Club performed "Bridge Over Troubled Water" during its debut at the Black History Month Dinner on February 1, 2011.
Westhampton Lake is like homework for University of Richmond students -- it can't be avoided. Most students cross the lake several times a day to go to class, eat their meals and visit friends. Last week, senior Chad Crigger heard his friends talking about jumping in the lake. "My friends said, 'What have we done with our time here?
NBC's "30 Rock" and "Community" returned last week to continue their 6th and 2nd seasons, respectively (my Thursdays just got a lot better). Both shows returned in prime form. If you don't already know, "30 Rock," starring Tina Fey (maybe the only funny woman on television), is among the best comedy shows around. Last week's episode, "Mrs. Donaghy," focused on marriage, portraying it as a cutthroat game of one-upmanship. A misunderstanding caused by Liz's bride-like attire and the ceremony being held in French, causes Jack, who was supposed to have married Avery (Elizabeth Banks, the closest you'll get to a second funny woman on television, and in the same show!) to marry Liz. Liz, with peer pressure from her TGS (originally called The Girlie Show) team, leverages the signing of divorce papers in order to get a better budget and regain perks lost from Kabletown's (*cough* Comcast) acquisition of NBC. Meanwhile in plot B, budget cuts force Jenna and Danny to share the same dressing room, turning them into a bickering married couple with Kenneth as their "child." Tracy Jordan is MIA for most of the episode because he is off hosting the international pornography awards.
Juniors who did not go abroad last semester said they did not regret staying on campus. "You only have four years of college," junior Keely Naughton said.
If you know me personally, you know that I live and breathe music. For the most part I listen to an eclectic mix of thrash, pop-punk, folk and alternative, or as most people would call it, emo.
The Collegian interviewed several juniors returning from abroad this semester from countries including Argentina, France, India and Switzerland. Caitlin Manak, Junior Jaipur, India/Minnesota Studies of International Development Why did you pick that place?
This past fall was an especially good season in television. We were introduced to some great new shows, namely Boardwalk Empire, Louie, and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. If you didn't catch these shows, then do yourself a favor and find some time to watch them.
The second "Stepping 101: Hollywood Nights" competition, hosted by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. at Millhiser Gym on November 12, 2010, featured the University of Richmond's six Panhellenic sororities: Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi.
Senior Katie Der predicted since she was a freshman that she would leave her hometown of Chester, Va., after graduation and relocate to New York City - until recently, she said. After spending the past two summers interning in New York, Der said she had decided to consider staying in Richmond more seriously. "I could be in New York with a $30,000 salary, living in a hole-in-the-wall or stay in Richmond, living in a nice apartment in the Fan with a much higher quality of life," Der said. Richmond, New York and Washington, D.C., are the three main cities where Richmond graduates start their careers, said Joe Testani, associate director of the Career Development Center.
The students in the production studies III class chose to produce "Marisol," a magical realist play written by Jose Rivera in the '90s. The play, which will be the end result of the students' work in the capstone class for the theater department, will take place in February. "Marisol" tells the story of Marisol, a woman from the Bronx who works in publishing in Manhattan and tries to homogenize herself.
Johann Stegmeir, assistant professor of theater and dance at the University of Richmond, worked as costume designer on the movie set "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding" in the Hudson Valley of New York last summer. The movie, set to release in 2011, is directed by Bruce Beresford and features actors Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chace Crawford. Stegmeir said the movie was about reconciliation. The daughter, played by Keener, has rejected the lifestyle she grew up in and her hippie mother, Fonda.
Courtesy of Joe Troncale What do you do on the weekends? On Saturdays I usually go kayaking or help my wife with chores around the house and the farm, and on Sundays we go spend time with friends at our ashram in D.C. What's the craziest thing you did when you were in college? I took a leave of absence to go to a small town in Mississippi to work as a civil rights worker during the '60s non-violent movement, then enlisted in the Army to avoid the draft and was then given an honorable discharge when I declared myself a conscientious objector to all war. What's one thing your students would never guess about you? I love to go camping with my Russian friends to pick mushrooms and I make lunch for my 93-year-old mother-in-law every day before leaving for the university. What's your favorite college memory? A meeting in Moscow as a foreign service officer with Andrei Sakharov, the Russian scientist who developed the hydrogen bomb and then protested against it. If you could take a year off, what would you do? I would spend six months on retreat at Adi Da Samrajashram on the Fijiian island of Naitauba and the other six months in St.
The mailman carried a box twice his size to an old white van and loaded it in on top of bins full with letters and packages.
A team of University of Richmond facilities staff, along with architects of BCWH Architects, built a small-scale replica of the E.
The Campus Activities Board has booked two acts for its fall concert this year in an effort to interest as many students as possible. The concert will feature two different genres.
Courtesy of Jeni Burnette What do you do on the weekends? I like to run and bike and go for hikes when possible.
The University of Richmond's sixth annual African Film Weekend, on Friday, Oct. 29 and Saturday, Oct.
Courtesy of Jennifer Erkulwater Jennifer Erkulwater What do you do on the weekends? I have three boys, ages six, three and almost one.
