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Photo Gallery: Final week of the fall 2008 semester
By Eliza Morse | December 10, 2008The final week of the fall 2008 semester included numerous holiday celebrations and performances.
The final week of the fall 2008 semester included numerous holiday celebrations and performances.
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night for two candlelight services, held at Cannon Memorial Chapel.
The club synchronized swim team put on its annual holiday show Thursday and Friday night to kick off its season. The Friday night show began with a holiday-themed routine.
In an era when such a staggering amount of news is so readily available, it would follow that the American public would be more informed than ever. Not so, said Frank Rich, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, who charged that the presentation of news has become a never-ending circus show -- continually blurring the line between fact and fiction -- meaning we may not be as informed as we would like to think. "This is where we are as a culture," Rich said Nov.
The a cappella group Rockapella will bring the sounds of the holidays to campus for the third year in a row next month. "A Rockapella Holiday" will be held at the University of Richmond's Camp Concert Hall on Dec.
The tradition of two people simultaneously snapping the collarbone of a bird in two and the bearer of the larger half making a wish began 2,400 years ago.
The University of Richmond has joined the networking Web site Twitter in an effort to diversify communication methods for the university. Twitter is a micro-blogging Web site where users can post messages up to 140 characters in length, called "tweets." Twitter accounts gather "followers" that receive updates as they are posted onto the page.
~According to most historians, the pilgrims never observed an annual Thanksgiving Day feast in autumn.
The Bond franchise continued to break from its hokey past of witty one-liners, impossible gadgets and seemingly random sexual romps in "Quantum of Solace," the second installment of the new brooding and introspective 007. Daniel Craig turned in another powerhouse performance, convincing audiences once again that James Bond could be played by a chap with blond hair.
"The Skin of Our Teeth," a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder, will be presented by the University of Richmond's department of theatre and dance starting Nov.
Seattle-based band Barcelona made its first-ever visit to Richmond to perform at Alley Katz in Shockoe Slip to promote its first album, "Absolutes." Only a few people showed up to watch, so the concert was pushed back an hour to 10:30 p.m.
Beverly Hills 90210 had The Peach Pit, Boy Meets World had Chubbie's and Saved by the Bell had The Max.
3002 West Cary St. Richmond,Va. At Roadrunner, the employees use the track that goes around the inside of the store to analyze a customer's foot mechanics to determine the best shoe for the customer's stride. "Newer stores use treadmills now," employee Alison Burnette said.
For the first time, the annual Relay for Life was held on campus Nov. 1. Cancer survivors, supporters and students walked around the lake from 11 a.m.
"And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand." -- President-elect Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, speaking from Chicago "I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.
"The news we are receiving on the results of the American presidential election shows that everyone has the right to hope for a freshening of U.S.
"Feeling bad for McCain." -- Rachel Chikowski, senior "At a 'Yes, you can' party." -- Ryan Buhl, junior "I went to the Democratic party at Toad's Place." -- Mary Morgan, sophomore "Drinking my sorrows away." -- Dan Gale, sophomore "I went to 404 and watched everyone cry." -- Catherine Crystal, freshman "At the apartments." -- Eric Griffin, sophomore "In the library, watching the polls instead of doing my work." -- Kate Hodes, junior Contact staff writers Jessica Murray at jessica.murray@richmond.edu or Emily Viviani at emily.viviani@richmond.edu
The Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival will return to Richmond for its eighth year this weekend. This two-day festival explores both the electroacoustic tradition's variety and its connection to past musical practices, according to the event's Web site, and is devoted to introducing new works through commissions and premieres. Benjamin Broening, associate professor of music and the event's artistic director, founded Third Practice and has been involved with the festival ever since. There was a void in electroacoustic music throughout the Richmond area, he said, and this event has offered the opportunity for people to get more regional exposure to the industry. Broening described electroacoustic music as a genre that presented music involving various degrees of technology - there could be pieces for instruments, computer, video, invented instruments or a mixture of any of these things. Since its first year, Third Practice has grown from a two-concert event to one that features anywhere between five and seven concerts during a two-day period. Staff from the music department and the Modlin Center for the Arts put on the entire festival.
In the final days of the 2008 Election, both political parties stormed in and around Richmond trying to muster up support before Tuesday's contest. Contact staff photographers Eliza Morse, Dan Petty, Megan Wilson and Alex Donoho.
By Emma Anderson Collegian Reporter Seven students spent their Saturday night reciting Milton's "Paradise Lost," and one student said it was unlike anything he had done before. Louis Schwartz, associate professor of English, began the reading at 7:45 p.m.