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Members of the University of Richmond community tried their luck by pressing buttons on a vending machine filled with prizes during lunch hours in the Heilman Dining Center on Monday as part of the Coca-Cola Open Happiness Collegiate Vending Machine Tour. The machine functioned as if it were a traditional vending machine, but the result was a surprise.
Sharanya Lal, president of the University of Richmond's Entrepreneurship Club, and Professor Jeff Pollack, the club's faculty adviser, say students should participate in the 2012 Undergraduate Business Pitch Competition because it is a unique learning opportunity within a high stakes environment. Student entrepreneurs will have the chance to win $3,500 in cash and pitch their business idea to local investors during the contest, which starts April 9. Groups or individual students will have 10 minutes to pitch their business idea to a group of business school professors and five minutes to answer questions during the first round, Pollack said.
Only 10 days after their senior season came to an end, Josh Duinker and Francis-Cedric Martel returned to the courts to participate in the Pi Beta Phi sorority's annual spring philanthropy event, "Ballin for Books." Martel, Duinker and their team, "JD, Fran and the Managers," left the gym Friday night as champions of the 3-on-3 basketball tournament, a different environment than their typical night at the Robins Center. "Playing college basketball is very stressful," Martel said.
Larceny Feb. 29, 6:59 p.m. A Westhampton College student's keys and SpiderCard were stolen.
Lt. John Jacobs of the University of Richmond Police Department will attend the FBI National Academy this summer where he hopes to build off his 19 years of service in the department, he said. Jacobs said Police Chief David McCoy had put in an invitation for him to attend the academy.
Aarti Reddy, a freshman at the University of Richmond and this year's Project for Peace proposal winner, was chosen to receive funding to build toilets in the urban slums of India. "I'm really excited," Reddy said.
Westhampton College Government Association (WCGA) conducted a survey over the past three weeks to get student opinion about awarding credit to science classes with laboratories, after many science students voiced how unfair the unit system has been for such intensive and time-consuming courses. Katrina Goulden, chairwoman of the academic affairs committee for WCGA, initiated and launched the survey, which was open from Feb.
John F. Carroll's colleagues in the Richmond School of Law believe Carroll's lasting legacy will be his family, his students and his warm, open-minded personality. Carroll, 44, passed away on March 8 from natural causes.
This summer, the university housing department has scheduled renovations of the 100, 300 and 400 blocks of the University Forest Apartments. The architects of BCWH and McMillan Pazdan Smith are leading the project and have actively sought students' opinions regarding the new designs.
Junior Evan Harris was elected Richmond College Student Government Association president, beating out his friend, junior Colin Billings. "I can't be smiling too much right now -- definitely later on -- but right now, it's [Billings] who put a lot of heart into it, who really loved it also lost," Harris said after hearing the results, "but I'll be looking forward to working alongside him next year." Harris said he hoped Billings would take on as large of a role in RCSGA as he could next year.
Richmond College Student Government Association presidential candidates Evan Harris and Colin Billings debated on Monday night at The Pier in Tyler Haynes Commons. The debate leads to the Tuesday's election for RCSGA president.
A documentary film presented the 2009 battle for same-sex marriage in Maine on Monday night. The screening is part of "Documentaries in the Greek," a film festival sponsored by the University of Richmond chapter of the Roosevelt Institute. "Question One" is a documentary that looks at same-sex marriage from both sides of the fight, said sophomore Erik Lampmann, the president of the group.
Her face is plastered around campus, taped to bathroom stalls and on stacks of flyers strewn around dormitories.
On Tuesday, March 20, University of Richmond will participate in the annual statewide tornado drill sponsored by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service. Gov.
The trial of University of Richmond football player Jimmy Speros is set for 9:30 a.m. on June 11, following his preliminary hearing in the John Marshall Courts Building on Monday. Speros arrived at the courthouse early Monday accompanied by his father, Jim.
Professors at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University are co-hosting the 20th annual French Film Festival March 29 - April 1 at the Byrd Theatre in Carytown. Francoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, a French professor at U of R, founded and designed the three-day festival along with her husband, Peter Kirkpatrick of VCU. "It started as a very small event with only five films, and we didn't have the money to invite any directors and actors from the films," Ravaux-Kirkpatrick said.
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.
On Tuesday, March 13, the Office of Sustainability hosted a transportation celebration in the Forum where they re-introduced the green bikes to campus, displayed a Chevy Volt and its refueling station and had informational transportation games for students. The event was part of "RecycleMania," an eight-week, nation-wide competition designed to make campuses more environmentally friendly through energy conservation, waste reduction and increased recycling.
IMAGES, the University of Richmond's student organization that promotes positive body image, is hosting its fifth-annual Love Your Body Week March 19-23. "This year's theme is 'We All Know Someone,'" said IMAGES president Caraline Mikkelsen.