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Friday, November 01, 2024

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Camp Kesem members begin to raise $35k

Members of the university's chapter of Camp Kesem have looked into partnerships with local schools and businesses to help reach their goal of raising $35,000. For four years, Camp Kesem has helped run a week-long summer camp for local children with a parent who has, or has had, cancer.


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Newly formed TOMS club aim to help children

Members of the University of Richmond's newly established TOMS Campus Club want to help get shoes to children in developing countries such as Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa, senior Lauren Graf said. According to its website, for each pair of shoes the TOMS company sells, it donates a new pair to a child in need.


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Student leaders look for ways to increase communication

Student leaders discussed new ideas for collaboration between on-campus organizations and heightened communication between the organizations and the study body during the second Student Leader Town Hall Meeting. The second Student Leader Town Hall Meeting was held from 6 p.m.


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The cost of living is a big factor in internship options

This summer, senior Mike Yeomans accepted an unpaid internship with Friends of the Children in New York City and commuted to his internship from his parents' house in the suburbs of New Jersey. Yeomans said that getting the internship he had wanted had been logistically easy because he had known he could commute from his parents' house.


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Anti-piracy acts affect web access

Wikipedia blacked out. Google slapped a black censor bar across its homepage. One hundred ten law professors, two of whom teach at the University of Richmond, signed an open letter to Congress.