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Kappa Alpha holds biannual blood drive
By Rachel Bevels | February 6, 2012The Alice Haynes Room of the Tyler Haynes Commons was empty except for four blue medical chairs in the center of the floor.
The Alice Haynes Room of the Tyler Haynes Commons was empty except for four blue medical chairs in the center of the floor.
Campus Conservation Nationals is hosting Richmond's second "Dorm Wars," a national sustainability competition from Feb.
Douglas Hicks, professor of leadership studies and religion, has been appointed provost and dean of faculty at Colgate University.
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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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.
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.
The Annual Fund, which directly benefits Richmond students, continues to grow despite the recession.
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 28, 2:32 a.m. The window of a WC student's 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe was broken into with a champagne bottle.
Thomas Haynesworth, a Richmond man who was charged with a series of rapes and later exonerated, spoke about his feelings throughout the 27-year process at the T.C.
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Dwayne Foster, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said that Saturday morning's fight had been made a bigger deal than it actually was because of the videos posted online, and The Collegian's reporting of the event. "I definitely think videos being posted on the website, even through The Collegian was disgusting," he said.
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The University of Richmond's Office of Undergraduate Admission has received 10,121 applications for entry into the Class of 2016. Gil Villanueva, dean of admission, said that the number of students who applied for admission this year was the highest number of applicants in the school's history.
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 18, 4:05 p.m. The windshield of an RC student's 2009 Nissan X-Terra was hit by a baseball in the R-16 Lot.
In eight days, four people stole more than $5,000 in textbooks from the campus bookstore to buy heroin, campus police said. Caitlin E.
On Feb. 4, members of the junior class of Westhampton College will file into the Jefferson Hotel in long, white dresses, their faces beaming.
University Dining Services will introduce a Text-n-Tell program to the Heilman Dining Center next month allowing students to go mobile with food suggestions. Jerry Clemmer, residential dining director, and Blake Widdowson, retail operations director, first heard about Text-n-Tell at the 2011 National Association of College & University Food Services conference in Dallas, Clemmer said. Text-n-Tell allows students to send feedback straight to dining services from their cell phones.
Members of GreenUR are continuing to protest coal burning at the University of Richmond. In October 2011, members staged a die-in that was intended to lobby for the elimination of coal burning at the University of Richmond's steam plant and, though the plant's coal usage has been reduced greatly over the past year, the protest's impact on this fact may be minimal. The steam plant, located behind the Tyler Haynes Commons, had been burning coal almost exclusively until this past summer, when it increased its use of natural gas.
Cuba is infamous. Hearing its name conjures images of cigars, mobsters, dirty dancing and dictatorship.