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Annual Fund donations increase
By Laila Hart | February 2, 2012The Annual Fund, which directly benefits Richmond students, continues to grow despite the recession.
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.
Contact photographer Brittany Brady at brittany.brady@richmond.edu
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.
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Destruction/Damage/Vandalism Jan. 1, 6 p.m. An unknown person kicked in the gate to Robins Stadium.
University officials ended a three-year partnership with Union First Market Bank and signed a two-year contract with BB&T Bank in September. Richmond chose BB&T Bank after reviewing proposals from a credit union and three other banks: Union First Market Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, said Louie Love, Richmond's director of treasury services. "BB&T offered the best proposal and they were in complete agreement to write the proposal the way that the university [officials] wanted without any changes," Love said.
George Allen, the former governor of Virginia who is running for U.S. Senate, visited the University of Richmond and told students he would be "like a dog on a bone" to make his campaign plans a reality for building a brighter American future. Allen addressed approximately 100 people in his black leather cowboy boots for a joint meeting of the Richmond City GOP, the University of Richmond College Republicans and the Greater Richmond Young Republicans. Allen said he was inspired by the cohesiveness of the three hosting organizations, and that it was "great to see young people interested in government who are involved and care about the future of the country." Economic issues, energy resourcing and Medicaid were three of the most important topics of Allen's discussion.
Junior Greg Lauritano said he had felt violated and angry on the Saturday after Thanksgiving break last semester.
Readings, dance and song honored Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday afternoon during the university's annual community gathering. The commemoration, Martin Luther King Day, 2012:Dream, Think, Act, was held at 2 p.m.
The University of Richmond community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 2 p.m. tomorrow with a campus-wide gathering at Camp Concert Hall. The day honors the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr.