Sexual violence shirts display healing and awareness
By Katie Toussaint | October 4, 2011More than two dozen t-shirts were draped across a table in the rainy-day light of the Tyler Haynes Commons Monday.
More than two dozen t-shirts were draped across a table in the rainy-day light of the Tyler Haynes Commons Monday.
Richmond's Zeta Gamma chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority raised money for its philanthropy foundation at a 5-kilometer race on Saturday, Oct.
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Complaints from off-campus students' neighbors have caused campus police to team with Henrico and Richmond police to regulate off-campus student activity. Concerns from members of the community have increased in the past year, Richmond College Dean Joe Boehman said.
University of Richmond officials have placed security cameras at each campus entrance to ensure the safety of Richmond students. The cameras were installed in order to track license plate numbers, said Sgt.
Sports and life are inextricably linked from C. Vivian Stringer's point of view. Their lessons are transitive, and in her case, have molded a life philosophy and inspired and influenced the players she coaches and the family she has raised. On Thursday, Stringer, head coach of Rutgers University's women's basketball team, kicked off the 2011-12 Jepson Leadership Forum lecture series, "Game Changers: How Women Lead and Change the World," by sharing stories of the philosophy that has brought her achievement and helped her prevail over tribulation. Stringer, who grew up as the daughter of a coal miner in rural Pennsylvania, didn't mention her 2009 basketball Hall of Fame induction, a class that included Michael Jordan, John Stockton and David Robinson.
The University of Richmond's student-run radio station, WDCE 90.1 FM, is seeking a transmission power-boost, which would increase the station's broadcast range from its current nine-mile radius to almost 25 miles. "Our goal this year is to really help get the word out and get people to listen," said Whitney Cavin, a Westhampton College senior and WDCE's program director. WDCE features 50 different music and talk shows a week hosted by student and local DJs, according to the station's website.
Three University Forest Apartment residents were notified of their eviction from their apartment on Sept.
Liquor Law Violation Sept. 25, 12:11 a.m. A WC student and a female non-student were referred to the dean for underage possession of alcohol in the 800 block of the University Forest Apartments. Sept.
The Robins School of Business' C Suite Conversations highlight local leaders and executives in a speaker series. The series is designed to bring in people of responsibility and conduct unscripted conversations on leadership skills and decision making in front of an audience. Richard Coughlan, senior associate dean of the business school, created the series while Queally Hall was being designed, he said. The new building has the space to hold larger speaking events such as this series, which the business school couldn't hold previously, he said. The conversations are free to attend and open to the Richmond public, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, Coughlan said.
The 32nd annual Arts Around the Lake show was held on the ambulatory level of the Robins Center, because of inclement weather, from 11 a.m.
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The University of Richmond has joined the efforts to "Go Green" by promoting sustainability through various conservation programs, student groups and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified architecture. Although Richmond has paid attention to environmental issues for many years, the efforts increased when President Ayers signed the President's Climate Commitment in 2007, according to the sustainability page on the university's website.
Liquor Law Violation Sept. 16, 11:33 p.m. Two RC students were referred to the dean for underage possession of alcohol on New Frat Row. Sept.
Proclamation Night, Westhampton College's oldest tradition, is a ceremony that marks the beginning and end of the college journey for freshman and senior women. May Keller, Westhampton's first dean, introduced the ceremony to the college in 1915 as a way to mark the importance of women's leadership, relationships and the honor code.
Two hundred fifteen students have pledged their commitments to improving the greater Richmond community by volunteering through the Center for Civic Engagement. Richmond students build mutually beneficial relationships with the community through long-term volunteer programs, Sylvia Gale said.
In response to "A Letter to Women" and other campus issues, 12 students participated in a Slut Walk demonstration, which went from Keller Hall to Whitehurst on Tuesday to protest sexual violence. "The point of a Slut Walk is to address issues of sexual abuse and violence," junior Jennifer Johnson said.
Sexuality, sexual violence and relationship violence have all been discussed in the "It Ends Now" campaign, "A Letter to Women," the student forum on "A Letter to Women" and "Slut Walk." But what is the reality? Between 1 a.m.
It only looked like the Forum was taken over by spacemen in white jumpsuits midday Wednesday.