One child dies every six seconds from a hunger-related cause. One $10.50 meal in the Heilman Dining Center could feed 252 starving children in poor, tribal Orissa, India. A leadership team of University of Richmond students, staff and faculty will host a Stop Hunger Now meal packaging event Feb.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been plagued by violence since civil war first broke out more than a decade ago.
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International Month festivities begin with an official opening ceremony at the Carole Weinstein International Center on Friday. Contact photographer Eliza Morse at eliza.morse@richmond.edu
The neon lights of Las Vegas, Nev., have wielded a magnetic attraction over generations of those who dream of fortune and lust.
The University of Richmond employee who made the most money during the 2008-2009 academic year was someone most students have never even heard of. Srinivas Pulavarti made more money, including benefits, than President Edward Ayers ($710,472), head basketball coach Christopher Mooney ($362,339), and professor of psychology and President Emeritus William Cooper ($450,034). Pulavarti was paid $811,553 including benefits during the 2008-2009 academic year for his management of the university's endowment and other institutional investments as president of Spider Management Co. (see page 8 and page 43 of the tax document) Each year, the University of Richmond files a public report with the IRS that shows, among other things, the school's net assets and liabilities, net revenue, university endowment and compensation information for top officers and directors, as well as the highest-paid employees of the university who are not officers or directors.
The University of Richmond's Master of Accountancy program will not be accepting applications for the 2011-2012 year and it has not yet been decided whether the program will continue after the suspended year. The decision to suspend the program for one year was made by a vote of the 11 faculty members of the accounting department in late September. The program started during 2006 when Virginia began requiring accountants to have 150 semester hours to become a certified public accountant, Paul Clikeman, associate professor of accounting, said. "We started the program with the thought that many of our students would need a fifth year in order to get 150 semester hours," Clikeman said. "The students, instead of staying for a fifth year, figured out that if they come in with nine hours of advanced placement, which many of them do, and they take a May term, which many of them do and they take five units every semester, which many of them do, they can get to 150 hours without having to stay for a fifth year." Ten students were enrolled in the program the first year of its existence, one the second year, 10 the third year, 11 the fourth year and seven this year, Clikeman said. "We made the decision [to suspend the program] taking into account the fact that we teach undergraduate courses that range in size from 20 to 28," he said.
Vandalism Nov. 1, 2:34 a.m. The driver-side mirror on a Richmond College student's Chevy Impala was damaged in X-lot.
The University of Richmond's Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is honoring Veterans Day by visiting veterans in a local nursing home and presenting the colors at the School of Law's Veterans Day Ceremony and at the first basketball game against The Citadel, which is also military appreciation night. Sophomore ROTC cadet Colin Billings said he had a new appreciation for veterans and what they had done and realized the serious commitment he had made to serve in the armed forces after graduation. "Last year, I don't remember participating in any events," Billings said.
"If something happens today, do you want to us to resuscitate?" That was the question posed to almost a dozen World War II veterans as they boarded a cargo plane to revisit the black-sand beaches where they had landed under fire from Japanese forces 65 years ago. University of Richmond Chancellor E.
The students involved in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program will soon have their own academic chairwoman who will act as director of the program and be able to cross-list his or her classes. The chair will be named in honor of former dean, Stephanie Bennett-Smith, who founded the WILL (Women Involved in Living and Learning) program 30 years ago. The idea of creating a Westhampton chair was first introduced almost a decade ago when current Westhampton College Dean Juliette Landphair came to the university as assistant director of the WILL program. Landphair worked to come up with what she referred to as "the biggest dream world possible" for female students when the idea of an academic chair was proposed.
Contact cartoonist Kristy Burkhardt at kristy.burkhardt@richmond.edu
On Monday, Nov. 8, Richmond College associate dean Patrick Benner walked back and forth across the second floor of the Tyler Haynes Commons in a pair of bright red high heels. "They are red pumps so they draw a lot of attention," Benner said.
The River City Rollergirls have been attracting fans at the Greater Richmond Convention Center since the beginning of their season this year, and sharing the profits with a Richmond charity. River City Rollergirls, known as RCR for short, was created in 2006.
Four hundred and ninety students received an apology e-mail from associate vice president for student development Tina Cade last week after an employee at the Office of Multicultural Affairs sent a prior email encouraging them to vote Democratic during Tuesday's midterm elections. "PLEASE VOTE!
Control of the United States House of Representatives switched and Republicans' efforts to gain the Senate stalled last night as votes were cast in the culmination of a campaign that began as soon as Barack Obama won the presidency two years ago. The most significant development for Richmond: The congressional district's current representative, Eric Cantor, is poised to become House majority leader, one of the most powerful positions in Washington. Cantor's victory in the 7th district came along with an overall Republican gain of 61 seats, a landslide that outdoes every other House victory since 1948. Though Virginia's own legislature was not up for a vote, the state continued its turn back to red by voting out several Democratic incumbents. Tom Perriello in the 5th district (west of Richmond, including Charlottesville and much of the center of the state) was outed by Virginia state senator Robert Hurt, 51-47 percent.
The University of Richmond's North Court reception room was filled with laughter last Tuesday as the women's lacrosse team practiced self-defense moves; but what they were preparing for was not funny. "If someone attacks you, one of three things is going to happen," said Sgt.
The members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority held their first shoe drive as part of a regional initiative to spread awareness for victims of domestic violence. "October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so we figured that now is the time to get the word out," senior K'Lynne Robinson, a member of Delta Sigma Theta said. Brand-new pairs of shoes will be donated to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Richmond. "Countless women across America flee their homes in the middle of the night with only the clothes on their backs," junior Sydney Cooke, president of Delta Sigma Theta, said.
