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By The Collegian | September 9, 2010Click here to download the September 9, 2010, full PDF edition of The Collegian.
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Daniel Jose Custodio, a poet who founded the Slam Nahuatl local slam poetry group in 2008, said he thought anytime an artist depends on an institution, he or she is compromising the art. "The artists really have to go beyond the channels of institutions, beyond the university, beyond getting the grant money or the pat on the back [to create change]," he said. Two years ago, Custodio created the End Hunger slam poetry series in which Slam Nahuatl troupe took the proceeds from their shows and provided a single mother and her two children with funding for an entire year's worth of groceries. Custodio was one of six artists who discussed the role of art in creating social change at a panel discussion Sept.
Theft from Motor Vehicle Sept. 3, 11:56 a.m. A Maryland License plate, valued at $20, was stolen from a Westhampton College student's silver Honda in R-lot. Vandalism Spet.
Once upon a time, there was a mystical, magical land where beer grew on trees, boys only wore pants and bowties that looked like the Easter bunny threw up on them and textbooks, cigarettes, microwaveable burritos, alcoholic beverages and other pleasantries could be purchased with special currency that magically refilled itself each semester (or with one desperate call to Mom). This special land was where young idiots from New Jersey (like myself) would go to endure rigorous training to become successful accountants, surgeons, journalists and other boring professions that we swore in third grade we would never succumb to.
Two Westhampton College students reported to campus police Saturday that a male intruder had entered their apartment around 5 a.m.
Nearly an hour after GreenUR's bike sale began, all 13 bikes were sold. Braving what would normally be considered an early morning, Richmond students gathered in the Forum before 9 a.m.
The sixth annual One Book, One Campus: Dialogues in Social Justice program will commence this September and will continue until March 2011.
From curry and naan to a new pastry chef and desserts, the Heilman Dining Center -- known as D-Hall -- has many new food choices this fall semester. To meet the students' demand for new ethnic foods, an Indian bar opened the first day of classes.
A housing crisis in 2009 changed Gray Court, a previously all-male dormitory, into a co-ed environment. Administrators said there are currently no plans to revert Gray Court to a single-sex dormitory. Co-ed housing provides the housing department at the University with more flexibility because suites can be divided between male and females, said Carolyn Bigler, the assistant director of student housing.
Three University of Richmond students were assaulted on campus between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on Saturday, Sept.
The University of Richmond's Career Development Center received a bronze ranking from Out for Work, an organization that works with college career centers to improve the quality of support for LGBTQ students transitioning from school to the workplace. Out for Work distributed the survey ? its first ? to 1,500 colleges throughout the United States last spring.
As dozens of seniors walked to class on Thursday morning, they sported the same fluorescent wristband on their arms.
Exactly fifty years ago this fall, rumors began to fly that the University of Richmond was going to have its very own radio station. One year later, on Nov.
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University of Richmond Phone Services may follow the University of Virginia's recent decision to remove landline telephones from residence halls. "By April, we may make the recommendation, and could possibly do it next summer," said Doug West, director of Student Telecom Services.
Just as the Robins School of Business nears completion of a new academic building, the administration also added a new dean, Nancy A.
During the first weeks back, some students may have noticed more new faces than usual while walking around campus. There are first years and missing juniors who went abroad, but there are also 80 exchange students at the University of Richmond from 32 countries this fall.
Four con artists claiming to be University of Richmond athletes got away with swindling residents of Richmond and Henrico County, officials from the University Police said. The scammers told Glen Allen residents that they were raising money through the athletic department for charitable causes, including books for needy children and a children's hospital. The scam artists went door-to-door asking for donations and used neighborhood cues, such as a university flag, to get a conversation going with their victim, said Howard B.