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By The Collegian | September 16, 2010Click here to download the September 16, 2010, full PDF edition of The Collegian.
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Sophomore Will Murray sat in the dining room at Tyler's Grill eating dinner with two of his friends the other night with empty tables all around him.
For many people, coping with the fact that a loved one has just been diagnosed with cancer or has passed away from cancer can be draining. But a group of Richmond students works to bring hope, smiles and magic back to dozens of children by fundraising to send the children of parents who have or have had cancer to a week-long sleepaway camp, for free. Camp Kesem is a national organization with 24 chapters across the United States that was founded at Stanford University in 2000.
For first-year and transfer students, Sept. 10 marked the first run-in with Trayless Fridays at the Heilman Dining Center. Confusion set in as they approached the islands that normally hold trays.
Drug/Narcotic Violation Sept. 8, 10:31 a.m. A Richmond College student was referred to the dean from Thomas Hall for possession of drug paraphernalia. Sept.
Each year, the University of Richmond brings in visiting scholars and staff from all over the world.
University of Richmond students presented their summer research Sept.10 in the Gottwald Science Center during the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Symposium.
On Saturday, Sept. 18, the dynamics of a typical lodge will be completely different: the parties will start at 9 a.m., and liquor will be permitted. Lodge events, along with other tailgating sites, will open four hours prior to the kick-off of the University of Richmond's first on-campus football game against Elon University in the new E.
University of Richmond students presented their summer research this afternoon in Gottwald during the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Symposium. The poster session, which took place from 3 p.m.
A slew of on-campus crimes at the University of Richmond were reported last weekend, ranging from assault to breaking and entering. Three Richmond College students were victims of assault between 2 a.m.
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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.