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Students voice library etiquette concerns, possible solutions

The University of Richmond's Boatwright Memorial Library staff invited students to share their frustrations after receiving a slew of complaints about volume control and common courtesy in the library. Lucretia McCulley, the director of outreach services for Boatwright Memorial Library, said that she had received several comments through the library's ongoing Counting Opinions survey about problems with quiet areas staying quiet. "This is a difficult issue for library staff to monitor," McCulley wrote in an e-mail.


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Cost of Crime, Part One: Burglary, Larceny and Theft

According to the Associated Press, legal definitions of burglary vary, but in general a burglary involves entering a building (not necessarily by breaking in) and remaining there unlawfully with the intention of committing a crime. Larceny is the legal term for the wrongful taking of property.


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Police Report: 4/1/10

Vandalism March 23, 5 p.m. The taillight on a Westhampton College student's Ford Explorer was damaged in the 100 block of the University Forest Apartments.


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Afroman performance delayed, student reaction mixed

Rap artist Afroman performed during Pig Roast at the University of Richmond, arriving roughly an hour and a half after he was originally scheduled to perform at 3:30 p.m. The Campus Activities Board booked and managed Afroman's performance at the Robins Center on March 27.


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GreenUR rolls out new, more durable bikes

Green Bikes are back on campus after the winter, along with 14 new yellow bikes that were purchased to replace damaged and lost bikes. The Green Bike program was first launched by GreenUR, the student environmental and sustainability group, during the fall of 2009 with 35 green beach cruisers available for students, faculty and staff to use anywhere on campus.


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Students elect new class chairs, senators

Students voted Tuesday for their student government class chairs and senators for the 2010-2011 academic year. Richmond College students from the class of 2013 elected Evan Harris as their chair, and Bradley Rotter, Casey Glick, Brian Cherry, Keefer Taylor, Maurice Jones, Jake Morrison and Colin Billings as their senators.


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Students gather in Forum to discuss racism

Engendered by recent discourse and articles regarding race at the University of Richmond, student leaders, administrators and students convened in the forum on March 25, 2010, for a civil dialogue on community inclusiveness and racism. "This discussion is not about solving racism in an hour," said Mike Murray, former president of the Richmond College Student Government Association.


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How do we get our hot water, heating and air conditioning?

The university's Steam Plant, also referred to as the power plant, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year so the university community has enough steam to generate hot water, heat and air conditioning in all of the buildings on campus. I spoke with George Souleret, university engineer, and took a tour of the steam plant to see what the facilities workers do to take care of the plant.


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Police Report: 3/25/10

Larceny March 2, 8:43 a.m. A golf cart's vinyl covering, valued at $450, was stolen from outside the Heilman Dining Center. March 18, 4:32 p.m.


Robert C. Dillard, the university police chief, will retire in June.  Dillard has been chief of Richmond's campus police since 1970 and previously served five years with the Henrico County police department. Under his direction, the university police department earned accreditation from both the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, one of only a handful of Virginia campuses to hold either qualification.  The commission subsequently honored the campus force as a flagship police department.  Dillard directs more than 40 employees, including 17 sworn, armed officers.
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Police chief to retire after 40 years at Richmond

Robert C. Dillard decided during his first job as a draftsman ? sitting at a drawing table doing building plans eight hours per day ? that he didn't want to spend the rest of his life cooped up inside. "I wanted a job where I'd be outside and working with people," he said.


Interim Dean Robert M. Schmidt, taking a break after a meeting.
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BusinessWeek ranks Robins School 15th in nation

BusinessWeek ranked the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business at No. 15 among American undergraduate business programs. The school has maintained a position inside the Top-25 undergraduate rankings since BusinessWeek began publishing the list in 2006. The rankings came as school officials continue the search process for a new dean.


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Elections bring new leadership to campus

Students from Richmond College, Westhampton College and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies elected new presidents of their respective government associations for the 2010-2011 academic year. Junior Suren Daryanani was elected president of the Richmond College Student Government Association, junior Ali Amaral was elected president of the Westhampton College Government Association and junior Alex Cramer was elected president of the Jepson Student Government Association. Daryanani, an economics major and history minor, received 228 votes, while Jason Viglianti, also a junior, received 86 votes.