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.
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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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.
When University of Richmond students arrived at the medical clinic on their first day in Pampa Grande, Peru, there were at least 20 Peruvians waiting by the door.
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.
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 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.
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.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Richmond will join Virginia Commonwealth University in presenting the 18th French Film Festival. The festival will take place at the Byrd Theater from March 25-28, 2010.
University of Richmond professor Woody Holton won the 2010 Bancroft Prize for his latest book, "Abigail Adams." Holton, an associate professor of history and American studies, is one of three winners of the prestigious award.
All students need to do now to aid campus sustainability initiatives is save their food waste. URot, a project of GreenUR, is the first student-run composting initiative at the university.
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.
The literary world needs to forget preconceived notions of fiction and nonfiction and develop new forms of literature that mimic the digital, fast-paced developments of the 21st century, New York Times bestselling author David Shields said to an audience of about 60 people on Monday night. In a lecture titled "Genre is a Minimum Security Prison," Shields spoke on his 10th book, "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto," which argues for a more sophisticated notion of nonfiction writing that would keep up with contemporary society. The rapt audience in the Brown-Alley Room listened as Shields argued that the typical old and crumbling forms of literature were not meeting the need for reality in today's society. Shields said his book argued for a more sophisticated notion of nonfiction as an art, where writers could borrow from previous writers.
The two candidates for Richmond College Student Government Association president discussed the issues facing campus and their visions for the future in their only debate before Tuesday's election. Suren Daryanani and Jason Viglianti, both two-term RCSGA senators, fielded questions from junior Ryan Erickson-Kulas, who moderated Monday night's debate, and from audience members. Daryanani identified his three primary initiatives as improving student access to off-campus transportation so more students could see what the city has to offer, increasing student organization funding through separate endowment pots for specific organizations, and improving diversity and inclusivity by making students more aware of events. Viglianti identified his three primary initiatives as helping develop the 10-year facilities plan with student input, discussing the possibility of constructing a garage to ease parking problems and working with IFC and Greek organizations to identify protocol for using lodges before football games beginning this fall at Robins Stadium.
Westhampton College students and the WILL program are co-sponsoring Freedom Week from March 22 to March 26 to raise awareness of both domestic and international human trafficking. The inspiration for this event stems from an impactful trip that junior Carter Quinley and senior Tran Doan took to Thailand.
The University of Richmond Entrepreneurship Club hosted the New Dominion Angels' monthly meeting Monday night at the Robins School of Business. Remo Kommnick, president of the entrepreneurship club, invited New Dominion Angels to network with students and hold its conference on campus. "It's a great opportunity to give to students in terms of real life experience with entrepreneurship finances," Kommnick said.
The University of Richmond has applied for a Special Use Permit to install a 199-foot telecommunications monopole near Pitt Baseball Field to improve cellular and emergency communications on campus. "The main objective of the project is to improve the effectiveness of emergency communication since students rely on cell phones so much," said Kathy Monday, vice president for information services. As of February 2010, about 89 percent of Richmond students had registered their cell phones to receive alerts from Richmond's current emergency communication system.
Adnan Hajizada, Azerbaijani activist and University of Richmond alumnus, lost his most recent appeal on Wednesday, causing his supporters to continue to criticize the government. Hajizada, Richmond College '05, is serving two years in prison for hooliganism and causing bodily harm along with fellow activist Emin Milli, who is serving 2.5 years.
Where can a University of Richmond student spend a night wandering through rooms full of intriguing artwork while tasting delicious food and becoming a socialite?
