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Fair helps students narrrow study abroad choices

By Elizabeth Hardy | October 8, 2009

More than 75 study abroad programs in 30 countries were represented at the University of Richmond's Study Abroad Fair in the Alice Haynes Room last Thursday. Although the fair is only a glimpse of what an international education can offer, it helps students who are considering studying abroad narrow their choices and gather insights from alumni and exchange students. Prospective study-abroad students migrated from one display to the next, weighing their options of study abroad institutions and programs that might be best-suited to their academic needs and travel interests.

Sophomore Courtney Lund monitors a table promoting The Clothesline Project outside Boatwright Memorial Library Tuesday afternoon. The project is aimed at addressing the issue of violence against women. It honors women survivors as well as victims of intimate violence. Students who were victims of domestic violence or knew victims could make shirts to hang on the line.
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Students use T-shirts to support victims of violence

By Guv Callahan | October 8, 2009

T-shirts bearing messages such as "Stop the violence" and "We will fight back" hung from a clothesline on the lawn outside the Boatwright Memorial Library on Tuesday afternoon as part of the Clothesline Project, a movement to raise awareness about violence against women. The project, which is supported once a year by Women Involved in Living and Learning, gives students affected by violence an opportunity to express their emotions on a shirt.

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Richmond policies help stop workplace violence

By Jimmy Young | October 8, 2009

The University of Richmond's policies regarding workplace violence have been structured to create an environment in which potential acts of violence - such as the one that led to the death of a Yale graduate student last month - are managed before they intensify. Authorities in New Haven, Conn., recently called the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le a result of workplace violence.

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Golf cart theft becomes a problem on campus

By Margaret Finucane | October 8, 2009

The University Police has seen a sharp increase in the number of golf carts being stolen and damaged during the past few months - a crime which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, according to Virginia law. The police have reported 13 incidents of stolen or damaged golf carts since Aug.

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Online system to replace PIN cards for registration

By Emily Baltz | October 8, 2009

When University of Richmond students register for their spring classes in a few weeks, they will not have term PIN cards for the first time. The PIN card - an index card printed with a student's name, class year, student ID number and a series of numbers that serve as a password for the student to register - will be replaced with a new online system, the BannerWeb online activation system, Registrar Susan Breeden said. In the past, students received the PIN cards during meetings with their advisers, Breeden said, and the PIN card system was designed to ensure that students attended their advising meetings.

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Police Report: 10/08/09

By The Collegian | October 8, 2009

Larceny Sept. 29, 1:15 p.m. A Richmond College student's blue mountain bike was stolen from outside the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness.

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Writing project premieres on campus

By Avril Lighty | October 8, 2009

University of Richmond staff members now have the opportunity to cultivate their writing skills both professionally and creatively through the university's new Staff Writing Project. The Staff Writing Project Web site consists of resources for writing on the job, writing and speech center assistance, GED preparation, English as a Second Language tutoring and book discussion participation.

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Community installs chaplain during Family Weekend

By Maura Bogue | October 3, 2009

The Rev. Craig Kocher was installed as the university chaplain and Jessie Ball duPont chair of the chaplaincy Saturday night at the Cannon Memorial Chapel. The chaplain installation service - only the second ever at the University of Richmond - marked the official welcoming of Kocher by the Richmond community and served as an expression of trust in his leadership.

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RCSGA will make proposal for green roofs on Gottwald

By Ryan Clark | October 1, 2009

The Richmond College Student Government Association sustainability committee is working on a proposal to add green roofs and solar panels to the Gottwald Science Center. Sophomore Jerry Giordano, RCSGA sustainability chairman and vice president of Green UR, the University of Richmond's environmental club, is in charge of creating the proposal with the help of two fellow RCSGA senators, junior Chris Repas and senior Gabe Gigliotti. The green roofs and solar panels would be used to conserve non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and coal, Giordano said. There are three roofs on Gottwald: two lower roofs and one higher roof.

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How do I get on the 8:15 coffee cup sleeves

By Stephanie Rice | October 1, 2009

You may have noticed that the coffee cup sleeves from 8:15 at Boatwright are not an ad for Starbucks, but have the faces of University of Richmond alumni who seem to be doing some awesome things with their post-Liberal-Arts lives.

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Family Weekend planning affected by holidays

By Guv Callahan | October 1, 2009

Students will not be able to bring their parents and siblings to a University of Richmond home football game this coming Family Weekend because of conflicts between the university's and the football conference's schedules. Officials at the university's Office of Parent Programs schedule Family Weekend two to three years in advance, wrote Lisa Van Riper, assistant vice president for communications, in an e-mail.

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Campus accessibility map to promote inclusiveness

By Lochrane Smith | October 1, 2009

Richmond students are fulfilling the Richmond Promise one step - or curb cut - at a time, thanks to the accessibility map that the Introduction to Geographic Information Systems class created last fall. Accepting the task to increase inclusive diversity, one component of President Edward Ayers' Richmond Promise - the university's Strategic Plan for 2009-2014 - faculty initiated a response to the need for greater handicapped accessibility.

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Police Report: 10/01/09

By The Collegian | October 1, 2009

Larceny Sept. 21, 5:32 p.m. A Blackberry, valued at $500; Blackberry hardcase cover, valued at $35; and a Blackberry memory card, valued at $30, were stolen from a Richmond College student's gym bag in the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness.

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Fraternities to hold parties on same nights

By Nick Mider | October 1, 2009

University of Richmond fraternities will be hosting more lodge events on the same nights this semester in an effort to cut costs. The main expense for fraternity events is security, which consists of University Police Department officers patrolling the lodges. "People may or may not realize that frats pay for [lodge] security," said Alison B.

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Defense witnesses testify activists were attacked

By Stephanie Rice | September 30, 2009

Witnesses for the defense in alumnus Adnan Hajizada's hooliganism trial testified Tuesday that the activist was the victim of an attack, while prosecution witnesses said they did not see who started the fight in an Azerbaijani cafe July 8. The prosecution called the cook, Araz Allahverdiyev, from the restaurant as well as three police officers who arrived after the fight.

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Former Gov. Allen discusses energy

By David Larter | September 29, 2009

Former Virginia Gov. George Allen told a group of 50 students and community members in Jepson Hall Tuesday night that the United States could be the Saudi Arabia of coal and that Virginia could be a leader in breaking America's dependency on foreign oil. "You'll hear from these pompous elites, that Americans are addicted to oil," Allen said.

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