It will be Spider vs. Spider in a coming election for the House of Delegates. University of Richmond faculty member Tom Shields will be running for the House of Delegates in November.
Vandalism March 25, 2:54 p.m. -- "A Penis for Anne" was written in red crayon on the wall in Frederick Rehearsal Hall in the Modlin Center for the Arts. March 28, 1:50 a.m.
Sex, jobs and gossip. Got your attention? Good, then I'll keep it by waiting until later to tell you what that means.
Linda Hobgood has the kind of attitude about work that most people can only dream about. As the director of the Speech Center in the rhetoric and communication studies department at the University of Richmond, she wakes up every morning and can't wait to get to work and start her day. "I had the chance to do what I had been trained for," she said.
Michael Leopold, associate professor of chemistry, received an annual grant of $85,000 for three years, a total of $255,000, from the National Science Foundation to continue his research on the interactions between proteins and synthetic nanomaterials. Only three other University of Richmond professors received NSF grants during the past year, and only 79 grants have been given to Richmond professors since June 1, 1975, according to the NSF Web site. The grant money will go toward the cost of supplies, travel expenses to present findings at the American Chemical Society meetings - including a national meeting in Washington Aug.
Bill Bergman, an adjunct marketing professor at the Robins School of Business, told University of Richmond students that Starbucks was a phenomenal case study in the world of marketing. "It clearly just got too big," Bergman said.
The newly formed Student Program Council at the University of Richmond will include all student organizations in the planning of events such as Homecoming and Pig Roast. Members said they hoped the council would be able to cut down on over-programming and deal effectively with budget issues.
Part of the Collegian's mission is to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas, and we are proud of the discussions that our opinion section and online edition have fostered. But as the semester has progressed, some of the comments for online articles have moved away from a discussion of ideas, morphing into anonymous and very public attacks on the personalities and lifestyles of the people who write articles, columns and comments on our Web site. The Collegian's policy for print opinion submissions is that they must be accompanied by the writer's name, unless the editor grants a writer's request for anonymity.
Students crowded Jepson Hall Tuesday night to network with some of the most prominent figures in the mass communications industry and get advice from keynote speaker Ed Kelly, CEO and president of American Express Publishing. Kelly stressed the importance of networking.
Editor's Note: The following article is satirical in nature and should in no way be taken as truth. A large party ended Saturday night with multiple arrests of Richmond and Westhampton students. A party on the third floor of Gray Court overflowed into the halls Saturday night, prompting a massive response from the on-duty Resident Assistants.
In an alcohol-fueled hook-up culture, exacerbated by the media and our peers, where do we draw the line? Kathleen A.
War must be a last resort: there must be reasonable expectations for success and there must be a commitment to the just implementation of the war, said University of Richmond professor G.
Correction Appended Alex Reisch was born in Auschwitz right after liberation.
Sue Murphy was asked to resign as University of Richmond women's lacrosse coach after athletic department officials discovered a parent-operated fund was supporting the team's budget, including travel expenses and senior gifts, The Collegian has learned. In an interview at her home on Thursday, Murphy said she knew the fund was against department policy and that using it meant she risked losing her job.
Correction Appended In front of a packed conference hall with roughly 85 citizens of the City of Richmond and no more than 10 University of Richmond students Monday night, Bud Whitehouse gave his advice on how to succeed in an interview and land a job in a tough economy. Whitehouse, director of Career Management of Virginia, an organization that helps prepare clients for job searches, gave an interactive speech, walking among the audience members in the Jepson Alumni Center and breaking down the "typical American job interview." "Hiring for a job is just solving problems," Whitehouse said.
Nestled in the corner of Seventh and East Broad streets in downtown Richmond stands the brick-and-stone front of the renovated Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building, now home to the University of Richmond satellite campus, UR Downtown. Although an initial move-in occurred in January 2009, the program officially opened on March 3 and held open houses the week of March 16 to allow the community to explore the new space and understand the program. The mission behind UR Downtown, formed as a joint effort between the university's Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and Richmond's T.C.
Vandalism March 3, 3:35 p.m. -- "Gray" was spray-painted on the back brick wall of an apartment in the 500 block of the University Forest Apartments.
University of Richmond students who have bought alcohol or tobacco with fake Virginia driver's licenses are about to have a harder time getting away with it. For the first time in 10 years, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is redesigning its driver's licenses, a move that will cost Virginia $6.5 million per year and will make the cards almost impossible to counterfeit. The cards were first issued March 24, in Tappahannock, Va.'s, DMV location.
The University of Richmond's Women Involved in Living and Learning program strives to educate its members on gender and its relation to sexuality, race, class and culture, according to its Web site.
Abortion is ordinarily a touchy subject that often sparks heated and unpleasant discussions, but the mood in the University of Richmond's Alice Haynes room on Monday night was light and friendly during the abortion debate, "Women, Choice and Abortion: What are the Issues?" The Rev.
