By Angelo DiBello Richmond College '09 Over the last two weeks I, like many, have found myself reading as many articles as I can about the President-elect Barack Obama.
By Jimmy Young Collegian Reporter Societies can help refugees become citizens if they are aware of the plights they face, Clemson University professor Todd May said Thursday. Speaking in front of mostly students in the North Court Reception Room, May said that while it was easier for refugees to remain "in the cracks" of a society and not assert themselves, those that did demand rights were often rewarded with citizenship. May described the plight of approximately 1,000 Algerian refugees in Canada who fled their native land because of a civil war ravaging the nation.
The University Hearing Board has disciplined Kappa Sigma's former recruitment chairman for the sexually explicit e-mail that circulated on campus recently, handing down sanctions that school policy mandates cannot be disclosed publicly. The student has not been suspended, as was originally recommended by the dean of Richmond College, but revealing the sanctions would violate the board's hearing policies, a top university official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. At every board hearing, the chairperson reads a statement from a handbook that states that all people who are present -- including the student being sanctioned -- are to hold the details, outcomes and sanctions of the hearing confidential, the official said. Everyone involved honored the board's policies by not commenting to The Collegian about the details of the hearing, held on Oct.
Illness/Liquor Law Violation Nov. 9, 12:50 a.m. -- A Westhampton College student was taken from the Tyler Haynes Commons to St.
By Jenn Hoffman Collegian reporter Gary Radice's biology class was studying the anatomy of tadpoles when a student asked what the pumping organ was.
Speaking to a crowd of 30, Ethiopian economist Befekadu Degefe presented a course of action President-elect Barack Obama could use to restore the U.S.
The Bias Response Team has received attention around campus since October when it responded to both an explicit fraternity e-mail sent campus-wide and a swastika that was carved into a table outside the T.C.
If Garrett Graham had not run fast enough, his visa would have expired. Graham had already stood for 25 hours in a crowded train from Nanjing to Shenzhen.
The devastating effects of hatred consumed Alexander Lebenstein until he got a letter from students in the German town where he grew up, where he was a victim of Kristallnacht in 1938. "The hatred and pain built up over the years ... I lived with the pain of anger for most of my life," Alexander Lebenstein, a Holocaust survivor, told a campus audience Monday. Initially, Lebenstein rejected numerous invitations to return to his hometown of Haltern am See, Germany, because what he endured led him to hate everything German, he said.
"The strategic plan has been cooking for a long time, like Thanksgiving dinner," said University of Richmond President Edward Ayers Wednesday in the Alice Haynes Room during the final open forum on the university's strategic plan.
Is the Juice worth the squeeze? This has been the question on many University of Richmond students' and administrators' minds for weeks, since the university surfaced on Juicycampus.com, a forum launched on Oct.
By Jimmy Young Collegian Reporter President Ayers' chief of staff insisted at a joint meeting of the student government associations Wednesday night that the waning U.S.
The University of Richmond defeated 22 other mock trial teams and won second place at the Great American Mock Trial Invitational, hosted by the University of Virginia on Nov.
By Michael Gaynor Collegian Reporter Dwight Clinton Jones will be the City of Richmond's next mayor after carrying five districts and defeating three other candidates vying for the office. But 6,300 absentee votes remain uncounted, a number that could theoretically swing the election for Pantele if there are enough votes in two key districts.
By Elizabeth Hyman Collegian Reporter The Career Development Center's new location Tyler Haynes Commons' third floor has been open for only a few weeks, but already students have been making the trip up to visit. Construction continues on parts of the third floor, but amid the ladders and workers is the new CDC, locating behind inviting glass windows and doors. With the walls painted orange, green and yellow, the new space -- where the President's Dining Room used to be -- is calming and has windows overlooking Westhampton Lake, giving the room an open feel. Leslie Stevenson, director of the CDC, lists the facility's aesthetics as one of its advantages over the former location in the basement of Richmond Hall.
By Elizabeth Hyman Collegian Reporter Local school administrators went back to school on Oct.
By Taylor Engelson Collegian Reporter One of the secrets of Lincoln's success was that he tended to do his reacting in advance, said the third Jepson Leadership Forum speaker last night at the Jepson Alumni Center. The 2008-09 Jepson Leadership forum was planned last year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, Feb.
Newport News resident Lychelle Chisolm kept her four children awake past their bedtimes on Tuesday night because she wanted them to experience history. She was not the only parent to bring her children to the Democratic Party of Virginia's Election Night celebration, held at Toad's Place near the canal.
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Jim Gilmore Tuesday 64 percent to 34 percent, contributing to the Democratic Party's 56-40 majority in the U.S.
Senators from the Richmond College Student Government Association is exploring whether to purchase a Richmond College rock. During the Wednesday night's RCSGA meeting, senators said students would be able to paint the rock advertising various on-campus events.
