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Richmond hosts Virginia Professional Squash Championships

By Martha Henderson | February 1, 2006

The surveys are in: no one seems to know what the giant glass box constructed in the Tyler Haynes Commons is, but everyone is eager to find out. The University of Richmond is the co-host of the third annual Virginia Professional Squash Championship. With the Country Club of Virginia, the university will host the four-day tournament, which began with the first-round matches yesterday evening and will conclude with the championship match at 6:30 p.m.

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Cooper plans to stay in office until replacement president found

By Ivan Alber | January 25, 2006

University President William E. Cooper, who announced his resignation on Jan. 12, plans to stay in office until a replacement has been found. "It's probably a good time to do a search to continue the momentum that we enjoy here at Richmond," Cooper said.

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Bisese selected as VP, but students bemoan selection process

By Martha Henderson | January 25, 2006

Many students are satisfied with the decision to promote Richmond College Dean Stephen Bisese to vice president for student development, but some students expressed concern about the selection process. Although two student representatives were chosen to serve on the search committee created to select Leonard Goldberg's replacement, one said he was not fully aware of how the committee functioned. The student committee member, junior Mehrab Malek, said that he would like to think that, as a student, he was treated as an equal relative to the other members of the committee.

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Steve Bisese to take over as vice president for student development

By Martha Henderson | January 25, 2006

Richmond College Dean Stephen D. Bisese will take over the position of vice president for student development beginning in July. President William E.

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Track & Field

Ryan Jobes, Richmond sophomore and track athlete, killed in car crash

By Molly Tarantino | January 25, 2006

Ryan Jobes was good at everything. Whether he was playing ping-pong, setting state records in track or participating in a dance-off, Jobes competed fiercely and success almost always followed.

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U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton to speak at Alumni Center

By Ashley Crenshaw | January 25, 2006

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies will host John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at 11:30 a.m.

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Common Ground speaks to RCSGA about diversity issues

By Sawyer Weirman | April 10, 2005

Recently elected Richmond College Student Government Association President Matthew Whittaker swore in newly appointed senators and class chairs during the weekly meeting on Wednesday night in the Whitehurst Living Room. "We have a lot of new people, and I think they will all be pretty great," Whittaker said. He hopes that the newly elected members will bring in an outside perspective, he said. President Edward Ayers's Chief of Staff, Lori Schuyler, talked about Ayers's strategic plan, and its purpose to identify collective items that the university was working toward.