A meeting took place a few weeks ago among representatives of the Westhampton College Government Association, the Panhellenic Executive Association and Alison Bartel Keller, director of student activities.
University of Richmond is gearing up for its first-ever Ribbon Run 5k Friday, a new addition to the White Ribbon Campaign, aimed at raising awareness for sexual violence. The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest movement in the world of men striving to end violence against women.
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The University of Richmond football team has not been able to win close games this season before Saturday's 46-43 win at Delaware (7-4, 4-3). The Spiders had lost the five games that have been decided by seven points or fewer this season. Richmond (5-6, 3-4 CAA) led Saturday's game by as much as 19 points in the second half and did not trail until Delaware running back Andrew Pierce scored on an 11-yard run with 45 seconds left, giving the Blue Hens a 43-39 lead. The Spiders looked doomed to lose another close game, but Richmond quarterback Michael Strauss led a 75-yard drive that concluded with a three-yard touchdown reception by sophomore Reggie Diggs to give Richmond the victory. "They brought that blitz on that last play," Strauss said, "and right when I saw them come, I knew I had that one-on-one on the slant." Richmond defensive lineman Kerry Wynn said a lot of people could have written the Spiders off once they fell behind, but Strauss' ability to lead the offense on the game-winning drive said a lot about him. Strauss led Richmond's offense, completing 35 of his 46 pass attempts for a school-record 543 yards and five touchdowns.
The University of Richmond men's basketball team could never getting it going against the University of Minnesota as a late Golden Gopher surge defeated the Spiders 74-59. The Golden Gophers (3-0) avoided being upset in their only nonconference road game of the season.
Veterans from each age of our nation's history have faced challenges upon returning home, but the men and women who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq are dealing with a new series of legal and emotional issues when they return. As the keynote speaker at the Veterans Law Symposium held in the University of Richmond School of Law's Moot Courtroom last Friday, Sen.
Starting next fall, sophomore students will have the opportunity to participate in four new SSIR programs, ranging from the study of our global food system to the conservation of public lands. The four courses to launch next fall are Reading to Live, Social Justice and Social Movements, Eating Locally, Thinking Globally and Protected Lands of the American West.
With the Nov. 15 performance date quickly approaching, University of Richmond's five Panhellenic sororities are working overtime to prepare for the fifth-annual STEPPING 101 competition, hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The event is a dance competition that pits teams representing Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi against one another to compete for a $500 top prize, along with a year's worth of bragging rights.
The University of Richmond Police Department is currently hiring more officers to add to its agency, and Dave McCoy, chief of police, hopes they become familiar faces on campus, he said. URPD currently has 22 sworn officers and state certified security guards, and is in the process of interviewing 13 new applicants for future patrol and police officer positions, McCoy said.
Series finales are by far the most fascinating problems of television, a TV critic from The New Yorker said Nov.
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Zachary Jesse, a third-year student at the University of Richmond School of Law, has been involved with the Moot Court Board, repeatedly served as a justice for the Law School Honor Council and is a recipient of the law school's most prestigious, $30,000 John Marshall scholarship. He is also a registered sex offender who pled guilty to aggravated sexual battery in 2004. It is unclear why a registered sex offender was admitted on scholarship to the law school when it is unlikely that someone with that offense would be allowed to practice law in Virginia.
1914 was a big year for the University of Richmond. The school moved from its downtown location to the current campus, Westhampton College was founded and in November, students published the first issue of The Collegian, making the university's weekly, student-run newspaper nearly 99 years old. Steve Nash, the senior research scholar and professor in the journalism department, has shared a role as a faculty adviser for The Collegian with Michael Spear, the department chair, since the 1980s. Nash said when he had arrived at Richmond there had been no type writers in the journalism department.
Citizens of Virginia elected Democrat Terry McAuliffe as governor in Tuesday's election, choosing him over Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis.
Governor of Virginia will be Terry McAuliffe's first elective office. The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee gained stature through his work leading two Clinton presidential campaigns: Bill's in 1996 and Hillary's in 2008.
Although Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the Virginia gubernatorial election, Democrat Ralph Northam won the lieutenant governor race and Republican Mark Obenshain will be the next attorney general, disillusionment was the big winner on Tuesday.
Even though the gubernatorial election in Virginia was significant for the state and for the country, it held special value for a few University of Richmond students who voted for the first time. The result was too close to call for most of the night, and the candidates fell into what Kerri O'Brien of ABC News in Richmond called on her Twitter feed a "[s]tatistical dead heat." Just as much of the Virginia electorate was split on whom to vote for, three Richmond freshmen each chose to vote for a different candidate. The crowd was small for the election-viewing party in the Alice Haynes Room at Tyler Haynes Commons.
Starting January 2015, the Medical College Admission Test will include a new section that will test pre-medicine students' knowledge of psychology and sociology and incorporate biochemistry and statistics into previous sections of the exam. The changes to the exam will require pre-med students to take college-level courses in biochemistry, psychology and sociology, increasing the number of prerequisite classes from eight to 11, according to a press release from Kaplan Test Prep.
The landscaping team at University of Richmond has planted an orchard behind the Heilman Dining Center, and Thursday, Oct.
The Richmond Rowdies have big plans for the start of basketball season Friday, Nov. 8 against University of Delaware in the newly renovated Robins Center. Buffalo Wild Wings will start serving free wings at 5 p.m.
