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Campus is bumpin' this year

By Gyra Chan | September 30, 2010

Say it's a sunny Friday afternoon, you just finished classes and you're free for the weekend. Say you and your friends decide to go to Short Pump to do some shopping and grab dinner before you go out. Say you're driving down UR Drive, "Like a G6" is blaring on the radio and everyone is doing their individual renditions of a cute car dance. Say you drive past a group of boys, and BAMMMM, you hit a speed bump and look like a total loser. Say this happens about seven times on your way off campus and that the speed bumps consistently salt your game, run the risk of ruining your car and are perhaps one of the most obnoxious obstacles standing in the way of you and Friday afternoon freedom ... just say ... I can't even tell you how many times I've experienced the mellow-harshing reality of consecutive speed bumps on the way out of campus. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for safety, and am a firm follower of the speed limits around campus, but does anyone else agree with me when I say that the University of Richmond went speed bump overboard this year?

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Don't be a spoiled Spider: Resist your "AOE"

By Fiona Carmody | September 30, 2010

I was standing in my friend's UFA kitchen last weekend, talking with him about whatever series of unusual events was taking place in each of our respective lives. My friend was mid-sentence when his face completely disappeared from view; it was replaced by a refrigerator door, which was immediately replaced with a small backwards hat atop a seemingly uncontainable amount of hair. Being that the friend in question was the apartment resident, it took me a few seconds to register exactly what had just happened. Upon realization, I tried not to let my absolute appall get in the way of my speech, and I directly addressed the baseball hat wearer.

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Letter: Response to "Kick students out..."

By admin | September 28, 2010

While I agree with Mr. Anderton that it was disheartening to see so many students leave this past weekend's football game early, I find his personal attacks to be even more disheartening. To characterize the student body as "self-absorbed and over-indulged group of apathetic human beings" is a vast exaggeration, especially when making such a generalization regarding a football game. There are students on campus that work two jobs, that volunteer throughout the city of Richmond and that stay up late in the library to succeed at this academically challenging institution.

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Letter: Kick the students out of Robins Stadium

By admin | September 28, 2010

I thought I was going to get over this, but the more I think about it, the madder I get. I am fortunate enough to have tickets to the Richmond Spiders football games this year, but unfortunately, that also provided me with the opportunity to witness one of the most pathetic examples of student spirit I have ever seen. I'm not sure how many seats there are in the so-called "student section," but by the third quarter of last week's game, it was empty.

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Mission: library tinkletown

By Gyra Chan | September 22, 2010

OK, so this topic is very near and dear to my heart. Every time I think about it, I just can't help getting a bit fired up ... about Boatwright bathrooms.

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Bursting a bubble that never existed anyway

By Fiona Carmody | September 22, 2010

Our campus is absolutely phenomenal in every possible way. The grass is always neatly cut and maintained, flowers droop off of trees and bushes to the end of every perfectly constructed winding path and students are always exquisitely outfitted and flawlessly put-together.

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Health & Fitness: Cardio - Get Physical!

By Tenaj Ferguson | September 22, 2010

CARDIO - GET PHYSICAL! Aerobic exercise or "Cardio," as it's commonly referred to, is when the body engages in physical activity and the heart rate is elevated. Cardio is a core requirement for any workout plan that focuses on good health, weight loss or the achievement of special fitness goals. If you're wondering what the hype is about cardio workouts, you must be educated on this form of exercise. Cardio is important for so many reasons, the top reasons being that it: * Helps to keep the heart strong * Raises metabolism and promotes calorie burn and weight loss * Increases lung capacity (important for endurance) * Reduces stress and releases endorphins to make you feel good! Let's break things down.

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Proclamation revisited

By Elizabeth Hyman | September 22, 2010

On Sunday, wearing my graduation robe along with the rest of the University of Richmond senior women, going through Proclamation Night for the second time, was a bit surreal. Surreal, because three short years ago we were all wearing white sundresses and writing letters starting with "Dear future self..." For me, and I'm sure for many others, it was surreal for a different reason: Because at my first Proclamation Night, my college experience wasn't what I thought it would be. I hadn't swiftly formed life-long bonds, as my best friends from home and the other girls in my dorm seemed to have done.

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Wake up UR: Just say now

By admin | September 22, 2010

In June of 2008, President Emeritus of Middlebury College John McCardell launched the Amethyst Initiative at the Annapolis Group, an organization of 120 liberal arts colleges.

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Letter: Response to SAT score discussion

By admin | September 21, 2010

Dear Collegian, I am writing to clarify and add to the discussion being had between Chris Repas and Vice President for Enrollment Management Nanci Tessier. Anyone who has spent time on campus knows that Richmond has the facilities and rigor to back up the talk of it as a top-tier liberal arts college.

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Myers-Briggs: helping relationships

By Liz Monahan | September 16, 2010

I think it's safe to say that you can't classify a person in just a few words. But I also think it's safe to say that there are definitely "types" of people. For my second and final Wellness class at the University of Richmond (thank God) I am taking a course on relationships.

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Help students help themselves

By admin | September 16, 2010

I didn't sleep well last Thursday. I had one of those "half-asleep" nights in which you wake up and make the mistake of looking at your cell phone for the 10th time.

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Workout, shmirkout: I'm just people-watching

By admin | September 16, 2010

You'd think that working out is working out, plain and simple ‐ whether it be running on the treadmill at home, trying to drop your recently acquired college pounds or fooling yourself into thinking that you can keep them off at the lovely Richmond gym ‐ and you'd think that all workouts are created equal.

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No news is good news?

By Kristy Burkhardt | September 9, 2010

Once upon a time, there was a mystical, magical land where beer grew on trees, boys only wore pants and bowties that looked like the Easter bunny threw up on them and textbooks, cigarettes, microwaveable burritos, alcoholic beverages and other pleasantries could be purchased with special currency that magically refilled itself each semester (or with one desperate call to Mom). This special land was where young idiots from New Jersey (like myself) would go to endure rigorous training to become successful accountants, surgeons, journalists and other boring professions that we swore in third grade we would never succumb to.

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Letter: Learn to Laugh

By admin | September 9, 2010

Dear Natasha, I appreciate your need to "speak out" against Kristy Burkhardt's Collegian article ("The Dos and Don'ts of Freshman Year"). I also appreciate the fact that you had the courage to publicize what many of your classmates were undoubtedly thinking, however wrong you all were. Nonetheless, I feel it necessary to address your harsh words because frankly, I find them unfounded and disrespectful, not only as a senior, but also as a Richmond student. I am not writing to "rip" on you personally, as you so rudely did to Kristy.

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Health and Fitness

By Tenaj Ferguson | September 9, 2010

Instructor: Any fitness professional available to you. Course meetings: Consistently and persistently. For a truly customized workout regimen, create your own major!

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