VCU men’s soccer scores high in Division 1 preseason poll
The VCU men’s soccer team returned to last season’s form after tying A-league team The Richmond Kickers in an exhibition game that kicked off the fall season.
The Rams are defending their Colonial Athletic Association championship title this season and have earned a 22nd place ranking on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Adidas preseason Division 1 poll.
Women’s soccer warms up for season opener
Georgetown University’s women’s soccer team sneaked two extra goals past the Rams’ netminder to win 4-2 at Thursday night’s exhibition game at the Sports Backers Stadium.The Rams started the game strong with a 1-0 lead in the first period when junior Jen Parsons connected with a feed by senior Genevieve Tremblay.
The Mars Volta breaks concept-album stigma
The Mars Volta is At The Drive-In after reconstructive surgery. Not the barely noticeable nose job kind, it’s the all-out, cut-everything-off-and start-from-the-ground-up approach that Cher got. There are only two members of ATDI present on “De-Loused In the Comatorium,” and things have radically changed since those punk rock-filled days.
While you were out
WWE Smackdown! Kurt Angle promises to get his revenge against Brock Lesnar and asks for not a match, but a fight against Lesnar and Vince McMahon. McMahon responds by saying this business is about what he wants, and adds that if Angle touches Lesnar or McMahon tonight, McMahon will fire Angle.
Virginia rockers…
Alley Katz featured the musical talents of central Virginia’s Supercomp and Copper Sails Friday night, as well as Virginia Beach’s Lucky Town. The show itself was much better than the low crowd turnout and comatose reaction might lead one to believe.
The entertainment started with Supercomp.
George Clinton funks up Richmond
“We’re gonna party like it’s 1979,” George Clinton said at Saturday’s concert on Brown’s Island.
Clinton, who performed with the P-Funk All-Stars, created that atmosphere by turning each song into a 15- to 20-minute jam session while preaching to the audience about various non-sensical topics between songs.
Where Have All the Floors Gone?
We are all familiar with VCU’s infamous construction schemes. We’ve fought them, protested, spoke out against the budget and its strange mechanics. We’ve all said phrases like, “How can they build these monstrocities when we can’t even get into a class?” We complain that we don’t need a new addition to the University Student Commons (what is going to be in that thing anyways?), or we are annoyed that we have to wear a hard hat on the way to class.
A Very Special Thanks
The 11 special correspondents for the first two issues of The Commonwealth Times are a special group of high school seniors who were on campus in late July to participate in a special journalism workshop in the School of Mass Communications. The seniors, specially selected by a team of professional journalists, spent a week in the statewide High School Editors’ Workshop sponsored by the Virginia Press Association, the Virginia High School League and VCU.
Rhoads Hall addition completion set for fall 2005
Rhoads Hall residents soon may be seeing double with VCU’s plans to build another high-rise dormitory adjacent to the Rhoads building at 710 W. Franklin St.
Henry Rhone, vice provost for student affairs and enrollment services, said the new 600-bed addition should be finished in two years.
College life requires work, preparation
Some first-year college students seem unaware of the strict demands they face when beginning their careers in higher education.
Mia Dodson, a junior transfer student and psychology major at VCU, said she initially worried about being “swallowed up” when she came to the university but adjusted to the transition.