Crime Log
Oct. 3
Female arrested for disorderly conduct on Harrison and West Broad streets.
Male arrested for driving under the influence, refusal to obey orders, obstruction of justice and carrying a concealed weapon on the 1000 block of West Broad Street.
Oct.
Scott and Sears battle over searing differences in 3rd District
RICHMOND – U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott is a Democrat who has voted against banning gay marriage, against U.S. involvement in the Iraq war and against President Bush’s tax cuts. And he’d gladly do it again.
In the conservative, evangelical world of Winsome Sears, that’s your dream opponent: the kind of guy Republicans go all out to defeat.
Online with no line; VCU’s WiFi network
Hackers? Wireless cards? VPN?
The VCU wireless network is complicated for people to understand, but it’s used all the time. How else could students get online and frantically finish work on campus? Technology is spreading around the globe, and around VCU with the wireless network.
Religious Studies extends beyond classroom
What is one of Richmond’s best-kept secrets? Cliff Edwards, associate professor of religious studies identified religious diversity as one because many people seem unaware of the city’s religious diversity.
But Virginia Commonwealth University’s Religious Studies Program intends to change that, he said, by challenging students to see today’s world from a different perspective – first by understanding its religions – all right here in Richmond.
Calendar
Monday, Oct. 18
The University Career Center wants to help students with their interviewing skills today with an hour-long workshop in Richmond Salon I of the University Student Commons. The workshop runs from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Call Mary Jane Breidenstein at 827-0411 for more information.
Odds & Ends
Rage against the machine; Poll dance; New Pope-mobile; Laughter — the best medicine; He’s no Leatherface; Tub toy trouble; From mice to millions
Editorial Cartoon
A call to arms for Darfur
The world is so full of warfare and turmoil that it is easy to grow indifferent and often ignorant to the atrocities occurring throughout the world. So it is not surprising that many people I have encountered are rather unfamiliar with the sad turn of events in Darfur, Sudan.
Rams win on Senior Day, move to top of CAA
For a while on Friday night Dominic Oduro just laid on the field at Sports Backers Stadium in kind of a one-man huddle.
He had just taken his fifth shot of the game. Had it gone in, it would have put an end to a 90-minute scoreless stalemate with a Hofstra team just a game away from the bottom of the Colonial Athletic Association standings.
Investigators hunt for cause of deadly bus crash
MARION, Ark. – Investigators on Sunday combed through a patch of grass near an interstate highway, searching for clues to why a tour bus drifted off the pavement and overturned, killing 14 people.
Fifteen passengers remained hospitalized in Little Rock and Memphis, Tenn.