Upcoming Sports Events
Baseball
March 29: at Radford, Radford, Va., at 3 p.m.
April 1: at James Madison, Harrisonburg, Va., 2:30 p.m.
April 2: at James Madison, Harrisonburg, Va., 1 p.m.
April 3: at James Madison, Harrisonburg, Va., 1 p.m.
Men’s Tennis
March 31: North Carolina, Thalhimer Tennis Center, 2 p.
Frykberg breaks second record in as many weeks
If anything, last weekend’s Fred Hardy Invitational gave VCU’s track and field teams a chance to see a few things.
There was the new face keeping up an old habit.
Senior Brett Frykberg, in his first year with the Rams after being a standout at Tennessee, removed another VCU record from the books.
What’s the Buzz?
The buzz is the rapper Nelly lost his sister Thursday after a two-year battle with leukemia. After his sister’s relapse in 2003, Nelly launched a campaign to find a bone marrow donor match for her and other leukemia patients.
During promotion for his latest movie, “Guess Who,” Ashton Kutcher commented that racism still exists in America and he has witnessed it first hand.
Mac and Kutcher pack weekend theaters with $21 million ‘Guess Who’ debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Two guesses on who topped the weekend box office. The Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher comedy “Guess Who,” an update to the 1967 classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” debuted at No. 1 with $21 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
VCU French Film Festival to bring language, culture to Byrd
The time has come for VCU to host its annual French Film Festival. In the past years VCU and The Byrd Theatre have welcomed hundreds of feature and short French films, most of which make their United States debut at the festival.
Now in its 13th year, the film festival has been accredited by the Cannes Film Festival as well as other festivals.
Women’s history month still unfamiliar to students
Few may know that National Women’s History Month is celebrated in March. A number of students around campus were clueless to the celebration, and the few that did know about it credited the VCU activities calendar.
“I didn’t know there was one,” said Chris Riccobono, a freshman mechanical engineer major, referring to the celebration.
Arts professor explores sound in new exhibit
In 1999, before terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center towers, Stephen Vitiello, assistant professor of kinetic imaging in the School of the Arts, held residency in a studio on the 91st floor of tower one. For six months the native New Yorker recorded sounds of the building moving.
Will VCU add a homeland security major to its degree choices?
Shortly before the Christmas holidays, the VCU community and others read about a homeland security degree on the school’s Web site.
So what is the status of that degree now?
Robert Holsworth, interim dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, said VCU has one more step to take in the process of gaining approval for the homeland security major.
MCV-SGA president seeks to unify different majors
For nearly a year, Gaurav Agarwal, a senior dentistry student, has led the Student Government Association on the VCU Medical Center Campus.
“I like to be involved and serve the student body – the best way to do so was in a leadership role,” said Agarwal, the former MCV-SGA treasurer and now president, explaining his reason for seeking the presidential position.
Visiting faculty member gives painting and printmaking pointers
Much like the Department of Painting and Printmaking, Virgil Marti’s work incorporates a variety of artistic techniques and media. Just as the department fosters artists’ experimentation with everything from the staid paint-and-canvas to computer imaging, Marti’s work studies integrative innovation.