Beck gets better with ‘Guero’
Beck’s eighth record release, “Guero” on Interscope Records, is a testament to his ability to go above and beyond the confines of pop-rock and break ground with songs of unique styles. In his usual manner Beck has successfully taken popular music apart and rebuilt it from the ground up, using Latin, Afro-Cuban, electro-pop and hip-hop styles.
TV-Turnoff Week’s challenge: Go seven days without the tube
NEW YORK (AP) – Television is accused of many things, from corrupting our morals and co-opting our republic to undermining our families and making pudges of our children. For all sorts of reasons, TV routinely gets kicked around plenty. And now’s a great time to kick it altogether – at least for a week.
Road Tripping the right way
As the semester comes to an end and the weather heats up, the season for road trips begins. For people with limited funds and other starving-college-student obstacles, road trips may seem impossible. But, for students with a little hope and a lot of patience, a road trip could be one of their best times ever.
VCU students and faculty discuss African-American Studies degree
Donna R. Brodd, vice provost for academic affairs, remembers when the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia approved the African-American Studies degree program.
“I worked at SCHEV in 1997 when the council said no to a degree in the African-American studies program,” Brodd said.
Arizona State professor speaks at Visiting Writers Series
“If you stop writing, I’ll die.”
Author Ron Carlson, a professor of English at Arizona State University, said writers love to hear this phrase but never do.
Carlson, the most recent author to speak at VCU as part of the Department of English’s Visiting Writers Series, read from his works to a crowd of more than 40 people at the 1708 Gallery, a nonprofit art space on West Broad Street.
Lecture helps students deal with change
“The only thing constant is change,” said Christine McGill, University of Virginia assistant dean of students, while speaking to about 15 students at a recent Academic Success program coordinated by the Office of Leadership and Greek Life.
McGill emphasized methods students could use to deal with changes in their lives and in their leadership roles.
VCU Spring Challenge lets students have grade school fun
Remember when you were a little kid playing tug-of-war, running in relays and throwing water balloons?
With VCU’s Second Spring Challenge arriving Saturday, April 23, at Cary Street Field on the Monroe Park Campus, you can let that inner child come out to play and maybe win a prize or two.
SGA members want students to get involved in upcoming plans
With their inductions into office next Monday, Eddie O’Leary, Mark Brewster and Katherine Capocelli are working on their plans for next year as SGA president, vice president and executive director of university relations.
O’Leary said he hopes to continue the programs he’s already working on while helping to solve such problems as parking issues that directly affect students.
VCU aids in environmental restoration
Help save the earth on April 22!
With the 35th anniversary of Earth Day around the corner, the VCU community will gather Friday in the Student Commons Plaza to learn more about saving the environment.
“I think there is a lack of knowledge among the student population in terms of the environment and what they can do to help,” said Emily Swinson, a VCU student coordinator for environmental conservation.
Parrish secures homeland through education
When Virginia Commonwealth University late last fall added William Parrish to the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government faculty, some faculty and administrators already were preparing for Parish’s arrival to help create an undergraduate degree in homeland security and emergency prepareness.