Your Turn: Letters to the Editor
Livestrong response, ‘I’m Convinced’
Opinion in Brief
Shockoe Redevelopment
It’s been said before, and it deserves saying again – the proposed relocation of the Richmond Braves from the Diamond to a new stadium in Shockoe Bottom is good for Richmond and good for VCU.
The vacated Diamond will become a major sportsplex and new home for VCU athletics, becoming a “third campus” in addition to MCV and Monroe Park to allow our sports programs to grow.
DNA testing could free innocent
Many Americans like to believe the nice little fantasy that we live in a perfect world where only criminals who break the law are arrested, convicted and jailed. However, the reality is innocent people go to jail every day while evidence potentially proving their innocence sits collecting dust.
The breakfast Whopper: fast food feeds Americans’ appetite for larger sandwiches
I thought I had left enormous breakfasts behind when I fled the Emerald Isle after last spring semester abroad. Those Irish sure had a penchant for piling on the early morning intake of cholesterol with their patented Northern Irish “Ulster Fry” breakfast, featuring fried eggs, fried bacon, fried sausage, fried bread and even fried tomatoes.
Calculator Bill Response
The calculator bill was stuck down?? NO WAY. The Commonwealth Times recently reported on the SGA Senate Bill, which would have reccomended that Ti-89 calculators be allowed in all classrooms. What the article failed to highlight is that the bill was not stuck down but purposefully dropped, and that by doing so the student body […]
Upcoming Sports Events
Baseball
April 15: at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 7 p.m.
April 16: at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 7 p.m.
April 17: at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 2 p.m.
Men’s Tennis
Apr. 16: Virginia Tech, Thalhimer Tennis Center, 11 p.m.
April 17: South Florida, Thalhimer Tennis Center, 11 p.
Rams’ late-season success starts at the pitchers’ mound
VCU baseball head coach Paul Keyes joked that last Tuesday’s game against Virginia Tech was a good one for the kids on hand at Petersburg Sports Complex.
The punchline, of course, it was past most of those kids’ bed times by the end of the first two innings, which took about 45 minutes to get through.
Lost City Angels’ debut a boost
“Broken World,” the Lost City Angels’ debut album on Stay Gold Records, is nothing short of satisfying. With powerful lyrics, melodic guitar lines and a sound that reminds you of what punk bands used to sound like, they have no problem taking the edge off of an emotional day or giving you an extra boost of adrenaline.
Foreign flicks: International Student Film Festival gives young foreign filmmakers big break
While working on a documentary about the hugely successful VCU French Film Festival, Scott Mills, instructor in the Department of Photography and Film, conceived the idea of bringing films shot by students around the world to the VCU’s diverse audience. Thus, the International Student Film Festival was born.
Interview with Coheed & Cambria’s Joshua Eppard
Coheed & Cambria have been all over the TV the past year. Going from a small following on an underground label (Equal Vision) to playing the Warped Tour and selling out the Roseland Ballroom as well as several other dates on their first headlining tour. Not to mention the video for their song “A Favor House Atlantic” played on MTV while their second record went gold.