Weird News
Chinese resort to diapers for long
train trips
Adult diaper sales have increased dramatically in China as millions of people prepared for extensive train trips to be with their families on New Year’s.
Finding a vacant bathroom is often impossible during train rides that take as long as 30 hours on overcrowded trains.
Randy – ‘Randy the Band’
With the first song, “Punk Rock High,” including such lyrics as, “I got an electric guitar to compensate my small [expletive],” and “I wore baggy clothes I was overweight/ Now I’m a blue fox punk because I watched what I ate/ Now I wear bondage pants just because I can/ That’s the way that I am,” I thought I was in for a satire of punk rock.
The Sharking – ‘Sharking’
Even though The Sharking is a new band to the college radio scene, the members of the band are well known by many. Featuring members of Big D and the Kids Table, Kicked In The Head, Drexel, Slater and The Sterns, the members of The Sharking are very experienced in what they do and it shows in the album.
Tucker Max brings his ‘smut peddling’ to Chop Suey Books
Best-selling author Tucker Max will be conducting a book signing at Chop Suey Books this Thursday in promotion of his new book “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.”
“If you had told me like four years ago that I was going to be a New York Times Best-seller, I would have said, ‘Get the (expletive) out! What am I going to write about?'” Max explained in an interview.
VCU Idol finds students battling each other for top honors
Twenty-three acts showcased their talents in rapping, singing, and dancing at the Student Networking Association sponsored VCU Idol in the Student Commons on Friday.
A runway penetrated the audience to nearly the middle of the room. On each side of the long, slender stage were about 10 rows of seats facing in toward the middle, while about 20 rows looked in from the back half of the room.
Local News Briefs
Economics student dies
Peter William Hufschmidt, an economics major, died Tuesday, Jan. 24. He was 22.
Hufschmidt enjoyed outdoor activities such as bicycling and camping. He attended Midlothian High School and was an alternate on the regional-winning VCU School of Business Fed Challenge Team.
Lip Service
WHO’s WHO @VCU: Meet Brian Ohlinger
“I essentially retired on a Friday and went to work here on a Monday, and about the only difference was I didn’t wear a uniform, and the building numbers had changed,” retired Army Col. Brian Ohlinger said of his transition to VCU from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers career spanning three decades.
Honors College to benefit students academically, socially
By establishing an Honors College, VCU administrators plan to offer more opportunities for honors students than at any other time in VCU’s history.
The proposed Honors College, however, not only will tend to the needs of honors students but also help other students, especially those in the lower division.
VOX@VCU to lobby at Capitol
Hundreds of college students will have the chance to defend their civil rights in front of the General Assembly on Thursday, and VCU students could be among them, said Sara Duke, president of VCU’s Voices for Planned Parenthood, or VOX@VCU.
The organization, which calls itself the “pro-choice” voice on campus, has lobbied at the Capitol to protect civil rights for the last two years, Duke said.