Upcoming Events
Men’s Soccer
Sat. Sept. 2
vs. UNC-Greensboro,
7 p.m.
Michigan Tournament
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Fri. Sept. 8
at Michigan State, 5 p.m.
Sun. Sept. 10
at Michigan, 2:30 p.m.
Women’s Soccer
Sun. Sept. 3
at Richmond, 7 p.m.
VCU/Ewing Sports
Invitational
Sports Backers Stadium
Fri.
Sports in Brief
Volleyball
Molten Classic
The VCU volleyball team will be in Provo, Utah, this weekend to participate in the Molten Classic. Opponents include Stanford, ranked number four in the CSTV/AVCA Division I Preseason Top-25 Coaches Poll. Then, they’ll play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Friday, and will stay in Provo through Saturday night to play Stanford and BYU.
Movin’ on up
The VCU men’s rugby team moved up to Division II this year and is moving on to new and tougher challenges.
The rugby team at VCU started up in the 1970s, and sustained for 20 years, but went defunct in 1995. In 2001, VCU rugby alumni restarted the club at Division III, and in five years it reached Division II.
Expression over oppression
Amendment is now available from the Student Media Center. Featuring art and pieces of writing from different groups of the student body, it vivifies the stark problems of gender, race, sexuality and other issues every student cares about and every human being is affected by.
There she is. VCU graduate shares experience vying for Miss Virginia
This summer, 20 women from cities in Virginia stepped up to the microphone in Roanoke. Their stiletto heels and sequined dresses reflected the light of spotlights and camera flashes as the contestants posed, smiled and talked their way through the competition for the crown and the title of Miss Virginia.
Eisner Awards find home in VCU’s Special Collections and Archives
As the new school year opens, VCU’s James Branch Cabell Library reopens its Comic Art Collection in the Special Collections and Archives. However, it will soon hold quite a few more special items. The Will Eisner Comic Industry, having celebrated their 17th award just this past July, is in the process of submitting their archives to the library for inclusion.
Your Turn Letters to the Editor
‘Not rehired’ response I hate to say it, but in this case Jim Sparks just may be right (“Not rehired,” Aug. 28, p. 22). The problem is that this stigma not only exists at VCU, but in every major college or university in the South as well. While you may have the right to freedom of religion, you certainly don’t have the right to freedom without religion.
Why Gray deserves to die
Ricky Jovan Gray was convicted last week of murdering the Harvey family on New Year’s Day 2006.
I work at the Doubletree Hotel at Richmond International Airport, where earlier that day was the final performance of Bryan Harvey with his band, nRg Krisis, for the New Year’s Eve bash there.
In Brief
Cooler heads
In all the hubbub over the reference to a creationist think tank that has since been removed from VCU’s biology textbooks, no one seemed to notice the original context of the reference, which emphasized that evolution is a theory “based on data,” not unlike those relating to cells and atoms.
Through the lens
The first day of class for crafts students involved the smack of clay hitting the wooden worktables and making a musical vibration thoughout the second floor of the art building. Molding wet soil into wedges is the average start to any project in a clay studio.