Dorm floors become ‘villages’
As new students in a new location, many freshmen wonder how they will meet peers who share their interests, outlooks and hobbies.
To make the search easier for them, this semester the Department of Residential Life and Housing and the University College have implemented the VCU Residential Village Program in Rhoads and Johnson halls.
VCU welcomes the Class of 2010
Take a deep breaths and relax. VCU’s Move-In 2006 has come to a complete stop. Well, at least deflated to a dull roar.
Over the weekend 3,550 freshmen with their families flooded the streets moving into on-campus housing facilities.
How did VCU pull it off so much smoother than previous years? And with so much style?
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Textbook Controversy
Students looking for former adjunct professor of biology Jim Sparks will not find him this year on campus.
After lodging complaints this summer to the VCU Department of Biology and university administration regarding the new Biology 101 textbook, Sylvia S.
In the News
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A previously unknown Palestinian group released the first video Wednesday of two kidnapped Fox News journalists and demanded that Muslim prisoners in U.S. jails be released within 72 hours in exchange for the men. In the video, correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig appeared to be in good health.
Editorial Cartoon
Welcome to VCU
Hi, and welcome to the 2006-2007 school year at VCU. I’d like to give a very special welcome to our new freshmen, all 3,550 of you! This is a very exciting time for VCU’s freshmen. Incoming VCU students now all share a common student life experience through our new University College.
The failure of the death penalty
Ricky Javon Gray was given two death sentences yesterday as well as three counts of life without parole. To those that don’t recognize the name, Gray is the New Year’s Day killer of the Harvey family, a crime that sent shock waves through the entire Richmond community.
Supporting off-campus students
As we enter the new semester, much of VCU’s student body returns not living in a dorm but in apartments leased by scores of companies and private individuals throughout the city. Most students have already signed leases by this time. However, many landlords and the properties they rent out might not be all they seem to be, and those students might have little knowledge on how to fight back when an agreement turns sour.
Your Turn: Letters to the Editor
I have recently become aware that some astronomers are considering demoting the planet Pluto to a designation of mere asteroid, and I am wondering if these individuals are aware of the potential consequences of such a step. Were this change approved and implemented, it would mean the destruction of a long-standing scholastic tradition, as well as the undermining of the most basic element in the learning of interplanetary astronomy all over the English-speaking world.
Opinion in Brief
‘Macaca’
U.S. Senate incumbent George Felix Allen, R-Va., must be asking himself how he could ever have uttered such a word. The word, “Macaca,” was addressed to a 20-year-old senior attending the University of Virginia, born in Virginia but of Indian descent.