Women’s Basketball: Rams win second straight nail-biter
In a game that saw each team take massive leads only to give them up, the Rams came out as victors 60-59 against the St. Joseph Hawks in the Sturat C. Siegel Center Sunday.
Forward Krystal Vaughn (Baltimore, Md./Lake Clifton-Eastern) knocked down the game winning shot from just above the free throw line with 8 tenths of a second left in regulation.
Weird News
China admits to using executed prisoners’ organs in transplants
On Thursday, Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu spoke at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou in Beijing, China, and admitted that many of country’s human organs used in transplants are those of executed prisoners.
Remember, remember, the.wait, what?
Earlier this year, audiences were thrilled as Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s graphic novel “V for Vendetta” was adapted to the screen by the Matrix trilogy’s creators, the Wachowskis. This “uncompromising vision of the future” largely built itself on the paranoia that the wars present in the world today would yield to a veritable fascist regime that would affect the entire world.
Around the corner: the best corner restaurants downtown
Beauregard’s Thai Room
103 E. Cary St.
(804)644-2328
Keep an eye out for this hidden gem located on Cary St. which features both an upstairs dining room and an absolutely charming outside patio that is perfect for a romantic date pond-side. The menu features all of the traditional dishes that can be found at other Thai restaurants but really shines when it comes to their satay plate and spicy pad thai.
Four years in the making
The robots are coming! At least that’s what the music told the audience, as six disheveled dancers with heavy eyeliner shuffled around the stage in a post-apocalyptic haze.
This was Courtney Cooke’s senior choreography project. Cooke along with Jamie Reynolds, Victoria Metz and Laura Stepp showed their work at the Grace Street Theater this weekend for the fall senior project dance concert.
From the president
Wouldn’t it be great to check your e-mail and class updates directly from your cell phone? If you answered “yes” to that question, you are in luck: we are currently in the process of making that happen. On Nov. 8, I met with VCU Technology Services to hear a presentation from RAVE Wireless: a company that provides software for use with cell phones.
Your Turn Letters to the Editor
The closing statements of a recent letter by women’s rights activist Sara Duke say that the question of abortion should stop being politicized and remain within the confines of discussion between a woman and her physician. This is an interesting and hypocritical statement on the part of Ms.
Baby, all I want for Thanksgiving is you
There is no time of the year that I enjoy more than Thanksgiving. What’s not to love? You’ve got enough food to feed a third-world country, plus more friends and family members than you could probably stand at any given point in time, and no school, not to mention the parades and the anticipation of sales.
In defense of smoking
With the recent election cycle and the recent passing of various smoking bans in several states, it appears that the anti-smoking movement is growing. To me, it’s great that people don’t want to smoke, and are becoming more aware of the health effects and diseases associated with tobacco products.
Opinion in Brief
Thanksgiving is upon us, and with that comes the hectic travel that will clog the roads throughout the week as everyone who has a car scrambles home for the holiday. Relax, and take it easy on the roads at this time of year. Eventually you’ll make it to where you need to go, and road rage will only add to the stress of the long travel many students will face.