While you were away . . .
While VCU students enjoyed a long post-exam break, VCU sports teams remained in action. Here is a recap of games and news from over the break. MENS BASKETBALL Anthony Grant’s squad improved to 14-3 over the break, winning six-of-seven games, including the last five.
Will Virginians celebrate Dale Earnhardt?
NASCAR fans, mark your calendars: April 29 will become Dale Earnhardt Day in Virginia under a proposed House of Delegates bill. And the bill’s backer, Delegate Danny Marshall, R-Danville, has a memorable connection to the famed racer.
Earnhardt died in a final-lap crash in the 2001 Daytona 500, ending a career that included seven championships, the same as Richard Petty.
Rams continue winning streak
Richmond – Down by five points with just over six minutes to play, junior Wil Fameni (Duoala, Cameroon) hit a lay-up, was fouled and hit the free throw, to spark a 22-8 run and seal VCU’s seventh consecutive conference win.
Jesse Pellot-Rosa (Richmond/George Wythe) led all scorers with 24 points, 12 in each half.
Four square rules
A rekindling of a lost childhood pastime pokes at emotions in students. The playground game four square is making a strong comeback and grows in popularity every week.
Mondays are no longer the most dreaded day of the week for a group of VCU students who dub themselves the International Four Square Alliance.
Denny Blaze finds fans, fame on the Web
In a way, Denny Blaze’s music career was an overnight success almost 20 years in the making. His music video demo “Average Homeboy” has exploded into one of the most popular videos on the Web since being dug out of a closet and posted by an MTV employee. The video, complete with an introduction explaining he was in the studio “smoothing out” his rapping, shows the Ohio-native shooting hoops, making his bed, washing his Chevy compact car and otherwise going about his ’80s middle-class life.
Black light
Only half of each person is visible. Together, two people make one.
No, this isn’t some sort of social commentary, it’s MOMIX dance company performing “Lunar Sea” Jan. 16 and 17 at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Center. The show is a veritable visual feast of exploration into the myriad uses of bodies under black light.
Your Turn Letters to the Editor
For the past four years, Voices for Planned Parenthood (VOX) has been recruiting students from VCU to participate in the Pro-Choice Lobby Day that takes place during the General Assembly. This event is an opportunity for students to come show their legislators that they care about the governing process and how it affects them.
Cartoons in the 1980s ruled.What happened?
I really feel for the younger generation these days. Growing up, I got to watch works of art that included, but certainly are not limited to, Voltron, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G.I. Joe. Today’s kids just don’t have that pre-super-commercialized-but-still-commercialized innocence that children watching today’s TV get.
Group suing VCU over race faces criticism
Controversy surrounds the organization suing VCU for alleged “reverse discrimination” because of reports showing a donation to the group from the Pioneer Fund, which is known for its unorthodox views about genetics and race.
The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) made headlines last September when it agreed to represent a white Monacan High School student who said she unfairly was denied participation in a minority journalism workshop at VCU.
University committee gets to work on diversity plan
The University Equity and Diversity Committee wants to find out whether VCU really is as diverse as it seems.
Over the next several semesters, the committee will take a hard look at diversity among faculty, staff and students as it drafts a diversity plan to incorporate into the larger VCU 2020 Strategic Plan.