LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor, Despite the university’s attempts at safety and security through the installation of card readers and sirens, I still find academic buildings unsafe. I routinely have class in the academic side of West Grace, and I find the amount of safety and security in the building lacking.
English 200: a waste of university resources
If it’s so important to know how to write a research paper, why is it that I’ve never read one? I read plenty of essays, narratives and poems, but I never read research papers. It seems that nobody ever reads research papers, although nearly everyone has written one.
Mountaintop removal destroying Virginia and Appalachian mountains, speaker says
Returning home on a dark evening, you walk into the kitchen and flick on the light. Chances are, you’re not thinking about dusty black coal as the room fills with light, but environmental advocate Dave Cooper, who spoke Thursday at the University Student Commons, said you should.
New Web site aims to help adjuncts
When an adjunct instructor created a Web site specifically designed to help adjuncts, she intended to provide other adjuncts with teaching tips and links to VCU services. But Meriah Crawford, an adjunct instructor of English, said she also hoped to help fellow adjuncts save time.
Reduced benefits might keep veterans away from VCU
Wars might mostly be fought on the battlefield, but many student veterans find themselves battling for better benefits at VCU. James Chambliss, Student Veteran Association adviser and veteran affairs coordinator, said an important issue affecting student veterans is military educational entitlements, or federal money used to pay for education.
Legal drinking age: 21 or 18?
About 75 students gathered Thursday in the University Student Commons to hear John M. McCardell Jr., president emeritus of Middlebury College, discuss U.S. alcohol regulations, which he said are “bad social policy and terrible law(s).
Briefs
News from around the world, the nation, and in Virginia.
*A record is a record .
Have you ever sat down at a computer in a library, and the keyboard is missing a key? It could be the “I,” maybe the “C,” but it always seems to be one that you need most. Well, the same keyboard culprits that turn your last-minute paper into the latest case of Murphy’s Law need to strike the offices of sports record writers – and fast.
SPORTS BRIEFS
MEN’S BASKETBALL The Rams closed out their exhibition schedule on Monday night with an 86-57 victory over Virginia Union in the Ukrop’s City Challenge. Jamal Shuler (Jacksonville, N.C./Jacksonville) scored 22 points to lead all scorers, while Eric Maynor (Raeford, N.
Pick’ m Football Week 10
Each week, the CT sports editors, Alex Dynan and a coin will pick the outcomes of this week’s college and NFL action. If you wish to participate, bring your picks to the Student Media Center (817 W. Broad) and leave them in the sports box by Friday at 5 p.