Comfortable clothes for kids with cancer
Students and faculty in the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising have designed comfortable and colorful hospital gowns for children that soon will be available nationwide.
“Ask for Comfort,” the line of hospital wear for pediatric cancer patients, made its debut Thursday during a fashion show at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.
VCU names director of sustainability
VCU has placed Jacek Ghosh. in the newly created position of director of sustainability to help guide the university’s efforts of climate neutrality.
Ghosh previously was a visiting community scholar in VCU’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
Pick’em Week Five
It appears as if we’ve spoken too soon because after a week on top, Sports Editor Jonathan Howard is back in last after a decent 12-8 record. The reason? Executive Editor Matt Doyon and Alex Dynan both went a blistering 17-3, while Associate Sports Editor Jerome Foster finished 15-5.
Sports briefs
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Sophomore Laura Burns (Hertford, England) and junior Olena Leonchuk (Kiev, Ukraine) posted solid results at the UVA Invitational. Burns and Leonchuk went 2-0 in their singles matches. Burns defeated Tennessee’s Sam Orlin (6-1, 6-3) and Marshall’s Jessica Keener (6-2, 6-0).
Jonathan Says
GOLF
Unlike many other people, I was not surprised to see the United States claim victory over Europe in this past weekend’s Ryder Cup. Sure, America was without Tiger Woods. Sure, much of the team was young and inexperienced in international team play. However, I think it was that youth and inexperience that made the victory possible.
‘Utilities (costs) are through the roof’
As prices at the pumps exceeded $4 a gallon in the Richmond area this summer for regular gasoline, many families decided to take “staycations” and not travel.
According to Senior Associate Athletic Director Jeff Cupps, VCU Athletics took a different approach because of low-cost airlines that have entered the Richmond market.
Weekend calendar
Thursday 9/25
State Fair of Virginia: Beginning an 11-day run, this event will include rodeo shows, tractor pulls, rides, a demolition derby, technology and robotics demonstrations, animal races and musical performances by Phil Vassar, Kellie Pickler and Miranda Lambert.
Young musicians recapture the past
The brainchild of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals), The Last Shadow Puppets is as ambitious as a side project can get. Turner and Kane-, who are in their early 20s, disregard their generation and slip into swanky ’60s symphonic rock for their debut album, “The Age of the Understatement.
SALT’s ‘Black Comedy’ makes light of total darkness
Eye contact is vital to the stage conviction of theater performance majors, “As actors, we’re so used to making eye-contact on stage, knowing where the other person is – being connected. Now they’re facing new directions, looking past each other instead of at each other,” Walid Shaya said.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor,
Around presidential elections, voters bring up a particular argument against non-voters to guilt-trip them into voting.
It goes like this:
1. If you do not vote, then you cannot express your opinion on the political environment and processes of the nation.