Presidential Search Committee discusses funding, construction
Turnout was sparse, but passionate comment was not lacking at the Presidential Search Committee’s third town hall meeting Nov. 20.
Students, faculty and alumni voiced complaint about the lack of funding for their programs and the desire to have a president who will strengthen the School of Humanities and Sciences and other less developed branches of the university.
Pakistanis rally against suspected US strike
Pakistanis on Sunday protested a suspected American missile strike. According to intelligence officials, the strike killed a British citizen linked to a plot to blow up jetliners. Protestors are calling for their Western-allied government to stop the cross-border attacks.
Bush wraps up final global summit with confidence
President George W. Bush enlisted another bloc of world leaders Sunday in his effort to revive the world economy while still moving to expand free trade.
Wrapping up his final summit with foreign heads of government, Bush and the 20 other Pacific Rim leaders in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum confidently predicted that within 18 months they can overcome the financial crisis that threatens to plunge the world into recession.
Father appalled by virtual audience to son’s death
Police found Abraham Biggs Jr. dead in his father’s bed Wednesday, 12 hours after he first declared on the Web site for bodybuilders that he planned to take his own life. He took a fatal drug overdose in front of an Internet audience. Although some viewers contacted the Web site to notify police, authorities did not reach his house in time.
VCU Medical Center One of Top 100 Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center has been identified as one of the top 100 U.S. hospitals that set the nation’s benchmarks for cardiovascular care, according to a Thomson Reuters study. It is one of only two Virginia hospitals named in the study.
VCU tightens policy to ease degree revocations
VCU’s board of visitors Thursday tightened its academic policies to make it easier to revoke degrees, such as the one wrongly granted to former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe.
The board changed the rules at its regularly scheduled meeting without mentioning Monroe, who was awarded a bachelor’s degree from VCU in interdisciplinary studies in 2007 despite not having earned enough credits at VCU.
Va. Tech families to meet with Kaine
For the second straight day, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is expected to meet with families of those killed or injured during the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech.
Kaine met with families in Chantilly on Saturday. On Sunday, he met with them at the state capitol.
Pick’em Week 12
College football season soon will b e coming to an end-and sadly, so will this year’s version of the football pick’em. Associate Sports Editor Jerome Foster and Alex Dynan are still tied for first after both went 11-9. With Executive Editor Matt Doyon and Sports Editor Jonathan Howard seemingly out of the picture; which one will step up and take the lead for good? Let’s find out .
THIS WEEK’S GAMES
COLLEGE
Miami at Georgia Tech
Stanford at California
Boston College at Wake Forest
Michigan State at Penn State
BYU at Utah
Oregon State at Arizona
Iowa at Minnesota
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
Florida State at Maryland
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
NFL
Houston at Cleveland
N.
Briefs
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
The Rams signed four recruits during the early signing period. Daphne Adebayo, Robyn Hobson, Bree’Ana Perry and Mariah Stewart will be joining the team next season. Adebayo, a 6-2 forward from Duluth, Ga., averaged 12 points and six rebounds per game last season.
Jonathan Says
AROUND CAMPUS
When I first heard the plan to move the student sections away from the sidelines and mainly under the baskets at the Siegel Center, I had mixed emotions. On one hand (the journalist hand), I would be able to watch basketball games and take notes without hearing the constant jabbing at the referees.