A swimming future for a prehistoric fish
On a Friday afternoon, Matthew Balazik waited patiently to catch something in his fishing net. After two hours, Balazik slowly pulled in the net, thinking he had caught a log. To his surprise, it was a 300-pound female sturgeon ready to spawn in the James River.
Green report card issued
An annual national survey rating campuses for green initiatives,-released Oct. 7,-changed VCU’s green report card to a B, a grade higher than last year.
Pick ’em: week seven
Pick ’em: week seven.
a T.O. with T.H.
It is October. The leaves are turning all sorts of colors, the weather is getting colder (to some degree . no pun intended) and football is king of the sports world as usual.
Field Hockey drops double overtime heartbreaker
Coming off out-of-conference victories over Davidson and Appalachian State, the VCU field hockey team had one more non-CAA match before heading back into conference play this weekend.
VCU notches much-needed first conference win
With an eight-game winless streak and a winless conference season slowing them down, the VCU men’s soccer team came into Wednesday night’s match with Georgia State looking for an ever-needed victory.
Starr Foster provides fun , emotion
The small crowd at the Grace Street Theater on Oct. 8 saw enormously fun, innovative and beautiful tales during opening night of “Possessions” by the Starr Foster Dance Project.
Weekend calendar
Weekend calender.
Would you try out for ‘The Real World’?
MTV’s “The Real World” tryouts will be held in Richmond Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Capital Ale House downtown. We asked VCU students if they would want to be cast members on the reality TV show.
‘Where the Wild Things Are’ taps imagination, emotions
At times depressing and uplifting, but always visually captivating, “Where the Wild Things Are” is a strange and wonderful oxymoron. It is a movie about a kid, yet it refuses to bow to the normal conventions of a kid’s movie. There are no pop-culture references or tired flatulence jokes, no colorful animation or a quest for a magical pendant.