Making history

There are only a handful of games that a fan base will remember forever. For VCU’s “Ram-nation,” Saturday night’s game was one of them…

Bear in Heaven: southern sounds in northern lands

Greetings from the old country, folks. Have you noticed a soft retreat of that great American pastime we used to call southern rock? The steady flow of yester-year’s chatter and the twang of the howling moon is now plugged into the terrible web known as modern music.

Rock’s legends create crooked vultures

Like the late Velvet Revolver and more recent Monsters of Folk, Them Crooked Vultures has emerged as the newest contender in the ring of rock super-groups.

David Grohl, former drummer of Nirvana and Queens of the Stone Age and current front man for The Foo Fighters has joined forces with fellow Queens of the Stone Age band-mate Joshua Homme, and legendary bassist John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin.

Esmel Meeks treads ahead of a lack-luster generation

Esmel Meeks, VCU student, active member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and “Gen Y’er,” works at VCU’s department of social and behavioral health from nine to five throughout the week. On weekends he deejays under his alias Dj-Rockit. But, most impressively, he is the CEO of a growing Richmond-based clothing label Ancient Thread Empire, commonly known as ATE.

It’s about time California students protest tuition hikes

For far too long students of this generation have been breaking under the strain of a bloated state education system. Every year the national average cost of tuition is raised double or triple the interest rate.

It has become a tool used to make decisions that hardly benefit university students.

Library expectations unmet, rules unenforced

Students are heading to James Branch Cabell Library as deadlines for tests, projects and papers are approaching. Complaints are being heard, however, as students’ expectations are not being met.