Street Style: Back to the grind
B.o.B and Asher Roth welcome students to new school year
Des Letemps contributing writer After their first two days of classes, VCU students were welcomed with a free concert. Students entering the Siegel Center on Saturday night were given a complimentary once over with a metal detector, asked to swipe their ID, and then escorted to their assigned seats to await the controversial musical stylings […]
At Anderson opening, SpongeHQ celebrates art across disciplines
In Assistant Art Professor Hope Ginsburg’s exhibit “SpongeHQ,” one can watch the complete process of making a rug, see a whole table dedicated to biology and watch a film about bees. It’s all in one room, and in fact, it’s all one large art exhibition.
Can’t you listen to me baby: Concert series fosters aural discourse
Tuesday night saw Richmond concertgoers locking their bikes en masse to a guardrail leading to a church basement. However, the night’s biggest departure from Richmond-music-scene protocol was not the location.
Skloot brings ‘Immortal Life’ to Richmond
Nan Turner Staff Writer Imagine you are struggling to pay medical bills and find yourself without health care. Now imagine that your mother or grandmother’s cells were used to make some of the most innovative vaccines and medications in the world — the same medications and vaccines that you will not have access to because […]
Facebook ads go to pot
Gillan Ludlow Staff Reporter The New York Times has long been known as the “paper of record.” When a story graces the pages of the Times, it’s news. It is also no stretch to say that within the past few years, Facebook has become the online medium of record for college students. Likewise, the term “Facebook-official” […]
SOVO Fair draws thousands to Siegel Center
Students awaited the opening of the Student Organization and Volunteer Opportunities Fair at the Stuart C. Siegel Center this Friday with a buzz of anticipation. Before the fair officially opened its doors at 3 p.m., students crowded the entrance clutching goldenrod diagrams of the arena and VCU USCA bags that would later be filled with […]
Football: VCU’s question that won’t quit
It’s the question VCU Athletic Director Norwood Teague just can’t dodge.
Sports: Women’s soccer CAA Report
Preseason CAA Women’s Soccer Player of the Year: Devin Petta, sophomore, forward, Northeastern 2010 Preseason All-CAA Team: Devin Petta, forward, Northeastern Salma Tarik, forward, Hofstra Cate Tisinger, forward, James Madison Courtney Breen, midfielder, Hofstra Omolyn Davis, midfielder, George Mason Teresa Rynier, senior, James Madison Tiffany Yovino, midfielder, Hofstra Myriam Bouchard, defender, VCU Sandra Magnusdottir, defender, […]
Sobering Up at James Madison
My name is James, and I haven’t had a drink since Springfest Robert Showah The first step toward recovery is admitting that you have a problem. That is exactly what James Madison University President Linwood Rose did last week just before the start of the new academic year in the wake of last semester’s Springfest […]