VA Indie Film Festival: Independent filmmakers take the big screen
The 2011 Virginia Indie Film Festival began Saturday with its documentary segment, showing “Beardo the Movie,” a film that chronicles the story of the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships and those that participate.
Baseball continues rough start to season, losing series to Monmouth
Staff Reports Two weeks into last season, VCU’s baseball team had compiled a solid starting record of 4-3 and were easing into their roles as the unheralded underdogs that would eventually win the CAA Championship after being picked to finish seventh in an 11-team conference. This year, they’ve earned a good deal more admiration and […]
The implications of implosion: where men’s basketball goes from here
Quinn Casteel Staff Writer If consecutive home losses to their two biggest rivals put VCU’s season in a tailspin, then the most recent defeats to Drexel and James Madison have turned it into an outright free-fall. With Saturday’s 72-69 loss to JMU, the Rams have now dropped three straight home games, a first for Shaka […]
State budget restores $17 million for VCU
Erica Terrini Executive Editor The $17 million in funding that Gov. Bob McDonnell attempted to withhold from Virginia Commonwealth University was restored by the General Assembly when it approved amendments to the state budget Sunday. The reallocation of funding was included in the amendments to the 2011-2012 state budget under House Bill 1500. The bill […]
Women’s basketball bounces back to defeat William & Mary on Senior Day
Staff Reports For the first time in seven games, VCU women’s basketball junior guard Courtney Hurt walked off the basketball court having not recorded a double-double. That didn’t stop her and her teammates from giving seniors Jessica Taylor and Ebony Patterson a perfect sendoff on Senior Day Sunday afternoon by defeating William & Mary 62-56 […]