An opportunity to overcome youth apathy
Robert Showah Opinion Editor Over the past 10 months, I – along with a talented staff of columnists – have had the opportunity to not only share our points of view with the VCU and Richmond community each Monday and Thursday, but to also do what we can to start and continue a conversation, to […]
Baseball collects confidence in win over first-place Delaware
For the past few weeks, the VCU baseball team searched for a spark plug heading down the final stretch of the regular season.
CAA Report
Standings 1. Delaware (15-9) 2. Old Dominion (13-8) 3. James Madison (14-9) 4. Georgia State (12-8) 5. UNC Wilmington (12-8) 6. William & Mary (12-11) 7. Towson (10-10) 8. VCU (9-12) 9. Northeastern (8-12) 10. Hofstra (9-14) 11. George Mason (5-18) Player of the week Thomas Pope, Jr., OF/DH, UNC Wilmington Pitcher of the week […]
Sports Briefs
Men’s soccer In Dave Giffard’s first season as head coach of VCU’s men’s soccer program, he turned a team that had consecutive losing seasons in a row into a team that, seemingly out of nowhere, was back to being a contender. The Rams utilized a 10-match unbeaten run to finish second in the conference behind […]
Guest speaker discusses ‘new wave of journalism’
Ivory said that he intends to see his students into the new wave of journalism, encouraging and advising with his wealth of real-world experience.
Despite federal ruling, May Day marches on
Fletcher Babb News Editor More than 300 people gathered in Monroe Park on Sunday to commemorate International Worker’s Day, often known as May Day. Waving banners, handing out flyers and holding signs, participants called for workers’ rights and immigration reform. Adria Scharf, executive director of the Richmond Peace Education Center, noted that the celebration this […]
Briefs
Local and VCU OT costs for Rams top $62,000 Police from three agencies logged more than 1,600 overtime hours – at a cost of more than $62,000 – while providing security in Richmond for large crowds that assembled after VCU’s last two games in the NCAA tournament. Large crowds assembled in the streets of Richmond […]
Lite all Nite program fuels all-nighters, helps working students
Kate Lewanowicz Staff Writer Whether visiting to check out a book or pulling an all-nighter, VCU’s Cabell Library has its doors open to students 24 hours a day from Sunday morning to Friday night until May 13 during its Library Lite All Nite program. “In the past week I’ve pulled an all-nighter twice,” said Elise Dransfield, a […]
Confessions of a college coffee monger: Cabell baristas tell all
Saturday afternoon was a rare quiet moment – an eye in the storm – for the strongly constituted employees manning stations at the Cabell Library Starbucks. Three of them kindly gave their off-time to CT reporters to describe – from their side of the counter – the perhaps under-appreciated duty of doling caffeine to the destitute, and occasionally violent, finals-week masses.
Horoscopes for May, 2011
Guaranteed 100 percent accurate AQUARIUS – Jan. 20 – Feb. 18 You always complain that “the man” is holding you down and suppressing your cries, but you never mention the intense sexual rush you get from it. PISCES – Feb. 19 – March 20 There are times in life when there’s absolutely nothing to be […]