Board member speaks out against tuition increase

Robert Holsworth Guest Columnist At its final meeting last spring, the VCU Board of Visitors voted on tuition increases for the 2013-14 academic year. The majority of the Board supported a 4.2 percent increase for returning students and an increase of 21 percent to 27 percent for new incoming students. Alex McMurtrie and I were […]

Debt crisis no longer about politics, but consequences

Colin Hannifin Columnist For years, talk has swirled about the ever-growing national debt. For many of those years, it was just that – political rhetoric in an effort to sway voters right or left. But the days of it being merely politics is quickly drawing to a close and the feeling that the United States […]