Cybersecurity Fair warns of web threats
The annual VCU Cybersecurity Fair was held on Tuesday, Oct. 22 and Wednesday, Oct. 23 to increase awareness of cyber threats and promote computer security and internet safety for students.
First scholarship fair at VCU
The VCU club Scholarship Sharing held the university’s first scholarship fair in the Richmond Salons of the Commons on Wednesday afternoon to educate students on the scholarships available to students.
Classroom cameras allow teachers to monitor students
If you have a lecture in the new Academic Learning Commons, think twice before updating your Facebook status in class.
Big Brother is watching you
George Orwell screams at me as I log into Facebook. Our world is quickly turning into that of “1984.” As America becomes Oceania, Orwell and I are frustrated that few seem to care.
Why should we pay for what was once free?
VCU this semester started charging students $50 or $100 for GRTC transit passes. Previously, these transit passes were free to students who enrolled full- and part-time at the university. After learning about this new fee via students on social media (not through the university itself), I decided to start a petition on Change.org. VCU has done a poor job communicating changes to the GRTC transit program to both new and returning students.
Online Impersonation: VCU student victim of false identity trend
Amir Vera Staff Writer MTV’s hit series “Catfish” centers around people who create fake social media accounts and impersonate others to meet people. For one VCU student, though, the comedy and romance of the show became a bizarre and unnerving reality. Senior mass communications major Brittany Tilley was applying for jobs. In order to make […]
The end of the love letter
Ashley Major Columnist As a literary enthusiast I feel it is my duty to point out that we have a crisis on our hands! In contemporary times, our words have lost their meaning. So long are the love letters, the quintessential childhood passing of notes, the post cards from afar, and now the demise of […]
The Social Network, 500 million friends and counting
Jordan Wilson Staff Writer Whether or not writer Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay for David Fincher’s new film “The Social Network” is 100 percent factual or fictional is completely irrelevant. What really matters is that Sorkin has managed to sum up the culture of an entire generation in the span of two hours, and has done so in […]
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” […]