Family of Adam Oakes reacts to fraternity expulsion, calling for more change

Katharine DeRosa, News Editor Adam Oakes always said hello and goodbye with a hug, played basketball with his little cousins and competed in family-style fantasy football every fall, his family said. Adam Oakes was a freshman at VCU when he pledged the Delta Chi fraternity. He was found dead on Feb. 27 after a Delta […]

VCU proposal for Navy Hill area development in limbo after City Council vote

Katie Hollowell, Contributing Writer A VCU proposal to build temporary housing for relatives of long-term hospital patients remains pending a week after Richmond City Council voted to strike down the Navy Hill development plan. The proposal for an area in Navy Hill called “Block D” would include new office spaces for the VCU Medical Center, […]

Staff Editorial | Corporate owners, dare to invest in the newsroom

Most of us don’t remember a time when there weren’t whispers, talk and conjecture about the end of print newspapers.  It’s been inevitable since the first days of the internet that we’ve grown up with. We’ve always known that the print dailies and weeklies that appeared in newspaper boxes and at the end of driveways […]

VCU says Times-Dispatch series on guardianship process is ‘out-of-context’

Hannah Eason, News Editor VCU Health System sent out a news release and email to employees Sunday on the recent Richmond Times-Dispatch series about the health system’s guardianship practice, saying the article lacks “context, balance, and journalistic ethics.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch released the first of a series of articles on guardianship — the legal process […]