B.o.B and Asher Roth welcome students to new school year
Des Letemps contributing writer After their first two days of classes, VCU students were welcomed with a free concert. Students entering the Siegel Center on Saturday night were given a complimentary once over with a metal detector, asked to swipe their ID, and then escorted to their assigned seats to await the controversial musical stylings of [...]
At Anderson opening, SpongeHQ celebrates art across disciplines
Mechelle Hankerson contributing writer In Assistant Art Professor Hope Ginsburg’s exhibit “SpongeHQ,” one can watch the complete process of making a rug, see a whole table dedicated to biology and watch a film about bees. It’s all in one room, and in fact, it’s all one large art exhibition. Ginsburg presented SpongeHQ on August 27 at the Anderson [...]
Football: VCU’s question that won’t quit
Adam Stern Sports Editor It’s the question VCU Athletic Director Norwood Teague just can’t dodge. Will football ever be brought to VCU, and if so, when? Teague—a North Carolinia native who is in entering his fifth year at the university after a five-year stint as Associate Athletic Director at UNC—gets asked almost daily, and doesn’t think the questions are going [...]
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Can’t you listen to me baby: Concert series fosters aural discourse
30 August 2010
Nick Bonadies Spectrum Editor Tuesday night saw Richmond concertgoers locking their bikes en masse to a guardrail leading to a church basement. However, the night’s biggest departure from Richmond-music-scene protocol was not the location. Headline act Tim Barry, formerly of the punk band Avail, admitted himself to [...]
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Skloot brings ‘Immortal Life’ to Richmond
30 August 2010
Nan Turner Staff Writer Imagine you are struggling to pay medical bills and find yourself without health care. Now imagine that your mother or grandmother’s cells were used to make some of the most innovative vaccines and medications in the world — the same medications and vaccines that you will not have access [...]
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Facebook ads go to pot
30 August 2010
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” has become [...]
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SOVO Fair draws thousands to Siegel Center
30 August 2010
Students awaited the opening of the Student Organization and Volunteer Opportunities Fair at the Stuart C. Siegel Center this Friday with a buzz of anticipation. Before the fair officially opened its doors at 3 p.m., students crowded the entrance clutching goldenrod diagrams of the arena and VCU USCA bags that would later be filled with [...]
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Sports: Women’s soccer CAA Report
30 August 2010
Preseason CAA Women’s Soccer Player of the Year: Devin Petta, sophomore, forward, Northeastern 2010 Preseason All-CAA Team: Devin Petta, forward, Northeastern Salma Tarik, forward, Hofstra Cate Tisinger, forward, James Madison Courtney Breen, midfielder, Hofstra Omolyn Davis, midfielder, George Mason Teresa Rynier, senior, James Madison Tiffany Yovino, midfielder, Hofstra Myriam Bouchard, defender, VCU Sandra Magnusdottir, defender, Northeastern Diana Weigel, defender, William & Mary Heidi Blankenship, goalkeeper, Georgia State 2010 CAA [...]
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Sobering Up at James Madison
30 August 2010
My name is James, and I haven’t had a drink since Springfest Robert Showah The first step toward recovery is admitting that you have a problem. That is exactly what James Madison University President Linwood Rose did last week just before the start of the new academic year in the wake of last semester’s Springfest disaster [...]
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Diversity Thrift fashion show/drag extravaganza raises funds, extols compassion
30 August 2010
Nick Bonadies Spectrum editor At the Gay Community Center of Richmond on Saturday, past the locally iconic rainbow wall on the back end of Diversity Thrift and under the rainbow disco ball, a runway had been built. The “Don’t Hate, Celebrate!” fashion show, whose ticket sales raised funds for GCCR, featured original designs assembled from pieces found in [...]
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Long-range goals: women’s soccer eager to improve
30 August 2010
By: Jim Swing Assistant Sports Editor There are two things VCU women’s co-head coaches Tiffany and Tim Sahaydak want their team to improve on in the 2010 season: looking organized defensively and finishing opportunities. With the addition of 12 new recruits for the 2010 season, the Rams should have a great opportunity to do just that. “We’re excited about [...]
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Briefs
29 August 2010
Local and VCU VCU Police set two checkpoints this weekend Virginia Commonwealth University Police will check for a variety of safety issues during a pair of administrative checkpoints this weekend. VCU Police will operate a checkpoint from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 27, along the 800 block of West Franklin Street. A second checkpoint will [...]
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Champion’s State of Mind
26 August 2010
By: Adam Stern Sports Editor To be the best, you have to beat the best. And following a dismal season for VCU’s men’s soccer team in 2009, new head coach Dave Giffard has made his recipe for success crystal clear: Go straight to the source. The Rams, now under Giffard’s guidance since parting ways with long-tenured [...]
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