Jordan Reinecke, otherwise known as REIN, was supposed to meet me at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens on a beautiful late Spring Day. Earlier in the week, however, smoke came down from Canada. It was an onslaught of wildfire fumes. Due to both of us having asthma,...
Animator Adam Rosenberg Is Full Of Dark Jokes, And Late Night Quesadillas
Let's gather 'round for a sit-down with Richmond, Virginia's own Renaissance man, Adam Rosenberg. He's part-time backflip aficionado, full-time connoisseur of toilet jokes, and midnight quesadilla whisperer. Oh, and in his spare time, he's also a filmmaker, director,...
After ‘Overwhelming’ Year of Remote Learning, Students Welcome Return to Campus
Last year's move to campus closures, quarantines, and distance learning was necessary to minimize the spread of COVID, but had a negative effect on many college students. This year, they're more than ready to head back to campus. Devastated. Drained. Depressed. Those...
Panel Calls For ‘Paradigm Shift’ In Virginia School-to-Prison Pipeline
University of Richmond's School of Law held a six-hour symposium recently about the school-to-prison pipeline and ways students of color are kept at a disadvantage by zero tolerance policies and overpolicing of school grounds. Schools have become places of trauma for...
COVID-19 Cluster Sparks Quick Conversion of VCU Honors College Into Isolation Unit
As VCU's fall semester began, they set aside 54 isolation units on campus, but two weeks in, there are already over 100 COVID-19 cases at the university. Now, with very little notice, three floors of the Honors College are being converted to isolation units as well....
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