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Category: VCU

Rams Win CAA Tournament

VCU beats GMU 71-50. Let’s go dancin’!

“Quesadillaz” At VCU

Richmond Magazine mentiones a new quesadilla joint at 916 W. Broad Street. Bo Dillaz not only offers a liberal serving of “z” where there should be “s” but, well, quesadillas and other stuff.  I wish it luck. Not only is it right across the street from a Qdoba but a Chipotle is about to open [...]

VCU Circa 1977

Interesting videos of the VCU area from around 1977 as shot by late art professor Glenn Hamm
VCU Part One
VCU Part Two

VCU Would Like To Let You Know That You Should Avoid Main Street If You’re Driving Drunk Friday Night

In an attempt to halt drunk driving between the 900 and 1000 blocks of Main Street, VCU Police will be establishing a sobriety checkpoint from 11 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday morning.  Drunk drivers are advised to use Broad Street instead.  Media and other official folks wanting to watch cops bust drunk people should [...]

Trani Stepping Down Next Year

VCU’s President Eugine Trani has announced he will be resigning effective July 1, 2009:
He had previously planned to step down in 2010, but will now leave the post July 1, 2009, and become a professor at the university.
VCU officials have not confirmed his plans, but he has scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference today to [...]

VCU To Test Emergency Siren System Today

VCU is going to have its monthly siren test today.  Not sure if the media turnout will be similar to the last few times, but there’s currently a helicopter circling the campus.  Though that might be more tied to the excitement at University of Richmond yesterday than anything else.

VCU Keeps Grant Around

VCU and basketball coach Anthony Grant have agreed to a contract extension that would keep Grant at VCU through 2014.  Good for VCU and hopefully really good for Grant

No More Ukrops At VCU

Jon Baliles says Ukrops is going to be shutting down it’s store at Harrison and Grace.  Man, there goes the closest salad bar.

VCU Student Murdered In Byrd Park Robbery

19 year old Tyler Binsted was shot in the back in Byrd Park this morning after being robbed of his car keys:
Binsted, a sophomore sculpture major at VCU, was walking in the park with a friend when they were approached by two males, one armed with a gun. Binsted and his friend were robbed of their [...]

VCU Tops Akron In ESPN2 Bracket Buster Game

VCU beat Akron 57-52 and on national television no less.

VCU To Test Air Raid System Tomorrow

The Russians aren’t coming!  From VCU:
This is a reminder that at noon tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 6, VCU will conduct a test of emergency sirens on its Monroe Park and MCV Campuses. Ten sirens will wail for two minutes, pause for about a minute, and then sound a one-minute “all-clear” even tone to end the test.
The [...]

User Agrees Not To Use VCU’s Class Registration System To Make A Bomb

VCU uses this clunky, not always working system called Banner to allow students to view their status, register for classes, get a copy of their transcripts, and all sorts of other things. They moved to this system a while back and keep adding features that don’t exactly work right. Now they’ve added a [...]

Hide Under Your Desks, VCU!

The air raid sirens atop VCU’s James Branch Cabell Library have gone off twice today.  Earlier today VCU claimed that last night’s false alarm was because of someone working on something or another on the roof setting it off.  No word on what today’s alerts were caused by.
The lack of response by students out on [...]

VCU Basketball vs. Miami In Puerto Rico

It’s halftime in the game between the Rams and Hurricanes in Puerto Rico and it’s not pretty. 
Miami is up over VCU 36-21.
VCU has 11 fouls to Miami’s 8 and no one on the Rams squad has more than 6 points.  VCU was more of a second half team last season, if that holds true here [...]

VCU Basketball vs. Houston In Puerto Rico

The second half has just started in VCU vs. Houston down in Puerto Rico.  Houston is up 33-30.  Keep an eye on the box score here or you can listen live online here.
11:20am UPDATE: VCU wins 73-72.