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Family Suspects Hazing
in Student's Death

Mar 2, 2021 5:11 PM CST

Family Suspects Hazing in Student's Death

Adam Oakes went to an off-campus party for Delta Chi initiation

(Newser) - Adam Oakes had, at last, been asked to join a fraternity at Virginia Commonwealth University. On Friday night, Oakes, 19, went to an off-campus party for the first step in his Delta Chi initiation, CNN reports. "He had already tried to get into other fraternities and had been turned...

Student Accuses Political Pioneer of Sexual Harassment

L. Douglas Wilder
Accused of Sexual
Harassment
of Student

Mar 28, 2019 7:00 PM CDT

L. Douglas Wilder Accused of Sexual Harassment of Student

Woman says former Virginia governor kissed her without her consent

(Newser) - A college student says L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia and the first black person elected governor of any state, sexually harassed her in 2017. Sydney Black says Wilder kissed her without her consent, told her she could live at his house, and offered to take her on foreign...

Butler VCU: Bulldogs Beats Virginia Commonwealth to Reach Championship Game

Butler, UConn Reach
Championship Game

ncaa men's tournament

Apr 2, 2011 10:24 PM CDT

Butler, UConn Reach Championship Game

VCU's Cinderella run ends; Connecticut Edges Kentucky in Nail-Biter

(Newser) - It will be Butler vs. UConn for all the marbles Monday night in the NCAA men's tournament. In tonight's semifinal games:

Butler 70, VCU 62: Shelvin Mack scored 23 points on 8-of-11 shooting and Zach Hahn came up big off the bench to lead Butler back to the national title

...

VCU Stuns Kansas,
Heads to Final Four

ncaa tournament

Mar 27, 2011 3:58 PM CDT

VCU Stuns Kansas, Heads to Final Four

The 11th-seeded team upsets No. 1 seed Kansas 71-61

(Newser) - Jamie Skeen scored 26 points and 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth is crashing the Final Four after the upset of the NCAA tournament, shocking No. 1 seed Kansas 71-61 today. So doubtful were the Rams of even making the tournament that they didn't watch the selection show. Two weeks later, they're Houston-bound...

British
Exchange
Student
Vanishes
in Virginia

Mar 15, 2010 2:28 AM CDT

British Exchange Student Vanishes in Virginia

Jonny Dorey vanishes while mountain biking

(Newser) - A British exchange student at a Virginia university has vanished after heading out to the woods for mountain biking. Jonny Dorey, 22, last used his cell phone that morning nearly two weeks ago. Two police searches have failed to turn up any trace of the geography student in the Richmond...