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September was a huge month for the Forum, as we also broke the news that Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe will be visiting campus October 1orb to discuss their plans for the Commonwealth of Virginia when one of them assumes the governorship in November. So check that out, and while we are on the topic of leaders make sure and read the exclusive interview with President Ed Ayers.

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Thanks for picking up our Inaugural issue!

Som.e of you may have seen our early release Orientation Issue that went out to 800 first year students last month. This is our first full scale launch of the magazine to campus, and it's a big one. Clay Helms wrote a great article about David Salisbury, who travels the Amazon helping tribes retain their land. It's also Family Weekend, so if your folks are here (or you are a parent) use our handy guide to find places to eat and things to do.

The first time many of you heard of Forum Magazine was when we broke the news that Richmond is now a Top 25 Liberal Arts College.

This accomplishment-a height we have never reached before-is indicative of the way our campus is growing, changing and quite clearly becoming better. The goal of the Forum is to capture that growth as it happens, taking snapshots of the amazing people and projects advancing our collective goals.

We created Forum to fill a need we saw on campus. With a staff of nearly 30, we aim to always create a beautiful, optimistic representation of life on campus while being realistic about the challenges our generation faces in the job market and the world beyond. We aim to become the goto source for breaking news and in-depth reporting, excellent writing and poignant photography, big name interviews and solid advice, all while creating a professional atmosphere for our reporters and designers to practice their craft.

It all boils down to this: With such a small campus, there's no reason not to have a close sense John McAuliff of community. Forum aims to create that here at Editor In Chief Richmond.

On behalf of all of us at Forum Magazine In our debut year, we are still defining ourYour campus. Your culture. selves. Your feedback is essential to making sure Your Forum. we get it right; when you are done reading the

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Stanley Ammondson is a senior from North Carolina majoring in business management and marketing. He has studied abroad in Argentina and Ireland and loves to dance. (Jobs)

Clay Helms is a journalist form Wilton, Conn. His deep appreciation for music and the outdoors inspires his writing style, to which he owes his parents, sisters and dog, "Rocky," a great deal.

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Sa Ily HU is a sophomore from Mays Landing, New Jersey. She intends on double majoring in accounting and computer science, and is a rower for the UR Crew team. (Parents Weekend)

Andrew Jones is a junior from the Lone Star State who is studying American Studies and History. He is a self-proclaimed blogger, student, rationalist, skeptic, know-it-all, freethinker, tour guide and master of the art of beard growing. (Events)

traveling, outdoor living and woodcraft. (The lnterviewI· Editing)

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Erica Lomax is a business management major and dance minor from Malvern, PA. She loves black and white darkroom photography and is excited to be contributing to Forum Magazine. (Photography - The Interview, Parents Weekend)

John McAuliff is a Leadership Studies major published in USA Today. He spent last summer as a White House Intern and enjoys

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October Events The best of October on and off campus, with a handy price guide.

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1. Arts Around the Lake September 29, 2013 (11:00 am-5:00 pm) Westhampton Lake 2. Judy Shepard (Matthew Shepard's mother) speaking through the "One Book, One Richmond" program October 1, 2013 (6:00 pm) Alice Hqynes Room) Tj;ler Hqynes Comtnons

3. Gubernatorial Race: Town Hall Discussion Between Cuccinelli and McAuliffe Hosted by Dr. Ayers October 10, 2013 (7:00 pm) Alice Jepson Theater

Don't forget! VA voter registration deadline is Oct. 15th

4. "The Culture Critic: Giles Gunn" speaking as

part of the Jepson Leadership Forum October 23, 2013 (7:00 pm) Jepson Alumni Center 5. Richmond Football Home Game vs. Towson October 26, 2013 (12:00 pm) Robins Stadium

6. Trick or Treat Street October 27, 2013 (12:30 pm-4:30 pm) Westhampton Green

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1.Richmond Folk Festival October 11-13, 2013 Centered A round Brown Island

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2. Butterflies LIVE! at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden May 24, 2013-0ctober 13, 2013 Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden $11 3. A History of Richmond in 50 Objects February 14-0ctober 20, 2013 (recurring daily) Valentine -Richmond History Center$ 7 4. Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery Walking Tour April 1, 2013-0ctober 31, 2013 (Every MT W Tr F and S) Hol!Jwood Cemetery $10

5. Playing at The National in October Neutral Milk Hotel (10/12/13@ 8:00pm) $33 The Neighborhood (10/19/2013@ 8:00 pm) $20 Capital Cities w/ Fitz and the Tantrums (10/20/1 7:30pm) $25 Alice Cooper (10/22/2013@ 6:30 pm) $28-35 Cold War I<ids (10/26/2013@ 8:00 pm, The National) $20

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How did UR students make their summer count?

Amazing people are doing incredible things all over campus. Each issue, we recognize a few students or alumni that are working to make their lives-and our community-better through self and social improvement.

JAMES HENRY '77

Starting the year off with an adventure

Every year Richmond College hosts an outdoor program for the incoming freshmen. This year associate dean, Patrick Benner and Robb Moore, the assistant vice president of advancement systems, led a group of seventeen incoming freshman on a 40mile hike through the Appalachian Trail. The men hiked 40 miles in two days, carrying all their own gear and equipment. "The students who were admitted to do the challenge are in so many ways the epitome of the general high and growing standards at Richmond," Moore said. All seventeen students and the two chaperones completed the entire 40-mile trail in the set time.

"Some cramping, blisters, and bear scares occurred along the way, but everyone exited the woods feeling accomplished," Benner said. James Henry, one of the students that opted to do the program despite having never been hiking, was apprehensive at first, but wanted to get to know people before moving onto campus. "Getting to meet so many great guys before the start of the semester helped me feel less anxious about the first day of orientation," Henry said.

SAMANTHA LINT '74

Changi.n g the lives of women a world away

Samantha Lint, a senior, created an empowerment program for HIV positive adolescent girls that she implemented in Kigali, Rwanda: With approval-but no funding-from UNAIDS and a local NGO called Kigali Hope, she was able to carry out her pro¡7:'!1 gram. She did receive funding from the UR Summer fellowship fund. "The program provides a space to explore social justice ........--" and change making, as well as facilitates a community change project designed by the participants," Lint said. Samantha taught the girls she was working with a range of topics, from violence against women, to classism, to ecofeminism to democracy. According to Lint's personal blog, after the genocide in 1994, gender roles changed quickly in Rwanda. With many men in exile, in jail or deceased, women had to take on new tasks and positions of leadership. Today, Rwanda has the highest percent of women elected officials of any democracy worldwide. But these advancements are not felt in the lives of everyday women with HIV, who remain marginalized and oppressed. "Positive Change hopes to give these girls the tools to realize their potential as change makers in their communities," Lint said. '.A

LONG NGUYEN '74

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The fight against human slavery

Long Nguyen first got involved in anti-human trafficking efforts through SSTOP, Students Stopping the Trafficking of People.

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Nguyen traveled to Vietnam for the later part of the summer and will remain there doing research for the semester. "During the months I've been here, I've focused entirely on securing vital connections and preparing for my actual research;" he said.

He has been working primarily with two NGOs and the women of the Vietnam Women's Union. In the coming months, he plans to start his research traveling to various regions in Vietnam to collect data to create his International Studies senior thesis. "Freedom is something our society takes for granted, and it is disturbing to see how so many people out there don't have the type of freedom that we have."

GABBIE RAFFIO '74

Making her way to the top

Gabbie Raffio made her first ascent to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in the summer of 2012, then again this past summer.

Raffio was more excited this year because of the challenges she faced along the way. Although Raffio trained for the hike, she said the real challenge was adjusting to the altitude. "The actual days are not challenging, it's just about making sure you're acclimated," she said. Uhuru Peak, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, is the highest point in Africa and the world's highest freestanding mountain at 5895m or 19,341ft. Even the fittest hikers and athletes are affected by the high altitude and lack of oxygen closer to the summit. In January earlier this year an experienced hiker died on the mountain after being struck by lightning.

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aulit, 'Ponq 'Padure I& almo!& too aood to be !hued,, After my sojourn to this idyllic hideaway, I have begun to harbor a selfish desire to keep it all to myself.

On a Friday afternoon, two friends and I threw on bathing suits, grabbed towels, and hopped on the 4:40 Pony Express. What surprised me far more than the absence of actual ponies or pastures (admit it, you were envisioning a petting zoo type thing too) was how close this picturesque riverbank spot was to campus; our ride across the Huguenot Bridge took six minutes.

As we stepped off the Pony Express, a welcoming chorus of crunchy leaves reminded us that our bathing attire's expiration date was approaching. September 22nd, the final day for the Pony Express, marks the last day of summer.

However, if there is any cure for a college student suffering PSD (post summer depression), it is surely the fresh feeling of autumn that envelops adventurers as they wander among the warmlyhued trees on the Pony Pasture riverbank.

There are various theories as to how the park

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got its name, but a friend from Richmond told me that the moniker is derived from stories of wild horses that used to trample through the lush landscape. As my friends and I strolled down the path at sunset, this legend wasn't difficult to imagine.

From the tree-lined trail, it is only a few steps to the rocky edge of the forest, where the shady passage ends and the gentle rapids begin, flowing between time-flattened boulders that lie scattered across the shallow water. Each enormous rock is just a hop and skip away from the next. At first, my friends and I perched ourselves on the edge of the water, fawning over mallard ducks that swam right up to us, not in that aggressive Westhampton Lake mutant duck kind of way, mind you. Pony Pasture ducks are much cuter (and much less scary).

As the pretty things passed us by, warm waters beckoned us to abandon our riverbank rock seats and hop in. Savoring the risk of toting my Canon SLR above my head in the rapids, I followed my friends across the enormous stones.

Before I knew it, I found myself knee-deep in RVA. Among us in the shallow streams were rafters, swimmers, fishers, kayakers, a six-year old red rain boot wearing explorer, and perhaps the most surprising and elusive demographic, a group of six UR freshman.

The history of Pony Pasture adds to the mystique of this riverbank sanctuary. Inhabited by Indians for thousands of years, the rapids and foliage were once crossed by Captain John Smith on his famous 1607 voyage up the Chesapeake.

The area is not too far down stream from Henricus, where Pocahontas once lived among the first English settlers.

The locals that I talked to on the river seemed to share the same protective sentiment towards Pony Pasture that I have since developed. They eyed me suspiciously when I asked them questions. When I explained to a couple rafting in the water that UR had begun offering a shuttle service to the park, their faces fell just a little, perhaps betraying a sense of disappointment that the quiet, simple, family-centered oasis on the riverbank might soon be disrupted by crazy college kids.

I don't mean to betray my generation, but I can't blame the locals. There is a simplicity to this

refuge that a Snapchat just cannot capture. Let's face it, when 19 year olds get involved, beautiful places can become a selfie backdrop and everything just gets so Facebooked-up.

As I watched a rain-booted six year old embark on his adventure among the rocks, I realized that the intangible magic of Pony Pasture has a lot to do with the unspoken understanding that this was a place where the real world is forbidden to enter, where a six year old or a twenty year old can come to take a break from the trying process of growing up, even just for an afternoon. The week leading up to my trip to Pony Pasture had been emotionally draining on many fronts, and there was something very peaceful and restorative about laying down in the worn curvature of an ancient boulder and watching the ducks and yellow leaves flow downstream.

My visit to Pony Pasture reminded me that an escape to nature can work wonders on the soul.

No matter how rough your day has been, you can always find solace in the simple things: fresh water, fallen leaves, and really nice ducks.

For us students, rushing becomes a way of life. When was the last time, aside from bedtime or powernaps, that you were just still? Something is always buzzing, an !phone is always ringing, headphones are always blaring, and somewhere

down the hall, a Keurig is squealing.

There is something to be said for silence. We move so quickly that we often forget what it means to be still, peaceful. Though I have to admit, once my friends and I had found our perfect rock among the rapids, we got a little too still and woke up at 6:39 for our 6:40 shuttle. We might have disturbed a few of my beloved ducks as we hectically splashed through the water on our way out.

When I came to college last fall, I remember asking every upper classmen I met the same question: looking back, what do you wish you had done earlier? The answer was always the same:

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Nearly 100 years ago, Westhampton College started as an institution with one building, a handful of students and a determined leader.

Now, as the University of Richmond's women's college approaches its centennial anniversary, it serves almost 1, 700 undergraduate women as part of the university's coordinate college system. ''Anniversaries are a convenient way to do what historians do all the time, which is stop and reflect how did we get here and where are we going," Pres. Ed Ayers said of the centennial. And Westhampton College has come a long way.

By 1914, Richmond College had existed as a small Baptist college near downtown Richmond, Va., for more than 80 years. In that time, higher education for women in America had gone from non-existent to increasingly common, and Richmond College had already been awarding bachelor's degrees to women for more than decade. But those few students had to commute to school each day, as there were still no facilities for women.

With the permission of the Virginia Baptist Association, Richmond College set in motion plans to create a companion women's college, with separate staff, classes and facilities.

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no experiment," Pres. Frederic Boatwright wrote in 1907, "Nor will it be co-educational, as some seem to fear. [... ] In our college a woman can take her degree of Bachelor of Arts or Science without ever sitting in a class with men."

Richmond College found space to expand at an abandoned fairground near Little Westham Creek, and finished construction of its new campus in 1914. Westhampton College had its home in what's now called North Court. Eighty-two women enrolled in Westhampton College that first year, but less than half lived on campus.

While Westhampton College may have started with low enrollment, it had a passionate leader in Dean May Lansfield Keller, the first female college dean in Virginia. Keller spent 32 years guiding Westhampton College through two world wars and shaping it into a modern and adept institution.

Though Richmond and Westhampton colleges merged their academic operations in 1990, they remain as "residential colleges," and still maintain separate student government associations.

Preparations are already underway for next year's commemorations, said Kerry Fankhauser, associate dean and chairwoman of the centennial committee. While things have not been fi-

nalized, she said, the committee is considering an event centered on the annual Proclamation Night ceremony.

All Westhampton College alumnae would be invited back to campus, Fankhauser said, and graduates from each decade may be selected to speak about their time as a student. The alumnae would be able to watch the 2014 Proclamation Night from a tent outside Cannon Memorial Chapel, and then the freshman and senior women would process by their predecessors. Alumnae and visitors could then take tours of North Court to see how it's changed.

That night, the Westhampton College Government Association would hold a leadership dinner, and past members would be invited to give advice to the current student leaders.

Other commemorations could include a photo exhibit in the Modlin Center for the Arts, a women's leadership guest speaker and centennial patches for the university police and women's sports teams.

I love the thought that we are fulfilling what Dr. Boatwright imagined 100 years ago, by offering a progressive education that brings men and women together and prepares them for the world," Ayers said.

- BEN PANKO

Co/leqe Studies: Did science get it right?

With approximatel!J 30 million flmericans enrolled in four-!Jear universities, there are plent!I of ps!Jcholoqists and scientists who want to poke and prod our brains and fiqure out how we work. l-lere is a list of interestinq facts about colleqe students, spot on or wa!I off?

• Think you're overworked? The National Center for Education Statistics found that 1 in 10 full-time college students also work a full-time job (3 5+ hours p/w).

• Homework keeping you up all night? You're not alone. Astudy published in the Journal of Adolescent Health stated that only about 30 percent of college students get at least eight hours of sleep.

• American college students love to participate in psychology studies.

Scientists writing in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal say that simply being an American college student makes one 4,000 times more likely to be psychological test subjects, either because participation is mandatory or because there is monetary compensation.

• Virginia Woolf is certainly dancing in her grave: In 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 54 percent of full-time college students were female.

• If you're having trouble concentrating on your homework, there's

some good (bad?) news: you're not alone. According to an experiment conducted by the British technology firm Olympus, millennial college students have an average attention span of 10 minutes.

• There may be a grain of truth to the adage that college students think they know everything. A survey by a professor at San Diego State University revealed that two-thirds of students have above-average scores for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

• Be careful who you bring home from the lodges. A study by Stanford University's Sexual Health Peer Resource Center revealed that approximately 1 in 4 college students suffer from some sort of sexuallytransmitted disease.

• The Freshman 15 haunts us all. In 2007, the College Student Health Survey Report found that 38.S percent of students surveyed were overweight.

- KELSEY SHIELDS

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The first month of classes has flown by and Parents Weekend is here already! This weekend is the best time for families to see what the University of Richmond is all about and to experience the unique college life of UR students. UR has organized a number of special events for students, families, and friends to partake in over the course of the next few days, so don't let this opportunity pass you by! Take full advantage of this weekend by meeting the UR faculty, making new friends, and enjoying everything that Richmond has prepared for you.

The Richmond Regatta On Friday at 3:00 PM, Delta Gamma and Theta Chi will be hosting their philanthropy event, the Richmond Regatta, on the Westhampton Lake. All proceeds go to the United Service Organizations (U.S.O.) and Serving for Sight: Joining Forces. The Regatta consists of one-person kayak races that begin at the Richmond side of the gazebo and end at the Westhampton side.

The races will be categorized into three groups: men's, women's, and mixed. The race is open to all students, and there will be prizes awarded to the winners. This is the first annual Richmond Regatta; join in on the fun!

Pre-game and tailgate of the Football Game For all those getting excited for the football game, there will be a pre-game picnic in the Westhampton Green from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on Saturday. There's a $15 fee per person to get in, but it's a great time to meet other UR fami-

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lies and faculty, and to enjoy some food and live jazz music from our very own students! The Westhampton Green is located between Keller Hall, Booker Hall, and Gray Court. From there, you can get to the stadium quickly by walking past our Greek Theater, down some steps, and over our lake, past the gazebo and to the Robins Stadium.

Football Game: Richmond Spiders vs. Maine Black Bears On Saturday, the Spiders will be taking on the Black Bears at 4: 00 PM. The Richmond campus will be crawling with red and navy blue as the Spiders begin to pump up and rally for the football game. Be sure to get in on the fun by bringing out your Richmond colors or hurry into get some Richmond attire from the UR Bookstore! The hours at the Bookstore this weekend are:

here are a few places to go: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: This is a free

arts museum located off of North Boulevard.

It presents different kinds of art from different cultures and different centuries. The exhibits displayed range from that of Native American art to Japanese dolls!

Hours:

Friday- 10 AM to 9 PM Saturday- 10 AM to 5 PM Sunday- 10 AM to 5 PM Science Museum of Virginia: The science mu-

seum covers a variety of topics such as space, the human body, creatures, idea innovation, and more! Some parts of the museum are interactive, and all are very interesting.

Admission:

Friday, September 27: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday, September 28: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday, September 29: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Adult (13-59) - $11 Youth (4-12) and Seniors (60 +) - $10 Hours:

The last two times the Spiders played the Maine Black Bears was in 2005 and 2008; the Spiders beat them both times! Let's to make it a third time. The stands will be booming with Spider pride; don't miss out on the action!

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens: The Gar-

Exploring the City of Richmond Despite the "bubble" of UR, the city of Richmond is teeming with a bunch of things to do. If you want to get off campus and explore the city,

dens focus on teaching people about plants while promoting beautiful gardens and landscaping designs. You can find many different types of flowers that accentuate each garden. If you're looking to stroll around among gorgeous

Friday- 9:30 AM to 5 PM Saturday- 9:30 AM to 5PM Sunday-11:30AM to SPM

gardens, check this place out!

Admission: Adults - $11; Seniors (55+) - $10; Children (312) - $7; Under 3 years - Free Hours: Open daily from 9 AM to 5 PM

Dinnertime in Carytown As delicious as the food is at UR, I'm sure that after a month of eating on-campus, it might be a good idea to try a new restaurant for dinner. Carytown is a popular place to go, and it's only a couple minutes' drives away! If you can't quite decide on where to go, here's a list of options to help you out: Amici Ristorante: This Italian restaurant is relatively inexpensive and serves authentic Italian Cuisine. I went to Amici last year for Parents Weekend, and let me tell you, their pasta is absolutely delicious!

Typical price range: $10.00 - $25.00

Baker's Crust: This restaurant offers a variety of different foods including pasta, paninis, pizza, seafood, sandwiches, and more! I have gone to Baker's Crust with friends and family, and everyone has always been completely satisfied.

There's something for everyone here.

tasty burgers.

Typical price range: $4.00 - $8.00

Weezie's Kitchen: Alittle bit more on the pricier side is Weezie's Kitchen. They serve foods ranging from steaks to seafood to pasta. You definitely get to eat exactly what you pay for in both quantity and quality.

Typical price range: $9.00 - $17.00 Alloftheserestaurantsareeitherlocatedon West Cary Street, or right off of Cary Street. I've only listed a few restaurants here, but there are many more that you can try! For something a little different, try Carytown Sushi, Thai Diner Too (which many people are a fan of), and Nacho Mama's Carytown. Otherwise, take some time to explore Carytown!

A Cappella Concert Spend a lovely Saturday evening enjoying our very own a cappella groups in the Greek Theatre. Performing groups include Choeur du Roi, the Octaves, Off the Cuff and the Sirens.

The concert begins at 9:00 PM and will end at approximately 10:30 PM. And if you can't make it to the evening concert, there is a daytime concert at 12:00 PM in Booker Hall! Our a cappella groups are definitely something else; they won't fail to amaze you!

Typical price range: $8.00 - $20.00

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Arts Around the Lake Our 34th annual fine arts show will be going on from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday.

Artwork from our local artists will be featured around the lake on the Richmond side of campus by Lakeview. There will be some snacks and plenty of beautiful art, so end Parents Weekend with a relaxing afternoon by the lake.

Carytown Burgers and Fries: If you're interested in having a casual dinner, this is the place to go. Just like the name says, Carytown Burgers and Fries makes burgers of all kinds to satisfy your particular craving. Many students go here often, including me, to get ahold of some really

I have just briefly described some of the things that are going on at the University of Richmond. You definitely don't have the time to hit everything that I've just described, but you can definitely work on doing most of it! Start now and enjoy your weekend!

Burger Bach: Burger Bach prides itself in the quality of their meats, which come from New Zealand! They serve gourmet burgers, and they're confident that they won't disappoint their customers. Go give it a try!

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By now you've probably seen all of the construction going on around campus. They have been working on these construction projects since early summer. What they are building? Well, by the intramural fields and next to the Chapel parking lot, they are building a new set of apartments.

These apartments are different from the ones that you see now around campus because they will be stacked on top of each other instead of built next to each other. Also, the apartments that we have now houses four students each; these new apartments will house a total of 176 students!

We're looking forward to seeing the finished product.

On the other side of campus, the new Westhampton residence hall is being built next to South Court. The hall will house 157 students and is being built in a suite-style fashion.

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UR has also been busy on renovating the Robins Center all summer.

They are working on installing more comfortable seats, making the steps more handicap-accessible, and just making the overall place look better.

They're almost finished with this project, so the first basketball game at UR will be quite a show!

Two more projects are: 1) the old apartment and 2) Chapel renovations.

Over the summer, they have worked on the interior and exterior of most of the apartments. You will find that these new apartments have new furniture, new bathrooms and kitchens, new carpet and tile, and more. UR has also been working on revitalizing our Chapel. It's going to be a surprise for all of us!

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or the past decade University of Richmond g phy professor, Dr. David Salisbury, has ntured into these shady corners of the Amazon. He's worked alongside colleagues, students, Peruvian and Brazilian policymakers and politicians, and among the indigenous peoples of the rainforest.

Salisbury's passion and extensive range of talents enable him to initiate positive change in these poorly understood regions of the Amazon.

Boyhood dreams led him to become an explorer and an adventurer, and he possesses social and lingual dexterity that enable him to interact with the area's culture fluidly. Most importantly, Salisbury's cartographic skills and first-hand knowledge of border areas allows him to create maps that help indigenous people claim their land.

Owning such a diverse skill set makes Salisbury the only man who can help these indigenous people where they need help the most-he helps them earn title to their land.

Land titling in the Amazonian borderlands of Peru and Brazil is a process with seemingly endless complexities. A large part of Salisbury's work is done out of Pucallpa, a city in Peru along the

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banks of the Ucayali River. Pucallpa has served historically as a central location for resource extraction in the Ucayali region.

Various parties seek to profit or have designs in the Amazonian forest beyond Pucallpa. Businessmen seek to establish mining or oil concessions. Policymakers attempt to construct roads to reduce the costs of transporting goods and services. Illegal loggers, who produce the majority of Pucallpa's production capital, burrow into the forest to mine the trees.

Yet who owns the rainforest's resources? Who possesses the right to mine or build or dig? A large portion of Salisbury's work is dedicated to answering that question. Oftentimes, his research suggests that ownership titles of the land belong to those who have been there the longest-the indigenous people who call the forest home.

Salisbury's work begins a process of "ownership" and accompanying "rights" for these indigenous people. Using geographic information systems (GIS) and GPS he maps the actual boundaries and locations of settlements and rivers to counter the official, and incorrect maps.

His counter maps arm indigenous communities

with a weapon far more powerful than the bows and arrows they still sling today.

His maps arm them with truth: an accurate representation of the land and its borders and who deserves ownership of it.

In our world, we text our parents, and loved ones; click on the news; Google research for a term paper and microwave dinner. In our world, it's pretty difficult to imagine cultures living so far "off the grid" that there isn't even a map that accurately shows they exist.

Maps manufacture power. Historically, men have created maps to ease the extraction of resources in uncharted territory. Searching for gold, Vespucci mapped South America. Columbus mapped the new world leading to the denuding of our first forests, and today companies map deserts and oceans to uncover the oil beneath.

A map is a collection of coded symbolsdrawings on a piece of paper that indicate where things are located and the distances to reach

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them. Maps use scale to conceptualize for us the massive space that makes up our planet. To craft one, the mapmaker must accurately display borders, and create boundaries on paper that are invisible on the soil of the earth.

Salisbury's passion lives in these areas of division-these boundaries-the places he describes as, "Where two things come together and blend in a sort of mish-mash. The edges of places. The least understood places." He crafts maps not to ease the extraction of resources, but to protect those resources and prove the ownership of the land its residents are entitled to.

When David Salisbury creates a counter map, he brings a group of people to life in a tangible, representative way. Looking at the official map, one wouldn't know where these people were, or

if they even existed at all.

Yet what happens when an indigenous community that has lived largely "uncontacted" is animated into existence by a map?

Can it retain the cultural identity that is partially defined by its isolation?

Salisbury does worry about the negative implications of his work at times. He takes special care to discuss the risks associated with land titling and going "on the map" with indigenous leaders before he conducts his work.

The vast majority of the time, the villagers decide they want to get on the map. They want to join the regional, national, and global community, not to relinquish any part of their culture, but to gain access to their everyday wants and needs. Access to things like medicine, schooling, and everyday supplies are greatly enhanced by going "on the map."

While mapmaking assumes an integral step in the process of earning a land title, protecting

one's land requires more than a charted piece of paper. Over the past two years Salisbury has enlisted University of Richmond students and professors, as well as colleagues in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia to reinforce the rainforest's protective frontline. eorge Appling is one of those students, and . . ~........._,ne research in the Amazon on a United Agency for International Development ( D) partnership grant with Higher Education for Development (HED). During the summer of 2012, Appling began doing research on a proposed road in the Amazon. The road would connect Puerto Esperanza, a remote town near the border of Brazil, to the city of Ifiapari and a major highway that connects Peru and Brazil. It would cut through a national park and several indigenous reserves, and open up a largely untouched area to foreign markets and outsiders.

Alongside Dr. Salisbury, Appling found from his research that the negative impacts of the

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road outweighed the potential positives. Carlos Tubino, a Peruvian Congressman and the main activist for the road, said it would reduce transportation costs for local goods and connect an isolated area to the rest of Peru.

After conducting their research, Appling and Salisbury received an invitation to present their findings at the Legislative Palace in Lima, Peru.

On a Friday morning in September, Appling arrived at the palace with Salisbury. Numerous indigenous representatives were there for the roundtable conference, dressed in traditional garb with feathered headdresses and face paint.

Settling into the conference room, Appling noticed that camera crews were setting up and roughly 125 people were edging into the room.

Though Appling remembers feeling nervous, he said that Salisbury ran through their research presentation smoothly and persuasively.

Then came Tubino's turn to address the roundtable. Tubino, a formidably large, ex-military man directed his rebuttal towards Appling and Salisbury. Waving the Peruvian constitution in the air Tubino shouted that the road should be a national priority, and that it was in the Peruvian constitution. To this day the road has still not been constructed.

It's during projects like these that Salisbury inspires his students and colleagues. Appling re-

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members Salisbury's motivational qualities, the passion he exudes that seems to seep into those around him: "He's always pushing me in my own way to strive for better. To learn more and to dig deeper into the research," Appling said.

The USAID/HED grant project is still underway. The two and a half year program, titled "Building Conservation Capacity in a Changing Amazonia," took eight University of Richmond students to the Amazon last summer and will do the same in 2014. Salisbury is the Program Director and works alongside a colleague he met at the University of Florida and two representatives at Universidad Nacional Ucayali. There are also several University of Richmond professors contributing to the project.

Since the project began, Salisbury's responsibilities have transitioned to training and management. Alarge portion of the project is coordinating with the University in Pucallpa, as students there are becoming increasingly involved in the process. Salisbury leads workshops and training seminars on GIS and GPS so students in Pucallpa can continue the work while doing their master's thesis.

"It's kind of bittersweet," Salisbury said of his managerial leadership. "It's fun to train people so that they can have these adventures, but you also miss having those adventures yourself."

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It's interesting that a man so devoted to fighting for indigenous land titles, so dedicated to his cartographic endeavors, so driven to put those who wish on a map, seems like he belongs off the map himself.

One of Salisbury's most powerful experiences in the Amazon occurred during a return journey from the rainforest.

As he and a crew made their way down a shallow creek, it dawned on Salisbury that everyone knew their way back, and that he no longer needed to accompany the rest of the party.

Taking only his camera with him, Salisbury moved ahead of the boats and walked the remainder of the return journey alone. Seeing jaguar tracks· along the creek bank, watch ing the fish swim in this Amazon ian stream, Salisbury realized , "I was out there on the edge."

Salisbury res ides in Virginia and serves as a father, professor, and colleague. His busy schedule and responsibilities establish a structure for his existence, a charted series of things to do and places to be. Yet flying over the carpet of green that is the Arnazon rainforest, seeing the wild and uncharted territory that awaits his landing, Salisbury feels set free in a way that the rigors of daily life prohibit. . "When you've just flown over, and you know that the forest just goes and goes and goes, that's pretty powerful."

The indigenous people are lucky for Salisbury's passion. They benefit from his unique skillset, from his mapmaking and from the voice he gives them. Perhaps though, they benefit most from the thing deep within Salisbury that drives him towards adventure-a passion for being alone in the forest; that when he flies over the sea of green and sees the extent of its reign an unavo idable idea pops into his head. "You fly over it and there's this idea. The idea that you could just walk forever."

The rainforest people hope that Salisbury will indeed walk fo rever.

How to set a Job in 4 Years or Less: Fall Edition College provides a safe haven for students all over the world where they are able to experience new degrees of freedom, responsibility and individuality. They have four amazing years to figure out who they are and what they want to do with their life. Many students tend to put their career-search on the backburner while they acclimate to college and focus on everything else the college experience offers. This article will serve as a guide for what you should do each year and what specific steps and goals you should aspire to Leslie Stevenson, the Director of Career services, and she is quoted throughout this article.

Freshman: Build a Network To all freshman, congratulations. You are now officially Richmond Spider. Believe it or not, it is time to start figuring out what you want to do during your college career and beyond. One of the most important steps is to meet as many people as you can, including both students and professors.

One way to do this is to acquire an on-campus job, which provides an opportunity to dramatically increase the number of people in your network.

It is never too early to start thinking about potential majors and what your passions are. The primary goals of freshman year are to figure out how to navigate the college landscape and to build a solid foundation.

Sophomores: Refine the Resume Once you enter your second year of college, you know what's up. You've established a solid friend group and have figured out how to fill your free time. Now it's important to select a major. This decision will affect your career path and open doors to potential opportunities. Once you decide on a major, the next important step is to start preparing a resume. Many students have some form of resume that they used for the college application process .. .get rid of it. Employers want to see what you are doing with your time outside of class in college, and a little bit of your high-school senior year activities, but not much.

expect "grown-up" pursuits.

Seniors: Divide and Conquer If you were lucky (and sure, smart as well), you are coming into your final year with a job offer. We are all jealous of these lucky few, however, there is still plenty of time to figure out what you want to do and how you are going to do it. Senior year is a time of transition, and as Stevenson advises, seniors need to focus on "how they can use their education in grad school or in the job search by putting your plan into place." Meet with advisors on a regular basis to not only network, but to determine precisely what job position you would like to hold. Instead of sending out thousands of random job applications, devise a plan and focus your search. Decide on an industry and then determine when the prime recruiting period is. In general, corporate positions tend to recruit in the fall and academic research positions in the spring. Apply to a select few that you would be interested in working for and go above and beyond to connect with each company.

Keep in mind; every single person will have different experiences and continue on their own unique career journey.

- STANLEY AMMONDSON

Juniors: Prove Yourself Junior year is the first year where people start to understand and value what it means to be an upperclassman. They know how to dress, who to call for the apartment numbers, which professors to take and when it's less than ideal to go to D-hall. Now it's game time. This year is when students need to start taking their careers seriously. Stevenson suggests: "Students need to look for ways to get more experience through research, externships, internships or jobs. They need to start to understand how their classes may fit future career goals." It's crucial to understand that every person will take their own unique path. There are literally thousands of things to do that could be resume boosters, including internships, research, and individualized projects. A great resource to utilize is the UR summer fellowship program. This provides students with funding to pursue almost any experience that they propose. Another resource to utilize is the Corporate Careers Expo, which unfortunately will not happen again until next spring.

If the Expo isn't your thing, you can utilize connections that you have made so far in order to have a productive and meaningful summer. The summer after Junior year is critical as it is the first summer when employers start to

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THE INTERVIEW

President Ayers: A Changing University

Seven years is a long time to be President of anything. Just look at how gray President Obama's hair looks after just five. Forum Magazine's Editor-in-Chief John McAuliff sat down with President Ed Ayers to get a sense of the University of Richmond circa 2013. Ayers, a historian by trade, will try and place you at a point in time between the University we have been, and the one we are becoming-financially, geographically, and demographically. We'll just let him tell you himself.

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The Ayers Presidency is entering its Administration so far?

If you just look at the numbers, the fact we've seventh year. President Obama is in doubled domestic students of color and doubled his fifth, any advice for him?

I admire his ability to have a sense of humor.

You know, the leader of the free world and you can joke a little bit. It's a lesson for all of us. I try to take my lessons from him but I don't have any for him.

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international students in five years I think is a remarkable accomplishment of the university as a whole. I think it has changed the fabric of life

here. It has changed our sense of what's possible.

The fact that by making us more inclusive, we are increasingly attractive to people of all backgrounds around the country.

So where are we headed?

What we need to remember as we come upon our centennial, the University of Richmond as we know it now is actually a very young institution, and we can get better in every way. We've undergone some pretty serious changes in the last decade, and I think in many ways, pausing for a moment to take stock and figure out what we want to do is appropriate. After the campaign this year, the following year should be a time for reflection with the centennial. I don't think we want to give up anything we've accomplished these last five

''My challenge is to change the things that could be changed without ruining the things that are already great.

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years. I don't think this place will ever be less diverse. I don't think it will ever be less ambitious.

I don't think it will ever be less devoted to undergrad education. However, we can accomplish each of those things more effectively.

How do these changes affect our relationship with the alumni who went to a very different University of Richmond?

What I find is that people are unified far more than they are divided. I don't find anybody who regrets the direction we are going. I don't find anybody who thinks we are losing what they valued most, that sense of devotion of the faculty to the students. My challenge is to change the things that could be changed without ruining the things that are already great. I'd say for a place to have changed as much as we have, and to have brought everybody along with us is something we should be grateful for and it's a testament to the kind of alumni we have who are proud of a university that looks more like America and more like the world.

What are UR Summer Fellowships and why do we need them?

Their key aspect is this: By establishing a common mechanism by which students can be aware of all the opportunities they have before them. Some that they will create for themselves, others that the university helps find for them others through connections with alumni and parents and neighbors here, some that the faculty are creating, some that are brought to us by the organizations themselves. The idea is to find the commonality that allows people to create the education that they want.

What are UR Summer Fellowships?

Any UR student can apply for up to $4,000 in funding to help afford an internship, research with a professor, or their own project. The goal of the fundraising effort for the program is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to do so during their time at UR, if they want it.

"The idea is to find the commonality

that allows people to create the education that they want.''

The number of universities offering fully need-blind admissions dropped over the last few years to about 1% nationwide. Richmond is one of those schools. Will we be able to keep that distinction?

"We're now 100% off coal ," said President Ayers. This comes after student protests against the use of coal in 2010.

"It's young people's jobs to think about what could be better."

Yes. There's no inclination on the part of anybody to back off. The reason I came here was because of that and UR is well positioned to sustain it.

Why does need-blind admission matter?

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