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Flooding in Multiple Residence Halls Causes Damages, Student Outrage

Flooding in Multiple Residence Halls Causes Damages, Student Outrage

By Sanchi Rohira January 27, 2022

When Samantha Deutsch (SFS ’25) returned to campus after winter break, she found water gushing from the ceiling of her Harbin residence hall.  “As I was walking toward the room, I noticed...

4Es Declassified Freshman Survival Guide: Dorm Perks

4E’s Declassified Freshman Survival Guide: Dorm Perks

By Mike Radice and Mike Radice August 14, 2016

At this point in the summer, every freshman's parents are probably crying every day – partly because they are facing the dreaded empty nest, but mostly because tuition is due. You aren't crying though,...

Roommate Horror Stories: Freshman Edition

Roommate Horror Stories: Freshman Edition

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz July 31, 2016

As explained by every Blue & Gray Tour Guide, CHARMS is an online matchmaking service to help incoming freshmen find their roommates. And as with any dating app, there are the stories of the students...

A Freshmans Guide to Manipulating Residential Living

A Freshman’s Guide to Manipulating Residential Living

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz April 21, 2016

It's that time of year for high school seniors. The time when they (those incoming freshman) fill out the famed Living Preference Questionnaire and begin the housing process. To all of you younglings,...

DPS Publishes Photo of Suspect

By Sarah Kaplan October 12, 2011

The Department of Public Safety warned campus to be on the lookout for a suspicious person who has attempted to enter multiple residence halls without identification. In an alert posted on its website...

Harbin Sweet Home: Building Dorm Pride

By Hanaa Khadraoui September 27, 2011

Bears, burglaries and fires, oh my! Besides the bears, the above statement turns out to be a pretty accurate summary of my experience so far in Harbin Hall. In the mere three weeks that I've been...

Harbin Hall Room Burglarized

By Sarah Kaplan September 18, 2011

A student's dorm room in Harbin Hall was burglarized at 9:40 p.m. Thursday night, according to the Department of Public Safety. The victim returned to his room after using the restroom and found that...

One October Morning

By Lauren Weber April 29, 2011

Once the epicenter of a clandestine drug lab that grabbed national attention, Room 926 in Harbin Hall sits empty this semester, its one-time residents and a campus visitor on three different paths after...

DMT Suspects Will Serve Three-Year Probation

By Mary Murphy and Lauren Weber February 11, 2011

Former Georgetown student Charles Smith and former University of Richmond student John Perrone were convicted Friday for attempted and unlawful manufacture of the controlled substance Dimethyltryptamine,...

DMT Lab Suspects Released After Hearing

By Laura Engshuber and Kathryn DeVincenzo October 28, 2010

Charles Smith (SFS '14) and University of Richmond freshman John Perrone, who were arrested on Saturday after an alleged DMT lab was found in Smith's Harbin Hall room, were released after a hearing in...

First-Year Harbin Resident Arrested by MPD

By Laura Engshuber October 28, 2010

First-year student Kelly Baltazar, a resident of Harbin Hall Room 229, was arrested Tuesday evening by the Metropolitan Police Department, according to university spokeswoman Julie Bataille. At her...

Bonding in a Time of Anxiety

By Masha Goncharova October 26, 2010

Every graduating class finds something to bond its members-a memory that dominates conversation at senior retreats and class reunions. Usually it happens toward junior or senior year, once everybody has...

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