The brooms can't fly and the snitch is a human player, but VCU is following in the footsteps of more than 130 other schools across the U.S., Canada and Argentina by forming a campus muggle quidditch team.
After a drawn-out election process for the Monroe Park Campus Student Government Association, most of next year's new legislative and executive branch members were sworn in Monday.
VCU men's tennis coach Paul Kostin claimed his 800th victory earlier this month, making him the fifth head coach in Division I to reach that milestone.
With flicks hitting the silver screen every Friday from now until the start of the fall semester - except for the week of Independence Day, when movies will hit the screen July 2 - there almost always is going to be a good excuse to run to the theater and drop $10. If titles such as "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" and "Sex and the City: the Movie" make you a little queasy, there's always the free and invigorating bike ride to Belle Isle.
It's spring again, and - alas - another school year is over. This is the part where I'm supposed to make you, the reader, all teary-eyed about this being my last editorial for The CT. Sorry-that's not my style. I'd much rather go out with guns blazing. I'll save the teary-eyed stuff for the series-finale cliffhanger of "Pizza from Scratch" (spoiler alert: Unca Lux gets cancer).