Gareth Woo

Over 40 students and faculty at the University of Richmond gathered Thursday, Nov. 13 for a discussion on the impact of rising political pressures on academic freedom.

Four members, Chick-fil-A, and a dream. That’s all it took for a group of J.R. Tucker High School students to beat out more than 200 teams and land a spot in the Federal Reserve’s Journal of Future Economists. The Federal Reserve’s High School Fed Challenge is an annual competition run by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in which students work in teams to research a chosen topic and create a podcast script explaining an economic issue based on a theme.

Democratic incumbent Del. Michael Jones won the race for District 77 of the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday night, defeating Republican Richard Stonage Jr in a landslide. Jones, who won with about 76% of the vote, as of 9:30 p.m. He centered his campaign around education, economic mobility, justice reform, environment and women's health.