Archive: May 2003
What you owe
As students, we complain a lot. We complain about a lack of parking spots. We complain about too much homework. We complain about food and ARAMARK. And, the favorite way to do it seems to be to insert a complaint along with the phrase "I pay $35,000 a year to go to this school."Sometimes it […]
Learning the lessons
The night before I left to go to college freshman year, a very wise family friend told me three things:1) Never eat at a place called Mom's.2) Never play cards with a guy named Doc.3) Never trust anyone who says "trust me."Well, it has been four years, and I have never eaten at a place […]
Solid contributions
As my brother begins his college search, it makes me think back to the time when I was deciding which college to attend. Some of my reasons seem arbitrary now, and I am grateful that I ended up at a place that suits me so well. The college selection process was stressful because you were […]
Be sure to explore
Over the course of the first 18 years of my life, I lived in a number of different metropolitan areas around the world. When I first arrived in Rochester, I had no idea of what this city could possibly offer me.My first impression of Rochester came from the Visitors' Guide that accompanied my information packet […]
UR issues memo on SARS
In response to concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome, Provost Charles Phelps issued a memo on May 2 recommending that family members of graduating seniors traveling from countries that have been "defined as 'Travel Advisory' areas" by the World Health Organization not attend this weekend's commencement ceremony. Instead, Phelps recommended that families not attending commencement […]
National journalists attend senior seminar
Senior students from the Religion and Classics Department participated in a roundtable discussion with local and national journalists regarding a semester long study about how the media reports religion.President Thomas Jackson felt that the topic of religion was "undeniably critically important.""It is no accident that religion is in the first amendment of the Bill of […]
Brand to speak
Myles Brand, current president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, will be one of the speakers sending the graduating class of 2003 off into the future at the commencement ceremony this weekend.Brand, a graduate philosophy student at UR who received his Ph. D. in 1967, will be accepting the Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith […]
Looking back at four years
1.Freshman housing implementedDespite undergraduate protests, freshman housing began in the 2001-2 academic year with the class housed in the Residential Quad. The decision came after the recommendation of Residential College Commission in the Spring of 1999 that all freshman be housed together in order to facilitate better programming and unify the class.Complaints followed that freshman […]
D-Day
I have a friend who went to the hospital on D-Day after having too much to drink. This week, she received a notification from the university that she has to meet with various authorities to discuss her actions. It took some intelligent friends to realize she was in trouble, and take her to the hospital […]