By: Conor Willis

These days, media outlets are faced with a real dilemma — how to stay financially solvent and report the news accurately and with integrity. That these goals conflict with each other has been a well-documented problem in recent years....

By: Editorial Board

The concept of school reform is a noble cause and Duffy has good intentions. However, we are concerned that the terms of the mayoral control debate are overlooking a much larger issue, poverty, that plays a significant role in the limitations of a school ...

By: Editorial Board

Each spring and winter recess, students struggle to find cheap and convenient transportation when they return home. Unlike other schools, UR has not managed to find a successful way to provide affordable and easy transportation during major breaks....

By: Mario Morales

Maybe what the Senate needs, to get over its love of obstruction, is a return to core debate principles. Legislative minorities play a valuable role in moderating political agendas, but they should not be permitted to obstruct them wholesale through notes...

By: Naomi Ashan

Religions do not inherently and inevitably lead to conflict, and religious division is not necessarily violent or negative as a force in the world....

By: Michael Shteyn

Publicly, it’s pretty respectable to be tolerant of other people’s religious views and just to be passive when it comes to any of the countless outrageous rituals we accept as rational in the 21st century. But is it harmless to be just passive...

By: Matthew Dawidowicz

Some people wish we could go back to the days of parties working together flawlessly as U.S. representatives first and partisan hacks second. But there is one big problem. Historical trends have culminated in this current Congress to create these unbridge...

By: Amir Khan

Due to the economic recession, some state and city governments are cutting spending on essential public services such as education and mass transit. Yet in major sports venues across the United States, tax dollars are being used to subsidize the costs of ...

By: Diana Duarte

Two weeks ago, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer, posted his suicide note in the early morning, lit his home on fire and left to fly his airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Why did he do it? Beyond the faith that we put in government ...

By: Jerome Nathaniel

When a person of any belief is down and out of luck, basic human needs are a part of a salvation that should always be accessible through churches....

By: Editorial Board

The recent announcement that the College of Arts and Sciences is looking to improve summer life on River Campus acknowledges the current disparity between student life during the summer and the academic terms....

By: Editorial Board

While a small-scale arts scholarship will not transform the River Campus alone, it at least begins to promote an area that is evidently popular....

By: Hagghai Kipsat

We all love Cinderella stories, and when we see our beloved athletes doing these charming things, we tend to idolize them. As time goes by, these sportsmen start winning endorsements because fans love them, and their conduct off the field becomes almost a...

By: Matthew Dawidowicz

While it is nice to know what deals are being made, politics is about taking individual interests and combining them for a collective result. If backroom deals have to be made, so be it. Transparency is an overrated and unattainable goal....

By: Gregory Van Houten

Last week, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) announced that he will not seek re-election this coming November. Bayh, a two-term senator, surprised Democratic officials in Washington and people across America with his decision. He has made his reason for leaving of...

By: Alissa Brill

I am writing in response to the editorial article written last week called “The failure of FLEX.” This article completely disregards some of the great benefits of the FLEX program and lacks a sound basis for many of its arguments. ...

By: Caitlin Olfano

The Olympic Games have become synonymous with worldwide competition and camaraderie. Last Friday, the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics marked the start of a new season where ideals of peace and unity are emphasized. ...

By: Editorial Board

Last Thursday evening, a professor from the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development held a teach-in to inform students and community members about the details of Mayor Bob Duffy’s push for mayoral control of the Rochester ...

By: Editorial Board

It takes only a small amount of trash in a recycling bin to prevent an entire load from being processed — eight percent of the material, according to Monroe County guidelines. UR’s ignorance, especially students’, is both an unnecessary ...

By: Eloise Rogers

Approximately $133 million of the taxpayers’ money is now being used for a national ad campaign to promote the census. But for many Americans this raises the following question: Why should we care?...