Archive: Apr 2003
Campus Briefs
After two years of service in the Students' Association Senate, Class of 2004 Senator Peter Ordal resigned last week.Ordal's departure was not a direct result of recent struggles within the student government and the All Campus Judicial Council rulings regarding elections. "As long as I've been on senate there have always been internal matters eating […]
Students face new security
With recent international affairs and the restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service into the Department of Homeland Security, new measures have been taken that affect international students at UR."They're generally tightening down on everything," Director of International Relations Cary Jensen said.Beginning as far back as the 1993 Trade Center bombing, new procedures were brought […]
Administration halts SA fee increase
Dean of The College William Green rejected a proposal to raise the student activities fee for next year -a proposal that was created by the Students' Association government. The proposal was to raise the fee by $25, increasing the amount collected by nearly $100,000."The status of student government is a little uneven at best," Dean […]
Security Update
An undergraduate student was reportedly assaulted while walking to the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house on March 23 at approximately 4:20 a.m.Two members of a group of four persons crossed the fraternity quad from the sidewalk between the Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternity houses and struck the victim several times in the face. The […]
Optics professor shares insights
James Zavislan, an associate professor at the Institute of Optics, is currently working on a microscope that is able to image unprepared tissue with cellular resolution in order to uniquely identify immune cells. "I enjoy the scale of optics," Zavislan said. "Optics plays a role in all scales of the universe - from galaxies to […]
Activist speaks on environment
As part of the Environmental Science 103 curriculum, environmental activist Sue Mihalyi from the group Kandid Core visited the class Wednesday to speak on the health effects of Kodak's pollution."Currently, Monroe County is fifth in the country for cancer causing chemical releases. From 1982 to today, 64 million pounds of carcinogens have been released into […]
Local rally held
On March 28, a crowd of just under 1,000 made up of doctors, parents and students marched through the streets of rush hour Rochester chanting in unison "Healthcare not Warfare." The protest, part of a schedule of anti-war rallies organized each Friday in front of the downtown Liberty Pole, focused on the large amount of […]
Scientific Laws in Human Development Scientific Results
Scientific Laws in Human Development. Developing Skills in Productive Fields of Interest. Do you give positive attention while one is being good? According to Doctor Fitzhough Dodson some learned the only way to receive attention was through inappropriate behavior. As long as one was good one may have been ignored. Some who ignored others when […]
War on Slander
I protest the war. I support our troops. These two statements are not mutually exclusive yet this has been lost in the heat of the debate between pro-war and anti-war parties. When protesters decry the loss of life in this war on Iraq, one should never forget that this includes American lives as well as […]
Crapchester, NY
Crapchester, NY