Archive: Feb 2004
Persistence leads to trials shaping life for good
Nearly everyone has, at one point in their life, faced trials and tribulations in their everyday living. These life-altering events have undoubtedly shaped, molded and formed their views of the world, and have greatly influenced their values and beliefs in the process. They also have a lasting lifelong impact, be it positive or negative, and […]
Jackson not sweating rights of workers
I wish to comment on President Jackson's policy on the university's position on joining the Worker's Right's Consortium. His justifications for not joining are incomplete, misleading and not wholly accurate. Between 1999 and 2001 the student movement known as "No Sweat" mobilized a significant portion of the campus to ask that the university join the […]
From the pressbox
The recurring theme of the preeminence of sexuality in sports was brought up yet again in the news with the University of Colorado football sex scandal. Seven women have recently come forward to assert that they had been raped by Colorado football players or recruits, in various incidents since 1997. Now the university is investigating […]
Mutant mouse' quest conquered
A team of scientists from UR and the University of Melbourne, in Australia, are working together to create a new "mutant mouse" that could one day help to cure a series of rare diseases that affect young children.Director of UR Transgenic Facility Carl Pinkert and Ian Trounce from the University of Melbourne teamed up a […]
Campus Briefs
Lab offers HS Summer ResearchUR Laboratory for Laser Lab Energetics presents its 16th annual High School Summer Research Program for local high school students this summer.About twelve students who have finished their junior year will be selected through a competitive application process, which includes an essay describing the interest in the fields of science, a […]
Security Update
Security responds quickly to fire in StrongSecurity officers responded to a report of fire in Strong after 8 a.m. on Feb. 20. The cause was determined to be a fire in a light fixture and the Rochester Fire Department responded, according to security.Approximately $100 of university property was damaged.Students rushed to Strong HospitalA student, who […]
Students start sex-ed center
UR will soon be home to SECS - the Sexual Education Center for Students, a volunteer sexual education program organized and run largely by students. "The sexual education center will be a resource for students to get sexual health information and sexual health products," senior Lindsay Lefenfeld, who has assisted in the center's planning from […]
Fighting for choice in Texas
This week, Texas provided the country with two bizarre women's rights stories. Waco, Texas listeners to a Christian radio station heard a call to boycott Girl Scout cookies. While no funds from cookie sales go to any pro-choice organization and though the Scouts take no position on abortion or sex education, the Girl Scouts logo […]
Interfaith sponsors aid work
The Religious Roundtable group assembled 500 hygiene kits from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20, as part of the Interfaith Service Project in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons. The kits each contained two combs, four toothbrushes, one tube of toothpaste, two bars of soap and two hand towels. Latter-day Saint Humanitarian Services […]
Passion' needs temperance
This week, Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," which depicts the final hours of Jesus' life and the circumstances surrounding his crucifixion, all in gruesome detail, was released to public audiences across the country. Thousands of people have since watched "The Passion" and many found it a deeply moving, spiritual experience. Many others, […]