Archive: Feb 2004
RIAA talk draws full house
On Monday, Feb. 16, a discussion titled "What Part of Jailhouse Rock Don't You Understand?" was held in Hoyt Auditorium about the ethics and legality of file sharing. The debate was a popular event, almost filling the auditorium with students, professors and other interested viewers. Speaking at the discussion were president of the Recording Industry […]
Cardiac arrest on campus
Local celebrity and WHAM entertainment critic Bill Klein went into cardiac arrest at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18 just before starting a speaking engagement on campus. He was pronounced dead at 8:43 a.m. at Strong Memorial Hospital. He was 60. Klein was at the Hoyt Auditorium to meet with students from the Rochester Junior […]
Summer housing moves to GLC
Students staying at UR over the summer will be housed in deKiewiet and Valentine Towers in the Graduate Living Center this summer. For the past several years, students were housed in Anderson and Wilder Towers. However, this summer those buildings will be undergoing critical upgrades to the electrical system, making them uninhabitable for the summer."The […]
Global warming talk fascinates
Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park, Miranda Schreurs, discussed U.S. comparative environmental energy politics and the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, Feb. 13. With the heated debate on global warming ensuing, Schreurs discussed the politics of emissions standards, environmental policy and related topics - issues […]
Clothesline' spreads awareness
By Darcy JohnsonWhile many people know that roughly 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam War, far fewer realize that about 51,000 women were killed in those same years by men who supposedly loved them. One program that attempts to publicize such tragedies is the Clothesline Project. Started in Massachusetts in 1990, the project now reaches […]
Carbonation Altercation
Coke vs. Pepsi. Who else thinks that this battle has gotten worn out? It's no longer about which tastes better. They hire rival pop singers to advertise and we end up buying whichever brand we find has the least offensive mascot. Here at school, it's not like we even have a choice - Pepsi products […]
SA Profile: Thelion Society
Several times each week, many UR students gather around a table full of buzzers and battle to see who can answer the most questions correctly, quizzing each other in the Lovejoy Hall basement and taking their knowledge around the country to represent the university.These students are members of the school's Thelion Society, a name created […]
Sanskrit program deserves to remain at UR
I am an H. To those of you who don't know what that means, my original UR e-mail address was sb009h, I was in the class of '02. I owed the school money and it took me a while to pay it back, but I've been hanging around all the while. When I was a […]
France enforces assimilation
France has made international headlines for their plan to ban the wearing of overtly religious symbols, including headscarves, skullcaps and large crosses, in schools and other public places. While the ban is perfectly in line with the secularization sentiment dominant in much of Europe, what should be disconcerting is that this ban is an attempt […]
Sexuality made up of more than just actions
Hey. I am a straight man, but I don't mind receiving fellatio from presumably gay men. Some of my friends think that makes me gay or somewhat bisexual. I disagree. What do you think?~Straight ShooterDear Straight Shooter,Gay and straight are not exactly as clear-cut as nibble or suck. First, work on looking at the context […]