Billy Mehalick ’08″When you’re in a really dark room and there is a mirror in it and then you see yourself. Well, mirrors in general.”

Tamara Parker “That we pick the wrong president. I don’t trust either of them.”

Kate Czarniak ’06″Midgets, because I had a dream once when one chased me with a knife.”

Ryan Circh ’07″Coach Acquarulo. Have you seen the guy before? Enough said.”

Hiatt Zhar ’06″Bugs. They’re annoying, I want to step on them and I’m Buddhist too.”

Zoe Sylvester ’05Micky New ’05″Halloween candy thathas been poisoned by perverts.”



Plutzik reading series returns hosting Gabriel Bump

Reading from his forthcoming novel, Bump gave voice to a man pondering his upbringing and parental figures. 

A timely love letter to February

Although you happen to be the shortest month of the year, it feels like forever since you first arrived. Before we return to the monotony of 30 or 31-day months again, I just wanted to write this just to thank you for your visit and reminisce about some wonderful memories.

UR graduate students hold protest for unionization

Graduate student organizers are ready to do “whatever it takes” to form a union. “We feel like there's an extreme need here to get it done as quickly as possible,” said organizer Katie Gregory, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “Up to and including a strike, everything's on the table.”