Like so many of my peers, I have gotten caught up in TheFacebook craze. TheFacebook isn’t just about measuring popularity by the amount of friends one has. It’s about measuring popularity through classmates, chance encounters, people whose mailbox is located near yours or anyone else who won’t reject you when you try to befriend them.

In addition to the people like me, who joined TheFacebook on Aug. 1 when it opened up to the UR community, many normal, less Internet dependent people have joined. Currently, over 2,000 UR students are members. It’s time that we set up several ground rules.



Rules of TheFacebook

The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More

Rules of TheFacebook

In anticipation of 2026’s graduation ceremony, the Campus Times conducted an interview with upcoming Commencement speaker Jeannine Shao Collins ’86. Collins, who earned a bachelor's degree in economics from URochester, currently works as the Chief Client Officer at Kargo: a multiplatform advertising and media company. Read More

Rules of TheFacebook

As Alice and Peter arrive in Hell, they chase after their advisor through a series of Hell’s courts, which test their magical knowledge — and their relationship. Read More