Archive: Feb 2005
Campus Briefs: Sophomore Saturdays
The Sophomore Class Council held its first "Sophomore Saturday," designed to give sophomores and all other undergraduates a chance to get off campus and experience the city of Rochester. This past weekend, the Sophomore Saturday consisted of four events, with a focus on arts and culture. The first day's event was a trip to Artisan […]
URMC studies leukemia
A team of researchers at the UR Medical Center recently discovered a drug called parthenolide that could become a potential cure for leukemia."We found that the compound parthenolide that comes from feverfew - which is derived from a plant called Bachelor's Button, a kind of chamomile plant - can be used to significantly kill leukemic […]
India-Pakistan talks offer hope
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," Jawaharlal Nehru, free India's first Prime Minister, said on Aug. 15, 1947, as the nation rejoiced on the eve of its freedom after 157 years under British rule. India did awaken, only to be greeted by the […]
Bush plan lacks 'Security'
President George W. Bush used the State of the Union address as an opportunity to advocate his Social Security privatization plan. In his speech, Bush repeated his past claims that the current Social Security system would be "exhausted and bankrupt" by 2042. Though the current Social Security plan is in need of improvement, the Congressional […]
Expanded Letter dated February 18, 2005
Date: February 18, 2005From: Satish Chandra, P.O. Box 381629, Cambridge, MA 02238 Telephone: 617-282-4996 FAX: 617-825-4996 E-Mail: satchandra04@hotmail.com Webpage: http://www.Psychotherapy.eBoard.comDear Editor: Harvard's president has suggested that the paucity of women in science and engineering or top management positions is due to their genetic endowment and not due to environmental factors such as socialization and prejudice. […]
Shabbat brings crowd
Douglass Dining Center welcomed its biggest crowd so far this year Oct. 24 at the seventh annual campus- and community-wide Shabbat. Co-sponsored by Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Chabad, the annual event was dubbed Shabbat Hagadol, or the Great Shabbat, to reflect the large turnout expected. The over 600-person event, which […]
September 11th remembered at UR
Members of the UR community participated in moments of silence in remembrance of September 11. Informational presentations and a prayer service marked the second anniversary of the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks.At 8 a.m., residents of the Residential and Fraternity Quads were awakened by the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Officer Training Battalion. […]
McLachlan returns with soft sound
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, I sacrificed a last minute linguistics study session for a bus ride to Record Archive. What could be so important that I would put my academic future on the line? For a freak of soft-rock music like me, it could only be Sarah McLachlan's first studio-recorded album in years.Sarah McLachlan returns […]
Drop your books for just a minute
Finals got you down? Think the only way to ease the pain is to "hit the bottle?" Luckily, several campus groups and organizations have planned enough exciting events to lure the most dedicated students out of the stacks and away from future Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.The first event to kick off the stress-filled week is a […]
Journalist presents prison facts
Senior national correspondent for Reuters news agency Alan Elsner discussed the problems with America's prison system, the subject of his most recent book, "Gates of Injustice," in Gleason Hall on Feb. 15."As my book shows, there's a lot wrong with [the prison system]," Elsner said. "The system itself is dysfunctional. It's a system in which […]