Archive: Dec 2006
Remember Me?
Awista Ayub is proof that combining ambition and skills gained at UR can take you far. A native of Kabul, Afghanistan, raised in Connecticut and currently living in Washington, D.C., Awista has seen many facets of life. After graduating in 2001, she went to work for the Embassy of Afghanistan as the Education and Health […]
Sex and the CT
When did it become the girl's responsibility to make the first move? I remember the good old days when guys were the ones who made the first phone call and rudely grabbed at inappropriate places. It never used to be the girl's job to swoop in and initiate the first kiss - the girl as […]
Card counting
The Varsity Students Athlete Advisory Committee and the Students' Association are constantly searching for new ways to increase student involvement at Varsity athletic games. While in the past these organizations have funded buses to St. John Fisher College or t-shirts and foam props for students, this year they have stepped the involvement up a notch. […]
Caught in the Web
Recently the Dean of Students' Office published a newsletter about the dangers of publishing your personal information online. The most basic summation of the newsletter is this: once you post something on the internet, it is public information. This simply means that students need to make responsible choices about what they are willing to share […]
Students clean up the 19th Ward
Over 200 UR students volunteered last weekend for Be the Change Day, a community service project that helped to clean up the 19th Ward. The students, armed with rakes, shovels and orange garbage bags, picked up trash in the vicinity of Clara Barton School No. 2.Be the Change Day is Rochester's way of celebrating National […]
Paradise lost
A number of fatal school shootings have recently occurred around the country. The first of these occurred in Colorado and Wisconsin, leaving a scar on their respective communities. The latest and most disturbing of these shootings took place this past Monday in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Charles C. Roberts IV took an Amish one-room school house […]
New radio lineup set
UR's radio station WRUR and WXXI, an NPR affiliate, announced the fall semester schedule on Sept.. 18, which is to last through winter break. "It is catering to people who are really looking for a big variety," WRUR General Manager and junior C. Mike Lindsey said. Former Dean of The College William Green approached WXXI […]
Big polluters' attacked
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke last Thursday night, criticizing the media, the Bush administration and the leaders of the country's most prominent industries. He called them catalysts for the increasingly deteriorating conditions of the nation's water, air and forests. Kennedy is the author of "Crimes Against Nature" and the co-author of "The Riverkeepers," but is […]
Bone marrow drive registers students
Sigma Psi Zeta sorority hosted its annual bone marrow registry drive on Wednesday, Sept. 27 and Thursday, Sept. 28 in Hirst Lounge of Wilson Commons. Each year, over 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with diseases that can be cured via a blood or marrow transplant. Blood and bone marrow transplants […]
Greek fall rush ends
UR's fraternities and sororities ended their biannual rush events last week, completing weeks of recruitment events on and off campus. Flyers posted everywhere from the tunnels to Douglass Dining Center publicized the recruitment events for many chapters belonging to the Panhellenic Association and the Fraternity Presidents' Council. There were different incentives for students deciding to […]