Archive: Mar 2007
Remember Me? Malik Evans
UR graduate Malik Evans has managed to do big things in the city of Rochester. Since graduating in 2002, Evans has become Assistant Vice President for M&T Bank Corporation while also serving as a commissioner and Vice President of the Rochester Board of Education, to which he became the youngest member ever elected in 2003.Evans […]
Internship showcases office life
This semester, I took a foray into being a real person - that is, I took an internship. Like, in an office. While this represents real life for most people, it feels more like fiction to me; turns out there is more truth to "Office Space" and "The Office" than I would have hoped - […]
Horoscope
Aries (March 21-April 19) - After scheduling classes for your first semester of culinary school, you will be disappointed to find that 'wake and bake' actually refers to a 9 a.m. class.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - When on spring break, it's important to practice safe sex, unless of course you're drunk, in which case you're […]
Buses are the only way to fly
As a child, I was an avid reader and rather partial to the "Magic School Bus" series. I idolized Ms. Frizzle and remember being disappointed that my first grade teacher didn't have red hair. My favorite story detailed the exploration of the human body, as the class traveled through the digestive system of fellow classmate […]
Program sized up
The Collegiate Readership Program trial period ended on Friday, but the Rochester Center for Community Leadership said that some form of the program will, in all likelihood, be back next semester. For those students and faculty members who enjoyed grabbing a paper in their spare time over the past four weeks, this is music to […]
Consequence chain creates culpability concern
Culpability is a voluntary sentiment that I seldom decide to administer toward myself. How is it that, as people, we exhibit extremely different multitudes of sensitivity for bearing responsibility? I automatically recognize the consequences of my immediate actions: I got drunk instead of doing my reading so I am unable to answer the question the […]
Wu deals with energy
David Wu, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UR, has developed a way of considerably boosting the bacterium Clostridium thermocellum's ability to produce ethanol.Ethanol, which has been touted of late as the solution to the world's energy needs, is often referred to as "corn oil" by supporters of the quest for renewable […]
Thomas delivers speech
Helen Thomas, United Press International's White House correspondent for more than 50 years, spoke Tuesday night to a full crowd in Hubbell Auditorium as the keynote speaker of Women's History Month. Her message to the audience, which incorporated the women's right movement, the civil rights movement, the Iraq War and the War on Terror, was […]
City Cycles program soon to be reinstated
After folding last August due to thefts, City Cycles will be reinstated this spring with the support of Students' Association funding. "We hope to launch the program in time for spring, and we expect that the student body will receive it very well," Students' Association Senator, Projects and Services Committee member and sophomore Mike Furlani […]
Bathroom newsletter displays gender distinction
Students have probably noticed the University Health Service Health Promotion Office's "The Monthly InSTALLment" plastered in public bathrooms across campus. Students may have also noticed that the March 2007 "InSTALLment" is double-sided, with one side entitled "Wellness for UR Women" and the opposite side entitled "Men's Health." Both sides make a point of educating students […]