Archive: Sep 2010
Editorial Boards
Commons renovations
To say that the newly renovated Commons is anything but a vast improvement is an understatement. The myriad of new food options and the restructured eating setting have taken one of the least favorite eating places on campus — the name certainly rivaled its reputation — into a landmark new dining establishment that has not […]
Editorial Boards
Welcoming transfers
In a September 2008 editorial, Campus Times wrote about the lack of adequate attention paid to new transfer students at UR. At the time of the editorial, transfers lacked tools for creating social connections with one another — including an orientation longer than a day or adequate on-campus housing. Today, it is heartening to see […]
Security Update
Two students taken to Strong Memorial Hospital
Two River Campus students had to be transported to Strong Memorial Hospital within two hours of each other on Tuesday, Sep. 8. The first incident occurred at around 6 p.m. outside of Tiernan Hall. A student injured his knee while running, leading security to transport him to Strong. In the second, which occurred at 7:56 […]
Security Update
Student loses property in Wilson Commons
At around 12 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4, a student reportedly lost several personal belongs near Wilson Commons. According to Lafferty, the student forgot the items and left the premises. Upon remembering her belongings and returning to the scene, she found that her property had gone missing. Among the items reported missing were personal identification […]
Security Update
Suspicious individuals found loitering on footbridge
Two youths were observed hanging around the fraternity quad and on the pedestrian footbridge — apparently without purpose — at 1:58 a.m. early Sunday morning. According to Lafferty, Security responded to the report of the suspicious individuals and confronted them. After the suspects claimed that they had no identification on their person, Rochester police were […]
Security Update
Textbook thief strikes twice
Employees at the campus bookstore noticed a suspicious individual leaving the store with four stolen calculus textbooks at around 12:50 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2. According to UR Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty, the suspect then departed the scene in the direction of Library Road. Officers responded to the scene and checked the exterior of the […]
News
UR mourns death
Kurt Bertram was found dead on Aug. 29 in his Rochester apartment. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death. Bertram received his master of science last spring and was about to embark on his Ph.D. studies this fall in the Toxicology Training Program. A member of the Department of Environmental Medicine, Bertram […]
Rochester’s Public Market voted best in the United States
At midnight on Sept. 1, the votes were in and the tally was announced: The Rochester Public Market had been voted as the country’s favorite large farmer’s market. The national contest attracted over 50,000 voters and with more than 5,200 votes, the Rochester Public Market blew away the competition with nearly double the amount of […]
News
UR program boosts local politics
It’s well known that college students are not always the most involved group when it comes to politics, especially at the local level. An initiative started at UR, however, is looking to change this by encouraging college students to become election inspectors (i.e. poll workers) for the Monroe County general elections. The new initiative — […]
Culture
The CT ‘Inception’ Smackdown
The consensus about this summer’s movies is that they were all sad affairs, with two glorious exceptions: The impossible-to-resist “Toy Story 3” and Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending psychological thriller “Inception.” But Willie Clark, the devoted Editor-in-Chief of the Campus Times, happened to be in the minority of people who thought “Inception” was a flat-out disappointment. This […]