Archive: Feb 2011
Features
Rockin' on with the UR spirit!
UR Spirit Coordinator and Warner School senior Jeremy Friedman, and Students’ Association President and junior Scott Strenger, spoke with the Campus Times about the UR Spirit Coordination Team. What is the Spirit Coordination Team and what do you do? SS: The Spirit Coordination Team includes individuals from throughout the University. It is headed by the […]
Security Update
Security Update: Creeper identified at Eastman
This week's security updates bring you a Blackberry burglar, a drunken visitor at Crosby and an ice skating outing gone bad. Read More
Sex and the CT
Undergraduate intercourse: getting into your genes
An examination of biology in human sexual activity. Read More
Features
Reality Chic: economic adversity versus fashion
A look at the functionality, affordability and feasibility of high fashion on the runway and on the streets. Read More
Ed Observers
Ronald Reagan: reminisce or regret?
Sunday, Feb. 6 marks what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, had he not succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease in 2004. Many conservative Americans will treat Sunday as a special day, since Reagan was, and remains, the most dynamic Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower. Indeed, some neoconservatives want to put Reagan on the $50 bill. […]
Features
One Loko: removal of ingredients upsets franchise
The removal of ingredients in Four Loko creates a new, weaker hybrid. Read More
Editorial Boards
Bad snow job
For several days, we heard buzz about a supposed snow-pocalypse that was forecast to hit Rochester on Wednesday, Feb. 2. Weather reports gave advance warnings about what sounded like the storm to end all storms. In the end, of course, it turned out to be quite the anti-climax — the snow was no worse than […]
Features
Student performances shine at Dancing With UR Stars
In preparation for Spirit Week 2011, the University of Rochester 2014 Class Council sponsored a dance tournament titled “Dancing with the UR Stars,” which took place on Tuesday, Feb. 1, from 8-10 p.m. The judges consisted of Todd Kraus (UR chemistry department), John Olsen (UR mathematics department), Richard Feldman (Dean’s Office of College Admissions), and […]
Editorial Boards
Campus groups stifled
To the campus community, the Students’ Association praises the diversity of groups on campus and encourages their formation, but there is a stark difference between this portrait and the infinitely more bureaucratic reality. Founding a group on campus is not quite as easy as finding others with similar interests and filing a form with the […]
Op-Eds
The case against Roe v. Wade, 38 years later
Last week marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Along with thousands of other demonstrators, we braved the cold to protest the ruling in this year’s March for Life, an annual rally that winds past the Capitol and ends in front of the Supreme Court. It is ironic to demonstrate outside our nation’s highest […]