Archive: Sep 2011
News
Tragedy hits close to home: UR rallying to help
Noel Parcells, daughter of senior Raechel Isales Coffey, and her half-sister Mia Parcells were killed by their father Adam Parcells on Monday, Sept. 5. UR has since rallied support for Coffey in this time of tragedy. Read More
News
Big hopes pinned on small particles
Research at the new $10 million URnano center on everything from biomedical implants to fuel cells is being touted as an important advancement for UR. Read More
News
Sky's the limit: senior named UR's first Astonaut Scholar
Darcey Riley, a computer science, math and linguistics triple major, has been awarded a prestigious $10,000 Astronaut Scholarship, the first for a UR student. Read More
Security Update
Security Update: His towel is bigger than yours
1. An individual wearing a towel around his neck refused to stop when leaving the Goergen Athletic Center on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 10:46 p.m., after a student employee told him to, according to UR Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty. Security officers located the individual on Library Road and determined that the towel wasn’t University property […]
Editorial Boards
Add/Drop time dilemma
With such a short online add/drop period, students are quickly forced to resort to a convoluted manual system to make course changes. Read More
Editorial Boards
Athletics overbooked
When a university on a relatively small campus has a full listing of varsity sports teams, it’s only natural that the practice facilities will be coveted resources. Factor in all the club sports and intramural teams at UR — all of which need practice time of their own — and the demand for the available […]
Ed Observers
Rocky relationship: the buzz on mascots
An ed-observer comparing Georgia Institute of Technology's "Buzz" to UR's "Rocky" the yellowjacket Read More
Op-Eds
It’s the Rule of Law, not of Convenience
A rebuttal to the last issue's article "Activists on the Bench," on Brown vs. Plata. Read More
Op-Eds
Discriminating tastes
An examination of civil rights in the case of Abdulkadir Omar. Read More