Andrew Otis
Andrew Otis
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Changes coming soon to UR Dining

Dining Services will be reorganizing the layout of dining halls, hours and meal plans in the future. Read More

'Jackets sting juicy Big Red

The Yellowjackets took down Franklin and Marshall, Cornell and UPenn this week. They suffered their third loss of the season to No. 3 Princeton. Read More

The online revolution

The revolution may not by televised, but it will be viewed on YouTube, shared on Facebook and posted on Twitter. On Dec. 17, 2010, a fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, burned himself alive to protest the Tunisian police. Street vending is illegal in Tunisia, and authorities regularly confiscated Bouazizi’s small wheelbarrow of fruit. He had been […]

Chickens run down 'Jackets

UR put up a tough fight, but in the end the No. 1 Trinity Bantams were simply too much as Squash fell, 6-3. Read More

‘Jackets thrown to the dogs

Yale downed the UR squash team, 7-2, to hand the home team its first loss of the season. Read More

Nepal and India: a world of difference

We entered Nepal, a country of counterfeit North Face and Columbia jackets, fearsome gurkha soldiers (the Maoist insurgency ended in 2008), legions of foreigners set to go trekking (mountain climbing) and mountainous road passes that act as the arteries of the nation. Read More

Stranger in a strange land: Hyderabad style

We entered the 1,000 Pillar Temple in Warangal and were blessed. The monk applied the red mark — the Kumkum ­— to our grimy, dirty, ignorant, American foreheads in this holy place. Read More

The State of Zimbabwean refugees

One thousand five hundred people now live in canvas tents on a football field-sized patch of dirt. On another field a few hours away, 200 people sleep each night with no blankets and no roof.These are the situations at two refugee camps outside of Cape Town, South Africa. The first camp is De Doorns. The […]

View from Abroad: South Africa

'Brother, sorry brother. Can you help me?"'Two rand for milk and bread?" I look at him a beggar with a bright neon security vest, guarding cars shake my head and walk into a 7-Eleven looking for skim milk, which hardly exists here. They seem to only have whole and two percent milk in stock. Damn […]
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Cape Town's beauty and chaos

In Cape Town, you cannot walk on the streets alone at night, especially if you are white or look wealthy. Murder and rape rates are among the highest in the world. HIV/AIDS prevalence is near 20 percent. Huge disparities still exist between whites, blacks and coloreds, considered an ethnicity in some African countries. Clubs and […]