Archives - Aurek Ransom
Guns
Security Commission recommends arming select DPS officers
University President Joel Seligman stressed in a Thursday email to all students, faculty, and staff that no decision would be made without community input. Read More
Editorial Boards
We need critics, too
News outlets, powerful and influential as they are, have an obligation to report things fairly, but sometimes impartiality becomes detachment. Read More
Guns
Commission makes preliminary recommendation for limited guns at Med Center
A University commission has made a preliminary recommendation to arm a handful of Public Safety officers at the Medical Center, though it will neither be considered nor publicized by UR until the fall semester. Read More
Winterfest Weekend
Few heckle, but many just laugh
In response to the pushback against Saturday’s performance, CAB Administrative Chair and senior Samantha Lish said that the Board has plans to “avoid any future relationship with Viola.” Read More
Ed Observers
The Campus Times they are a-changin’
As one of the oldest student organizations on campus, the CT boasts tremendous staying power—and we intend to keep the stone rolling through this year and into the next. Read More
Campus
Student retracts racial slur accusation
A student has retracted claims of racial slurs being used by Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers against him at the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) house Friday night. Read More
Music
Wynton Marsalis shines a light
Jazzman Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra visit the Eastman School of Music for a rousing holiday concert, and guest vocalist Audrey Shakir talks about her career and jazz inspirations. Read More
Ed Observers
Hold off on your post-mortem
Decades from now, a student might glance at her course syllabus and see our generation, the early 2000s, listed as an area of study. We could be the focus because of our generation’s historical merit: our intrinsic interestingness, perhaps, or our events—migrations, movements, each taking years to manifest, all the way down to the minutiae […]
Culture
A conversation with Keith Elder, the Eastman Director of Concert Activities
Aurek Ransom: What do you think is important for us to know about what you did before [coming to] Eastman? Keith Elder: Prior to Eastman, I worked 18 years in the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops. While working there, I got a degree in law, so I’m a lawyer as well. While working, I […]
