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Letter to the Editor: Senate bureaucracy
In response to Sam Tasker?s opinion piece in the March 29 issue of the CT, the Students? Association would like to clarify several points of concern. Student government members are some of the hardest working people at UR and we do it all for no pay, without expecting recognition and at the expense of our […]
Letter to the Editor: Dining with common sense
Congratulations to the student and faculty dining committees and to UR President Thomas Jackson for deciding to implement a dramatically different and economically sensible set of dining plans. I had the privilege of serving on the student dining committee before leaving to study abroad.When the committee was formed, we were faced with an existing plan […]
Horoscopes
Aries (March 21 ? April 19) ? You are a passion flower growing in a crack of an old cement street. Sometimes you believe everything as long as it?s a compliment.Taurus (April 20 ? May 20) ? Speak out when you feel something is wrong or when you feel uncomfortable. If you don?t fight for […]
African and American American Studies major may begin as early as next year
A major that incorporates French-Caribbean literature, Aboriginal culture and a history of the blues may be just around the corner and students won?t have to create it on their own.This new interdisciplinary major, African and African-American Studies, may be available for students as early as the beginning of next year. ?Why there isn?t a structured […]
Two students recover from last fall's car accident
Freshmen Angi Ausen and Luke Arndt are marked for life.The two friends have similar burns on their shoulders from the seat belts that saved them during the accident that took the life of fellow freshman Angelica Moustardas Sept. 28, 2000.It?s no surprise that the accident has affected the two friends? lives in many ways, especially […]
Security Update
Several areas on campus were sprayed with graffiti last week. A student discovered a derogatory message on the wall of the men?s bathroom near CLARC Wednesday, March 28 at 8:45 p.m. He notified UR Security. Officers photographed the graffiti and called in UR Facilities staff to begin removing the offensive writing.Security has not yet identified […]
Tunnel walls vandalized with derogatory words
Once again, a student group has painted the tunnel that runs under the Academic Quad only to have derogatory words painted over their work.In the latest incident in a recent string of tunnel defacing, someone spray-painted slurs over paintings by the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority Monday night.The vandalism consisted of slurs ranging from the racial, […]
Cheating on campus minimal
In a technological age in which cheating techniques are becoming more accessible and widespread, the number of UR students caught indulging in academic dishonesty is minimal and the faculty would like to see it stay that way. ?The board sees about 20 to 30 cases a year and I?d say about seven-eighths are very forthcoming […]
MCC student fights for right not to dissect
In a lengthy dispute at a neighboring college, Monroe Community College student Trulie Nobis has sparked debate over performing animal dissection in a human anatomy course at MCC.For Nobis, it is not an ?animal rights? concern, but rather an issue of religious discrimination.Nobis said she has religious objections to animal dissection, and therefore she believes […]
Student group plays pranks on campus
Abercrombie and Fitch warehouse sale. Disney characters on the Dandelion Square clock tower. The Mad Propper Manifesto. Sound familiar?There?s a new prankster on campus and it is not the reincarnation of Azariah Boody. In January, a group of students formed the Tiny People and have been responsible for a spat of campus-wide antics.?Our main goal […]