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Over 40 people gathered on the River Level of the Interfaith Chapel Tuesday evening and sat at a remarkably long table arrangement. The table consisted of 14 bottles of wine, three pieces of Matzo, and eight plates with Zeroa (lamb bone), Beitzah (boiled egg), Maror (bitter herb), Charoset (a mixture of wine, nuts, apple and […]

New Zealand is well-known for its extreme sports. Aucklander A.J. Hackett opened the world's first commercial bungee jumping site in Queenstown, New Zealand in 1988. Since then, the bungee company has been growing, and eventually a site was established on the Auckland Harbour Bridge.Before I left the States, I decided I had to go bungee […]

We walked into a club we had never been to before, like new born animals in the jungle. There is a hierarchy in the animal kingdom where only the wildest and strongest of animals can survive, and when I say animals, I mean college-aged party animals. We had no clue what kind of oversexed jungle […]

Throughout the 2009-10 academic year, Students' Association President Eric Weissmann and Vice President Brittany Crowley have set the bar for the next leaders of the campus community.When Weissmann and Crowley ran for office last year, student communication and connectivity were prominent components of their platform. Both acknowledged that students were hardly aware of some of […]

Each year, UR undergraduates are required to pay a Student Activities fee, which support Students' Association Funded groups and supplemental funding. However, with about 240 SA Funded and Recognized groups, it is not possible to adequately fund the wishes of every organization.Last week, the SA Senate passed a nonbinding resolution, called 'A Sense of the […]

No, the recent health care reform bill will not suddenly sound the death knell for America. And no, we have not slipped into tyranny, as many in the Republican Party and Tea Party movement would suggest. Rather, the recent legislation seems to confirm the shocking ignorance of Democrats and the Obama administration, and their willingness […]

A lot of attention has been drawn to the 'Save the POA" campaign in the last couple of weeks. But why is the administration considering moving the Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library in the first place?The answer is a state-of-the-art, 50-workstation, 100-person capacity computer lab which the school currently lacks. This computer lab would be open to all […]

My name is Melissa Kelley and I am the Health Educator for the UHS Health Promotion Office. I am writing today to express my concern for a comment printed in this most recent edition of the Campus Times on March 25. In the UR Opinion section written by Matt Chin, students were asked: 'Where do […]

On March 16, 2003 in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, a Caterpillar D9R Israeli bulldozer crushed the American human rights volunteer Rachel Corrie. While she stood to defend the home of the Nasrallah family and its five children, she did not anticipate that the vehicle in front of her would continue its path.Khaled Nasrallah, who […]

Without delving into the details of the health care bill, one feature particularly stood out in the media explosion following its passage. The politicians who passed the bill should have noticed a serious flaw. While the bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to impose heavy fees on both individuals who do not purchase health insurance […]