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College presidents approve of Duffy's plan
Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy's plan for control of the Rochester City School District received a stamp of approval from 19 area college presidents, including UR President Joel Seligman, on Tuesday.In a letter e-mailed to the Democrat and Chronicle and published on its Web site, area college presidents cited this year's expected 46 percent citywide graduation […]
Security Update
Super glue causes emergencyA graduate student reported that while she was sleeping in the lounge on the fourth floor of Wilson Commons an unidentified suspect poured super glue into one of her ear cavities at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23.The victim reported she woke up in tremendous pain and saw the unidentified suspect walking […]
Gov. Paterson jumpstarts campaign election
After kicking off his campaign last Saturday morning at Hofstra University, Governor David Paterson came to Rochester Laborers Local 435 on Fourth St. where Rochester's youth drum line, the Mighty Liberators, marched him into a room of over 200 supporters.Junior Anna Dumont, a former intern for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and Congressman Eric Massa, worked with […]
Arrested ex-professor dies in home
Former UR professor William Fals-Stewart, 48, who was arrested last week on felony charges, died suddenly on Tuesday afternoon. Fals-Stewart was pronounced dead at his Eden, N.Y. home. As of press time, the cause of death had not been determined and Eden Police Investigator Shawn Bishop the investigator authorized to speak on the developing case […]
Ford Jr. tackles civil rights, politics
Former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. delivered a keynote address at the Interfaith Chapel Thursday night as part of UR's celebration of Black History Month, which was sponsored by the Black Students' Union.Ford's lecture entitled 'Civil Rights and Leadership in the 21st Century" focused on many of the problems facing our nation today, most notably […]
Campus Briefs
UR trustee and active community member passes awayUniversity trustee Gilbert C. McCurdy passedaway Tuesday Feb. 16. He was 87 years old.McCurdy was a lifelong trustee of UR as well as a trustee of Roberts Wesleyan College.In addition to leading his family's department store, McCurdy and Co., McCurdy was essential to the development of Midtown Plaza.McCurdy […]
In Rochester
Local groups seeking funding for after-school activitiesAcross the Rochester area, funding for after-school programs has been drastically cut in recent months. The 'Community Coalition," a group formed to develop long-term solutions to this problem, is headed to Albany next week to petition for more funding for programs that will keep kids off the streets.The group […]
UR professors receive CAREER Award for innovative research
An esteemed award for young scientists, the CAREER Award, has been granted to two researchers, Professors Paul Ampadu and Justin Ramsey.The National Science Foundation (NSF), which selects the recipients based on how innovative the proposals are and how well the proposals combine research and education, awarded this honor to the two UR professors.Ampadu, who is […]
Mock Trial qualifies two teams for National Championship
At the Mock Trial Regional Championship at Syracuse University last weekend, UR's program qualified two teams for the National Championship, which will be held in mid-March at Miami University of Ohio.Of the 17 active members on the team, only seven are returning from last year. According to UR Mock Trial President and senior Andrew Cashmore, […]
Cultivating American identity on foreign soil ? views from Paris
In his 1998 book, 'In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong," Amin Maalouf defined identity as 'that which makes it so that I am not identical with any other person." Yet questions of 'national identity" and unifying culture have not only figured prominently in public debate since at least the 19th […]