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After putting into motion long-felt internal ambitions to strengthen summer life at UR, the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering has begun taking steps to rework and bolster the offerings for students who choose to remain at UR over the summer months.'We want to build a sense of summer community," Dean of the College Richard […]

A new broadcast studio in the Carol G. Simon Hall on the River Campus is now fully operational. The studio is designed to help publicize the expertise of UR faculty, interview student award recipients and relay videos from UR President Joel Seligman.The studio allows faculty members to record their segments, which are then broadcasted on […]

Havalee Henry, a School of Medicine and Dentistry student, is set to represent UR at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) University Conference, which occurs in April. Henry was selected from a national pool of applicants to attend the conference.At the conference, more than 1,500 students will work with global leaders and private citizens on issues […]

Since its inception in 1993, the military policy commonly known as 'don't ask, don't tell" has attracted criticism from two sources: those who believe that LGBT soldiers should be permitted to serve openly in the military, and those who believe that homosexuality is fundamentally incompatible with military service for a variety of reasons. Anyone who […]

The Democrats are done for ... no wait, they're fine. President Obama will never recover ... oh, wait, he will. Health care reform is dead ... no, it's alive. If you subject yourself to what's happening in Washington, this constant switching happens several times a day. Since anyone can create his or her own reality, […]

My first one was Jewel's 'Pieces of You"... second grade.I took the steps down the stairs into the basement of Todd Union one at a time, remembering that first CD I bought and wondering just how much I was about to embarrass myself. For the virtually unskilled musician and relatively amateur music listener, the WRUR […]

During the turbulent months of 1968, campus-wide discord was quickly growing. In a backlash against grass-stained hippy optimism, students across the United States were debating electric issues: a hot-potato presidential election, the recent assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the early arguments of pro-birth control feminist scholars.Students at UR protested with their own trademark […]

Many of us who previously believed that we were sex, relationship and love experts, that is up until last Thursday, realized quickly that we still had so much to learn. After attending the UR Christian Fellowship and Black Students' Union's Love and Relationship Forum, I found that things are not exactly what I thought they […]

The Atlantic Ocean is really big. An eleven hour plane ride will drive that point home repeatedly, especially if you're trying to fall asleep in coach. The aerial view of Egypt is exactly how you'd expect it to be, a flat blanket of sand.Cairo, on the other hand, is a whole different story. Looking at […]

We're in the middle of February, the Winter Olympics are in full force and there's enough snow to go sledding behind Danforth without getting a rock stuck up your rectum it sounds like the perfect time to start thinking about Spring Break.Next to Halloween, Spring Break is one of the few times of the year […]