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Run It Forward
Kappa Delta, one of the six Panhellenic sororities at the University, held their second annual Shamrock 5K run to raise money to prevent child abuse in America.Apart from the run, the coordinators of the event, senior Kirstin Barry and sophomore Julie Pearlman drew a plethora of runners to the event. Personally, running on a Saturday […]
The day the SA funding stopped
For instance, you might know that the class of 2013 recently selected its Students' Association senators and class council members. In that election, roughly 44 percent of the eligible body voted. Such was not always the way for Senate elections, and it almost cost the student body severely.In February 1992, the Students' Association Senate came […]
HIV vaccine stems from UR foundation
Public health officials in Thailand announced on Sept. 24 that an HIV vaccine has shown 30 percent effectiveness in preventing disease in the general Thai public. Preliminary studies that led to the development of the vaccine were performed at UR in the late 1990s.The vaccine is a combination of two vaccines one that is intended […]
Vice President expresses confidence in UR
As University vice president and general secretary, Paul Burgett serves as the senior adviser to the president, and he has been influential in the execution of the current Strategic Plan. Burgett, who also has a faculty appointment to the music department, sat down with the Campus Times to answer questions about UR's major initiatives as […]
Why the ignorance about the opposite sex?
As adolescents, the first lessons we learn in school are about the birds and the bees.Everyone recalls that fateful day when the school gym teacher put a condom on a cucumber.Despite those awkward memories, we got the picture. We're taught how to use these genitals as a team, and yet, are left simply clueless about […]
Healthcare reform takes center stage with panel event
Healthcare reform was the theme of R World R Vote's panel discussion last Thursday. UR Professor of History Ted Brown defended a single payer health care system while Jim Fatula, chair of the public administration department at SUNY Brockport, argued that current healthcare reform strategies will not solve the problem of insuring every American citizen […]
Say no to cheap malt
Hey. Remember that time when I said that I'd be doing this for science? Did you believe me? Also, remember that time when I said I'd take your suggestions? Remember that? I do. It is with great trepidation that I wrote that fateful line. I thought it couldn't be bad. I'd drank some pretty strange […]
UR Briefed
URMC Professor passes awayThe UR Medical Center mourns the death of Associate Professor of Psychiatry Susan Horwitz, a master teacher and clinician of family therapy and advocate for families. Horwitz, a faculty member since 1988 who studied interventions to prevent domestic violence, died Sept. 24 of brain cancer. She was 62.'Susan was a remarkable person, […]
Girl Talk ? and the city of Rochester listens
There was a light rain coming down as the sky faded from orange to grey to nightfall this past Saturday, and a long line had formed outside Rochester Institute of Technology's Clark Gymnasium. Ticket in hand and T-shirt damp from the rain, I waited for what was almost guaranteed to be a magical experience. As […]
What Iran would you like to see in 30 years?
BY Samuel LaRussaOn Thursday, Oct. 1, the United States and Iran will engage in direct negotiations for the first time in 30 years. However, this will not be an occasion for pleasantries, but rather an opportunity for the United States to deliver an ultimatum: Iran must accept serious limitations to its nuclear program or face […]