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Club Spotlight: UR Rock Climbing Club
Founded in 2011, the UR Rock Climbing Club promotes the sport of rock climbing and establishes a community of people who engage in and appreciate the sport. While reasons for joining the club might vary among the members, they do admit sharing a similar love and enthusiasm for this unconventional sport. “I got really into […]
UR Tech
UR Tech: Crystal Knows
It was like reading through a performance review that a teacher or boss had written about me. My goals. My communication traits. “Pursues goals aggressively and methodically,” or “can come across as abrupt.” An image, laid out in words, of an entire personality. If it’d been handed to me by a friend, I might have […]
Sex and the CT
Jodi Says: Getting it on when you can’t get it up
So you’re getting sexy with someone, and things are getting heated, but, er, certain body parts are not responding, if you know what I mean. Definitely the right thing to do is to panic. Just kidding. Honestly, there’s no reason to freak out. Play it cool, and you’ll start to realize it’s not such a […]
Editorial Boards
SA turnout must improve
This year’s Students’ Association (SA) election took place amid a season of changes to SA. Just shy of the campaign period, our student government adopted a new set of bylaws, fundamentally altering its structure. But, even though this addressed many of SA’s ailments, much was overlooked, including the most important part of our representative government—voting. […]
Editorial Boards
Financial aid moves forward
Financial aid is a concern for many UR families. Indeed, this is one of the most difficult times in UR history for families who want to send children to college. We’ve reached a critical point, and University administration and students are seizing the opportunity to improve the current system. Families often do not know how […]
Op-Eds
An eye for an eye shouldn’t be our solution
On April 8, a federal jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on 30 charges related to his role in the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon, an event in which three people were killed and over 250 others were injured. Of those charges, 17 carry the possibility of the death penalty. There’s really no surprise […]
Humor
College Town to be demolished
Now that College Town is almost complete, Rochester officials have sent out a press release confirming its demolition in the beginning of 2016. “We now realize that College Town is not making as great of a profit as we had originally hoped, so it is a better financial decision for the Rochester community to raze […]
Humor
The 2015 finals draft: featuring every student at UR
The other day, I heard a rumor from a friend who knows a friend whose uncle graduated in 1980 who had a pre-major advisor in admissions who also dabbled in the registrar office from time-to-time who told me a new perspective on the time assignments for final exams. Every semester, I find myself pondering why […]
Editorial Boards
Trials and tribulations in the Gowen Room: Post-elections, there is still work to be done
Students’ Association (SA) elections happen twice a year— once in the spring and once in the fall. They are exciting times, at least for us journalists, filled with heated races, lively debates and high spirits. The current election has been no exception to this trend; the field of candidates has been vibrant, and we’ve enjoyed […]
Op-Eds
RFRA: More harmful than advertised
In March 26th, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed SB 101, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), into law. There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding how this actually came about. Let’s take a look at the recent history of religious freedoms. In 1993, President Clinton signed the original RFRA into […]
