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Three topics dominate small talk at UR: the weather, how boring Rochester is and the vast failures of the administration at UR. Campus Times knows this, and we address the latter two topics in every issue - we used to cover the weather, but we decided it was too depressing.The staff's goal is to keep […]

In a surprising move at Monday's meeting, the Students' Association Senate failed to pass the Students' Association Appropriation Committee's proposed 2008-09 SA budget, specifically due to contention surrounding allotted funds for Campus Activities Board. The Senate's decision was irresponsible and unjustifiably biased against CAB.By refusing to approve the new budget, the Senate violated the Spending […]

Clichs are so overused in sports culture that their significance is often lost. They are tossed around so frequently by broadcasters and analysts that, when one actually sees a strong example of a defining characteristic, we assume it to be commonplace and neglect to acknowledge its worth. But certain attributions should be recognized, such as […]

Can you all believe that this is the last column of the semester? Believe it or not, this is the final Life, Love? Sport (Playoff Fever Edition) of the school year. I'm just as sad as you are. Since it's the middle of April, it can only mean that playoffs are around the corner in […]

Freshman Ryan Williams picked a good time to come into his own. This past week, the newcomer shot a two-over 146 through two rounds at the University Athletic Association Championships to win the individual title. The Championship - played at the Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge in Orlando, Fla. - was the first […]

After losing to St. Lawrence University two weekends ago, the UR men's tennis team needed a boost. St. Lawrence was ranked 16th in the Northeast Regional poll conducted by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and flattened the 'Jackets en route to a 7-1 win. But UR rebounded this past week with dominating 8-0 wins over the […]

Coming off a week of undefeated play, the baseball team faced the Vassar College Brewers in two doubleheaders. While the Yellowjackets took Saturday's games without a flinch, their win streak was put to an end on Sunday when they dropped their second game. Yesterday, the team battled Medaille College in a doubleheader, dropping the first […]

When I told people that I was going to be studying Chinese in Beijing this spring, many people nodded understandingly, reconfirming briefly some form of "That'll be great for business" or "big future," while others, completely overwhelmed by the concept of society on the other side of the world, simply responded, "Wow, sounds like an […]

Senior Jon Elkin is a political science and African-American studies double major. A Newton, Mass. native and a Resident Adviser on campus, Elkin has studied abroad in Nairobi, Kenya and was a past president of Hillel.What is your most memorable RA story?My residents (Gates 4) pulled a prank last year on the other hall by […]

Over a six-week period spanning from February to late March, eight UR student-athletes, through the St. Sebastian Society, participated in the "Yes Pa" program with prisoners at the Monroe Correctional Facility in Rochester. The program revolved around the reading and discussion of Rochester native Fred Sarkis's self-help autobiography, "Yes Pa: Lessons in Character," in small […]