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Rochester City Schools are making an effort to aid Monroe High School seniors in applying and getting accepted to college. The UR Medical Center has volunteered by creating a project called "Ready, Set, Go to College." There were a series of one-on-one meetings at URMC between 93 second-year medical students and 100 MHS seniors last […]

"Viva Laughlin" was canned by CBS after two episodes. You didn't hear about it? Not to worry, most people never saw it. After all, if you're gonna make a show that competes against Sunday Night Football, why not make it a song and dance drama about a casino? Sounds like a sure winner to me. […]

At Wednesday's Town Hall Meeting with Dining Services, one of the more surprising complaints brought up by students had to do with the rapport between students and dining service workers. While students spoke of bad attitudes and rudeness, both students and staff together make up the University community, and respect is a two-way street. That […]

On Wednesday evening, the University of Rochester Security Officer's Association entered into negotiations with the University, with one of its goals being to have the entire force trained as peace officers. Part of this proposed training will be more responsibility to detain subjects and carry self-defense weapons. In April, we advocated giving our security officers […]

During a question and answer session last Friday at Carnegie Hall, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling made arguably the biggest announcement about the series since the release of its final installment in July: Albus Dumbledore, the beloved former headmaster of Hogwarts, was gay. Though the immediate reaction of those present seemed to be positive, reactions […]

In regards to your article last week on UR's open-container policy ("Burns addresses Senate on public open-container policy"), we applaud your efforts in investigating this spike in student violations and share the University's concern about this serious issue. However, the picture displayed on the front page of the newspaper contains Phi Sigma Sigma letters and […]

My favorite teachers until college were the creative ones. I'm not talking about the boring, teach-for-the-test, stick-to-the-curriculum teachers that I dreaded listening to - or didn't listen to - in high school. I'm talking about those teachers who, instead of worrying about how their classes looked on paper, tore away from the usual monotonous material […]

On the journey called life, valuable lessons are learned that are the backbone of people's inner and outer characteristics and instrumental in their view of themselves and the world around them. One of those lessons is the nature of human relationships. This particular subject can branch off to many areas, from casual life-long friendships to […]

The 23rd annual Walk for Light event convened yesterday as representatives from diverse facets of campus life joined together to identify potentially unsafe areas around the River Campus.A collaboration of staff and students surveyed areas they deemed deficient in safety and reported their suggestions. This year, the Students' Association Projects and Services Committee hosted the […]

The United States has been and will continue to be viewed as a positive force in the changing world as long as its society remains open, General Colin Powell (Ret.) said to a packed Palestra on Saturday at the Meliora Weekend Keynote address. The speech attracted demonstrators who opposed the University's conferral of an honorary […]