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Teacher Feature: Jim Memmott
Jim Memmott is a journalism professor at UR, teaching journalism courses including "Reporting and Writing in the News," "Feature Writing," "Editing" and "Case Studies in Journalism." He is also a connections columnist at the Democrat and Chronicle and has served as both reporter and editor to the Times-Union and as a Senior Editor at the […]
Life, Love… Sport
And we meet again! Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of Life, Love... Sport (Cocaine: The Drink! Edition). This has been a week of massive excitement, from the world of NBA to the glamorous world of tennis and the NFL. Not only did we have a former star accused of taking cocaine, but the […]
One Strike: They're Out!
Who's excited for "Big Brother" this season? In case you haven't heard, the people who write your favorite shows decided to go on strike this past Monday. This twist is the latest in a series of developments that began with an expiration of the contract and the bitter bickering between the Writers' Guild of America […]
Waltz and swing until the chimes ring
This upcoming Saturday is the Viennese Ball, a night of glitz and glamour and an opportunity for students and community members to get dressed up in their finest and spend the evening waltzing, dancing, enjoying light refreshments and just having fun.This will be the 22nd ball that UR has hosted. Since its conception, the night […]
The Mitzvah nightmares continue
The summer before seventh grade, I attended a sleep-away camp in the Birkeshire Mountains of Massachusetts. On the last night of camp, I was slowly roasting a marshmallow during the camp-wide farewell, when a girl of a similar age to myself approached me and introduced herself. Now, until this moment, I hadn't talked to a […]
Scatterbrains: Have no fear of grad school
Exactly one year ago, I was frantically searching for a grad school program that could accommodate my eclectic interests. In this era of academic specialization within rigid departmental boundaries, such programs are few and far between, but they are out there. If you're in a similar search now as I was then, read on - […]
Rush Rhees not just for studying
Greetings from the library! I officially moved in a few weeks ago - I keep my bed in the old stacks, put up a curtain with a floral print and redecorated the bathroom on the third floor with a cute duck theme. I decided to designate the Welles-Brown Room as the family room, add a […]
Horoscope
Aries (March 21-April 19) - It doesn't matter how much a girl weighs so long as she is on the bottom.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - An 18 percent gratuity is standard for escorts with eight inches or more.Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Now that the campus has finally gotten wet, the tunnels will get filled.Cancer […]
Letter to the Editor: Study abroad issues deserve clarification
An article in the Nov. 1 issue of the Campus Times entitled "Students shut out of Prague programs" states that "many students have found themselves rejected from certain study abroad programs [for next semester] due to unexpected over-enrollment."While it is true that an unprecedented increase in applications to the Prague program offered by the Council […]
Letter to the Editor: SA executives respond to "Civil disservice" editorial
We, the Students' Association President and Vice President, would like to thank the Campus Times for holding us accountable for the goals we listed in our platform last spring. We agree that we must fulfill our campaign promises. For this reason, we frequently re-examine our platform line by line. This week, we returned to our […]