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Greek life recognized nationally
The new Fraternity and Sorority System at UR was awarded the Grand Bronze Excellence Award by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. The third place award was in the Student Union, Student Activities, Greek Life, Leadership category and will be presented to the University in April. In the opinion of many Greek Life leaders […]
Actor speaks about diversity
On Tuesday, Tony Award-winning actor B.D. Wong from NBC's Law and Order: SVU and HBO's Oz gave a speech in Hoyt Auditorium to a packed audience. His speech, entitled "All the World's a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion," not only detailed his hardships in life due to racial self-image, race-based rejection and diversity, but also […]
UR observes MLK day
Though UR has traditionally observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a week-long series of commemorative events, the past two years have been marked by the absence of students on the holiday itself due to the semester break. Next year, students will once again not be in class to mark the day created in remembrance […]
Penna receives honor
Senior Robert Penna was one of twelve students nationwide to be named a 2007 Churchill Scholar on Monday, the first such honor for a UR student since 2002. The award includes one year of study at Churchill College at Cambridge University in England paid in full, as well as living and travel allowances.According to the […]
Engineers leave home
From Jan. 7-13, students from UR and from the University of Miami met in Florida to participate in the "Engineering for the Americas" program, a forum designed to create a group of engineers from across the Americas and to increase their contacts throughout the region."The program has given me opportunities I would never have gotten […]
Agenda updated
A recent and welcome change to the online face of the University is the newly renovated Events Calendar, which officially debuted at the beginning of this semester. Its creation was a collective effort, collaborated on by several organizations, including the Office of the Registrar, the Student Activities Office, Information Technology Services and the Office of […]
Opportunities at UR abound
It is a very exciting time to be a student here at UR. Everyone can feel the tension of transition in the air as we move up the college rankings and see our school in the headlines. Here at the Campus Times, we are undergoing heavy transitions as well. The last year saw big changes […]
Better safe than sorry
In high school, when you went on all of your college visits trying to find the school of your dreams, there was undoubtedly a parent - or two, or three - who asked question after question about the security and safety on campus. And most likely, you rolled your eyes, thinking that there was no […]
Humanities fund increased
In July 2006, UR President Joel Seligman announced the establishment of the Humanities Fund, whose goal is to stress the importance of the humanities at the University. The fund was created out of a three year, $1 million grant awarded to Syracuse University by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an organization that regularly gives grants […]
Solving inequality requires education reforms
With the Democrats once again in control of Congress, income inequality in the United States is likely to soon become a major public policy issue. Official government statistics indicate that the dispersion of incomes in this country has grown dramatically in recent years. However, things aren't nearly as bad as the headlines would have you […]
