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Recently the Dean of Students' Office published a newsletter about the dangers of publishing your personal information online. The most basic summation of the newsletter is this: once you post something on the internet, it is public information. This simply means that students need to make responsible choices about what they are willing to share […]

Over 200 UR students volunteered last weekend for Be the Change Day, a community service project that helped to clean up the 19th Ward. The students, armed with rakes, shovels and orange garbage bags, picked up trash in the vicinity of Clara Barton School No. 2.Be the Change Day is Rochester's way of celebrating National […]

A number of fatal school shootings have recently occurred around the country. The first of these occurred in Colorado and Wisconsin, leaving a scar on their respective communities. The latest and most disturbing of these shootings took place this past Monday in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Charles C. Roberts IV took an Amish one-room school house […]

UR's radio station WRUR and WXXI, an NPR affiliate, announced the fall semester schedule on Sept.. 18, which is to last through winter break. "It is catering to people who are really looking for a big variety," WRUR General Manager and junior C. Mike Lindsey said. Former Dean of The College William Green approached WXXI […]

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke last Thursday night, criticizing the media, the Bush administration and the leaders of the country's most prominent industries. He called them catalysts for the increasingly deteriorating conditions of the nation's water, air and forests. Kennedy is the author of "Crimes Against Nature" and the co-author of "The Riverkeepers," but is […]

Sigma Psi Zeta sorority hosted its annual bone marrow registry drive on Wednesday, Sept. 27 and Thursday, Sept. 28 in Hirst Lounge of Wilson Commons. Each year, over 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with diseases that can be cured via a blood or marrow transplant. Blood and bone marrow transplants […]

UR's fraternities and sororities ended their biannual rush events last week, completing weeks of recruitment events on and off campus. Flyers posted everywhere from the tunnels to Douglass Dining Center publicized the recruitment events for many chapters belonging to the Panhellenic Association and the Fraternity Presidents' Council. There were different incentives for students deciding to […]

Blender accidents shouldn't be a laughing matter. In fact, they are usually moments of tragedy. Still, the life of a Campus Times news editor is a bizarre one - especially if you write the weekly Security Update.When I think about it in more depth, the blender headline - "Student hospitalized after blender accident" - wasn't […]

A student walking along Wilson Boulevard near McLean Street on Sunday reported being harassed by a man hiding in bushes, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.The victim said that the man emerged from the bushes and attempted to initiate a conversation with her.Immediately after this, the man touched himself inappropriately, according to Lafferty. The […]

Researchers from the UR Medical Center received a $7 million grant on Wednesday to be utilized in confirming the effectiveness of two new drug classes thought to protect the brain from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-related nerve damage, also known as neuroAIDS.Patients suffering from neuroAIDS currently undergo treatments that reduce the effect of the disease, but as […]