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Faculty members honored in ceremony
Students and faculty gathered en masse last Friday for the University's College Convocation ceremony in Dandelion Square. Since 1997, the central piece of Convocation has been the Georgen awards. Named after the benefactor of the athletic center and the new Biomedical Engineering and Optics building, Robert Goergen, the awards serve to celebrate UR professors - […]
Tricky Dick deserves more national respect
Every nation needs a leader during times of war, but not just any leader - he or she must have the insight of Winston Churchill, the decisiveness of President Truman, the big stick of Teddy Roosevelt and the honesty of President Carter. America has found all these traits in the true leader of our nation, […]
Letter to the Editor
The year-long program about Susan B. Anthony intrigues me. I'm especially interested in how women frame the issue of "equal rights." One of the organizers, Nora Bredes, in her discussion published in the Rochester Review, makes nothing of the fact that women have outnumbered men in college since at least 1983. Apparently, the SBA program […]
A friend Enid
This summer, Rochester was named to Newsweek's list of "25 New Ivies." This honor brought an excitement to the student body because UR, an institution we know to be great, is finally getting the credit it has long deserved. Rochester is well known in certain circles - in the fields of science and research especially […]
Zip-itee-do-da
Each year students at UR wrestle with the problem of whether the hassle involved in owning a car and housing it on campus is worth the freedoms it brings. Parking spots cost a lot of money, are generally far from dorms and if you try parking closer you get a ticket. Not to mention that […]
Students disappointed with Silverman
Last Friday night, the much-anticipated comedian Sarah Silverman came to perform in Strong Auditorium. The buzz around campus was that of excitement, as Silverman's reputation is side-splittingly hilarious, with her dry sarcasm and uninhibited humor. Sadly for Friday's attendees, though, the performance was cut short when Silverman exited off stage and hit play for the […]
Student accosted by MCAT
Three long months in the hellish dungeon formerly known as GLC. One of the hottest summers on record. Nightly dinners care of Chef Boyardee. My longest drought from getting with the opposite sex. It was under these conditions that I prepared to compress twenty and a half years of overachievement into the eight-hour odyssey known […]
Five reasons why the city of Rochester doesn't suck
After spending my summer in San Francisco, I was a little worried about coming back to the city of Rochester. Rochester doesn't smell like piss the way San Francisco does, but along with the tang of stale urine comes some obvious advantages of living in the Bay Area: authentic taquerias, the Golden Gate Bridge and […]
Yellowjackets overwhelm freshman
When I was seven, a hornet stung me in the eye. It was an awful experience and it soured my taste for any sort of bee. When I found out I was going to a school that embraced the yellowjacket as its mascot, I began to reconsider my Lehigh application. Don't get me wrong, I've […]
Summer internship takes the cake over jalapenos
Deciding how to spend your summer vacation months is often a daunting task. For some, the decision is hardly their own, but for the vast majority, the expression "summer plans" can represent a multitude of possibilities - very few actually consist of the care-free motif that the summer months would seem to convey. Some want […]