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"You're from California? Why did you come to Rochester?"I ask everyone to please not ask me this anymore. I really hate that question.Of course, all my friends back in Davis, Calif. weren't terribly helpful either."Where is Rochester? Is that a SUNY school? Can I visit you? I've never been to New York City before! They […]

Who is she? Julia Shmoys is one of the student coordinators for this week's JAM-balaya. She got involved with JAM-balaya when she first got an e-mail inviting student leaders to the meeting. She became passionately involved after seeing the destruction that took place and realizing that Hurricane Katrina couldn't be just another headline lost in […]

I love my boyfriend but the excitement is gone in our relationship. Last week, I hooked up with one of his friends and I don't know what to do. I don't want to tell him, but I feel awful lying. I'm really afraid that he will find out and everything will be screwed up. What […]

UR used a record-breaking offensive performance to roll past the Gettysburg College Bullets 41-20 this weekend, giving the Yellowjackets their first victory of the season. UR's ground attack ate up 310 rushing yards, the team's highest single game total since 2003. UR kept the ball in the offense's position for 100 plays, breaking the school […]

The women's cross-country team raced away with another impressive performance last Saturday at the Penn State-Behrend Invitational, placing second out of 15 extremely competitive teams. With 53 points, the Yellowjackets edged past Mount Union College with 57 points and Carnegie Mellon University with 89 points, but fell behind Case Western Reserve University, which scored 39 […]

With the departure of Thomas J. LeBlanc, The College is searching for a new dean of faculty. The search committee should seek applicants who share President Joel Seligman's strategic views. If the next dean of faculty has the same idea for The College's future, the candidate and the president can coordinate a smart capital campaign […]

We used to say that Letters to the Editor were only written by "morons or crackpots with agendas." I don't want to seem like either of those things. But I have to express my disappointment with the quality of writing in the Campus Times thus far this year.I'm not talking about sentence structure or misplaced […]

Debates about embryonic stem cell research are ongoing. The issue has turned many so-called pro-lifers into virtual high priests for the culture of death. But whether the folly is coming from Hillary Clinton or Arlen Specter, let's look at how destroying human embryos for scientific advancement is "justified." One argument for human embryos' destruction pops […]

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I have been increasingly impressed by the support rallied on our campus for the Katrina victims. Students have organized relief efforts, contributed money and donated their time and talents to raise awareness and aid them. Throughout our country, citizens have united around one common undertaking - the relief effort for Katrina. People have not only […]