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President George W. Bush used the State of the Union address as an opportunity to advocate his Social Security privatization plan. In his speech, Bush repeated his past claims that the current Social Security system would be "exhausted and bankrupt" by 2042. Though the current Social Security plan is in need of improvement, the Congressional […]

Date: February 18, 2005From: Satish Chandra, P.O. Box 381629, Cambridge, MA 02238 Telephone: 617-282-4996 FAX: 617-825-4996 E-Mail: satchandra04@hotmail.com Webpage: http://www.Psychotherapy.eBoard.comDear Editor: Harvard's president has suggested that the paucity of women in science and engineering or top management positions is due to their genetic endowment and not due to environmental factors such as socialization and prejudice. […]

Douglass Dining Center welcomed its biggest crowd so far this year Oct. 24 at the seventh annual campus- and community-wide Shabbat. Co-sponsored by Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Chabad, the annual event was dubbed Shabbat Hagadol, or the Great Shabbat, to reflect the large turnout expected. The over 600-person event, which […]

Members of the UR community participated in moments of silence in remembrance of September 11. Informational presentations and a prayer service marked the second anniversary of the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks.At 8 a.m., residents of the Residential and Fraternity Quads were awakened by the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Officer Training Battalion. […]

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, I sacrificed a last minute linguistics study session for a bus ride to Record Archive. What could be so important that I would put my academic future on the line? For a freak of soft-rock music like me, it could only be Sarah McLachlan's first studio-recorded album in years.Sarah McLachlan returns […]

Finals got you down? Think the only way to ease the pain is to "hit the bottle?" Luckily, several campus groups and organizations have planned enough exciting events to lure the most dedicated students out of the stacks and away from future Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.The first event to kick off the stress-filled week is a […]

Senior national correspondent for Reuters news agency Alan Elsner discussed the problems with America's prison system, the subject of his most recent book, "Gates of Injustice," in Gleason Hall on Feb. 15."As my book shows, there's a lot wrong with [the prison system]," Elsner said. "The system itself is dysfunctional. It's a system in which […]

The Students' Association Senate officially certified the ratification of the new constitution, which ended a process that began in November 2003 with the creation of the Government Restructuring Committee, on Feb. 14."We had 1,348 valid signatures turned in supporting the adoption of this constitution," senior and SA President Pete Nabozny said. "This number exceeds the […]

Three Rochester Institute of Technology students were arrested on charges of trespassing in River Parking Lot on Feb. 12 at 2:50 a.m., according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.A security camera observed the suspects as they parked in the parking lot. The suspects exited the vehicle and attempted to open doors of other vehicles parked […]

The improved Spring Career and Internship Day will take place in the May Room on Feb. 23 from 1 to 5 p.m."About 30 different employers will attend Career Day," Career Center counselor Laurie Valentino said. "We don't want students to be discouraged, so we'll provide workshops throughout the day." In past years, students attended the […]