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unfair to us americans
how come us americans are getting the raw end of this deal.why are all the mexicans getting it all and we cant get anything.they work they get food stamps medicad,checks.i lived in chicago for just a little while.we lived with a boy and girl while we found us a place of our own.she was drawing […]
Class of 1995 graduate honored in new memorial
Class of 1995 graduate Zhe "Zack" Zeng helped rescue people from the World Trade Center towers, sacrificing his own life when the buildings collapsed.On May 19, Zeng, a volunteer Emergency Medical Service worker, was honored along with 24 other EMS workers in a new memorial in Albany. In his Jan. 2 State of the State […]
Finding my direction
I'm not going to profess to possess any sort of wisdom following my collegiate career. The first two years - lamentably dubbed 'The Really Dark, Dark Ages' - were spent in video-game-and-nap oblivion, a purgatory I escaped only with a trip abroad and the subsequent realization that a world existed outside of my dorm room, […]
Shaping the future
It seems that the culmination of four years should add up to more than a simple goodbye but that's all we get. Externally, it's just that abrupt. We'll walk across a stage, pick up our diplomas, and a few hours later, we'll pack up our cars and leave. But, we're taking a lot more than […]
Caps and gowns 101
Graduation is a time for a great many things, when entire families, living and dead, all congregate to try and pick their child out of the thousand of identically dressed yet distinguished students awaiting their degree. In this time of overwhelming significance, students should be particularly attentive to detail, as a way of telling their […]
Senior Athletes have made contributions to UR
As the Director of Athletics and Recreation, I am pleased to have this opportunity to comment on the contributions of the Class of 2004 to the Department of Athletics and Recreation. In my job, I have the benefit of seeing our students in many different roles. We realize that athletics plays an important educational role […]
Senior Week festivities welcomed by all
The week between the end of finals and graduation is always marked by a significant amount of celebration, and is highly anticipated by seniors. Organized by the Senior Class Council, Senior Week includes a variety of affordable events and activities open to all students in the graduating class. Senior Week 2004 officially began on Saturday, […]
Looking back at four years
This school has seen constant growth and amelioration, and the past four years have been no different. Here are just a few of the many ways UR has changed since graduating seniors first enrolled way back when they were in high school. Freshman housingThe graduating class of seniors are the last class that remembers the […]
More College students are graduating later
The standard four-year college degree seems increasingly to be stretching into five or six.A rising number of college students are graduating in more than four years, according to a recent national study conducted by the National Center for Education.The study, which polled one million students at several colleges and universities, found that only 33.1 percent […]
Theft in sattelite campus parking lots
Campus Times;I am a concerned parent of a UR Junior who had her car vandalized and XM radio with cd and mp3 player stolen. When reported to campus security, one officer made the remark that the theives were getting neater in their work (suppose that meant less distructive). Perhaps this is because this particular theft […]