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Lab offers HS Summer ResearchUR Laboratory for Laser Lab Energetics presents its 16th annual High School Summer Research Program for local high school students this summer.About twelve students who have finished their junior year will be selected through a competitive application process, which includes an essay describing the interest in the fields of science, a […]
Security Update
Security responds quickly to fire in StrongSecurity officers responded to a report of fire in Strong after 8 a.m. on Feb. 20. The cause was determined to be a fire in a light fixture and the Rochester Fire Department responded, according to security.Approximately $100 of university property was damaged.Students rushed to Strong HospitalA student, who […]
Students start sex-ed center
UR will soon be home to SECS - the Sexual Education Center for Students, a volunteer sexual education program organized and run largely by students. "The sexual education center will be a resource for students to get sexual health information and sexual health products," senior Lindsay Lefenfeld, who has assisted in the center's planning from […]
Fighting for choice in Texas
This week, Texas provided the country with two bizarre women's rights stories. Waco, Texas listeners to a Christian radio station heard a call to boycott Girl Scout cookies. While no funds from cookie sales go to any pro-choice organization and though the Scouts take no position on abortion or sex education, the Girl Scouts logo […]
Interfaith sponsors aid work
The Religious Roundtable group assembled 500 hygiene kits from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20, as part of the Interfaith Service Project in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons. The kits each contained two combs, four toothbrushes, one tube of toothpaste, two bars of soap and two hand towels. Latter-day Saint Humanitarian Services […]
Passion' needs temperance
This week, Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," which depicts the final hours of Jesus' life and the circumstances surrounding his crucifixion, all in gruesome detail, was released to public audiences across the country. Thousands of people have since watched "The Passion" and many found it a deeply moving, spiritual experience. Many others, […]
Campus Times pdf version
Was looking for the full pdf version of the February 19 edition of the campus times, but the link still points to the February 12 edition Any chance we can see the Feb 19th edition before this week's Campus Times comes out?I'd appreciate itThanks,Joan O'Brien
Sex & Relationship column
Editor: Several readers of yours who regularly post on my Sexuality Forum website (wwwaskisadoracom) have asked me to once more bring myself to your attention, hoping to read my Ask Isadora (alternative papers) or Sex & Sensibility (a tad more mainstream) sex and relationship column in your pages * Well informed (Board certified Sexologist, licensed […]
Official Edwards Bring Your Lunch To School Day
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Norah PeckPhone: (201) 845-8977Email: norahpeck@msn.com February 22, 20041:54 PM Edwards Campaign Cooks Up Bag Lunch Fund-Raiser Yesterday, Nick Baldick, Campaign Manager for Senator John Edwards, announced a new fund raising initiative that encourages Edwards supporters to pack brown bag lunches on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 . Instead of eating out Tuesday afternoon, […]
Not affiliated with ICHS
To: The Editor: In an article in another Rochester newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle on December 6th, 2003, there was a featured story on an organization known as The International College of Homeland Security.(ICHS). I am a reporter and did a story with the Director of that organization (as I do with many other credible […]