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Op-Eds
Iranian nuclear deal receives mixed sentiments – Part 1
Last month, on Nov. 24, The P5+1 Nations (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, including The United States, Russia, China, France, and The United Kingdom, plus Germany) finally reached an interim nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The agreement, which lessens about $7 billion in sanctions on Iran in […]
Op-Eds
Don’t judge a campus based on a single article
Rachel Barnhart has taken the Campus Times article “College Town still slated for 2014 amid student angst” and used it to portray UR students as lazy. Her article on the Rochesterian website puts the idea out to the community that UR students are whining and complaining about a short, fifteen minute walk from our campus […]
Op-Eds
Community college is a better option
To all of you trust fund students, whose parents saved money from when you were young so that they could blow it all away on the best possible college education money could buy. If you have been shackled into the college’s credit system for over a year it may be too late for you. But […]
Op-Eds
Enough Walmart, new stores
I recently ran into a friend at the bus stop. She was carrying about a dozen plastic bags, all from Walmart. “What are you doing shopping at Walmart?” I rudely asked her. “Haven’t you heard how they treat their workers?” She had. She knew that Walmart’s low wages, minimal job benefits, and poor working conditions […]
Culture
Covach takes students on trip to ’60s psychedelic music
Covach explores the history and experience of drug-fueled music. Read More
Culture
‘Drive’ accelerates with powerful performances
TOOP delivers a poignant, compelling adaptation of Paula Vogel's classic Pulitzer-winning play. Read More
Features
RED businesses offer off-campus discounts
The College Town project has been a work in progress for five years now, with its main goal to connect the UR student body with the larger Rochester community. RED, however, a less well-known program is still struggling to gain momentum as it works to bring people a bit further from the collegiate bubble that […]
Sex and the CT
Ask Estrada: Hookups, relationships, and threesomes
Why won’t my boyfriend perform oral? How can I push him in the right direction? Without talking to your boyfriend, I can only guess about his reasons for not visiting your downtown. It’s possible that he simply had a bad experience with a previous female partner who felt too self-conscious to enjoy it. He also […]
Op-Eds
DLH does not ‘further segregate students’ at UR
UR students constantly brag about how proud they are of the intelligence on campus, and it’s mostly warranted. We are fortunate to be a part of such an intelligent student body. Even so, it appears ignorance is again rearing its ugly head. I, like Bordwell, fully support DLH as an organization. I too think it […]
News
Alumnus Mark Zaid honors 25th anniversary of Pan Am crash
Mark Zaid ’89, a well-established lawyer based in Washington D.C., spoke last Monday in honor of the 25th anniversary of the “darkest day of 1988” — the deadliest attack on American civilians prior to 9/11. On Dec. 21, 1988, the Pan American Flight 103, en route from London to New York City, crashed in the […]