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After beginning the semester with new dining plans, locations and hours of operation, Dining Services and ARAMARK responded to criticism from students and administrators by lowering the door price for Douglass Dining Hall and further publicizing changes to dining."I think there's an issue about communication," Senior Purchasing Manager for Auxiliary Operations Jack Noon said. "I […]

UR's first use of online registration began on Monday and is continuing with few hitches. By 2 p.m. Wednesday, 2,587 students had registered using the system, for a total of 12,771 courses. "For the first time out, this is a huge success," University Registrar Nancy Speck said. "We are very pleased as to how well […]

Filling out an internship application for this summer, I had to put down two professors who were "familiar with my journalistic style." Right away there was a problem. We have a single journalism professor here at UR - Jim Memmott - which, as was attested to previously, is a talented and likeable professor, but holds […]

Signs for a new employee program have recently appeared in the Pit. They explain that students will now be able to ask managers to give employees "Wow" cards for excellent customer service or "Go Fish" cards for sub-par performances. The negative "Go Fish" cards are only adding to the already stressed relations between students and […]

Online registration, which premiered this past Monday for seniors, is everything we had hoped for and more. Despite a handful of technical problems - including one which forced the unveiling to be delayed a week - online registration turned out to be ergonomic and efficient. The delay, which arose from compatibility issues between the second-party […]

The season of giving thanks and gifts is fast approaching and, as always, will include the retelling of the classic Charles Dickens tale "A Christmas Carol." If the play were to be recast today, I offer an excellent candidate for the miserly, despicable role of Ebenezer Scrooge - Wal-Mart.When examined, the similarities between the two […]

'Greek Week' WeakI was monumentally disappointed with the Campus Times' description of Greek Week as it was published on Thursday, Nov. 13. As a member of the Greek Community, it is horrifically disappointing to see the Campus Times consistently printing front-page articles that focus solely on the negative events that have occurred in a few […]

UR Libraries were recently awarded a $300,000 grant from the New York State Department of Library Development. The money will be spent on the preservation of glass-plate photographic negatives, audio recordings and music scores. The grant money will be spent on preserving three main collections managed by Rare Books and Special Collections - the Fairchild […]

Poet Sally Keith read from her new book Tuesday in the third Plutzik Series reading of the semester. Her reading took place in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library. About 35 community members attended the event.UR's Joseph H. Gilman Professor of English James Longenbach introduced Keith."When [UR] wanted to hire a poet, we discovered […]

Steven Manly, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was named New York State Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and their sponsor, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Manly's initial reaction to the award was embarrassment. "You know, it's not like there aren't a lot of other […]