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Sitting on the curb outside Marketplace Mall, on a cold, bitter day in mid-January waiting for the UR Special to come, students may tend to contemplate the service. While watching RIT students board their shuttle buses that seem to run every 15 minutes, one may wonder what the UR Special does when it's not Wednesday […]
Continuing a Tex-Mex tradition
I take my unpaid, time-consuming job as a Campus Times humor columnist very seriously. In fact, it is my duty to educate readers. In this article, I will attempt to educate you all on UR's long history of great traditions.There is a tradition that dates back to the very beginning of the university. It is […]
Inner beauty a window to human soul
I came across two sayings one day -"beauty is only skin deep" and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." With these two sayings in mind, I began to think about the various aspects of "beauty."I began to think about my own perception of beauty, as well as the common, media-accepted perceptions of beauty. […]
Free speech important for all views
We are now faced with a troubling situation. The recent U.S. strike on Iraq has divided nations and alliances, governments and families. The way our nation conducts its business - both here and abroad - has been forever changed. We now see military vehicles in civilian places, immigrants are detained indefinitely and the list of […]
I'm your father!' – the exclusive Jon Stewart interview
While Jon Stewart eats his dinner, the Campus Times asks hard-hitting questions about superpowers, cartoon characters and EZ-Pass. Then we make him feel old.CT: So I heard you drove up.JS: Yes I did.CT: How was your drive?JS: Uh, it was a little soggy, until I cleared, uh, probably Binghamton.CT: Do you have EZ-Pass?JS: What, are […]
DDR not as simple as it looks
All right, so we've all had those summer jobs we're not proud of, or, in my case, that Mom still won't admit I ever had.Family Friend - "Neil at work right now?"Mom - "No, he's dead."Such was the situation when I spent the summer after freshman year woefully employed as a Professional Mall Arcade Technical […]
Horoscope
Cancer (June 22-July 22) - Summer is your birthday time! That means that you got lots of presents and ice cream! Or maybe no one noticed your birthday. Then you have to wait another year for presents and ice cream.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) - I think you should go around telling everyone that you're Gangster […]
Jon Stewart's Meliora shows entertain
I have to admit that I didn't see every speaker over Meliora Weekend, but I'm still pretty sure that there was only one who called Rochester an "enormous shit-hole city" as soon as he got on stage. That guy was Jon Stewart - and the audience ate it up.The host of Comedy Central's "The Daily […]
The evolution of the game boy
The year was 1989, and the gift everyone wanted that holiday season was a little product put out by Nintendo called the "Game Boy." And boy was I a lucky child. Not only did I get a Game Boy, I also had a brother with a Game Boy, so we could link up and play […]
Punk tour features strong performances
With four stellar performances, the Honda Civic Tour's recent stop at the Blue Cross Arena was the best deal to hit the Rochester area in months at only $23 per ticket for four action packed hours of punk-style entertainment.A self-proclaimed "cheap punk band from New York City," The Disasters' sound was non-distinctive and that of […]