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Greek Wedding' is sure to please
My Dad didn't have to endure submersion in a kiddy pool, like Ian Miller in the box office hit "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", but he did have to convert to Greek Orthodoxy in order to marry my mom. After a brief chat with the priest at the cathedral in my home town, my Uncle […]
Classes must work around religious obligations
As many of you know, this past Monday, Jews around the world celebrated Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is the most holy day of the Jewish religion where we fast for a day and atone for the sins we have committed over the past year. The reason that many of you know this […]
America's actions in Iraq more thatn questionable
In the present rubric of our "war on terrorism," very little to no justification is needed to commit acts that used to require a minimum amount of reasoning. For instance, as the war drums beat louder and more urgently to invade Iraq, very little evidence has been put forth to warrant the sense of inevitability […]
Letters to the Editor
US not guilty for Sept. 11I've got several answers to Michael He's question, "What did you learn from September 11?" I learned that there is a large group of people who, given the opportunity, would kill every single person in the United States of America. I learned that 99.9 percent of Americans know how to […]
Convenience preferred to cost
I've seen some crazy stuff around the printers at the ITS Center ? three Rochester Institute of Technology students printing their entire semester's syllabus, three copies of a 500-page-manual printing at the same time on different printers and countless unclaimed fliers for campus events. Everyone at UR ? and the surrounding area ? seems to […]
Past the bubble
Too often, students on this campus complain that there is nothing to do in the city of Rochester, and even if there was something to do, there's no way for students without cars to get to them anyway. This sense of isolation is detrimental to UR students and the community. Both groups are missing out […]
Sanctions levied in cat incident
Four individuals and a fraternity were convicted in May on charges related to an incident that involved the discovery of a brutally mutilated cat hung on Sigma Chi's door in early December.Sources have repeatedly told the Campus Times that Delta Kappa Epsilon was the fraternity involved, but administration has not confirmed this.The individuals were found […]
Mental health center changes name to reflect growing services
UR's Counseling and Mental Health Services changed its name to University Counseling Center and added to its services over the summer.As a reaction to some students' concerns that the previous name was not inviting, plans were made to create a more welcoming name. "We felt it was time for an update," UCC Administrator Marcia Eisenberg […]
Campus Breifs
Students' Association Senate elections begin Monday as 15 undergraduates vie for 11 seats. The election will also be the first time the senate uses a Web-only voting system.The new system will be easy for students to use, according to senior and ITS Student Senate Liason Daryl DuLong. "It looks like an online poll, which should […]
Security Update
Two Eastman School of Music students jogging off campus, stopped to catch their breath on the Platt Street bridge, which is near the High Falls area, after 9 p.m. on Sept. 16 when they were approached from behind by a group of four people. The students were punched in the head and face, and then […]