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UR officials satisfied with repliesMembers of Residential Life, the Dean of Students office and UR Security are pleased with the responses received from houses on the Fraternity Quad regarding the whereabouts of a dead cat that was brought to campus late last semester. Director of Residential Life Logan Hazen and Interim Dean of Students Jody […]

The Department of Religion and Classics, along with the Interfaith Chapel, Dean of The College, Office of Minority Student Affairs, the Student Association, and the departments of Anthropology, Political Science and History co-sponsored a speaker presentation held in the Welles-Brown room last night entitled "American Peyotism: Religion & Legal Dimensions." Coordinated by Take-Five student and […]

News flashes alerting the United States of more suicide violence in the Middle East took on an extra level of eeriness for me on Good Friday, when I realized who the perpetrator of the attack was. She was two years younger than I am ? an 18 year-old Palestinian girl who took along with her […]

In a ground-breaking move, residential advisors at the University of Massachusetts -Amherst voted to unionize this month, making them the nation's first unionized undergraduate employees. Undergraduate teaching assistants at Columbia University will hope to join them as they vote later this month on unionization. This is an important move which could open a lot of […]

Make D-day open to allThis year it seems that nearly every varsity sports team on campus has a game or meet taking place at another school on Dandelion Day. I don't know if this was planned on purpose, but I think it has been poorly planned nonetheless. It is unfair for student athletes, who work […]

The events of the last couple weeks - a poorly publicized Students' Association election, a corrupt and confusing speaker selection process and a lower than normal voter turnout - have highlighted the need to ratify a new constitution that makes student government less confusing and more accountable to students at UR. That chance for students […]

As the April 8th deadline looms, Students' Association Constitutional Committee members continued to frantically finalize the rewritten SA Constitution last night. After a lengthy discussion on whether the group did not actively involve outside members enough and was overly rushing the document's completion at the beginning of the meeting, a consensus was reached to push […]

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Members of the UR community wore decorated white t-shirts and jeans in a show of support for the Pride Network's "Day of Solidarity." President of the Pride Network and junior Dan Lioy feels that the Day of Solidarity is important not just to the gay community but to the rest of the UR as well. […]

Student sees own car burglarized from roomAn undergraduate student reported that he heard a car alarm going off in Wilson North Lot on March 30 around 12:16 a.m. and, upon looking out from his room in Chambers, discovered that the alarm was coming from his own vehicle. The student observed an unidentified suspect remove items […]