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Reorganization of The College implemented
Campus Times StaffReaction to President Thomas Jackson's decision to go ahead this summer with a reorganization of the structure of The College has been overwhelmingly positive.The change eliminated the separate Student Affairs Administrative Division and brought the Student Activities Office, the Department of Athletics and Recreation and Residential Life under the leadership of The College. […]
Campus Briefs: Hill Court election finalized
Seniors Peter Sanfacon and Sean Sullivan will represent the Hill Court area in the Students' Association Senate this year. Polls closed Tuesday night after the runoff with 87 Hill Court residents having voted. Fifty-one votes went to Sanfacon, 45 to Sullivan, 26 to senior John Brach, and 16 to junior Lora Marden, who was a […]
Pro-life speaker at UR
Serrin Foster, president of Feminists For Life of America, discussed her organization's central issues Monday in Hubbell Auditorium. Foster discussed pregnancy on campus, women's right to choose and the effects of legalized abortion on society.Foster said that when a college student becomes pregnant, one of two things commonly happen ? she either has an abortion […]
Rossen-Knill focuses on freshmen
In her third year at UR, Professor of English Deborah Rossen-Knill was appointed the new Dean of Freshmen, this fall. "I will be responsible for the academic welfare of the first-year class," she said. Her other responsibilities include overseeing faculty advising for freshmen, developing and monitoring educational programs for freshmen in the residential quad, and […]
Up 'til dawn program begins fundraising at UR
Up 'til Dawn, a collegiate fundraising program already run at 77 college campuses, has found its way to UR, with the purpose of raising money to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.The newly established Up 'til Dawn committee will spearhead the fundraising efforts by encouraging student teams, groups and businesses to raise money. A fundraising […]
Security Update: Stolen car flips on Wilson Boulevard
Just after 4 a.m. Saturday morning, a car flipped upside down near 612 Wilson Blvd. A student who was in a room in Kendrick heard a loud crash and went outside to investigate said that no one was in the vehicle when he reported the incident to security."The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle […]
Labor problems hit the coffeehouse
by Chadwick SchneeCampus Times StaffAfter about half of a semester, ARAMARK has failed to pay students for working in the Common Ground Caf. Some frustrated students turned to striking, in order to let the corporation know their discontent. Six of the seven student managers have quit their jobs, leaving students and employees to wonder who […]
Sending more food than bombs to Afghanistan
America's anti-terrorism strategy focuses on violent military action above peaceful, humanitarian measures. In responce to this strategy and foreign reaction to it, I took it upon myself to write to William Coyne ? my hometown representative ? asking him to advocate shifting our campaign's focus from violence to humanitarian in nature.As long as our goal […]
Going Undercover at an ex-gay conference
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. ? You're Christian, you're gay and you're going to burn in hell.That's the blunt way of phrasing the ex-gay message. Around for almost as long as the gay movement itself, the ex-gay movement for decades has spread good news ? It is possible to convert from your sinful homosexual ways and save […]
Women's rights trampled in Afghanistan by Taliban
The extremist Taliban government of Afghanistan has been in power ever since they staged a military takeover in 1996. Now, after Sept. 11, all eyes have been on Afghanistan, the country with which we have been suddenly plunged into war. However, the humanitarian crisis that exists under the Taliban has been taking its toll on […]