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Ten students were elected to the Students? Association Senate last week. From Monday, Oct. 1 through Wednesday, Oct. 3, the UR student body partook in the yearly fall elections. The races elect undergraduate representatives from each of the housing areas.Senior Andrea Kay was elected in the class of 2002 race, the only class race. Winners […]

In response to the growing tensions between the United States and the Middle East, over a hundred students, faculty and community members gathered for a panel discussing the issues Wednesday, Oct. 3.The forum featured Assistant Professor of Political Science Randall Stone, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures Randall Halle, Associate Professor of Religion Daniel […]

As a UHS health educator and the coordinator of the orientation program on alcohol, I want to thank Lewis Powell for his feedback in the Sept. 27 CT.The ?Alcohol 101? CD-ROM program is one of the modalities I use for alcohol education because it?s been so enthusiastically received by students in the past. Students comment […]

Once again, the turnout for the annual Students? Association Senate election fell last week, from 1184 voters, or 31 percent of the undergraduates from last spring and 610 voters, equaling 16 percent from last fall, to 393 voters, or just 10 percent this fall. The spike in spring voting is due to the election of […]

I have never driven a car before. As a soon to be 21-year-old American in the year 2001, this is a rarity. I am one of the few, if not the only UR student that can make this claim, and I am certainly proud to make it. And although I haven?t waged an all-out boycott […]

During Meliora Weekend, UR is hosting a talk on Saturday named ?Freedom of Speech.? Invited to discuss first amendment issues in today?s society was Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, who granted an injunction to the Motion Picture Association of America to stop the distribution of DeCSS, which converts data on a DVD into raw MPEG video.In […]

An undergraduate student notified security that a beer can struck the front of his car around 1 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 near Kendrick House.The student identified a large group of persons standing on a balcony above the car with similar beer cans. There was also saliva and other unidentified liquids all over the hood and […]

A false alarm sounded at the Kornberg Medical Research Building at the UR Medical Center Tuesday when an employee said she saw a puff of an unidentified dust-like substance.The envelope was found not to be a health hazard, but not before the evacuation of 30 staff members from the ground floor of Kornberg and a […]

In response to the recent concern about threats of biological terrorism, the Strong Medical Center will be one of four medical centers involved in a smallpox vaccine study.The national study will try to determine if the existing reserves of smallpox vaccinations could be diluted to make more doses available, if necessary. About 200 volunteers will […]

A runoff election in a Students? Association Senate race became necessary Wednesday morning when the All-Campus Judicial Council overturned a ruling made by the SA Senate Election Committee.ACJC?s decision reinstated two ballots, each with two votes, which resulted in a three-way tie for two senate positions in the Hill Court area election. The election committee […]