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What we learned

I could tell you, but then I?d have to kill you. Or, a bit more precisely: I could tell you, but you wouldn?t listen to me anyway.If you had told me as a freshman how I would feel as a departing Take-Five, or even that I would have taken five years to complete an undergraduate […]

Comic

Commencement Comic

An unusual graduation speech

As members of the Class of 2001 prepare to leave the UR community, commencement speaker Jarold Ramsey will give them sound advice for the future.An accomplished poet and former professor of English, Ramsey will focus on the idea of conservation in his speech.?It all comes back to what we have to do with and for […]

Job market not so bleak

With the national unemployment rate growing to its highest since October 1998 and productivity falling for the first time in six years, it would seem likely that this year?s graduating seniors face a much more grim job market. In April, the U.S. economy shed 223,000 jobs to send unemployment up 0.2 percent to 4.5 percent […]

Not all graduates plan to flee Rochester area

Complaints about the city of Rochester by UR students are nothing new. Everyone has heard someone comment that the weather is overly harsh or that there is never anything interesting to do. According to the estimates of Career Center director Burt Nadler, only about 10 percent of UR graduates remain in Rochester, a situation commonplace […]

Dustin Tingley

"Sunsets over the Genesee."

Parthiv Jani

"Seeing where my money went."

Campus Times Commencement

Campus Times Commencement

Shawn Goldman

"That's why I'm coming back a fifth year."