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I met Ray MacConnell at my very first job after college: He worked in the advertising department and I worked in the editorial department of a local suburban weekly newspaper chain. Ray left the newspapers to come to the University when Wilson Commons opened; the rest of us were jealous, I remember. I came by […]

I recently helped host an alumni event in Philadelphia. During the event I was approached by two alums who enthusiastically reported the news of their engagement. They both had worked on the Campus Times as students in the early 1990s and in the course of our conversation, they regaled me with their fondness for Ray […]

Ack, I can?t believe it?s over! Thank you so much to everyone who has made it wild, crazy, and memorable over the years. Emily: You?ve been the best roommate, and friend, I could ever ask for. Two of a kind, we are. Chris: my favorite little dino-bird (you?ll love it that I put this in […]

So this is it. I finally get comfortable here and they force me to retire, then take away my keys at gunpoint. Not that I?m bitter. To foundations: God, family, apple pie and more recently Alissa.To the past: SKB for teaching me why copy editors deserve to be worshipped. KLR for being the best co-editor […]

Fate leads us down roads that we can not know until we are on them. They may be treacherous or pleasant, but in the end they take us to another path in the long journey that we call life.While at UR, I traveled down a road with the lot of you and it has had […]

From chair-dancing to 3 a.m. chats in the Pit, from copy-pen wars to agonizing over the length of headlines, it really has been fun. This has been a great experience, although the lack of sleep has definitely taken several years off my life! To Em, my partner in crime from the beginning: we made it! […]

Wow ... I haven?t been around very long, so I don?t have stories from years gone by. But I do have some great memories I?ll take with me ... all y?all at the CT were very welcoming when I needed to meet friendly new people, and I?ll always remember and appreciate that. And to think, […]

The University Apparel Manufacturing Committee once again took no action on the issue of public disclosure of UR?s manufacturing sites at a meeting Wednesday.The committee had invited Barnes and Noble representative Joel Friedman to talk about the technicalities and practicality of releasing the information.Friedman can disclose site locations if the university so chooses.However, he said […]

Eighty senior class T-shirts, valued at more than $800, were stolen from inside a locked Senior Class Council office between March 27 and April 4. A campus phone was also stolen from inside the office, located in the Ruth Merrill Center.?I thought it was safe to put our T-shirts in our office,? SCC president Emily […]

A first-year doctoral student accused of stabbing his wife to death ended his own life in Monroe County Jail last weekend.Optics student Steve Maples, 33, used a bedsheet to hang himself from the bars of his jail cell, jail superintendent Bob Squires said. He was discovered Friday at 5:09 a.m.?He was found hanging. We cut […]