Archives - Sam Passanisi

Student a cappella group After Hours hit some high points—and some high notes—during their fall semester show, “The 2016 Election,” in Strong Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 6. Despite a few slow moments, the show was funny, robust and enjoyable, if a little on the lengthy side. The show opened on a video segment that featured […]

After a year of planning, student environmental advocacy group Grassroots is working with UR Facilities this week to install a rain garden behind Southside Living Center. Facilities noted in an email that an external contractor will be working on the project, which involves excavating and landscaping a section of the field, until Sunday, Nov. 20. […]

What is true of aircraft carriers is also true of the University of Rochester—it’s like a small, self-contained city, with everything you need on board. Freshmen can find everything necessary to sustain themselves within a 15 minute walk from their dorm room, all without ever leaving the comfortable hemisphere of the River Campus. There’s a […]

The Warner School of Education has received $2 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further the Warner School’s work in improving science and math education in urban high schools. The grant will be used primarily to fund the Warner School’s urban science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education initiative, the […]

UR administrators announced on Wednesday, Oct. 21 that Senior Associate Vice President for Budgets and Planning Holly Crawford would succeed Ronald Paprocki as Senior Vice President for Finance and Administrator when Paprocki retires in January. The announcement was made at a press conference on Wednesday morning in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library. Paprocki’s […]

It’s 2015, and Eugene V. Debs is either jumping for joy in the afterlife or spinning in his grave. If Debs is jumping for joy, it’s because his intellectual descendent, Bernie Sanders, is the closest any socialist has ever come to being elected President of the United States. Sanders is enjoying much more support than […]

Douglass Dining Center was briefly evacuated during lunchtime Tuesday, when dining workers suspected they smelled a gas leak in the building. Workers notified Public Safety, who decided to evacuate the building “as a precautionary measure,” Director of Auxiliary Operations Cameron Schauf said in an email. Workers proceeded to sweep through the dining area and notify […]

University Provost Peter Lennie will step down from the position of Provost in June 2016, according to an announcement from the Office of the President. Lennie will remain with the University as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering until June 2017 at the request of University President Joel Seligman. Lennie has been […]

“My friends grew up, they never get drunk, they never wanna hang out late They’re gonna get jobs, they’re gonna pay bills, they’re gonna get old and gray I’ll never do that, I wanna stay young, don’t wanna fit in, I wanna have fun So if that’s okay, I don’t think I’m ever gonna act […]

The large wooden tables adjacent to the circulation desk in Rush Rhees Library Q&i, which were removed from the area in preparation for future renovations to the space, will be returned to the area Sept. 28th and will remain there for the duration of the 2015-2016 academic year, Dean of River Campus Libraries (RCL) Mary […]