Katie Jarvis
Katie Jarvis
Class of 2025

Articles by Katie

Campus Brat: Halloweirdos

We Jarvises, especially my dad and I, take Halloween seriously. Read More

Change doesn’t have to be hard: An exploration of UR’s last logo design process

Backlash against a logo change isn’t new — students also grumbled in 2007, the last time the logo was reworked. But the process of selecting a new logo 18 years ago was very different than it was this most recent time around. Read More

Campus Brat: Logo Parentis

That cheerful logo has always been around me. Every time I logged in to play Club Penguin in my dad’s office, this was the logo on his browser homepage. When my dad got tenure in 2009, this was the logo on the envelope sharing the news. Read More

Student opinions on the new logo

On a post on the r/Rochester subreddit on the rebrand, the top comment as of Oct. 19 reads: “It looks like one of those colleges you see advertised on tabloid websites that accept anyone with a pulse.” Read More

Email blast from the distant past

I am becoming frailer and frailer day by day (I have had a cold since Thursday and I'm being a big baby about it). Read More

Not Sick of “Lovesick” by the Happy Fits

That being said, “Lovesick” has all the hallmarks of a classic Fits album and is a welcome step forward for the band. Read More

University divests from prison labor, cites excessive costs

Saving money is no easy task for the newly self-operational UR Dining Services — especially when trying to fill the non-slip shoes of a company famous for its lax policies regarding labor, health, and safety.  Read More

Campus Brat: Care and keeping of faculty kids

The faculty child is no ordinary child-stranger. I would know. I once stood in their tiny light-up Sketchers. Read More

Campus Brat

Most of us don’t even know each other, but we all have one thing in common: We’re children of UR professors, URMC employees, administrators, and campus support staff. Because of this, I’ve affectionately dubbed us “campus brats.” Read More

Copy chief resignation

Don’t let the chilling erosion of our culinary freedom distract you; instead look again at the quotation marks. Read More