Mental Health
Novels, novels, everywhere, but none are fun, I think
It’s no secret that reading for pleasure has been linked to a host of emotional and mental health benefits. With national readership plummeting across the past decade, a question arises: What role should campus libraries play in leisure reading? Read More
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Eulogy for Brian Ly
spending his time “flirting with hiring managers,” and urging those like him to “mog the huzz with your chopped aura.” Read More
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Campus Brat: Choosing Rochester (The shame of settling)
I had decided at a very young age that I would go to URochester (although it’s always been “the U of R” to me). I would get free tuition and I could hang out with my dad all the time. Read More
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Campus Brat: Halloweirdos
We Jarvises, especially my dad and I, take Halloween seriously. Read More
from the archives
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
