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Sex and the CT
Jodi Says: Drunk in Love
On Monday, Sept. 29, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill stating a clear definition of what constitutes sexual consent. Essentially, this “yes means yes” law clarifies that a lack of protest before sexual activity cannot be equated to affirmative consent. By the law’s definition, consent can only be given with a sober, […]
UR Tech
UR Tech: The securities and insecurities of government surveillance
In many ways, last year’s NSA leak was a tipping point in the public perception of conflict between personal privacy and national security. Sentiments against government overwatch programs had persisted for years, of course, spurred on by the Patriot Act and whispers of government wiretaps on U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism. But it wasn’t until […]
Sex and the CT
UR Kinks matches up students with all interests
Among the recent surge of new “UR Fill-in-the-Blank” Facebook pages, one page succeeded in raising quite a few eyebrows, particularly when compared to the relatively tame “UofR Crushes & Compliments” or the rabble-rousing “Overheard at Rochester.” Late this last spring, “UR Kinks” was born and, this semester, began matching up students who have similar sexual […]
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Politics: Campus style, Committee for Political Engagement
Many things separate Sarah Krulik and Jenny Hansler. For starters, Krulik is a sophomore, while Hansler is getting ready to graduate this spring; the former is majoring in public health and political science, the latter in English and Spanish. But there is an underlying force uniting the two (besides sharing a particular taste for the […]
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Habitat for Humanity gives families new homes and hopes
Most students use their time during Spring Break to catch up on sleep, spend time with friends and family, or simply go to the beach to relax and work on their tan. But a group of students on campus opt instead to travel to a different state and work on building houses for those in […]
Sex and the CT
Jodi Says: Oxytocin, love potion number nine
Oxytocin is a chemical affectionately referred to as “the love hormone.” However, that title is a bit misleading: it’s not a love potion, of course. After all, if love were as simple as neurochemistry, we at UR would be all paired up and atwitter with love. It’s called “the love hormone” because its naturally occurring […]
UR Tech
UR Tech: That ‘one weird trick’ behind flashy headlines
This week’s column was supposed to be on technological telepathy. A few weeks back there was a story in the news about a neural link that had been established between a study group split between India and France, where the words “hola” and “ciao” had been transmitted digitally from one subject’s brain to another. Headlines […]
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Men Opposed to Violence Everywhere: A new initiative for gender equality
On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, the Sigma Phi Epsilon house is almost empty. On the porch sits a gaggle of guys on hard chairs and an old black couch, dressed in Sunday casual. A slight breeze blows, drizzling a few raindrops into their faces. Three have their eyes glued to their computers, frantically creating an […]
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At People’s Climate March, Rochester students rally for a sustainable future
Walking side-by-side down Central Park West, UR students joined nearly 400,000 others from across the globe in New York City on Sunday, Sept. 21 as a part of the People’s Climate March. The march, scheduled just two days before the U.N. Climate Summit at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, is now being called “history’s largest march […]
Sex and the CT
Jodi Says: The Five-Year Plan
I am an adult, but only barely. I’m old enough to have sex and make responsible decisions, but let’s be real: I can’t be trusted to take a pill every day at the same time. I can’t even be trusted to be awake at a set time every day. As one could imagine, that became […]
