Campus
Politics
Professor steps down as undergrad program director after controversial Facebook posts
Ted Pawlicki, the professor whose Facebook posts on Thursday prompted student outrage, stepped down from his position as undergraduate program director of the Department of Computer Science on Friday. In an email that day to computer science students, Pawlicki apologized for a post he made on the event page for “Not My America,” a peaceful […]
Politics
Professor offers to buy bus tickets to Canada for those who ‘promise never to come back’
The post immediately spawned student outrage, including the filing of bias-related incident reports. Read More
Campus
Diwali Lights up May Room
The graduate Rochester Indian Association celebrated its flagship event, Diwali, in the May Room of Wilson Commons on Saturday night. Read More
Sexual Assault
Sexual assault victims take back the night
It was a night of solidarity and reflection, as Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, a Title IX activist, spoke to students about sexual assault. Read More
Simon School
Simon professor emeritus resigns title after tax fraud plea
Horsky resigned his title Monday after the Department of Justice announced last Friday that he had paid a $100-million penalty and pleaded guilty to conspiracy for avoiding taxes through Swiss bank accounts. Read More
2016 Election
UR students rock the vote
For nearly all of them, it was their first time voting in a presidential election. Some had come by car, some by University shuttle. Others had walked to the Saunders Research Building, the polling place for students who are registered to vote at their River Campus address. As voting locations go, it wasn't crowded—though without […]
Israel-Palestine
Tensions flare at Palestine awareness event
Tensions boiled over Wednesday night during a Q&A session following the screening of a documentary critical of Israel. Read More
Campus
Burgett Center talk tackles PC culture
The discussion turned to the danger of putting people into boxes—a box of LGBT individuals, perhaps, or a basket of Trump supporters. Read More
RRL
Lam Square lauded, but adjustments are still coming
River Campus Libraries is looking to replace the booth tables in Evans Lam Square, just one of a suite of changes to the recently renovated space in response to mixed, but generally positive, student reactions. Read More
Mental Health
Hydrophobic paint deemed unsafe
“We just want to protect everybody. I wouldn’t even let my staff use it.” Read More
