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Seeking awareness: GlobeMed’s annual benefit dinner
Speakers at GlobeMed’s eighth annual Benefit Dinner last Friday brought attention to how the average college student can create change through awareness. “[Students need to] see they have a role,” senior and GlobeMed co-president Payal Morari said. She hopes that through events like these, students will be brought together to “change the world.” The UR […]
Eastman
Eastman students voice concern over latest security updates and DPS proposal
On the policy’s first day in action, Rhodes says he was stopped by a Public Safety officer for not presenting his ID. Read More
Eastman
Eastman adds security measures in response to attempted assault
The changes, slated to begin Monday, Feb. 18, are the latest in a string of security developments. Read More
Women
First women of color caucus meets with a hope to gain traction
Drawing inspiration from the principles of Kwanzaa, graduate student Destiny Maitland started the Women of Color Caucus as a way to connect women of color not just on campus but in the Rochester community. The women were also inspired by the legacy of the Women of Color Circle, which started in 2012 after the killing […]
food
Spring 2019 dining update
“Our plan right now is to continue to get better at the things we are [currently] working on, and to really spend our time on food quality,” Schauf said. Read More
rochester
Community organization seeks to help Rochester’s refugees
“I didn’t want to leave my country,” Omar told the crowd. “I was forced to leave.” Read More
UR Debate Union
Debate Union hosts national tournament, adding to recent success
The 2019 Brad Smith Debate Tournament, organized by the UR Debate Union, concluded on Sunday, Jan. 27, with Ravi Simon from Brandeis University and Sandy Greenberg from Brown University emerging victorious. The two-day long tournament consisted of two debating formats: British Parliamentary (BP) and Policy. The BP section attracted 45 teams from 14 institutions, […]
Alumni
Economics now a STEM major thanks to two alumni
Is Economics a STEM major? It is now, according to UR — which might make all the difference for international students looking to work in the U.S. And for alumni Alhassan Omar ‘18 and Vitraag Mehta ‘17, two international students who majored in economics, that might become their unexpected legacy. Foreign students on F-1 visas […]
MLK
Symone Sanders encourages radical change in Dr. King commemorative address
Symone Sanders, former national press secretary for Senator Bernie Sanders, urged attendees to be agents of change when she delivered the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address this past Wednesday. Addressing a packed audience, Sanders, who now works as a political commentator for CNN, encouraged listeners to brave discomfort by shedding light on […]
Gun Violence
Scholar-journalist Blanchfield rejects US culture of ‘Gunpower’
Journalist and academic Patrick Blanchfield encouraged listeners to abandon partisan responses and called attention to U.S. gun violence and the reactions it prompts, which he presented as a phenomenon called “Gunpower,” also the name of his upcoming book. In his presentation, in the Hawkins-Carlson room on Tuesday, Blanchfield described Gunpower as a way in which […]
