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Seligman approves main race proposals

Seligman announced that he would be accepting the “principal recommendations” of the Commission. Read More

OMSA needs its own space, students stress

OMSA currently shares an office with the Center for Education Abroad in Dewey 2-161. Read More

‘Human Oil Spill’ floods Hirst Lounge

Protesters dressed in black from head to toe and lay on the floor for 15 minutes. Read More

UR talks policy at sexual misconduct town hall

Students, faculty, and staff voiced their concerns regarding UR’s sexual misconduct policies last Wednesday afternoon at a town hall meeting held in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library. Read More

‘United Against Hate’

Their election night silence and sadness turned into chanted rebukes of the dog-whistle politics of Trump’s campaign, which many have decried as racist, sexist, xenophobic, and all manner of normalized hatred. Read More

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 […]

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

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 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 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