UR Politics
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
SA
Freshman elected as new senate deputy speaker
Marco Ramos, a first-year international student from Mexico, was elected deputy speaker of the Senate Monday night at the branch’s Gowen Room meeting. Read More
SA Elections
Turnout high as freshmen elect four new senators
The 53 percent voter turnout rate far exceeds the approximately 32 percent rate from the spring SA elections, considered by SA members as one of the most successful election turnouts in recent years. Read More
SA Senate
SA senator, deputy speaker resign
Two members of the Students’ Association (SA) Senate have resigned from their positions, adding to the list of SA leaders who have left their posts in the past year. Read More
SA Elections
Freshmen vie for Senate seats in SA election
Some are completely unaware there are freshman elections for SA Senate and Class and Hall Councils on Thursday and Friday. Read More
Race
Students launch response campaign to “We’re Better Than THAT”
“We’ve all kind of heard, ‘we’re working on it. Wait, it will get better,’ but as we show with the timeline on the site, we’ve been waiting and we felt it was time to respond,” they said. Read More
Adjuncts
Adjuncts move to unionize
The protestors visited Seligman’s office, where they were told the President was not around. Read More
SA Elections
Martino and Floto win SA election
The juniors’ outsider campaign raked in 647 votes, according to the unofficial results posted online that night, winning by a margin of 63 over SA veterans and fellow juniors Erinmarie Byrnes and Dan Matthews. Read More
SA Elections
Candidates’ calls for transparency questioned by evidence
"If candidates are citing transparency problems, they need to look elsewhere. Not PR." Read More
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