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Haiyan must not have final word
Two weeks ago, Typhoon Haiyan, a Category 5 super typhoon, struck the Philippines. With winds reaching 195 miles per hour and waves rising as high as 17 feet in some areas, the typhoon was responsible for thousands of deaths. Millions of Filipinos have been displaced. The cost of damages, according to a Kinetic Analysis Corp., […]
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Controversy generates conversation
Over the course of the fall 2013 semester, we have published numerous articles that our readers have considered controversial. As a student newspaper, our mission statement states that “Campus Times shall report and analyze events, provide an open forum for the expression of opinions and introduce students and the University community to the art of […]
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Check your facts, we’ll check ours
Recent letters to the editor received by the Campus Times have been particularly critical of members of the Editorial Board and the editorials published in recent issues. We appreciate and even welcome criticism, feedback, corrections, and suggestions for improvement. Unfortunately, we find some of the claims of shoddy journalistic work leveled against us recently to […]
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Bring back the bar buses
It has been almost two years since UR discontinued the practice of providing buses to transport students from campus to bars around downtown Rochester. For the sake of student safety, UR should seek to re-establish operation of these bar buses. At the programs inception, the primary purpose for the implementation of bar buses was […]
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Americans have a growing problem
Americans are fat. One can regularly see the masses of overweight around town snacking. At the same time, there are countless obese people rolling into emergency rooms and onto surgical tables due to weightrelated health issues. But placing blame squarely on the shoulders of purportedly evil soda companies and fast food corporations is not just […]
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Assess A.D.H.D. diagnoses, prevent amphetamine abuse
We live in an age when students have easy access to A.D.H.D medication, regardless of whether they have a prescription or not. This increased availability has swept colleges across the country, including UR.a The number of A.D.H.D. diagnoses has grown over the past few decades — 11 percent of children ages 4 to 17 […]
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Nobel Peace Prize has lost its luster
The selection of the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize recipient demands interrogation of the award’s legitimacy. OPCW receives the honor despite its failure to meet its April 2012 goal of eliminating all chemical weapons from member states, notably Russia and the United States. In August, the […]
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Ditch Facebook, try new platforms
Facebook has lost its cool factor. The ubiquitous social network, once a trending startup that college students across the U.S. loved, is now a 3,000-person, public corporation with a multibillion dollar valuation. Ironically, this is precisely what has led to its decline. It’s no wonder that Facebook spent a jaw-dropping $1 billion on acquiring its […]
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Publicize protocol for school shooting
In light of recent shootings both in the U.S. and abroad, student safety in the event of a potential incident at UR is of grave concern. Though we hope such events will never happen at UR, we are concerned that students here are grossly unprepared to react appropriately in the event of a school shooting. […]
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Meliora Oasis all dried up
Earlier this year, the Students’ Association (SA) Senate passed a resolution endorsing the proposed construction of green space on the brick plaza near Meliora Hall. Although construction was slated to start and finish this past summer, to our dismay, this particular project, dubbed the Meliora Oasis, has fallen to the wayside. As outlined in the […]
