Ed Observers

All of Rochester is depending on all of us

There is a special kind of irony in a student receiving the privilege of a higher education transmitting a deadly disease to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation. Read More

A letter from the Editor

So why do we do this? Why bother adding our amateur-hour content to the information overload? Because it's fun to care. Read More

Farewell transmission

Why is it all ending this way? Partly because of the unavoidable chaos of disease, and partly because of the inevitable march of time. Read More

Campus Times will return to print

The dust of this pandemic is far from settled, but it’s safe to say no one will deny the merits of virtual communication and operation after this semester.  For the Campus Times, this means that we owe a great thanks to our predecessors who chose to shift our paper from a predominantly print publication to […]
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Making peace with introversion

Beyond just wanting to blend in, though, I was always stuck on the idea that bigger personalities could accomplish more. Read More

The merits of growing your own herbs

In a fragmented system that demands impersonality, why not return some of that vigour to the self? Read More

The U.S. government’s economic response to COVID-19 is a rip-off

How can the nation with the largest amount of wealth and access have such a weak bureaucracy? Read More

Sad music isn’t always sad

Sad music does not always correlate with having a bad day or being in an unwelcome circumstance. Read More

Why semicolons are sexy

It wasn’t until eleventh grade that I found my true love: the semicolon.   Read More

Coronavirus is not the only global crisis

The concern over coronavirus hasn’t particularly fazed me. Sure, it’s a lot more concrete and immediate, but when the back of your mind is always scared that the world will fall apart anyways, the newer global threat loses some of its edge.  Read More