Ed Observers

The bride of Danforth: radical changes to Douglass

A look at the newly renovated Douglass dining center by a Take Five scholar. Read More

Cutting down those abbrevs in vocab

Drue Sokol, a CT Photo Editor, takes a look at abbreviated words in everyday syntax. Read More

Twilight speedball: the post-printing high

Fittingly enough for the last article of the section, our Sports Editor, John Bernstein, relates the experience all CT editors go through at the end of the night they spend putting together your paper. Read More

Pop psychology bamboozles book readers

Pop psychology books, under the pretense of making the science accessible to the average person, convince them to go off treatments assigned them for good reasons. It's not the way to go. Read More

Radical subjectivity: haters gonna hate

We can all agree there's such a thing as "good taste." The question is whether we can all agree on what that is — or even whether we're meant to. Read More

The woes and worries of a January admit

She wasn’t going to bend. I’d known that going in, but, for some reason, I thought I’d get lucky this time around the administrative shit-pit. Res Life had screwed me over — though my housing conundrum stems not from bad luck, but from the fact that I was a January admit as a freshman last […]

Second impressions: a kinder look at UR

Though the quintessential college student’s spring break is spent going wild in Cancún, I spent mine doing college tours, part two. Remember all the road trips with your family during junior year of high school, as you attempted to figure out what colleges to apply to? Yeah, fun times. Personally, by the end of it […]

Res Life: the source of housing problems

With 1,177 students, UR’s class of 2014 is the largest ever, beating the record set two years ago by the class of 2012. Alongside growing class sizes, demand for on-campus housing continues to outstrip supply, and competition for the best spots has become increasingly fierce. While this presently only affects freshman housing, in the coming […]

LMFAO concert? More like a war zone

The LMFAO concert should've been an uniformly enjoyable time for all. Instead, due to bad planning, it turned into a chaotic scene full of rude pushing and shoving. Read More

Technological progress still marches on

Technology continues to expand and improve. Are humanity's fears of it justified? Or are we simply expecting a different relationship than we will have? Read More