Letter to the Editor

Audiobooks are books and we should say so

Engage with books however you want. Don’t we have better uses for our time than to pick apart how other people take in information?

The Mahmoud Khalil reckoning

Higher education's institutional mission is bedrock to American democracy. Safeguard the former and maybe we can salvage the latter.

The ‘wanted’ posters at the University of Rochester are unambiguously antisemitic. Here’s why.

As an educator who is deeply committed to fostering an open, inclusive environment and is alarmed by the steep rise in antisemitic crimes across this country and university campuses, I feel obligated to explain why this poster campaign is clearly an expression of antisemitism

When it happens to you: A personal reflection from a “wantee”

My name is Joy Getnick and I'm the Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Rochester.  You might recognize my name because I am one of the people featured on the ‘wanted’ posters.

Creating a climate of engagement and empowerment

Creating an engaged campus climate counters feelings of apathy with intellectual curiosity.

Letter to the Editor: Your vote. Your voice. Your role in shaping the future.

Vote for the big races, and vote for the small races — every election will impact the communities we live in.

The surprising thing I learned when I was invited into UR’s Free Palestine encampment

It was the fact that these students were here at all, on this quad, in this camp, acting in solidarity with the several hundred thousand Palestinians refugees who, because of the war, were now forced to live in tents. This didn’t feel like a UR thing.

Letter to President Mangelsdorf

This school has made me afraid to speak out against genocide. 

Letter to the Editor – Welcome message

Your presence at the University of Rochester, each one of you, is significant because you add a thread to the fabric of who we are as a community.

An open letter to all members of any university community

I strongly oppose the proposed divestment resolution. This resolution is nothing more than another ugly manifestation of antisemitism at the University.