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You can still wear your skinny jeans

With trends moving at breakneck speed, we’re buying more clothes and wearing them for less time. But do we even have to follow trends? Read More

The ugliness of achieving perfection

Perfection is something we can’t live without and can’t live with. Perfection isn’t real, but we keep striving to reach it. Read More

What I’ve lost and what I’ve become

If you could visit your first-year self — whether that was a few months ago, or a few years — would you recognize each other? Read More

Bring back Grubhub

Food poisoning. 20-minute lines. No available tables. These have been the realities of dining options at UR both this and last semester. Read More

In Memoriam: Miguel Rodriguez

After the news of former Sports Editor Miguel Rodriguez’s passing, the Campus Times received multiple submissions from his former co-editors in his memory. Read More

Learning to love love

Ah, Valentine’s Day — where the sickeningly sweet smell of chocolate fills the air, and it seems like you can’t even turn a corner without seeing some egregious display of love. Read More

Raised for success: the toxicity of being the best, all the time

Maybe we focus more on the few failures because they're outliers. Or maybe people want to see them fail because they can’t fathom their success. Read More

Call me by my name

I hate that my name has to become a thing the first time I meet someone. Read More

The infinite supermarket of labels

Nowadays, there is a special term for almost everything under the sun. Read More

Why affirmative action is beyond pity points

My best friend in high school was Brown, queer, and a woman in STEM. And she made sure everyone knew it. Especially college admissions officers. Read More