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Meatless Monday or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Walk To Danforth
Every week, our esteemed campus is privileged to host the premier dining event known as Meatless Mondays. Featuring mouthwatering gourmet creations, no expense is spared in providing the best possible meal...wait, what? Oh right, that’s not true at all. Depending on the length of your tenure here at UR, you are probably quite familiar with […]
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The End of Britain
Imagine Britain as a mild-mannered, sixty something year old man with an identity crisis. He used to be important, but he recently had to retire from his job as a world superpower due to pressure from the board. His adult children don’t respect him anymore – they are obnoxious and annoying. He doesn’t know anymore […]
Editorial Boards
Turning a dial back in time
On an early Sunday morning circa 1930, the average American family could often be found sitting in a cozy living room, each comfortably situated on olive green couch cushions and yellow pillows, each holding their morning coffee or hot chocolate. No television blaring in the distance, no iPhone buzzing. The only sounds to be […]
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Photos today and tomorrow
When you experience something eventful, beautiful, funny, or strange, a natural reaction is to take a picture of it. But the impulse isn’t to get the picture so much as to share it. It’s the fact that someone else will see what is happening to you. It's knowing the picture will be on Instagram, Facebook, […]
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Blackboard: let’s use pen and paper
Pen and paper truly are for the birds. Laptops and smartphones render smudge marks a thing of the past, but even more importantly, they empower us with the ability to write words more efficiently, store words in a more centralized location, and share words with more of the world. Technology provides us with cleaner and […]
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The last words: a senior staff writer’s farewell
CT staff writer Daniel Gorman Jr. reflects on his four years at UR. Read More
Ed Observers
It just gets better and better
Campus Times' Rachael Sanguinetti sends off the class of 2014. Read More
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Legalize it, once and for all.
Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is one of the most widely used drugs in America. Its legalization movement has spread rapidly across America as people are starting to see the benefits of the plant. Not only are people seeing the pros of medical marijuana, but they are also beginning to separate fact from fiction when […]
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Bundy Ranch not Ruby Ridge
Rancher Cliven Bundy’s decades-long fight with the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been garnering a lot of attention in recent weeks due to the recent involvement of militia groups who took up arms against the federal government earlier this month. The situation is fairly simple: Bundy owes the government grazing fees, but doesn’t […]
Ed Observers
Information overload
Disclaimer: I am not a Luddite, per se. I use technology like everyone else, and to a great extent, I enjoy it. Also, I understand that this article is going to sound incredibly pretentious, so please bear with me. We indisputably live in the “information age.” One very visible irony of applying this label to […]