Opinions
Op-Eds
The Problem With Higher Education
ou are paying $60,000 a year to attend this school. Regardless of your actual financial situation – you could have a full ride (do we give those?), or have financial aid, or maybe your parents went ahead and paid off the whole year in advance with cash – somehow you are paying $60,000 for your […]
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Science and Faith
here is no denying the fact that modern science has shaped our world in profound ways. Because of science, we are able to provide better medical care. We are able to travel around the world. We are able to predict the weather, and we are able to better observe the universe. In fact, the more […]
Ed Observers
Loving What You Do
I can just see myself now, in some bar sitting next to the Piano Man, rambling on about how I could do so much more with my life, just like John at the Bar and Davie, who’s still in the Navy, and probably will be for life. And Lord knows the last thing I want […]
Editorial Boards
Sister Campuses Must Warm Relations
Everyday of the week, big white busses pull up in front of the ITS. Doors open and bus drivers welcome students aboard. Everyday, at least one of these busses makes a stop at Eastman School of Music, about a fifteen-minute ride. The busses then pick up waiting students and head back to River Campus (RC). […]
Editorial Boards
Weigh All Ideas For Bookstore Spot
With the campus bookstore moving off to its new College Town location, the school administration is left with a large space under Douglass that they must fill. While in every discussion some voices are heard louder than others, we hope that those in charge will carefully weigh all of the options before finally deciding. While […]
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Another AIDS Anniversary: Ted Brown’s take on the legacy of PEPFAR
As we pause this week to mark the twenty-sixth recognition of World AIDS Day, it would also be appropriate to acknowledge the tenth anniversary of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In May 2003 this health initiative committed the United States to spend fifteen billion dollars over five years for international programs in […]
Ed Observers
Print prevails: In defense of the campus newspaper
It’s clear that print media of all forms is struggling and I would hate to see any of it go defunct. But if there’s one type of publication that can, should and will survive, it’s the campus newspaper. When you work on your campus newspaper it consumes you. It becomes all you can think about, […]
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Iranian nuclear deal receives mixed sentiments – Part 2
In our personal lives, and in most of the business world, deals are about trust and amiability. Pundits and politicians would like us to believe that deals between nation states work the same way. Nothing can be further from the truth. Reagan used to say “trust but verify;” the truth is that verification generates trust. […]
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Iranian nuclear deal receives mixed sentiments – Part 1
Last month, on Nov. 24, The P5+1 Nations (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, including The United States, Russia, China, France, and The United Kingdom, plus Germany) finally reached an interim nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The agreement, which lessens about $7 billion in sanctions on Iran in […]
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Don’t judge a campus based on a single article
Rachel Barnhart has taken the Campus Times article “College Town still slated for 2014 amid student angst” and used it to portray UR students as lazy. Her article on the Rochesterian website puts the idea out to the community that UR students are whining and complaining about a short, fifteen minute walk from our campus […]
