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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 […]
Op-Eds
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, […]
Op-Eds
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. […]
Op-Eds
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 […]
Op-Eds
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 […]
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Community college is a better option
To all of you trust fund students, whose parents saved money from when you were young so that they could blow it all away on the best possible college education money could buy. If you have been shackled into the college’s credit system for over a year it may be too late for you. But […]
Op-Eds
Enough Walmart, new stores
I recently ran into a friend at the bus stop. She was carrying about a dozen plastic bags, all from Walmart. “What are you doing shopping at Walmart?” I rudely asked her. “Haven’t you heard how they treat their workers?” She had. She knew that Walmart’s low wages, minimal job benefits, and poor working conditions […]
Sex and the CT
Ask Estrada: Hookups, relationships, and threesomes
Why won’t my boyfriend perform oral? How can I push him in the right direction? Without talking to your boyfriend, I can only guess about his reasons for not visiting your downtown. It’s possible that he simply had a bad experience with a previous female partner who felt too self-conscious to enjoy it. He also […]
Op-Eds
DLH does not ‘further segregate students’ at UR
UR students constantly brag about how proud they are of the intelligence on campus, and it’s mostly warranted. We are fortunate to be a part of such an intelligent student body. Even so, it appears ignorance is again rearing its ugly head. I, like Bordwell, fully support DLH as an organization. I too think it […]