Opinions
Ed Observers
The woes and worries of a January admit
She wasn’t going to bend. I’d known that going in, but, for some reason, I thought I’d get lucky this time around the administrative shit-pit. Res Life had screwed me over — though my housing conundrum stems not from bad luck, but from the fact that I was a January admit as a freshman last […]
Op-Eds
New meal plan offerings hard to swallow
Big changes are in the works for dining on campus next year, and things don’t look good. Maybe it’s just fear of the unknown, but I am not excited about any of the upcoming shifts and am actively worried about most of them. I’m going through them one by one and thinking about the impact […]
Op-Eds
Crony capitalism: corruption and collusion
In the 1987 film, “Wall Street,” Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko notoriously said that in capitalism, “it’s a zero-sum game: Somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred from one perception to another.” Messages like these, degrading free markets, have always been widespread, but have gotten ever more pervasive with […]
Editorial Boards
Allow accurate advising
When a freshman enters UR — whether it be the School of Arts & Sciences or the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences — he or she receives a pre-major advisor whose role is to be a guide in the process of beginning a college education. The difference between Arts & Sciences students and […]
Editorial Boards
Pointless parking prices
Campus parking is a major cause of stress for most people who rely on the University to provide them with somewhere to keep their car. Concerns about distance, price and availability are commonly emphasized by students, but there are other issues for commuter students looking for an alternative to Park Lot. For example, students that […]
Sex and the CT
A very uplifting experience at Come As You Are
The Sex and the CT investigates the experience of visiting sex shops. Read More
Op-Eds
Fruit on campus: a seriously rotten deal
Ah, pesticide. As much as I appreciate insight into agricultural processes, I’m not a fan of tasting the crop-dust on apples — or maybe it’s not chemicals, maybe I’m tasting the industrial plastic the apples were shipped in. Or the oil from 10,000 hesitant, collegiate fingers. Whatever’s in my mouth, it could use a bath. […]
Editorial Boards
New meals declining
“‘Club meals’ are a thing of the past,” says UR Dining’s informational sheet about next year’s new meal plans. Indeed they are: Starting next semester, meal plans will switch over to “Unlimited Plans,” which grant daily all-you-can-eat access to Douglass Dining Center and Danforth, as well as a declining balance. As for how the Unlimited […]
Editorial Boards
Warner wins and woes
As it currently exists, the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development is essentially confined to a small section in the basement of Dewey Hall. According to the Warner School’s website there are about 3,000 students split between the Eastman School of Music, the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the William E. Simon […]
Op-Eds
The classics should not be all Greek to us
Some foreign language programs have no need to justify their existence. Certainly few would advocate removing programs like Spanish or French from high schools, given how many people worldwide (and, especially with Spanish, in the United States) speak them. Nor do languages like Arabic and Mandarin lack their defenders, given their importance to current American […]
