Opinions
Opinions
Why McDonald?s will reach the moon first
For those with an eye on science and technology news, this week's stories have featured mission highlights for the space shuttle Discovery, which ferried instrumentation and spare parts for the International Space Station (ISS). The mission proceeded with only minor hiccups, and even the Twitter updates were livelier than usual ('We had the first voice […]
Opinions
C. Dale Young in second person
As the editor of the New England Review, C. Dale Young sifts through 65,000 submissions of poetry per year. Of those 65,000, 65 of them will dawn the quarterly's table of contents. 'Rejection is your friend," Young said in a discussion with English professor Jennifer Grotz's Advanced Poetry Workshop. 'It doesn't take long before you're […]
Op-Eds
Importance of listening to others? perspectives
With the spring semester now ending, students across campuses worldwide are clearing their brains. It is important, however, to continue gaining knowledge, or at least pondering its value while we have the free time over the summer. This pursuit of knowledge is what leads minds to new discoveries, philosophies and inventions. The basis of such […]
Opinions
Tea Party turns violent
Back in December, during a major protest in Washington, D.C. against the Senate health care bill, former candidate for governor of New Jersey Steve Lonegan mounted the podium to tell his audience, 'We cannot let the pen be mightier than the sword!" In any other forum, Lonegan would have been laughed off the stage, but […]
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Personal recollections on the POA library
It is hard to tell my own academic story without the Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library (POA). If its story is to end with the proposed computer lab, then so ends my academic career. When I first came to the University, I was looking forward to four hard years doing physics and mathematics, and for all my luck, […]
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UR Performing showcases talent
Black floors. Black curtain. Black walls. A slight tension builds as the darkness looms. It's quiet in Todd Theatre as the sold-out crowd maintains a steady and patient silence awaiting the UR Performing expos. Man bolts out from the darkness a streak of light. Like a bouncing jackrabbit on a powerful stimulant, he runs out, […]
Ed Observers
Welcome to a non-argument
Welcome to a non-argument. Welcome to Dada reborn.In this article, I will refuse to follow the artificial constructs of the English language. Those evil and wicked grammarians began codifying what is right and wrong in the 18th century. How dare they arbitrate their will over me and what they believe is right.The rest of my […]
Editorial Boards
Protect bikes
Bike thefts are an increasingly common occurrence at UR, with 300 attempted or completed thefts on bikes or bike parts in the past three years, according to UR Security. As a university whose location makes it difficult to use cars or to walk out into the surrounding community, bikes are a useful form of transportation […]
Editorial Boards
Look on the bright side
Do we ever contemplate life? So many people don't. They live life in a day-to-day shallowness that results in a boring monotony.This is our transitory existence, which will one day be gone. We live and often never acknowledge our own mortality a concept that is so absent from our daily thoughts and conversations that it […]
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Interpreting the poll results before the big day
On Nov. 4, the American populace will vote, the electoral college will decide and, on Jan. 20, 2009, we will have a new president. But who will it be?Poll results indicate a Senator Barack Obama lead by an average of 5.9 percent, according to the aggregation at http://www.RealClearPolitics.com. State-by-state polling indicates that the Electoral College […]