Opinions
food
Any sauce is too much sauce
I am wholly against the use of all condiments in food. You can keep your mustard-drenched hot dogs and ketchup-drowned french fries, (preferably far away from me). Please don’t honey-glaze my chicken wings, and preserve my chicken tenders from your buffalo sauce, thanks. Talk about an unpopular opinion. I’ve never explained this to a single […]
groundboi
Rocky needs a reevaluation
Can someone please explain to me why our mascot is not a groundboi? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a mascot as “a person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbolic figure especially to bring them good luck.” Who denoted a yellowjacket was the symbolic figure that would bring UR good luck? Or, even worse, […]
hook up
The problem with hook-up culture
Modern society is plagued with an unnatural and confusing paradigm in romantic relationships: hook-up culture. This new relationship status is prevalent from high schools to office buildings, but is especially popular among university students. Replacing a traditional intimate relationship with one of the various forms a hook-up relationship may take has become the norm, and […]
Journalism
More journalism, please and thank you
If you want to go into journalism at UR — and we think you should — there are only so many places to go. Your options are limited because UR simply doesn’t offer enough journalism courses. And even for the ones that are offered, there’s so much overlap that you find yourself learning the same […]
frats
Letter to the editor clarifying dry frats
A recent opinion piece for the Campus Times acknowledged changes to alcohol policies at the national level that impact the fraternity community on our campus. I want to explain some context behind those changes, clarify why this is not a “dry” event policy, and explain our reaction as the Interfraternity Council. We find it important […]
cancel culture
Cancel culture needs to be reconsidered
In the current era of activism and awareness, we have a predilection for deciding that someone’s works are no longer valuable immediately after discovering some questionable actions. While boycotting artists, comedians, and actors after particularly reprehensible actions — Bill Cosby comes to mind — is sometimes valid, doing so without thought is not beneficial and […]
cultural relativism
Cultural relativism does not mean blind acceptance
Cultural relativism is the concept that no culture should be ranked or compared to another. Not only is cultural relativism a solid term to flex in intellectual conversation with other students, it is a highly contested concept in social, international, and interpersonal politics today. Respecting the ideas and values of cultures that differ from our […]
Diversity
Identity clubs and commitment to diversity
There are many student organizations on campus based on culture or identity like the Korean American Students’ Association, Spanish and Latino Students’ Association, Pan-African Students Association, Pride Network, and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. The members of each group usually reflect the name of the group or what the group’s mission is to serve. Do […]
Climate Change
The answer to the climate crisis is education
At Friday’s climate change demonstration in Wilson Commons, we once again heard about how we can help by making changes in our personal lives like buying organic, or using public transportation. But people who water their lawns and get to-go orders in styrofoam aren’t ruining the planet. It’s now more widely known that climate change […]
racism
The “unexpected” effects of casual racism
The N-word was found written on a mirror in a Sue B. bathroom on Thursday morning. The presence of racism on campus is not surprising, but the bluntness and senselessness of it is. There (seemingly) wasn’t a motive, or a target. There was just the N-word — hard r — slapped onto a bathroom mirror, […]
