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Squash team at new heights
There's no such thing as a slow start to a season when the UR men's squash team comes ready to play. At the Liberty League Championships last weekend, the 'Jackets kicked off on a high note, easily downing the three title contenders (Hobart and William Smith College 9-0, Vassar College 9-0 and St. Lawrence University […]
Strong makes transition from paper to electronic records
Electronic medical records are widely believed to reduce error, save money and improve patient safety by eliminating the paper trail. On Monday, the eRecord Extended Implementation Team, a group that oversees the implementation of medical software programs, informed 400 to 450 UR Medical Center community members about UR's plans to implement an electronic medical record […]
Fall '09: Student government and review
Between the opportunity to improve sustainability, enhance connections between the River Campus and the Eastman School of Music, increase student awareness of the Students' Association and improve transportation, there was plenty for the SA to accomplish this semester. While SA leadership claims that a good deal of progress has been made toward the completion of […]
Unity at last, through spending
Nothing good plays on the radio at 4 a.m. It's too bad, because as I drive through town on my way to the mall, I could use some adrenaline-generating music. No one ever suggests psyching yourself up for Black Friday with James Taylor. But after failing to find either 'Final Countdown" or 'Live to Win" […]
Get to know me: Liesel Schwarz
Liesel Schwarz just might save the world. A sustainability planning and development major at UR, this junior has made great strides to motivate her peers to go green in Rochester. What are you involved in on campus?I am co-president of Grassroots. I was Earth Day coordinator last year, and I work for Dining as a […]
Sex and the CT
I really only wanted to sit on Dave's couch and kiss. This wasn't a big night, I already knew, as Johnny Six was already two-beer-queer drunk swinging his Polaroid camera, members of my awkward high school graduating class were pooling around the beer pong table and I was standing there bored, chatting with an old […]
UR Debate Union has exciting season
The UR Debate Union has its roots in the early days of the University it was founded the day before the school was even created in 1850. More than 150 years later, the team is thriving, complete with new coaches, members and victories.'One major accomplishment we've had is winning the University of Vermont Tournament," publicity […]
Smokeout campaign increases students? awareness
The Great American Smokeout Challenge is an event sponsored by the American Cancer Society as part of their Great American Health Challenge initiative, a year-round venture that encourages Americans to adopt healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of cancer.Colleges Against Cancer instituted this event on the UR campus as one of their three annual awareness […]
Meliora Capital Management is more than the average club
Investing in the stock market does not have such great associations for the college generation. Perhaps the first prick of our collective consciousness in that area was the disastrous dot-com bubble burst back in elementary school and from there it was only rough sailing all the way to the financial crisis and Madoff's Ponzi scheme.These […]
The CT proudly presents the first-annual ?Willies?
With the last issue of the Campus Times this year comes a brand new end-of-the-year tradition. The Emmys, the Academy Awards, Spike's Video Game Awards, the Oscars and even the Golden Globes have nothing on the glamour and glory that await this year's recipients of the Campus Times first annual production of the 2009 'Willies."The […]