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U.S. foreign policy subject to popularity contests
'The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation." Thus says Shakespeare in 'Richard II." As this quote underscores, good reputation is obviously important on a personal level, but does it also have implications on the international level?By most accounts, the United States has experienced declining popularity abroad during the last eight years. Whether deserved […]
Op-Eds
A forgotten gray-scale complicates Pakistan issue
In the world of foreign affairs, there is no black and white. Merely shades of gray. Outside the American media and the politics that consume its attention, a complex reality faces us. Our conception of the surrounding world is typically that of good battling evil. But reality is starkly different. Sides are multiplicitous and situations […]
Get to Know Me: Olivia Pederson
Olivia Pederson is a political science and English double major from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Her campus activities include In Between The Lines Improv Troupe and work at the Office of Technology Transfer where she works as an intern. She has also been a member of the club soccer team. She is a kind and nurturing […]
Screwing your friends: fun, but complicated
Hall-cest. Suite-cest. Friend-cest. We're all intimately familiar with the various '-cests." When you hang out with a group of people, of course some of you end up sleeping together. My group of friends has a more tangled web of hook-ups than anyone can even map out. It makes things interesting, but of course it leads […]
The hard science of sex
Researchers are currently baffled by the complexity of orgasms and sexual arousal. This is true for science in general, but particularly true for the brain's role in both.In a study aimed at analyzing sexual arousal, psychologist Meredith Chivers of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto set out to determine how both men […]
Tales from a UR transfer student
As a transfer student, I can safely say that my first weeks at UR do not nearly resemble what is typical of the first few weeks for a freshman: there has not been an inordinate amount of time spent on the Frat Quad, bonding with the hall, unfortunate hookups or writing CAS papers. For me […]
In Brief: UR research explores mystery of the brain
Until the research completed by three brain and cognitive science professors was published, scientists were not aware that the brain not only considers the sound of words, but that it also considers their meanings.The researchers, which included William R. Kenan Professor Richard Aslin, Professor Daphne Bavelier and former UR graduate student Kathleen Pirog Revill, found […]
Scale Model
To observe any given dance floor when Flo Rida starts belting out through the stereo is to observe one of the great wonders of our culture the ability of music to tap the emotions of its listeners.Symphonies have moved royal courts to tears and still do, as the New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea […]
Letters to the Editor
I read with interest Charlie Fountaine's article titled 'College Life Failed to Live Up to the Adults' Hype" in last year's final issue of the Campus Times. Fountaine concludes that, despite parents who say their college years were the best times of their lives, 'most of college was either horrible or miserable" and 'those wretched […]
As the election continues, ?experience? is defined
A lot of emphasis has been placed on the quality of experience in this year's presidential campaigns. It has been used to judge both parties' tickets in ways that often conflate the characteristic with attributes such as judgment, leadership and so on. However, what one rarely hears is a substantive discussion about what the word […]
