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Penna receives honor
Senior Robert Penna was one of twelve students nationwide to be named a 2007 Churchill Scholar on Monday, the first such honor for a UR student since 2002. The award includes one year of study at Churchill College at Cambridge University in England paid in full, as well as living and travel allowances.According to the […]
Engineers leave home
From Jan. 7-13, students from UR and from the University of Miami met in Florida to participate in the "Engineering for the Americas" program, a forum designed to create a group of engineers from across the Americas and to increase their contacts throughout the region."The program has given me opportunities I would never have gotten […]
Agenda updated
A recent and welcome change to the online face of the University is the newly renovated Events Calendar, which officially debuted at the beginning of this semester. Its creation was a collective effort, collaborated on by several organizations, including the Office of the Registrar, the Student Activities Office, Information Technology Services and the Office of […]
Opportunities at UR abound
It is a very exciting time to be a student here at UR. Everyone can feel the tension of transition in the air as we move up the college rankings and see our school in the headlines. Here at the Campus Times, we are undergoing heavy transitions as well. The last year saw big changes […]
Better safe than sorry
In high school, when you went on all of your college visits trying to find the school of your dreams, there was undoubtedly a parent - or two, or three - who asked question after question about the security and safety on campus. And most likely, you rolled your eyes, thinking that there was no […]
Humanities fund increased
In July 2006, UR President Joel Seligman announced the establishment of the Humanities Fund, whose goal is to stress the importance of the humanities at the University. The fund was created out of a three year, $1 million grant awarded to Syracuse University by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an organization that regularly gives grants […]
Solving inequality requires education reforms
With the Democrats once again in control of Congress, income inequality in the United States is likely to soon become a major public policy issue. Official government statistics indicate that the dispersion of incomes in this country has grown dramatically in recent years. However, things aren't nearly as bad as the headlines would have you […]
King sets the standards for nonviolent protest
With the passage of Martin Luther King Day, students nationwide rejoice in a day off from school and adults party on Sunday night for the first time in the new year. And, of course, there are the usual commemorations for the great liberator of blacks in America, Martin Luther King, Jr., who is remembered for […]
Books cause woes
Currently, Barnes and Noble, the company that runs the campus bookstore, gets unlimited access to the UR student body. They are the only store that students who live on campus can get to without a car that sells pens, notebooks and, most importantly, textbooks. Why do UR students gain nothing from the exclusivity granted to […]
The F-Word" comes to Interfaith Chapel
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