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Students picket with workers
Members of Service Employees International Union Locals 1199 and 200United picketed and handed out flyers at events throughout Meliora Weekend to draw support for their contract negotiations with UR.Negotiations have failed to yield a resolution over the last few weeks. Workers have been without a contract since Oct. 1. Picketing began Friday outside of Strong […]
Security Update
UR Security responded to an alarm failure in Hutchison Hall at 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, according to Director of UR Security Walter Mauldin. Officers discovered that most of the south half of the building was without power. Facilities staff were in the building on a work project at the time, according to Mauldin. Temporary power […]
Community gets to know speakers
The Meet the Speakers Reception featured many distinguished alumni and personalities representing minority leadership."The main issue today is the future of minority leadership in this country," associate professor of political science and Director of the Frederick Douglass Center for African and American Studies Fredrick Harris said. The panel members included author Julianne Malveaux, A'lelia Bundles, […]
Matthews shares his political experiences
Journalist and host of MSNBC's "Hardball" Chris Matthews entertained an enthusiastic crowd of students, alumni and parents this past Saturday. As one of the marquee events of this year's Meliora Weekend, Matthews' speech nearly filled the Palestra to capacity. Matthews began his speech with a few jokes, alluding to Darrell Hammond's parodies of the "Hardball" […]
Alumni honored by UR
Alumni Thomas Sloan '65, '67 (Mas) and Kathy N. Waller '80, '83S (MBA) shared their success stories upon leaving UR and offered advice on how to prepare for the real world on Friday."Success has a whole range of meanings," Dean of The College William Green said. As host of the event, he presented both Sloan […]
Candidates for city council meet at UR
Nine candidates for Rochester City Council met in the Interfaith Chapel for a forum attended by community members and UR students on Monday. "It is great to have such willing candidates," member of Students for Liberty and senior Eric Miller said. "They readily gave up their business time to be here."In all, 17 candidates are […]
Campus Briefs
UR adopted a new prescription drug program to assist students without existing coverage. The new program will help alleviate the financial burden for students without existing coverage. The coverage is provided by the Aetna Pharmacy Network Access Card Program, a subsidiary of The Chickering Group - a company that specialized in covering the health insurance […]
Seligman names new vice president
Senior Associate Vice President and Dean for College Advancement Rebecca Fox was recently named to the newly created position of Senior Associate Vice President for Advancement and Executive Director of Alumni and Constituent Relations within the new University Advancement organization.Fox will be reporting to Senior Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer Jim Thompson, who is […]
MAAC hosts diversity dinner
Continuing Meliora Weekend's multicultural message, the Celebrating Diversity reception and dinner welcomed the Black, Hispanic and Asian alumni for an all-class reunion. Among the attendants were President Seligman and his wife, former Jamaican prime minister the Most Honorable Edward Seaga and UR's oldest living graduate Olivia Hooker. Born out of the combined efforts and planning […]
Republicans rob poor to pay rich
I am sometimes given to fits of irrepressible optimism. When I saw President Bush's speech announcing a Marshall Plan for New Orleans, I allowed myself to believe that this country would finally have a serious discussion about poverty. I was sadly mistaken. In times of crisis, this nation has always rallied together to overcome any […]