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Shabbat brings crowd
Douglass Dining Center welcomed its biggest crowd so far this year Oct. 24 at the seventh annual campus- and community-wide Shabbat. Co-sponsored by Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Chabad, the annual event was dubbed Shabbat Hagadol, or the Great Shabbat, to reflect the large turnout expected. The over 600-person event, which […]
September 11th remembered at UR
Members of the UR community participated in moments of silence in remembrance of September 11. Informational presentations and a prayer service marked the second anniversary of the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania attacks.At 8 a.m., residents of the Residential and Fraternity Quads were awakened by the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Officer Training Battalion. […]
McLachlan returns with soft sound
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, I sacrificed a last minute linguistics study session for a bus ride to Record Archive. What could be so important that I would put my academic future on the line? For a freak of soft-rock music like me, it could only be Sarah McLachlan's first studio-recorded album in years.Sarah McLachlan returns […]
Drop your books for just a minute
Finals got you down? Think the only way to ease the pain is to "hit the bottle?" Luckily, several campus groups and organizations have planned enough exciting events to lure the most dedicated students out of the stacks and away from future Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.The first event to kick off the stress-filled week is a […]
Journalist presents prison facts
Senior national correspondent for Reuters news agency Alan Elsner discussed the problems with America's prison system, the subject of his most recent book, "Gates of Injustice," in Gleason Hall on Feb. 15."As my book shows, there's a lot wrong with [the prison system]," Elsner said. "The system itself is dysfunctional. It's a system in which […]
SA Senate certifies changes
The Students' Association Senate officially certified the ratification of the new constitution, which ended a process that began in November 2003 with the creation of the Government Restructuring Committee, on Feb. 14."We had 1,348 valid signatures turned in supporting the adoption of this constitution," senior and SA President Pete Nabozny said. "This number exceeds the […]
Security Update
Three Rochester Institute of Technology students were arrested on charges of trespassing in River Parking Lot on Feb. 12 at 2:50 a.m., according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.A security camera observed the suspects as they parked in the parking lot. The suspects exited the vehicle and attempted to open doors of other vehicles parked […]
New 'Career Day' offers job variety
The improved Spring Career and Internship Day will take place in the May Room on Feb. 23 from 1 to 5 p.m."About 30 different employers will attend Career Day," Career Center counselor Laurie Valentino said. "We don't want students to be discouraged, so we'll provide workshops throughout the day." In past years, students attended the […]
DNC misses mark by choosing Dean
So the Democrats have now coronated Howard Dean as the Democratic National Committee Chair. The best way I can visualize this is to think of the Democratic Party shooting themselves in the foot and keeping the trigger depressed as they move the gun up along their body.As a conservative Republican, I am really torn. I […]
Sorority life defended
When I told my friends from home that I was thinking about being in a sorority, they looked at me skeptically. "You? In a sorority?"In my defense, I found myself saying, "No, I swear it's not like that," and they would be satisfied.But what's "that?" Why does being in a sorority have to carry any […]