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Got sleep?
It's 4:12 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Where are you? Are you just hitting the hay? Have you been asleep for a few hours? Did you turn in at your regular bedtime of 10 p.m.? It seems if you're a college student, all of those choices seem plausible except the last one."When I have class […]
Ask us: What makes the laser so famous?
Everyone knows that there is a very powerful laser somewhere on campus, but what exactly makes it so famous? The Lab for Laser Energetics was established at UR in 1970 as a center for the investigation of the interaction of intense radiation with matter. LLE is now home to the OMEGA laser system.The 60-beam OMEGA […]
Today's feminism is hypocrisy
It is altogether ironic that the feminist campaign, through all its forms over the course of all these years, would end up betraying itself. If Susan B. Anthony had predicted the state of feminism as it exists today, she would likely have given up the fight. Modern feminism is wrought with excess, sexual objectification, self-sabotage […]
Pop music lost in today's 'remixes'
Pop music has come a long way since Milli Vanilli. See back then, it was a serious artistic crime to lip-synch to a song and say you were actually singing. On Oct. 23, Ashlee Simpson showed that it was no longer career suicide, but a career boost.First off, let's make sure we're clear on this. […]
Glory comes with caution
I guess it goes without saying that I am thrilled at the outcome of the election. The GOP has gained in the Senate, in the House, and has elected a president with over 50 percent of the vote. Not only did we win, we won bucking the trend of increased turnout. As Jon Stewart put […]
Letters to the Editor
Hypocrisy in opinionI had thought the conclusive 2004 election would send our cutthroat political atmosphere on the wane. That was until, of course, I was called a moron. In last week's Campus Times, Cyrus Levesque alludes to America as a developing culture of "victimhood." He is absolutely correct. The hip mentality is "I am right, […]
Working with what we have
From what I've gathered, students have several specific complaints about the dining services on campus. Every student wants to see greater quality and selection in the food they receive. Freshmen and sophomores have displayed anger with the fact that they are required to have a meal plan for all four years of college. They are […]
Reaching outward
Recently granted over three million dollars, the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development will begin a collaborative effort with four Rochester-area Roman Catholic schools to enhance education programs for preschoolers. Funded by the National Department of Education, the program will build on the already existing ScienceStart! program, founded by the Warner School, […]
Gearing to groups
A new Students' Association consolidation task force has been formed to recommend changes to the current bylaws to better serve student groups, help student groups communicate and work together and see if similar student groups can be merged. Each student group is currently under a general category, known as its umbrella group, which categorizes its […]
Denying fundamental rights
Millions of voters turned out across the country on Nov. 2 to defend tradition against activist judges by changing the one thing beyond those judges' reach - their constitutions. Eleven states passed constitutional amendments affirming that if two people are not of opposite sex, they cannot marry. The question is - why? The most prominent […]