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Horoscope
Aries (March 21-April 19) - While the stars indicate that your luck is good, any time it snows in March is a good sign someone or something has it out for you. I'd recommend that you stay indoors for the next couple weeks.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Class registration is coming up, be kind to […]
Spring into poetry
April is National Poetry Month, and to honor it literary organizations across the country will be holding special events to celebrate poetry and its importance in American culture. Poetry has played an immense role in our history. If you don't think so, just look to some everyday examples like our national anthem. Written by Francis […]
Bread & Puppet visits UR
In an artistic attempt to express opposition to the war with Iraq, Bread & Puppet, a puppet theater, performed Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in Hillside Lounge. Bread & Puppet, which originated in New York City and is now based in Vermont, travels around the world to address social justice issues.Wednesday's performance "Insurrection Mass with […]
Campus Briefs
After two years of service in the Students' Association Senate, Class of 2004 Senator Peter Ordal resigned last week.Ordal's departure was not a direct result of recent struggles within the student government and the All Campus Judicial Council rulings regarding elections. "As long as I've been on senate there have always been internal matters eating […]
Students face new security
With recent international affairs and the restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service into the Department of Homeland Security, new measures have been taken that affect international students at UR."They're generally tightening down on everything," Director of International Relations Cary Jensen said.Beginning as far back as the 1993 Trade Center bombing, new procedures were brought […]
Administration halts SA fee increase
Dean of The College William Green rejected a proposal to raise the student activities fee for next year -a proposal that was created by the Students' Association government. The proposal was to raise the fee by $25, increasing the amount collected by nearly $100,000."The status of student government is a little uneven at best," Dean […]
Security Update
An undergraduate student was reportedly assaulted while walking to the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house on March 23 at approximately 4:20 a.m.Two members of a group of four persons crossed the fraternity quad from the sidewalk between the Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternity houses and struck the victim several times in the face. The […]
Optics professor shares insights
James Zavislan, an associate professor at the Institute of Optics, is currently working on a microscope that is able to image unprepared tissue with cellular resolution in order to uniquely identify immune cells. "I enjoy the scale of optics," Zavislan said. "Optics plays a role in all scales of the universe - from galaxies to […]
Activist speaks on environment
As part of the Environmental Science 103 curriculum, environmental activist Sue Mihalyi from the group Kandid Core visited the class Wednesday to speak on the health effects of Kodak's pollution."Currently, Monroe County is fifth in the country for cancer causing chemical releases. From 1982 to today, 64 million pounds of carcinogens have been released into […]
Local rally held
On March 28, a crowd of just under 1,000 made up of doctors, parents and students marched through the streets of rush hour Rochester chanting in unison "Healthcare not Warfare." The protest, part of a schedule of anti-war rallies organized each Friday in front of the downtown Liberty Pole, focused on the large amount of […]