Tagged - rochester
19th ward
Letter to the Editor: UR’s love-hate relationship with the 19th Ward
Understanding the Ward’s history as a segregated neighborhood helps explain the way it exists today, with racist bridge fears permeating the University campus.
antiracism
Money talks more than mass emails
The University needs to start giving back to the community that it’s anchored in.
black lives matter
Still no justice for Daniel Prude
Chauvin’s conviction doesn’t prove that the system is just or fixed.
black lives matter
Even the simplest police reform moves at a snail’s pace
Why wasn’t this issue dealt with when the first child was brutalized by the RPD?
rcsd
Apocalyptic eating in the Rochester City School District
School breakfasts and lunches have always looked like they were dug out of somebody’s bomb shelter, but this is a new low.
american politics
A tale of two cities
Rochester champions people who fought for the less fortunate, and perhaps that makes it more able to accept that things need to change, rather than simply looking the other way.
COVID-19
All of Rochester is depending on all of us
There is a special kind of irony in a student receiving the privilege of a higher education transmitting a deadly disease to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation.
President
Mangelsdorf talks background and plans
For President Sarah Mangelsdorf, college life started before she enrolled. Her childhood home was close to Swarthmore College, where her…
rochester
Striving for change, lecturer reflects on Rochester’s gentrified history
Fourth-grade elementary teacher Shane Wiegand teaches everything to his students except for art and gym. But Wiegand’s curriculum plan includes…