Welcome to the first-ever Campus Times Blog, the brand-new outlet for student and alumni involvement in the University of Rochester’s oldest student newspaper.
The Campus Times was founded in 1873 and enjoyed a 127-year honeymoon as a print newspaper before breaking through to the Internet in the year 2000, emerging victorious from the wreckage of the […]

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No one ever thought that Eliot Spitzer could have gone out with as big a bang as he did when he resigned from his position as governor of New York State on March 17. With an alleged eight sexual encounters involving girls from the “Emperor’s Club,” the former governor has been catapulted off his throne […]

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The UR academic departments, an integral part of the small UR community, must do a better job in reaching out to the students to gauge support for current academic programs. The way to start is to have forums for students to share opinions at the end of each semester. The students, with their experiences in […]

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At some point during today’s Danforth sit, I remembered the larger world — a dysfunctional world that has not experienced Danforth cookies — outside my everyday life, neatly bordered by a cemetery and river. I then recalled my dust-gathering college guide that once cited a student’s complaint about the apathy and self-absorption that […]

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The job competition for recent graduates is getting tougher and tougher… for some students. The students that think outside the box and discover financial jobs not in New York City, optics jobs not in Silicon Valley or medical schools not in Boston definitely have a step up on their competition.
There are so many occupations in […]

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I was 18 years old when I heard the best advice that I’ve ever heard. It was at a presentation by a famous aviator — General Chuck Yeager. A person in the audience asked Yeager how he was able to be a test pilot for so many different airplanes, a decorated […]

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