Dining Services and Residential Life recently made exceptions to the new housing-based meal plans that will allow students in certain Special Interest Housing groups to choose meal plans below the minimum required by their residence. Specifically, Special Interest Housing members in Residential Group One can choose a Residential Group Two meal plan (100 Clubs). Furthermore, …
Editors
Inconsistencies in Dining
April 5th, 2008 by Daniel Green
Gandhi’s nonviolence
April 5th, 2008 by Marc Epstein
The controversy surrounding Arun Gandhi has brought attention to the practice and belief of nonviolence. Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has been a loyal follower of the culture his grandfather embodied throughout his life. The problem with his provocative blog post, then, was not that it espoused his views, to which each person …
Editor’s Welcome
March 25th, 2008 by Ben Wrobel
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 …
Spare the Spitzers
March 25th, 2008 by Leah Kraus
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 …
Academic departments must be accountable
March 25th, 2008 by Marc Epstein
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 …
UR runs deep
March 25th, 2008 by Rebecca Leber
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 …