UR has announced that Dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis Joel Seligman will replace President Thomas Jackson on July 1, 2005.

A public reception for students, faculty and staff will take place at 2 p.m. in Hirst Lounge.

More information will follow.



The ‘wanted’ posters at the University of Rochester are unambiguously antisemitic. Here’s why.

As an educator who is deeply committed to fostering an open, inclusive environment and is alarmed by the steep rise in antisemitic crimes across this country and university campuses, I feel obligated to explain why this poster campaign is clearly an expression of antisemitism

Hobbies and mediocrity: you don’t have to be good at everything

Writing became something I had to be good at in order to share.

America hates its children

I feel exhausted whenever I hear conservatives fall upon the mindlessly affective “think of the children” defense of their barbarous proposals for school curriculums and general social regressivism.