Archives - Justin Trombly
Greek Life
Student activists say Greek and other groups violate SA Constitution
The list includes Greek life organizations, a capella groups, and sports teams.
Public Safety
Public Safety accountability board quiet on specifics
The minutes can found two hyperlinks deep from University’s email on Monday that five senior officers have been armed on the River Campus and that 30 more will follow at the Medical Center by Feb. 6.
Politics
Will the real Ted Pawlicki please stand up?
"Democracy at its work, baby, right there. It’s tough to swallow, but democracy, man, is a tough thing."
2016 Election
‘United Against Hate’
Their election night silence and sadness turned into chanted rebukes of the dog-whistle politics of Trump’s campaign, which many have decried as racist, sexist, xenophobic, and all manner of normalized hatred.
Politics
Professor offers to buy bus tickets to Canada for those who ‘promise never to come back’
The post immediately spawned student outrage, including the filing of bias-related incident reports.
Simon School
Simon professor emeritus resigns title after tax fraud plea
Horsky resigned his title Monday after the Department of Justice announced last Friday that he had paid a $100-million penalty and pleaded guilty to conspiracy for avoiding taxes through Swiss bank accounts.
Israel-Palestine
Tensions flare at Palestine awareness event
Tensions boiled over Wednesday night during a Q&A session following the screening of a documentary critical of Israel.
Guns
Review board considers body cameras for armed officers
Seligman accepted in full the UR Security Commission’s recommendation to arm officers two Thursdays ago.
SA
Freshman elected as new senate deputy speaker
Marco Ramos, a first-year international student from Mexico, was elected deputy speaker of the Senate Monday night at the branch’s Gowen Room meeting.
Campus
Kitchen construction adds insult to injury for Sig Ep
Some of the twenty-six brothers living there are worried about exhausting their University meal plans—they had planned to rely on the kitchen and taken lower-value meal plans as a result.