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Students sent wrong information in degree audit mix up
UR Student — an online system for class registration, student finance, and record-keeping — was rolled out last April. Since the switch, students have pointed out a few growing pains.
DPS
Students occupy frigid DPS lot, Mangelsdorf and DPS chief promise discussion
Six hours into their Saturday occupation of the Department of Public Safety’s parking lot, student activists spoke with President Sarah Mangelsdorf and Commissioner Mark Fischer over issues surrounding DPS.
Profiles
Watch: Demetrious Dowdell, skating through UR
If you live on River Campus, it's likely you've seen him zooming around. Grad student Demetrious Dowdell reflects on rollerblading at UR in an interview with the Campus Times.
animation
CT Recommends: ‘Over the Garden Wall’
This is a show that is meant to be rewatched at least a couple times, and you’re probably not going to understand every reference or foreshadowing clue that appears on the first watch.
Abolition
UR community group proposes expanded, empowered Public Safety Review Board
One of those expanded powers would be approval over the Department of Public Safety’s budget. The reformed PSRB would also have around 40 members, while the current PSRB has nine.
budget cuts
UR’s COVID-19 budget cuts lead to faculty frustrations
Though the cuts were necessary given the financial strains caused by the pandemic, they caused some indirect consequences for faculty in both the short and the long run.
esports
UR Esports: a lockdown lifeline
Most UR sports teams and clubs have found themselves held back by COVID-19. Most students were sent home, and regardless…
COVID-19
A look at UR’s COVID-19 budget cuts
On April 15, UR posted an update that outlined the steps the University was planning to take to “sustain operations during the coronavirus pandemic.”
COVID-19
UR offers online campus services for students for Fall 2020
As many students return to campus for the first time since March, here are some updates on how some campus services will operate this semester.
black lives matter
The racist policies that led to the July ‘64 uprisings
When Reuben Davis moved to Rochester in 1955, he was hopeful about the prospect of success in a city known for its economic prosperity. But it soon became apparent that as a Black man, he was not included in the comforts of the city’s industrial opportunities.
