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Rochester Life
Exploring the Roc: Hidden gems on the Orange Line
Hello new students! Welcome to Rochester. This city will be your home for more-or-less four years, so you may want…
Teen Jobs
UR Snapshots Vol. 1: The Professors
Your professor's most memorable job? "Beyond the poison, it wasn’t a bad gig,” Prof. Memmott said.
Gay Liberation Front
From the Archives: Larry Fine and the Empty Closet
“On the last day of Passover, I met, for the first time, a person who was openly gay,” Fine wrote. “As the sun set on that Jewish holiday of freedom, I set down a ten-year burden and was set free.”
food
CT Eats: Eating in ROC for Dummies
So, be you vegan or omnivorous, in search of brunch or lunch, really hungry or just sorta in the middle, Rochester’s got your back.
Campus Life
A Bite of UR: Campus Food
Douggie, with its casual vibe and central location, is an ideal meetup spot between classes or a place for a sit-down meal.
Eastman
Women Mean Business draws the curtain on discrimination in music
“I want to get to a place where female composers are regular instead of some special rare thing, where it’s not even a second thought.”
Food Trucks
CT Eats: Food, Fun, and Flowers at Lilac Fest
The turkey leg is too big to get your mouth around, and the meat is so tender that you can just tear it off. Felt like Medieval Times. Would recommend.
drugs
From the Archives: UR’s Gates gave morphine its structure
Marshall Gates Jr., a renowned UR chemist, described his morphine synthesis as “by a considerable margin the best and most important work I’ve ever done.”
representation
Want to see gender inequality at UR? Look at the sculptures.
“People we honor seem to be more and more men, white men in particular [...] We have hundreds of women alumni who are super important. Where are they?”
Obituary
Josh Luo was quiet, but his multifaceted impact was not
“He doesn’t really stop smiling,” sophomore Ilene Kang said. “In awkward or tense situations, he also smiles.”