Ed Observers
food
Any sauce is too much sauce
I am wholly against the use of all condiments in food. You can keep your mustard-drenched hot dogs and ketchup-drowned french fries, (preferably far away from me). Please don’t honey-glaze my chicken wings, and preserve my chicken tenders from your buffalo sauce, thanks. Talk about an unpopular opinion. I’ve never explained this to a single […]
groundboi
Rocky needs a reevaluation
Can someone please explain to me why our mascot is not a groundboi? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a mascot as “a person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbolic figure especially to bring them good luck.” Who denoted a yellowjacket was the symbolic figure that would bring UR good luck? Or, even worse, […]
pens
How Paper Mate Clearpoint™ Mechanical Pencils caused my moral downfall
One weeknight in seventh grade, I babysat for my social studies teacher’s two children. I was almost 13 and things were going to change. Thirteen would be my year, I knew. I could feel everything shimmering with teenage potential. Even weeknights became thrilling. Thirteen? Me! My social studies teacher (and their spouse) lived a few […]
class
Being late isn’t cute
Class meets at 12:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. We have met at that time every week for the past three weeks or so. There has never been a change in the time, place, or day. So why, this far into the routine, are people still rolling up at 12:46 like everything’s all hunky-dory? I’m […]
Campus Times
The olds and news of the Campus Times
I’m far from the first to say the way we consume journalism is changing. Nor am I the first to say the Campus Times is working to change with it. In the final ed observer of last semester, our publisher described how we adapted. A year ago, we made the shift from publishing weekly print […]
Campus Times
Reaching our potential
There’s a lot to celebrate at CT, but much more work needs to be done on outreach. Read More
Hairline
Dealing with growth, change, and a receding hairline
Change is one of the inevitabilities of life, and how we deal with it defines how we live it. I realized what this meant in my sophomore year of high school. It’s 7 a.m., bright and early. A regular dreadful start to another fall day. I drag myself out of bed, “excited” to go to […]
Peeps
My overwhelming dislike for Peeps
Here is a brief list of things I love: the crunch of a salt and vinegar chip, Bananarama, creepy old movies like “Rosemary’s Baby,” and long car rides. Here is an even briefer list of things I hate: horses (like the animal) and Peeps (like the abominable candy creature). Since Easter last Sunday, I’ve been […]
Native Americans
UR can do ‘ever better’ in honoring Native American land on which it stands
The 17th-century contact with European conquerors, the history of genocide and forced migration, and broken political treaties continues to disadvantage Native communities in Western New York and the country as a whole. The River Campus and the Bausch and Lomb Riverside Park sit on an ancient Native American town, in which the hunter/gatherer Algonquin (Algonkin) […]
Ed Observers
The nature of complaining
We get it. It’s cold in Rochester. It snows here more than in the majority of the U.S. and we see the sun once a month. But why do we complain? Each and every one of us knew what we were getting into by attending UR. We might not have known the extent to which […]
