The Rochester Polish Film Festival, sponsored by the University of Rochester’s Skalny Center For Polish and Central European Studies, celebrates its 16th incarnation this year. The festival will be screening eight feature-length films, along with two shorts, at the Little Theatre (though Opening Night selection “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir” will screen at the Dryden […]
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ROTC’s culture club
Petite with luminous eyes behind a pensive stare, 20-year-old Amber Brewer looks too young to be charged with protecting the country. But don’t let her youthful appearance fool you. Brewer, an Army Reserve officer training cadet, says she’s confident that she’ll know how to handle combat and lead a platoon when the time comes. Brewer, […]
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The slavery effect
White Southerners living in the former Cotton Belt are more likely to have negative attitudes toward African Americans than other Southerners, according to a new University of Rochester study. And they are more likely to be Republican and to express opposition to social and economic justice policies such as affirmative action, the study says. Researchers […]
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REVIEW: The Onion at UR
Two staffers from satirical newspaper The Onion gave a presentation at the University of Rochester’s Strong Auditorium Thursday night, and not surprisingly, hilarity ensued. Head Writer Seth Reiss and Features Editor Cole Bolton discussed the “history” (I use that term loosely) of The Onion, some of the most famous headlines it has printed over the […]
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UR study reveals concerns about new Common Core curriculum
New York is among 45 states that signed on to teaching a new, more rigorous curriculum called the Common Core. The general idea is two-fold: raise the standard of information that students must know, and create consistency across the public education landscape to help the US remain competitive in a global economy. Seventh-grade students learning […]
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Tim Mains: ‘I was the gay teacher’
Tim Mains was still new to teaching in the early 1970’s when he walked into his class in the Greece school district one day to find the word “faggot” written on the blackboard. That and a series of other events led him to come out of the closet to his students and peers at a […]
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New focus on Rochester’s at-risk male students
This is a corrected version of this blogIt’s been more than a year since Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas launched efforts to significantly expand the amount of time students spend in school. The concept, often referred to as expanded learning, usually extends the amount of time students receive instruction in core subjects. And students are […]
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ART REVIEW: “Alice IN the Looking Glass: Illustrations and Artists’ Books, 1865-2012”
The day after I went to see “Alice IN the Looking Glass,” an exhibit of wonderful illustrations and books currently at the University of Rochester, I was walking to a meeting downtown when I noticed a white rabbit stenciled low on a wall. My attention was piqued, and I instantly began eyeing the vicinity for […]
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PETA bringing campus tour to UR
It’s not exactly an experience you’d expect people to line up for, but PETA wants to give University of Rochester students a taste of what it’s like to be a pig confined in a factory farm. Tomorrow, the organization’s youth-oriented arm, peta2, will set up an inflatable tent on the campus’s Wilson Quad. Inside the […]
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College students in fossil fuel fight
Colleges in the Rochester area and across the country have gone to great lengths to build up their sustainability cred.
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Zoning Board to hear request to waive design standards for College Town
The City of Rochester’s Zoning Board will hear an application this week to waive certain design standards for Mount Hope College Town, a University of Rochester-initiated project which will be built on 16 acres on the west side of Mount Hope between Elmwood Avenue and Crittenden Boulevard. | The major concerns associated with the application […]
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Domestic violence
Two Rochester artists have constructed an 18-foot-long rhinestone-laden replica of a US Predator drone, which will be shown as part of a multimedia exhibit opening Friday, March 1, at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The installation, “Home Drone,” asks audiences to consider what life is like for people in Pakistan, Yemen, […]
