Category Archives: Advocacy

Eating Disorders Screening

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GOG is passing this along from UCC:

As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the University Counseling Center is offering an eating disorders screening from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in the Friel Lounge, Susan B. Anthony Hall. Help raise awareness of the dangers surrounding eating disorders by taking the short, free, and anonymous screening. If you prefer, online screening is available on the UCC website. Call 275-3113 if you have questions.

You may also consider the link to the self-assessment pages on the UCC website.

Free UHS STD Testing!

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UHS is publicizing the following:

Get Yourself Tested
One in two sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted infection by age 25 and most won’t know it. UHS will offer free testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, and Friday, Feb. 24. Call 273-5775.

This would usually cost about $100!

Free Tax Preparation Help

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Most graduate students qualify for free online tax preparation services based on income. Two well-known companies that provide these services for both federal and NYS returns are: TurboTax Freedom Edition (http://turbotax.intuit.com/taxfreedom/) which requires your adjusted gross income to be less than $31,000 and H&R Block Free File (http://www.hrblock.com/taxes/partner/index.jsp) which requires your adjusted gross income to be less than $57,000. For a full list of free tax prep services, visit this IRS website: http://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp

International students should contact the ISO for information about free tax workshops that they are hosting this month (http://www.iso.rochester.edu/Events/index.html).

New Parking & Transportation ListServe

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The Parking and Transportation Department recently created a new email list to give updates members of the U of R community who use parking and transportation. So far, they have sent an alert when the buses switched from Fall to Winter Break schedules and sent an alert when the Winter Break bus schedule was updated with increased Blue Line service in the evening. It seems like this may be the best way to get updates about busing schedule changes and parking issues.

You can sign up here: http://www.rochester.edu/parking/about/parkingmailinglist.php