Archive: Jan 2005
Women's track shows balanced team in tourney
The UR women's track and field team had another solid showing at Saturday's Rochester Institute of Technology Tiger Invitational. In the third non-scoring meet of the season, the team had two first-place finishers, as well as many other very strong performances. Senior Effuah Alleyne placed fifth in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.89 […]
Panel Discusses Visions
Members of Grassroots' Executive Board presented their vision for a College-wide sustainability policy to a group of UR faculty and administrators, on Jan. 24. "We're talking about something more than material. It's about curriculum," one of the presenters for Grassroots and junior Andrew Hall said."Are we preparing our students to understand what it means to […]
Hustlers of Platinum Select
Seduced by the cheap promise of a briefly fashionable t-shirt, I signed away my soul, a week after my 18th birthday, to Citibank. I received the card, a plastic promise of "platinum select" status and a four-digit spending limit a month later. I looked forward to getting my first credit card. I'm not the typical […]
Baseball influences orchestra
Joseph Schwantner's piece, "New Morning for the World," will be performed on Jan. 28, with the Eastman Philharmonia in Eastman Theatre at 8 p.m. Neil Varon will conduct with narration performed by UR Vice President Paul Burgett, former dean of both Eastman and UR.The story begins when Freeman, an avid baseball fan, watched the Pittsburgh […]
Divided they fall
The United Nations has come under some heavy scrutiny these past few years. From its indecisiveness towards the war in Iraq, to its faulty efforts to curb nuclear weapons proliferation, the body of many nations has failed to fulfill its duties.The UN first found itself at a crossroad early after 9/11 when it passed Resolution […]
Football coaching staff blitzes Greeks, freedom
I was drawn to this school four years ago with promises of academic and extracurricular freedom. The opportunity to grow and mature as an independent person with the ability to make my own choices was apparently given to me. However, I am concerned that this freedom has now been taken away from certain people. My […]
Meal plans club students
To phrase it kindly, I am frugal. In food-related matters alone, I have always tried to minimize waste. I was raised to clean my plate and learned to find the best deal in grocery store fliers before I was even old enough to drive to the store on my own. Much to my chagrin, my […]
Emperor's new clothes disturb
For a conservative president, George W. Bush is certainly very far from traditional. A revealing example is his choice in fashion - something you might think is trivial and not worthy of critique, but actually says a lot about why there is so much animus and supposed misunderstanding about him. The presidency, if I remember […]
Ask us: Is Genny Light really made from the Genesee River?
No, but here is what is really in the signature beer of Rochester. Brewed by the High Falls Brewing Company located right here in our city by the river, Genny Light is a low-calorie, light version of the orginal Genesee Beer. Introduced in 1878, Genesee is a lager and contains 4.5 percent alcohol. It is […]
Easy Dorm Delicacies
Whoever thought that chemistry could be fun? Not anyone who has ever taken organic chemistry. Forget that, because making rock candy is an easy and fun way of demonstrating an entropy decrease - part of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - in your kitchen!Ingredients:4 cups of sugar2 cups of waterTools of the Trade:a small sauce […]