By: Willie Clark

When winter comes, as it tends to do in full force in Rochester, the city can be covered with snow. And all that snow somehow has to find a new home.  ...

By: Gabriel Sukenik

The most interesting thing about being a journalist is being able to watch the stories you cover develop and grow. The fall semester of my junior year, I took a semester off from school to cover a story that I could not afford to miss. I had been research...

By: Evan Siegel

Surrounded by various stores, including a Cold Stone Creamery and a movie theater, the area offers plenty of activity for a night on the town. The restaurant bustles with excitement as the dynamic Italian wine bar overflows and chatting couples, families ...

By: Jerome Nathaniel

There once was a young and rebellious Philadelphia native named Marquisha, who would give her fifth grade teachers heck. Even though she was in the fifth grade, she read at a third grade level — perhaps a product of social promotion. From time to ti...

By: Jerome Nathaniel

Four years ago, senior Nadine Nicholson wanted to form a group that would share the vast Caribbean culture with the student body. As of a result, Nicholson and her friends formed the Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness, also known as SOCA (a play...

By: Charlene Cooper

I walked into the suite party entering a world of shirtless girls flailing their half-covered breasts around to the sounds of Kesha’s “Tik Tok.” To my right were guys making out with girls they’d hardly remember the next morning. ...

By: Evan Siegel

When I began writing this column, I had two goals in mind. The first was that each week, I would strive to review a mini cross-section of food types and Rochester-based locales you can experience by stepping off campus. The second was to push myself beyon...

By: Jerome Nathaniel

We’re in the middle of February, the Winter Olympics are in full force and there’s enough snow to go sledding behind Danforth without getting a rock stuck up your rectum — it sounds like the perfect time to start thinking about Spring Br...

By: Mazin Melegy

The Atlantic Ocean is really big. An eleven hour plane ride will drive that point home repeatedly, especially if you’re trying to fall asleep in coach. The aerial view of Egypt is exactly how you’d expect it to be, a flat blanket of sand....

By: Charlene Cooper

Many of us who previously believed that we were sex, relationship and love experts, that is up until last Thursday, realized quickly that we still had so much to learn. After attending the UR Christian Fellowship and Black Students’ Union’s Lo...

By: Amelia Titus

During the turbulent months of 1968, campus-wide discord was quickly growing. In a backlash against grass-stained hippy optimism, students across the United States were debating electric issues: a hot-potato presidential election, the recent assassination...

By: Dana Hillfinger

My first one was Jewel’s “Pieces of You”… second grade. I took the steps down the stairs into the basement of Todd Union one at a time, remembering that first CD I bought and wondering just how much I was about to embarrass myself...

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Friday marks the start of the 100 day countdown to graduation. Take 5 Scholar Liz Gabster was digging through the Campus Activities Board Office a few weeks ago when she came across a list called “UR a real UR student when you’ve...” The...

By: Ariee Jung

Last Saturday, when I told my friends that I was going to the Step Show Competition at Strong Auditorium and asked if they wanted to join me, the most common response was a blank stare and the question, “What is a Step Show?” Regardless, the B...

By: Andrew Otis

In Cape Town, you cannot walk on the streets alone at night, especially if you are white or look wealthy. Murder and rape rates are among the highest in the world. HIV/AIDS prevalence is near 20 percent. Huge disparities still exist between whites, blacks...

By: Evan Siegel

Located on East Avenue, down the street from the Eastman Theatre, Stromboli Express is home to a hidden delicacy of downtown Rochester. With a modest storefront that does not remotely speak to the quality of food within, one would likely walk right past t...

By: Masha Shuksta

Open up today’s newspaper and you will likely find two stories: a story about the long, difficult road to a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a story about some environmental issue, such as climate change or species extinct...

By: Charlene Cooper

What can make you smile after failing your Organic Chemistry final, missing the shuttle from GLC when class starts in three minutes, and almost being trampled over by Rocky at a basketball game? You guessed it: an orgasm. If you’ve experienced one i...

By: Julia radovani

Economics Professor Michael Rizzo has been at UR for two years. The avid hiker teaches Environmental Economics, Money, Credit and Banking, Intermediate Economics and Principles of Economics.  ...

By: Rebecca Leber

What to do in a Rochester winter is likely never far from students’ thoughts for a good part of five months. But there’s nothing to clear Vitamin D-deficient gloom from the air quite like man’s best friend....