Archive: Mar 2002

Dictators and Fools

One of UR's own on-campus bands, Dictators and Fools, is scheduled to perform at the Hive in Wilson Commons at 9 p.m. this evening. The band is made up of junior Dan Gross on vocals and rhythm guitar, junior Adam Cook on guitar, drummer junior Scott Sturdivant and bassist Noah Lapidus, a member of the […]

Art Spiegelman

The author of the internationally acclaimed and controversial comic book Maus, which addressed how the Holocaust affected relationships between survivors and their families, will be speaking at UR Wednesday, March 20 in Strong Auditorium at 9 p.m.Art Spiegelman is the son of Polish Jews who survived imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. The […]

pritens

pritens

Hawaiian Whannabe

Hawaiian Whannabe

Who Cares?

Who Cares?

Truth in Small Doses

Truth in Small Doses

(3/7) Men advance to Sweet 16

UR has not been this excited about a sports team in 10 years.The crowd of 1,044 that saw the Yellowjackets defeat Williams College 66-51 Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA Div. III Tournament was the largest at the Palestra since 1992.That was the year the men's basketball team went 28-3 and was […]

Young UR student's mother admits to fraud

Justin Chapman, an 8-year-old who had taken classes at UR in Fall of 1999, has recently been in the news as a result of his mother's admission of faking test results about his intelligence.His mother, Elizabeth Chapman, 29, admitted to the Rocky Mountain News that she had falsified some of Justin's test scores. This was […]

Speakers highlight issues of social injustice

The average Nike factory worker in its Indonesian show factory makes $1.25 a day. Tiger Woods makes $55,555 a day working for Nike. Educating for Justice directors Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady spoke last night in Upper Strong Auditorium as part of their 2002 Nike Campaign National Speaking Tour. In addition to the two speakers, […]

Housing shift brings changes

Some of the changes brought on by freshman housing's move from the Residential Quad to the Susan B. Anthony, Gilbert and Hoeing residence halls will be new to freshman and sophomores, but will seem very familiar to upperclassmen. For the most part, the housing lottery will return to the way it was before freshman housing […]