Archive: Mar 2008
Scheible's passion leaves a mark
An engineering degree is usually not a prerequisite for a basketball coach, but perhaps it should be. Take UR women's basketball head coach Jim Scheible. Scheible graduated from Clarkson University with a degree in civil engineering, and since coming to UR in 1999 to coach basketball, he has led the women's team to two Final […]
Baseball starts season strong in Liberty League
The men's baseball team is tough. Just look at its season opener on March 8 against Drew College. Trailing by four in the bottom of the ninth, UR scored five runs to grab a 15-14 victory thanks to RBIs from freshman outfielder Matt Francis and infielders sophomore Blayne Fuke and junior Dan Brien.In the next […]
Rochester to NYC and back
What do you do when your best friend is told that the only way he can get a visa to study abroad is to drive 10 hours from his home in northern New York State to New York City? You go with him, of course. Over break, my friend Kevin received a call from the […]
Triple the pleasure, triple the fun: try a third
When you think of a threesome, what pops into mind? I know a lot of us have seen the plethora of porn where two heterosexual women with long nails lick each other's tongues before they both go down on and then have intercourse with a very willing, slightly unattractive man with a big dick. When […]
More parking tickets left unpaid
In the past fiscal year, University Parking and Transportation Services has seen a marked increase in the number of parking tickets administered, as well as the percentage of unpaid tickets. According to Associate Vice President of Facilities and Services Richard Pifer, this increase is correlated to Parking's lack of ability to enforce rules."We don't have […]
Class of 2012 data available
Only a few weeks remain until members of the UR Class of 2012 will be receiving their letters, telling them whether or not they have been accepted to the University. This year, UR received about 11,500 applications for freshman admission."As of today [March 3], UR has attracted 236 enrollment deposits from Early Decision offers," Dean […]
Words have powerful effects in UR's second V-Day
As I ran around campus this past week telling people left and right to attend the University's production of the "Vagina Monologues," I noticed several common reactions. My favorite, of course, was the "All right! Definitely! I support vaginas!" or something very similar, followed by a high five or fist pump. Then there were the […]
UR's hand should extend toward minority alumni
This is the last of three articles by the Minority Student Advisory Board.In order to expand the conversation of diversity that we have had for the past two weeks, I would like to move from faculty diversity to the issue of the involvement of minority alumni in our institution. Recently, I sat in on a […]
Business school offers preview
The Simon School of Business Administration hosted an "Undergraduate Preview Day" on Friday that included a faculty panel to give students a taste of life at Simon. The faculty members went over the various opportunities for students and explained why they think Simon is superior to other business schools. "We're hoping to be able to […]
Campus Brief: Heinzelman named Dean of Grad Studies
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wendi Heinzelman has been named Dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering. Her research is currently focused on wireless communication, networking, mobile computing and multimedia communication. Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Paul Slattery has become Dean of Research. Slattery joined UR as […]