Archive: Dec 2009
Cross country bike trip aims to alleviate housing crisis
He will be part of the Bike and Build Program, a nonprofit organization which sends out several hundred young people to benefit poverty housing across the country through fundraising raising awareness of the problem and building projects. Seghal will be biking from Providence, R.I. all the way to San Francisco, Calif. an average of 70 […]
Sexual health fair offers sex tips and free chocolate
All this and more awaited students last Thursday in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons.UR's fourth annual 'Sex and Chocolate," hosted by University Health Services Health Promotions Office, featured representatives from AIDS Rochester, The Gay-Straight Alliance, students from the HLS 216: Peer Health Advocacy class here on campus, as well as a local sex shop, to […]
Online marketplace offers possibilities
It's really a steal too bad I already took calc. I also did a quick survey of other handy textbook Web sites, e.g. Amazon, Ebay, Alibris, even the UR Bookstore, and none of them offered a better price. That free online calculus text costs more than $200 new and $162.85 used at the UR Bookstore. […]
Satisfy yourself with sake and samurais
However, one of my favorite genres is the samurai movie. Some excellent movies to watch are mostly the ones starring Japan's equivalent to Clint Eastwood: Toshiro Mifune. His works with Akira Kurosawa are some stellar pieces of cinematography. 'Yoshiro," 'Sanjuro" and 'Seven Samurai" are amazing movies and 'Mifune" is a total bad-ass. Thus, it would […]
Security Update
Thievery on the Frat Quad: Delta Kappa Epsilon flag nabbedIn the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 25, an unidentified individual shimmied up one of the front columns of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house and proceeded to remove the fraternity's flag from where it hung in front of the house, according to UR Security Director […]
Economic growth spurs cooperation
The transformation and development on the west side of the Genesee River has been a gradual process. Boarded up shops have been dismantled and replaced with modern commercial storefronts. About 400 UR undergraduates now call Riverview Apartments in the Plymouth-Exchange (PLEX) neighborhood, home, while UR financial services, human relations and an employment center now occupy […]
Student injured in accident
Freshman Ariel Marc Nassau Besprosvany, 20, was hit by a car at 12:41 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, while he was trying to cross South Plymouth Avenue near Brooks Landing. Another student, senior Mujtaba Syed, 20, was behind the wheel of the car that struck Nassau.As of Tuesday, Oct. 27, Nassau was recuperating in the […]
Cuomo announces program
On Tuesday at UR Medical Center, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo addressed a new, not-for-profit company, FAIR Health, that will set medical insurance reimbursement rates for out-of-network procedures. UR Medical Center will be one of the research universities that constitute FAIR Health.The announcement marked the conclusion of a year-and-a-half long investigation into fraudulent […]
Football delivers in WPI game
The Yellowjacket men's football team recognized on Saturday that playing a team currently on a four-game slump and with a winless Liberty League record doesn't change how they should play the game.'It's dangerous to let a team who is winless in the League hang around, because the feeling of pulling an upset [can] drive any […]
Teams enter postseason strongly
While the rest of campus was leaving for the summer, the women's cross country team was just starting their long road, which for some of them has been three years of hard work and dedication. Led by a strong group of 11 seniors, the team knew where they wanted to go and exactly how they […]