Archive: Mar 2011
News
Eco-friendly caps and gowns
This year, the graduation caps and gowns will be made out of 100% recycled plastic bottles, called GreenWeaver gowns. Read More
Features
Trouble at Indian Point: a nuclear controversy
Kindled by Japan’s nuclear crisis, a new wave of anxiety is passing over the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), as the relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear power plant lies in contention. Indian Point sits on a fault line on the banks of the Hudson River, about 25 miles north of New York […]
News
UR gains access to ASF scholarship
Alumnus Edward Gibson '59 helped UR become one of the partner schools of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). Read More
Features
The Secret Styles of Sihir
An examination of Sihir Belly Dnace Ensemble and the art of bellydancing. Read More
News
UR students and alumnus to study in the U.K. with Fulbright grants
UR produces three recipients for the competitive Fulbright grants for the first time in history. Read More
News
Fence holds individual captive
Your weekly dose of raucous, entrapment and angry coaches. Read More
Culture
The One Act Play Festival proves to be one class act
From left to right: Take Five Scholars Matthew Myers and Stephania Romaniuk act out a scene of desperation in the over-the-top musical “Life Is.” Read More
Culture
Robert Glasper Trio is a Jazz-gasm
The Robert Glasper Trio’s performance at UR clearly wasn’t a terribly hyped-up event on campus. In fact, if you didn’t happen to glance at one of the fliers No Jackets Required put up or hear about it in passing, you probably didn’t even know the show was happening. However, if you weren’t among the 150 […]
Op-Eds
Fruit on campus: a seriously rotten deal
Ah, pesticide. As much as I appreciate insight into agricultural processes, I’m not a fan of tasting the crop-dust on apples — or maybe it’s not chemicals, maybe I’m tasting the industrial plastic the apples were shipped in. Or the oil from 10,000 hesitant, collegiate fingers. Whatever’s in my mouth, it could use a bath. […]