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I read the column by Jenn Sefardis titled ?Recent snowfall a factor in sofball?s cold start to season? in the April 5 issue of the CT with a mix of support and confusion. I support her assertion that the athletic department has been tremendously supportive of its athletes. I support her notion that athletic administration […]

The Ballet Performance Group had its spring performance in Strong Auditoriumthis past weekend. There are two necessary components for a successful ballet performance. The first is rehearsal, so dancers can master the choreography. The second requirement is the technique class that all ballet students take ? from a six-year-old girl in a swan costume to […]

As luck would have it, the first really warm temperatures Rochester has seen this year and the final round of the Masters Golf Tournament took place on the same day.Why is this such a big issue?Well, let?s just say I didn?t want to miss the sunshine, but I didn?t want to miss Tiger Woods? triumphant […]

As the year is coming to an end, do you find you are running short on your declining balance? Or are you just plain sick of eating the same food every day?Have no fear, there are simple, cheap and ? believe it or not ? healthy ways to cook for yourself in your own dorm […]

The music industry, as always, is the obedient trend follower. Once artists climbs up the charts record companies scurry to find, or sometimes create, the next big thing. After Alanis there was Jewel, Meredith and Natalie. When Britney made it ? Christina, Jessica and Mandy ?sings-from-the-side-of-her-mouth? Moore arrived shortly thereafter. With Erykah?s success, we find […]

I don?t know about you, but Divas Live is one of the events that I look forward to every year. Call me a loser, but you just don?t get enough glam attitude on televison nowadays. This year VH1 cooked up a lineup of divas to pay dues to the one and only Aretha Franklin. But […]

(U-WIRE) DEKALB, Ill. ? Drugs can solve all of our problems. At least, that?s what prescription drug companies seem to want us to believe.Turn on any major network just about any time of day, and you can expect to be bombarded with images of happy asthmatics running on the beach, chronic over-eaters pushing away plates […]

Hell hasn?t frozen over and yet, UR has responded to student requests. However, the housing situation still needs to change.As juniors originally assigned the number 87, we received one of the last nine suites reallocated from the sophomore drawing as a result of the threat of protests. We have mixed emotions. On the one hand […]

You all know some nut who?s a total work-a-holic ?studying all the time, always working on a problem set, spending Friday night in the library, right? My Taiwanese roommates are like that. They never leave campus ? they study from 8 a.m. till midnight, seven days a week, no breaks. I?ve begun to suspect they?re […]

On a metal door near the back entrance to the campus post office in Todd Union, the words ?Amateur Radio Club? can still be seen stenciled in white paint. It?s not the old office of WRUR radio ? it is the old site of the UR Amateur Radio Club.Amateur radio, commonly called ?ham? radio, is […]