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There is only one time of the year when UR transforms from the typical mundane campus filled with scholars into a jungle gym full of rock stars and cotton candy. This Saturday, students will be taking a break from their $50,000 worth of papers and exams to engage in a 61-years-old UR tradition: Dandelion Day.In […]

Celebrity deaths hardly ever have a real effect on me, but when it was announced on April 14 that Peter Steele, the singer, bassist and songwriter for Brooklyn Gothic metal band Type O Negative, suddenly died at the age of 48 from heart failure, I actually felt like I had lost an old friend. I'm […]

The recent passage of health care legislation has opened up the door for 'reform" of the financial industry. Once again, the Obama administration is adamant in impressing its ideology on the banking industry. Like it 'punished" the evil insurance companies with billions of dollars in subsidies, the bankers and big CEOs will surely be incensed […]

Ah, D-Day: a day of vices. The emptied beer bottles littering the grass, the rampant chain smoking and the barely-coherent communication of two horny lovers whispered in the dark of ... the midafternoon. If you're looking to get your morally questionable decision-making on this D-Day, here's a list of appealing places to have some XXX […]

1. Two separate incidents of cash theft were reported on Saturday, April 17. In both incidents, students reported that other items had also been stolen.According to UR Senior Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty, the first theft occurred between 1 and 1:30p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. An undergraduate student, who was monitoring the backstage area at the time, […]

This school year started with the announcement that Jumpstart a program that uses college students as tutors for inner city schools, would be ended at UR due to financial constraints. This school year will end with Jumpstart's substitute, UReading, having established itself as a legitimate successor.According to Rochester Center for Community Leadership Director Glenn Cerosaletti, […]

The rise in annual tuition prices has become a given in the world of private education.Last week, Dean of the College Faculty Peter Lennie and Chief Financial Officer Ronald Paprocki discussed that education should be viewed as an investment and the tough problem of making private education affordable for the middle class. Here's part two […]

Good ideas are often spontaneous creations. Just ask Phil Stratigis '09 and graduate student Ryan Perry. Their brainchild, a precarious charity Frisbee golf tournament coined 'Frolf this Way," currently in its third year, was conceived while they were in a state of insobriety.'We got hammered and thought it would be a good idea," Stratigis said, […]

Ah, D-Day. Heralding in a wonderful time of year where the birds sing, the grass grows, the sun shines and it's perfectly appropriate to take a rum and coke in a travel mug into the shower at 8:30 a.m. Not that I'd know. D-Day, or Dandelion Day, has been a UR tradition for many, many […]

Musician goes through traumatic event, musician can't seem to write songs about any except said traumatic event, musician responds a stripped-down, depressing album to help them get on with their life and career. Artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Beck and Kanye West have gone through that same cycle, and Rufus Wainwright is the latest […]