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The majority of the UR's student body is composed of scientifically devout, Epicurus-abiding, sacrilegious heathens. And, really, in today's culture, that's pretty acceptable. Certainly, few are overt, vehement deriders of organized religion and it's popular to proclaim just to be religiously inactive. Publicly, it's pretty respectable to be tolerant of other people's religious views and […]

Warm. Vibrant. Decorative. These are three words that come to mind when entering Benucci's, a contemporary Italian restaurant nestled in the heart of Pittsford Plaza.Surrounded by various stores, including a Cold Stone Creamery and a movie theater, the area offers plenty of activity for a night on the town. The restaurant bustles with excitement as […]

The most interesting thing about being a journalist is being able to watch the stories you cover develop and grow. The fall semester of my junior year, I took a semester off from school to cover a story that I could not afford to miss. I had been researching the events of September 11, 2001 […]

National agency awards UR research contractUR Research, a program initially designed to provide researchers a place to digitally store their work, has been expanded to include new features for faculty, students and the general public.Features offered by the new software include the ability for researchers to securely store files digitally, authorize manuscripts and showcase their […]

Four years ago, senior Nadine Nicholson wanted to form a group that would share the vast Caribbean culture with the student body. As of a result, Nicholson and her friends formed the Student Organization for Caribbean Awareness, also known as SOCA (a play on words for a Caribbean genre of music). SOCA is one of […]

Israel Peace Week, a movement co-founded by UR student sophomore Anna Richlin in January, came to the River Campus this week to educate students about Israel's contributions to peace, along with other information about the nation.'We wanted to make sure that, not from a political side but from a social side, people know about Israel," […]

Ford drops out of Democratic Primary election Harold Ford, Jr., former Tennessee representative, who spoke at UR last week, has recently decided not to challenge Senator Kristen Gillibrand in the Democratic primary this coming September.Ford cited his belief that his presence in the Democratic primary would damage the party as a reason to withdraw his […]

When Futurity launched just under six months ago, it had the support of 35 research universities, all located in North America.Now Futurity has gone transatlantic.The Russell Group, a union of 20 research schools located in the United Kingdom, has been integrated into the cooperative research Web site known formally as Futurity.org. Though not all 20 […]

There once was a young and rebellious Philadelphia native named Marquisha, who would give her fifth grade teachers heck. Even though she was in the fifth grade, she read at a third grade level perhaps a product of social promotion. From time to time, Marquisha would lead class revolts against her substitute teachers. In one […]

Kevin Smith fans who cringed at the thought of the one-time indie underdog directing 'Cop Out" a big budget action movie that marks the first time he is working with a script he didn't write himself were perhaps wrong to immediately assume the worst. After all, every movie Smith has directed in the past 10 […]