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I walked into the suite party entering a world of shirtless girls flailing their half-covered breasts around to the sounds of Kesha's 'Tik Tok." To my right were guys making out with girls they'd hardly remember the next morning. Coming my way was a pretty little brunette girl who, in her attempts at welcoming me, […]

Some of the most famous songs ever written were about the strangest subjects. The Beatles, after all, sang about a yellow submarine, and Queen has a tune devoted to 'fat bottomed girls." This past Friday, at a performance in Douglass Dining Center, Eric Hutchinson followed suit and improvised a ballad about the infamous Garbage Plate. […]

Two suspects caught lurkingBan forms were issued to two of three suspicious individuals who were attempting to enter Gilbert and Tiernan Halls on Saturday, Feb. 27.According to UR Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty, while a student reported this behavior to UR Security, the three suspects left the area. Security spotted the suspects crossing the pedestrian footbridge […]

Following long months of rehabilitation after a severe bicycling accident last May, CEO of UR Medical Center Brad Berk returned to his position on Monday, March 1, while still undergoing a few hours of physical and occupational therapy every day. 'My first day back felt amazing. It was very exciting, anxiety-provoking and tiring," Berk said. […]

The UR Debate team had a solid showing at their regional championship last weekend, which included several members making elimination rounds and one earning a Top Speaker award.UR participates in two distinct debate formats Policy and Worlds. In Policy debate, one topic is debated for the entire academic year, and teams must do extensive research […]

Earlier this month, The Association of University Technology Managers released the institutions that received the most royalty revenue from licensed technologies in in early February of 2008.UR ranked in the top 10 for its eighth year, receiving $72.3 million in royalties.This number is at its highest in University history almost $20 million more than the […]

The efforts of UR students to find a solution to a common environmental obstacle were rewarded when their project, UR Biodiesel, received the Excellence in Innovations for Sustainability Award by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI).UR Biodiesel is a project created by undergraduate students to turn extra fryer oil from dining service centers into […]

Two weeks ago, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer, posted his suicide note in the early morning, lit his home on fire and left to fly his airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Why did he do it? Beyond the faith that we put in government control of our money, the answer to […]

Anyone following politics today has probably noticed the bitter partisanship and ideological intensity preventing any sort of agreement in Washington. Some people wish we could go back to the days of parties working together flawlessly as U.S. representatives first and partisan hacks second. But there is one big problem. Historical trends have culminated in this […]

Due to the economic recession, some state and city governments are cutting spending on essential public services such as education and mass transit. Yet in major sports venues across the United States, tax dollars are being used to subsidize the costs of building stadiums for professional teams.According to the Daily News, the sports stadium for […]