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With only three games left in their regular season, the women's basketball team had two objectives this past weekend. The first was obvious: win.The second? Revenge.After last weekend's wins against Case Western Reserve University and Carnegie Mellon University, the women were looking to strengthen their record. But standing in the way were the Brandeis University […]

Of the few things that the English have done right (and let's be honest, it's a short list) one of them has been the idea of relegation and the other has been the idea of a domestic cup competition, found most distinctly in soccer. We as Americans, and thus the better of the two countries, […]

Spending most the season at No. 5, junior Will Newnham excelled at the College Squash Association Team Nationals this past weekend.Coming all the way from Brighton, England, the psychology major was the only UR squash player to sweep all three of his matches at the Nationals and end the season on a five-match winning streak.His […]

No Jackets Required went back in time to the age of peace, love and rock n' roll with Free Love, a sold-out Woodstock tribute concert in the May Room on Friday night. The crowd of 300, many of whom were decked out in vintage tie-dye, bandanas and flowing flower-child dresses, danced and sang along during […]

Each time a Nicholas Sparks novel is turned into a movie, fans likely expect his words to be translated into a masterpiece film. But with the exception of 'The Notebook," every Sparks adaptation so far has been disappointing, such as 'A Walk to Remember" and 'Nights in Rodanthe." Despite the fact these movies featured big […]

It's not every day that I am able to enjoy the various performances that take place at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. For the past few weeks junior Tom Karo and I had attempted to attend a concert at Eastman, and when we heard about the $6 tickets to the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concert last […]

Local Rochester hockey hero makes it to the OlympicsNew York Rangers player, Ryan Callahan, 24, will be representing Rochester, N.Y. on the U.S. hockey team at the 2010 Olympics.Callahan, who is the sole athlete from the Rochester area on the U.S. hockey team, grew up in Greece, N.Y., which is a suburb of Rochester. Callahan […]

Simon School offers scholarships to winners of contestOn March 5, The William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration will launch an online competition with a grand prize of full tuition for one business student.The competition will require participants to develop full business strategies and solutions to six critical business decisions, and was established to […]

Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy's efforts to take mayoral control of the Rochester City School District took center stage at UR last Thursday night.A packed Dewey lecture hall with an audience consisting of undergraduates, Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development students and a wealth of community members, including teachers heard from a panel […]

WRUR's audience is much broader than the campus that hosts it. Starting off as just an AM station broadcasting only to the University, nowadays WRUR's principal audience is comprised of the local Rochester community.The radio station was recently voted the best station in Rochester by City Newspaper in 2009.This recognition, along with the station's enhanced […]