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City outreach
UR was recently named one of 25 colleges that positively impact its metropolitan areas. That UR earned its spot as the 13th 'best neighbor" school is evident the University is the largest employer in the city, currently provides scholarships to local high school students and supports local businesses and research companies. But what this survey […]
Registrar?s listing
Just in time for spring registration, the Office of the Registrar has taken initiative to improve students' ability to not only register for classes, but also to navigate the database of course schedules and descriptions. Compared to last spring, when the slow server only added to students' frustration when registering for courses, the recent updates […]
I?ve figured out college
There is a shifting point in most people's college experience; a point where one goes from-new to-campus and blindly following the large crowds of also confused freshmen, to being the one who is directing the large crowd to a known destination. This shift happens for most people at varying times in their college careers. It […]
How not to burn a grilled cheese
A few weeks ago, I decided that I would put my suite's kitchen to use and make myself a culinary classic a grilled cheese sandwich. The result of these best-intentioned efforts, however, turned out not to be a golden brown and melty sandwich, but rather billows of smoke, a burnt table cloth, a ruined pan, […]
Standing up to don?t ask don?t tell
Lieutenant Dan Choi's mother responded in confusion when her son told her that he was gay.'She said to me, "I love you... but gay doesn't exist,'" Choi recalled to an attentive crowd that filled the seats of Hubbell Auditorium on Friday night during the 'Battling Don't Ask, Don't Tell" event, sponsored by 11 UR organizations.The […]
Take-out Chinese proves delicious
Ming's is located on South Clinton Avenue in the Swillburg Neighborhood (which was named back in the 19th century when George Goebel ran one of Rochester's prominent pig farms and collected garbage of swill for the pig's feed. Just a fun fact, but no worries, there's no garbage there nowadays!).The restaurant advertises itself as a […]
Cross country bike trip aims to alleviate housing crisis
He will be part of the Bike and Build Program, a nonprofit organization which sends out several hundred young people to benefit poverty housing across the country through fundraising raising awareness of the problem and building projects. Seghal will be biking from Providence, R.I. all the way to San Francisco, Calif. an average of 70 […]
Sexual health fair offers sex tips and free chocolate
All this and more awaited students last Thursday in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons.UR's fourth annual 'Sex and Chocolate," hosted by University Health Services Health Promotions Office, featured representatives from AIDS Rochester, The Gay-Straight Alliance, students from the HLS 216: Peer Health Advocacy class here on campus, as well as a local sex shop, to […]
Online marketplace offers possibilities
It's really a steal too bad I already took calc. I also did a quick survey of other handy textbook Web sites, e.g. Amazon, Ebay, Alibris, even the UR Bookstore, and none of them offered a better price. That free online calculus text costs more than $200 new and $162.85 used at the UR Bookstore. […]
Satisfy yourself with sake and samurais
However, one of my favorite genres is the samurai movie. Some excellent movies to watch are mostly the ones starring Japan's equivalent to Clint Eastwood: Toshiro Mifune. His works with Akira Kurosawa are some stellar pieces of cinematography. 'Yoshiro," 'Sanjuro" and 'Seven Samurai" are amazing movies and 'Mifune" is a total bad-ass. Thus, it would […]