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No child who ever grew up to be socially acceptable wanted to hear his parents read Charles Dickens' 'Hard Times" to him as a bedtime story. No, that time was always always about 'Robin Hood." While children become adults, though, some sentimental attachments never leave. But if not for that fact, it might be difficult […]

This Saturday night, once you've put on your kitty ears, lab coat and poodle skirt, pull up those go-go boots, hike on over to Water Street and get ready for the 'Americana rock and roll" of Stephen Kellogg and The Sixers.Their newest album, 'The Bear," includes upbeat catchy songs like 'Shady Esperanto and the Young […]

For several years, director Spike Jonze labored to turn a beloved children's book into a movie fit to show. Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are" proved tougher than planned, however. To start with, the book has roughly 10 sentences. And fashioning a message from a story that is left intentionally open to interpretation presents […]

It seems like every few years, some smooth-voiced new star becomes a temporary next-big-thing in soul, the same way the music press always seems eager to proclaim the next 'saviors" of rock. Often, these newcomers get hyped for their eager-to-please serenading and their obvious echoing of legends (Gaye, Mayfield, Wonder take your pick) and not […]

'Couples Retreat" is the perfect movie to go see if you're in the mood for laughter. While this movie pokes fun at the complexities of relationships, it also provides the viewers with an interesting plot line and good acting. Directed and written by Vince Vaughn, 'Couples" Retreat" is a movie centered on the fate of […]

One of the beautiful things about UR is the fact that the curriculum allows me to pursue my personal academic interests. No offense to the philosophers-to-be, but I have no intellectual desire to analyze whether or not the chair I am currently sitting in is indeed real or not. I'm more interested in what the […]

Last fall, the College addressed a significant hole in the academic advising system by implementing a policy that forced sophomores an oft forgotten group likely to be at an academic crossroads to continue to, at the very least, obtain permission from an adviser before registering for classes. And while the sophomore advising program was a […]

In the interest of keeping up with peer universities, UR needs to stay competitive in a number of areas, including athletics quality game coverage for fans, athletes, prospective students and other schools about the sports in our ever-growing athletic program suffers until the University provides the sports information director with additional staff. Every University Athletic […]

My family isn't big on the whole green thing. You'd think hailing from Massachusetts, we would have taken hints from the neighboring Vermont and New Hampshire lesbians picketing in their Birkenstocks, but, despite the mating calls of naked hippie colonies and the braying of the co-op farms surrounding our borders, my family refuses to recycle […]

Students from the Rochester City School District who face unfavorable economic conditions, limited academic resources and poor family dynamics can find aid and opportunity in Eric Zeller's new scholarship, EZ Scholarship.Zeller has been pushing to expand his program between 30 to 40 disadvantaged inner-city youth, as opposed to the current one or two students a […]