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There's no better time to come into your own than in the final match of the regular season.Such was the case for the UR squash team this past weekend, as it pulled out a tough 9-0 victory over the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on Saturday afternoon.The Quakers came into the matchup ranked seventh according to […]

The UR women's tennis team kicked off its spring season last weekend with a win over the Le Moyne College Dolphins on Sunday.The Yellowjackets came off of a 3-1 fall season during which they beat Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Brockport and Nazareth College, but fell to SUNY Geneseo in the last meet of the […]

The swimming and diving teams faced strong competition this past weekend in the 'Jackets' most successful meet in recent history.Both teams traveled to the University of Chicago for the University Athletic Association Championships, where Yellowjacket athletes broke 18 school records, posted 12 NCAA provisional qualifying times and had 233 lifetime bests. The results proved that […]

Aries (March 21&-April 19) What's the biggest party this weekend? Saddle up in Gleason Studio C, you party animal!Taurus (April 20&-May 20) Stick to the five major food groups this weekend: Easy Mac, Geny Lite, Starbucks, Pop Tarts and drunken calls to Domino's at 3 a.m.Gemini (May 21&-June 21) This week, all your wildest dreams […]

UR experienced a temporary blackout Wednesday afternoon, which affected all buildings on the River Campus and UR Medical Center, as well as some surrounding properties.A Rochester Gas ' Electric transformer malfunctioned at approximately 4:10 p.m. at a substation near the central utilities plant; it was the primary electric connection to the University.Electricity at the Med […]

University Facilities' recent decrease of temperatures in academic and residence halls will save UR an estimated $65,000 per degree Fahrenheit per year on the River Campus alone. Combined with similar measures implemented at UR Medical Center, the University is aiming to save an additional $100,000 per degree one part of a concerted effort to slim […]

A UR professor and a graduate student have been working on a study involving evolutionary genetics and fruit flies, concluding that a rapidly evolving gene in a fruit fly has caused the creation of a new species.UR Professor of Biology Daven Presgraves, Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, along […]

This year, UR was not included in this year's Princeton Review rankings.While this may appear to be a great error on the part of Public Relations, it is a triumphant stand against biased rankings.In January 2007, UR critiqued the Review's methods of obtaining every student's e-mail address in order to send a survey via e-mail. […]

In this time of economic recession, the University and the Students' Assocation are appropriately reviewing current energy usage. UR has been proactive in cutting back on expenditures for example, Facilities has dropped temperatures in academic buildings. This is projected to save $65,000 annually. Another area where the University can save money, however, is in reducing […]

They say if you build it, they will come. But they forgot to mention that if you don't build it, they'll incite a riot. Just imagine Muhammad Ali heading to the gym to train for his fight in Zaire, 'The Thrilla in Manila," and finding out that his million-dollar gym hasn't replaced a heavy bag […]