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There's nothing more satisfying than waking up in the morning and picking up the paper and reading Life, Love... Sport (April Madness Edition). The college basketball season finally came to a close, and we had a deserving winner, and, most fittingly, a deserving loser. More on that later. Also, in professional ball-tossing (baseball), the Detroit […]

"The Internet is really, really great. For porn."If you've heard the "Avenue Q" soundtrack or you haven't had your head stuck under a rock for the last few years, you know that porn is all over the Internet. I used to play the URL game in high school, typing random things into my Internet browser […]

If being a film major and reading comic books for pleasure don't make me a colossal nerd, then surely my obsession with professional wrestling will. This fascination can be traced back to sixth grade when I was first introduced to World Championship Wrestling's weekly program, "Monday Nitro."At this point in my life, girls didn't matter […]

For the past few months, I've been writing on a range of reasonably significant issues - most recently on the oppression of the Tibetan people and previously on a gamut of issues such as the coming presidential election, campus events and peace in the Middle East. However, though these issues each seem at least mildly […]

Everyone argues over which Hollywood actress is hottest. While watching "Pocahontas," we broke grounds into a more relevant and more interesting conversation - a time-tested argument every group of men has had at one point - Which Disney character is hottest.The five panelists had an extremely heated discussion over which characters to include and where […]

Anna Pollock is a Take Five scholar from Oakton, Va. Originally a health and society and psychology double major with a Spanish minor, she is studying Latin American politics and culture during her fifth year. This summer, she is planning to serve as a counselor at a camp called Campo Amigo Ecuador run by American […]

Aries (March 21-April 19) - You're not the sharpest tool in the box, but you're certainly a tool.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - While men are from Mars and women are from Venus, you're boyfriend is only interested in visiting Uranus.Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Can't convince your man to sleep in your room? Set up […]

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"We all want to hear it more often. I want to hear it as often as humanly possible. There is very little that is hotter than a man or woman screaming out affirmations as you're rolling around together, making your sheets dirty.Of course, it's important that they're actually screaming "yes" and not some […]

Big changes are on the horizon for UR's environmentally-friendly initiative. UR President Joel Seligman's University Council on Environmental Sustainability, created in November, has mapped out plans to create a more environmentally friendly campus. UR Security has already made achievements addressing one initative - to incorporate hybrid vehicles into the University's fleet - which was listed […]

Despite vocal opposition, including a student-led petition and a memo released by the Students' Association Senate, recent discussions with Director of Campus Dining and Auxiliary Operations Cam Schauf have illuminated the fact that the newly revised meal plan will remain in place at least for the 2008-09 academic year. Nonetheless, Schauf encourages students to speak […]