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When you think of a threesome, what pops into mind? I know a lot of us have seen the plethora of porn where two heterosexual women with long nails lick each other's tongues before they both go down on and then have intercourse with a very willing, slightly unattractive man with a big dick. When […]

Only a few weeks remain until members of the UR Class of 2012 will be receiving their letters, telling them whether or not they have been accepted to the University. This year, UR received about 11,500 applications for freshman admission."As of today [March 3], UR has attracted 236 enrollment deposits from Early Decision offers," Dean […]

I walked into the crowded Strong Auditorium last Friday and somehow managed to snag a seat in the fourth row. It was five minutes before the show, the room was packed with both sexes and there was a definite buzz in the air. All of a sudden, without warning, the house lights shut off and […]

There's no accounting for good music, especially in Rochester. The Yellowjackets, an all-male a cappella group, gave the crowd a run for its money Friday, Feb. 22, in their "Bringing Yellow Back" CD release debut in Strong Auditorium. True to their name, they brought back, without a doubt, their usual showmanship of dynamic vocal sounds […]

Douglass Dining Center was converted into a dance floor when the Eastman Big Band played at the Big Band and Swing Dance. The event, which took place on Friday, Feb. 29 from 9 p.m. to midnight, drew in both students and Rochester community members. The night was sponsored by the Ballroom Dance Club, Eastman School […]

George Grella is an English professor at UR and author of hundreds of reviews of films and books, both fiction and nonfiction. His interest lies in popular literature and culture, connecting the high and low. He has written numerous articles on subjects ranging from baseball to gangster novels. Grella's classes cover American and British literature […]

They're everywhere, jangling a mass of keys and thudding heavy boots, lurking behind doorways that cleverly conceal their ominous presence, emitting random scratchy whispers from their walkie-talkies. They frequent all the student-loved zones of the school: Wilson Commons, the Academic Quad, the Fraternity Quad. Students standing casually outside a fraternity, drinking out of an unmarked […]

Magnum photographer and University of Texas Clinical Professor of Photojournalism Eli Reed's exhibit, titled "Black in America," captures the community and a wide range of emotions, from pain and sorrow to joy and triumph, and shows what it means to be alive in the diverse culture of black America. Reed has traversed the nation, visiting […]

As of late Wednesday evening, 1,027 individuals have endorsed an online petition, detailing their objections to next year's new Meal Plan system. The petition, along with a memo released Monday night by the Students' Association Senate, reflects the general level of students dissatisfaction over the meal plan, which assigns minimum Club meals according to a […]

To anyone who is not a junior or senior, the loss of D-Day means almost nothing. Being a sophomore myself, I was unsatisfied by last year's D-Day and thus was not immediately alarmed by CAB's decision to no longer support it. My memory of last year was mostly marred by cold and damp weather, swarms […]