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‘Diablo’ and dungeon-crawlers: a gaming legacy
The last time I visited my hometown, I found myself looking through some of my old arts and crafts from kindergarten. I soon came across a magnet I had made that had been on our refrigerator for as long as I could remember. The magnet features what looks like an orange dinosaur with a pointy […]
Culture
Harris Wittels: in memoriam
Harris Wittels, a rising young comedy writer, passed away this week. He was 30 years old. Wittels, a graduate of Emerson College, started out his career doing stand-up around Los Angeles. He eventually landed a job writing for the critically-acclaimed “The Sarah Silverman Program,” where he stayed until the series’ cancellation. After that, Wittels wrote […]
Culture
‘I’ll Be Your Pilot Today:’ ‘Schitt’s Creek’
“Schitt’s Creek.” Yep. Just like it sounds. Except it’s with a “C,” so it’s funny. Or at least this is the emotion the show attempts to evoke from its audience. Comedian Eugene Levy and his son Daniel created and star in this riches-to-rags comedy alongside longtime collaborator Catherine O’Hara and newcomer Annie Murphy. While a […]
Sex and the CT
Jodi Says: The myth of meaningless sex
There’s this idea of “meaningless sex,” that sex can be “just” sex. But if Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake couldn’t pull it off in the 2011 romantic comedy “Friends with Benefits,” I’m pretty sure it can’t be done. The concept of meaningless sex can go hand-in-hand with hookup culture. People seem to think that they […]
Humor
New bookstore makes students work even harder for good grades
The University of Rochester has always been recognized for its academic excellence and rigor. While it is known that its students work endlessly to maintain a satisfactory GPA, the University and the City of Rochester went to great lengths to help with the overall stress that the students feel. In fall 2014, “College Town” was […]
Sports
Women’s Tennis starts season strong
Women’s Tennis won their first match of the season last weekend, beating intrastate rival, Ithaca College, 6-3 at home on Saturday, Feb. 21. Five different ‘Jackets won matches on the day, with junior Christine Ho and sophomores Dorothy Tai and Lauren Zickar all grabbing wins in both singles and doubles. In doubles, Rochester jumped out […]
Sports
In Cleveland, Women’s Basketball puts up tough fight overtime
On Sunday, Feb. 22, the UR Women’s Basketball team was defeated 72-79 in Cleveland by the Case Western Reserve University Spartans. The game came just under a month after the original face-off between ‘Jackets and Spartans’, in which UR topped Case in a closely contested 55-54 victory. This weekend, however, the Spartans came out looking […]
Sports
Squash excels in prestigious Potter Cup
This past weekend, the UR Men’s Squash team traveled to Trinity College to compete against the top eight teams in the nation for the coveted College Squash Association (CSA) Potter Cup, the National Championship of college squash. To begin the tournament, the ‘Jackets were seeded sixth and matched up against the number three seed Harvard. […]
Sports
The most intruiguing trades at the deadline
In one of the most hectic trade deadlines in recent memory, with about nine percent of NBA players switching teams, almost 40 players—not including draft picks—were traded on deadline day. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, this is the most trades in history. There isn’t enough room to even come close to touching upon all of […]
Sports
Jerome Kersey, Trail Blazers great, dies at 52
Jerome Kersey, one of the all-time greats of the Portland Trail Blazers, died on Feb. 18 of a pulmonary embolism caused by blood clots in his lungs. He was 52 years old. Kersey, a native of Clarksville, Virginia, was taken as the 46th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft out of the tiny Longwood […]
