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Women's basketball claims top spot in UAA
It proved to be another outstanding weekend for the UR women's basketball team. Last week, the women vaulted from No. 21 to No. 12 in the national ranking according to d3hoops.com, thanks to wins over New York University and Brandeis University. This week, they climbed two more spots in the national polls to their highest […]
Yellowjackets swim strong on senior day
After two weeks without a meet, both UR men's and women's swim teams showed strong individual and relay performances against the Ithaca College Bombers during their last home meet of the season. The men placed first in six individual events and one relay. Those wins helped the 'Jackets beat the Bombers 128-115 and increase their […]
Spotlight sears candidates
The juiciest bit of the annual State of the Union address on Monday night was not President Bush's speech announcing modest ambitions for his last lame-duck months; it was the moment Barack Obama evoked nostalgic memories of high school drama, as he gave Hillary Clinton the cold shoulder. Freeze-shot pictures of the scene showed Obama […]
Consistency is needed in acknowledging activists
When UR President Seligman released a statement concerning Arun Gandhi's controversial opinion piece in the Washington Post blog, "On Faith," he wrote that Gandhi's apology, which explained that he does "not believe and should not have implied that the policies of the Israeli government are reflective of the views of all Jewish people," inadequately explains […]
Caucuses cause calamities in American elections
Although the presidential election remains many months away, the ongoing nomination process has garnered an enormous amount of attention from the media and from voters concerned about issues like health care, Iraq and the strength of the U.S. economy.With this increased awareness has come the realization that the state-by-state nature of the nomination process will […]
Writers' strike exasperates faithful Bauer devotee
The Writers Guild of America strike is starting to cause me concern. Sure it was annoying that "The Office" wasn't new and neither were "The Daily Show" or "The Colbert Report," but I have an event on my calendar that I have been awaiting with much anticipation since May, and it was just canceled, thanks […]
Seniors lead men's team to success
During the tenure of head coach Mike Neer, the UR men's basketball program has prospered. From 2002-05, Neer's team did not miss the NCAA tournament, a run that culminated in 2005 with a disappointing loss to University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the national title game. Unfortunately for the 'Jackets, 2005 marked the end of a […]
Life, Love… Sport
Welcome back everyone to another edition of Love, Life? Sport (23-17 Edition). You may have noticed that there are numbers in the title of this week's column, a LLS first! It refers to the prediction that Plaxico Burress made to the media because he's just that big of a genius. This week we shall preview […]
From the Pressbox
Over the summer, I worked at a Dairy Queen. I had the pleasure of watching kids plaster their faces with chocolate ice cream and dealing with impatient, obnoxious adults. But, like any job, it had its perks - free banana splits were great fixes for six-hour shifts that were inevitably filled with cranky parents and […]
UR Squash performs well against Hamilton
Playing its first match since breaking into the top 10 in the country at No. 7, the Yellowjacket squash team had yet another impressive performance this past week. Playing against the Continentals of Hamilton College on Friday, the 'Jackets cruised to another 9-0 victory- their fourth such victory of the season. "Three years ago, this […]