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When Paul Thomas Anderson makes movies, he really means it. As a modern day Kubrick, PTA picks the topics of his films carefully - he's made only five films in twelve years - and invests himself fully into the subject matter.Whether it's porn "Boogie Nights," gambling "Hard Eight" or the similarities between love and violence […]

When a person thinks of a rapper, names such as Jay-Z, Tupac, 50 Cent, Kanye West and Snoop Dogg may come to mind. However, there are many rap artists who are not quite as mainstream but are just as important yet sadly overshadowed by those who consistently make the Top 40 list. One of those […]

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Senior and honors mathematics major Andrew Niles has been named a 2008 Churchill Scholar. The Churchill Scholarship is an annual scholarship offered to graduates of participating universities in the United States and Australia to students pursuing engineering, mathematics and sciences. The scholarships are offered to only 12 students in the entire country.Niles will continue his […]

At 6:30 p.m on Jan. 28, a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., prominent civil rights leader and former ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, stood before an anxious audience. He is both a human rights advocate as well as a community activist who was a former U.S. congressman and mayor of Atlanta, […]

On Jan. 10, UR announced its decision to appoint Associate Dean of River Campus Libraries and Public Services and Collection Development Susan Gibbons as the new Vice Provost and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries. Current Dean of River Campus Libraries Ronald Dow is retiring after 11 years of work […]

On Jan. 17, Co-founder and President of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence Arun Gandhi submitted his offer of resignation. While the reasoning for Gandhi's resignation has not been announced, it can be inferred that it is related to the controversial remarks he wrote for The Washington Post Web site. Gandhi is on a […]

The Plymouth Exchange Neighborhood Association expressed discontent with the building plans for the new UR Riverview Apartments. The 19th Ward Residents believed they had been misled because city officials approved a different version of the building plans than was originally presented to residents in community meetings in February.The Riverview Apartments are scheduled to be completed […]

On Jan. 7, Dean of the College Richard Feldman informed Theta Chi Fraternity that he modified the severest of the sanctions recommended by an administrative hearing team in December. The final version of the sanctions place Theta Chi on an inactive, "censured status" until the fall of 2010.Conditions of inactive status stipulate that fraternity members […]

A male graduate student was robbed on Wednesday evening, Jan. 9, while most students were away for winter break, according to an e-mail from UR Security. The student was approached in the Intercampus Drive Lot after 9 p.m. by five teenagers. According to the student, three of the suspects demanded his money and cell phone, […]