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Jodi Says: Blown away with pleasure

The first step to giving a good blowjob is to desire to please your penis-possessing partner. I can’t emphasize this idea enough. There are plenty of mistaken reasons to give head. For many, oral sex seems like the natural precursor to vaginal sex. Oral sex uses an orifice of your body that wasn’t built for […]

Student attends first European Student Conference

This past weekend, 80 undergraduate, business and law students from across Europe and the United States attended the European Student Conference (ESC) at Yale University. Among them was junior Kate Tepper, a dual-degree senior studying International Relations as well as Voice at the Eastman School of Music. Tepper was selected to attend the conference from […]

Men’s Squash looks to playoffs

This past week, the University of Rochester Men’s squash team was back in action after a nearly two-week break from matches. They took on Cornell and University of Western Ontario after a tough, hard fought loss to Franklin & Marshall College. The team clearly demonstrated that one loss was not going to impact the continuation […]

Swim team competes in UAA championship

With the four-day-long UAA championship events taking place in Atlanta, it has been an exciting week for the Rochester Swimming and Diving Team. The Yellowjackets performed extremely well, earning one NCAA qualifying score as well as breaking a school record. Overall, the Women’s team ended the weekend placed sixth out of eight teams, while Emory, […]

Winter parking: UR’s commitment to student fitness

They say that Rochester has two seasons: winter and construction. Well, the architects who constructed the University of Rochester parking system definitely had winter on their minds.  Although the parking lots were created for students to park their cars, they also have a health-conscious motive. Winter parking was designed to help students become fit through […]

NBA award frontrunners at the mid-season

It’s hard to believe, but we’re about to enter the home stretch of the NBA season, and awards-wise, there’s a lot left up in the air. It’s now time to pretend that I was “just kidding” about my early season predictions and make some new ones.  Sixth Man of the Year: Isaiah Thomas, PG, Phoenix […]

UR athletes give back to Rochester community

As varsity athletes at the University of Rochester, we often find that we lose sight of exactly what we represent when we compete.  Beyond ourselves and our teammates, we are also playing for the UR community as a whole. This connection between varsity athletics and the rest of UR is not always felt as a […]

RecycleMania is just the start

Students walking into Wilson Commons last week no doubt saw the party being thrown by EcoReps and Greenspace, among others, to kick off RecycleMania, a 10-week challenge in which colleges across the country compete to reduce waste and encourage recycling on campus. This year, the kickoff of RecycleMania coincides with the University’s recognition by the […]

Letter to the editor: Republicans have it wrong

This week, I would like to respond to a piece written by Josh Veronica, Class of 2018, called “The 2015 Budget: A mixed bag.” Consistent with most conservative opposition to President Obama, his critique is riddled with extreme and ambiguous language, refuses to acknowledge that the budget deficit has been cut by nearly two- thirds […]

Stiff sanctions should be our strategy with Iran

Over the last few weeks, dozens of UR students have contacted the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to urge her to co-sponsor the bipartisan “Nuclear Weapons-Free Iran Act of 2015.” Similarly, next month, a group of five UR students will travel to the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. alongside 2,400 students from 490 campuses […]