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On Friday night, the men's basketball team fell victim to the madness that can only be found in the month of March. Two days into the most exciting month that college basketball has to offer, the Yellowjackets lost a heartbreaker to SUNY Plattsburgh, 61-60, in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs at […]

At Saturday's Eastern College Athletic Conference championships for indoor track and field, the women's 4x800 meter relay team shattered the school's record for the event. The quartet of junior Kellie Hasselwander and freshmen Sadie Gollub, Lisa Cole and Suzanne Giunta finished in 9:42.60 for third place, breaking the previous indoor record of 9:48 set in […]

The all-stars of squash took to the center stage this weekend as the University of Pennsylvania played host to the College Squash Association Individuals tournament. The pool consisted of more than 60 of the nation's top players competing for the No. 1 title. Out of those elite few, UR's own freshman Jim Bristow won a […]

Welcome, everyone, to the Campus Times preview of the March Madness Tournament. This year, our panel of experts include a sports editor, a former sports editor and a sports staff writer, so rest assured that our picks are intelligent and, judging by last year's results, probably right on the money. While it's true that Selection […]

To be perfectly honest, I don't think that I've been to a theatre since I saw "The Nutcracker" in fifth grade. Like most children of that age, I had a terrible allergic reaction to the long bouts of inaction, the seeming lack of plot as well as the general lack of interest to many of […]

The women's basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 this past weekend after topping St. Lawrence University on Friday night and SUNY Cortland on Saturday. The 'Jackets (22-5) are heading to Scranton, Pa., where they will face the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, Bowdoin College. Prior to the start of the […]

Students have probably noticed the University Health Service Health Promotion Office's "The Monthly InSTALLment" plastered in public bathrooms across campus. Students may have also noticed that the March 2007 "InSTALLment" is double-sided, with one side entitled "Wellness for UR Women" and the opposite side entitled "Men's Health." Both sides make a point of educating students […]

After folding last August due to thefts, City Cycles will be reinstated this spring with the support of Students' Association funding. "We hope to launch the program in time for spring, and we expect that the student body will receive it very well," Students' Association Senator, Projects and Services Committee member and sophomore Mike Furlani […]

Helen Thomas, United Press International's White House correspondent for more than 50 years, spoke Tuesday night to a full crowd in Hubbell Auditorium as the keynote speaker of Women's History Month. Her message to the audience, which incorporated the women's right movement, the civil rights movement, the Iraq War and the War on Terror, was […]

David Wu, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UR, has developed a way of considerably boosting the bacterium Clostridium thermocellum's ability to produce ethanol.Ethanol, which has been touted of late as the solution to the world's energy needs, is often referred to as "corn oil" by supporters of the quest for renewable […]