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At an impromptu sushi dinner at the Plum House on Monroe Ave., senior Julian Klepper and I sat down to converse about the artistic scene at UR. Klepper, an award-winning filmmaker, placed first in the Auckland Student Film Festival for his film titled "Life Accelerated." The plot was a fictitious dramatic comedy about his journey […]

You don't know cold until you've stood outside Douglass in the middle of February, wearing a tank top, with shoulders clad in just-washed hair that's hardened into poetic looking but awkwardly rough icicles. That marked the beginning of my experience at the Gym Class Heroes concert last Friday night, as I stupidly decided that bringing […]

The other day, I was talking to my sister Valerie, currently a high school senior, about her impending entrance into college. It turns out that Valerie is nervous about fitting into a liberalized institution of higher learning after being (in her words) trapped within the conservative confines of her parochial, all-Jewish high school. "Remind me […]

After traveling to the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships at St. Lawrence University on Saturday, the men's indoor track and field team came home with two individual state champions. Junior powerhouse Mike Burgstrom came out on top in the weight throw; his throw of 18.43 meters earned him a school record in the […]

Nine Eastern College Athletic Conference championship qualifications came from the women's indoor track and field team when they traveled to St. Lawrence University to participate in the New York State Collegiate Track Conference championships over the weekend. The Yellowjackets earned 41.5 points to place ninth out of 16 teams."The state meet for me was a […]

Aloha dear readers, welcome back to Life, Love? Sport (Optimism Edition). Due to the start of spring training, and the beginning of the bickering that precedes Selection Sunday, fans of every team have a right to be optimistic (except the fans of the Royals). We shall not cover the NFL scouting combine today - that […]

Students participating in a n event for "Homeless for the Homeless," a fundraiser on campus, were harassed in the area outside of Wilson Commons on Sunday, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty. Security officers arrived on the scene at 2:14 a.m. to find three suspects attempting to light the students' cardboard on fire.The students […]

Last Thursday, Hoyt Auditorium was host to Alan "Abababa" Abarbanell, who spoke to an audience of roughly 300, consisting of both deaf and hearing people. The nearly sold-out event was sponsored by the American Sign Language Club on campus. "We always try to get one large event organized every year and this time we wanted […]

In a new survey by Fortune magazine and its online partner QS, the William E. Simon School of Business Administration was ranked at No. 22 among the 50 Best Business Schools for Getting Hired.The survey uses data from the QS Top MBA Scorecard to rank different business schools on both strength of career placement and […]

The overflowing Gowen Room during Wednesday night's Town Hall Meeting was filled with freshmen and indicative of the main problem being addressed - the University has an overabundance of underclassmen and needs a place to house them.During the meeting, which was sponsored by the Students' Association, Director of Residential Life Laurel Contamanolis spoke about solutions […]