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Senior quarterback Aaron Molisani and junior running back Matt Bielecki combined to score three touchdowns, all on the ground, to lead the Yellowjackets past St. Lawrence University, 19-18. Molisani scored the game winning touchdown with less than a minute left to put the 'Jackets on top. The win brought their record to 3-2 (1-1). Similar […]

Aries (March 21-April 19) - Some say it's what you do, not what you say, that defines who you are. Really though, it's the logo on your shirt.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - After your most recent diet fails, you will realize that working the reception desk does not count as "going to the gym."Gemini (May […]

The top of Rush Rhees Library is a mystery - it's a place that everyone sees, but no one goes. The dome is open only two days a year, so most students reach graduation without ever having seen the inside. Yet all it takes is a trip on an old-fashioned gated elevator and up a […]

After 13 years as Provost, Charles E. Phelps will leave his post as UR's chief academic officer at end of this academic year, President Joel Seligman announced today. "I'm stepping down from the Provost job, but I am not leaving the University," Phelps said. "I have some sabbatic leave that I'm going to take to […]

Despite a highly contested and eventful midterm election that saw the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, the elections this week failed to generate a noticeable voter turnout amongst the student body compared to the presidential election two years ago. With a lack of an effective voter registration and […]

Beyond the whirlwind that is election time, there exists a danger flying under the radar of most citizens these days. Wireless technologies are increasing daily, posing a danger to the uninformed or the lethargic. While this danger might not seem quite as menacing as a terrorist attack, the risk of wireless devices is more in […]

A study that deals with how some HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that, more often that not, conquers the entire immune system was published on Tuesday in "The Journal of Biological Chemistry." The study was led by associate professors in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Joseph E. Wedekind and Harold C. Smith at […]

On Saturday night, ABC's "48 Hours" aired "Memory of Murder - Who would want to brutally murder the perfect all-American family with an ax?" - an hour-long special on the murder of Peter Porco and attack on Joan Porco that led to the arrest and conviction of former UR student Christopher Porco.Correspondent Peter Van Sant […]

Local teachers spoke about teaching immigrant students in the first of two lectures under the Urban Teaching and Leadership Forums yesterday. The teachers, Miriam Ehtesham and Henry Padron, are both bilingual teachers in the Rochester City School District and they discussed original approaches to teaching students who are immigrants and refugees.The lecture was sponsored by […]