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Horoscopes
Aries (March 21-April 19) - Congratulations on making $180 million! And, uh, sorry about your granddad.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Tomorrow, pluck up some courage and ask that waitress for her number. Then learn about failure.Gemini (May 21-June 21) - Avoid members of Cancer's house tomorrow, or else you'll be infected by them. Seriously, stop […]
Football starts strong but falls in Courage Bowl
Entering last weekend's Courage Bowl II match up with cross town rival St. John Fisher, the UR football team had high hopes of avoiding its fifth straight loss to the Cardinals. The previous week, the Yellowjackets opened the 2006-2007 season with a solid win over John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, 20-10, but took the loss […]
Pressbox
Welcome back folks! It's that time of year again. The time when the Kansas City Royals attempt to not lose 100 games, the Arizona Cardinals fool everyone by winning their first game, dads get sent to jail for beating up little kids at football games and track stars run the hundred yard dash in three […]
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WRUR signs partnership contract
Campus radio station WRUR announced the signing of a five-year contract with local NPR affiliate WXXI to expand a partnership between the stations that is designed to attract more listeners and expand the programming on both."This is a rare opportunity for UR," Vice President of Communications Bill Murphy said. "To have a student-run organization operating […]
Security Update
A Rochester man was taken into custody by Rochester police near deKiewiet Tower on Tuesday, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty. Willie Clark, 42, was first observed acting strangely near a bike rack and UR Security was notified, prompting officers to stop the man for questioning.After being stopped by security, Clark was discovered to […]
Car-sharing program begins
On Tuesday, UR became one of 33 colleges and universities nationwide to provide a car-sharing service known as Zipcar. The program makes four cars available for all UR community members to borrow. The cars are available for all students 19 years old and older. UR's program is unique in that it is one of four […]
Freshman overload UR
Over a quarter of this year's freshman class had to get to know more than one roommate as they moved in to their new dorm room this year. UR's largest freshman class to date has forced Residential Life to house dozens of first year students in triples and 20 students in quadruples."We always formalize the […]
Deaths stun student body
"Few tragedies are quite as saddening for a university community as the death of one student. The loss of four only compounds our terrible sense of grief," President Joel Seligman wrote to the University community on Aug. 9 after hearing news of the recent deaths of two UR alumni, Krystle Dixon '05 and Steven J. […]
Two Rush Rhees departments merge
The Management and Government Documents departments of Rush Rhees Library have merged and are now located in a room off of the Martin Messenger Reading Room on the second floor. The old Management Library is being converted into a staff room as part of a renovation made possible by donations from the Gleason Foundation.This merger […]