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The wait is over. Twenty-nine teams are ready for 162 games of baseball because that's their reason for living. Our baseball analysts, Steve and John, were asked the tough questions about the 2006 season.Teams with great starting rotationsSG: Any talk about a great rotation needs to start with the Chicago White Sox. The crew that […]

Each year Rochester's ImageMovementSound Festival - IMS - consistently shows a fresh and distinctive face that reflects the diversity of artists and genres represented amongst their interdisciplinary multimedia collaborators. The festival debuted in Kilbourn Hall in the late 1990's as a collaboration between the Eastman Computer Music Center and the Rochester Institute of Technology School […]

Four students undertook a project designed to benefit local underprivileged citizens on Wednesday, purchasing food from the Corner Store and encouraging students to donate both food and declining dollars to the cause."It's a shame," group member and senior Scott Lakso said. "Meal plans force people on campus to have too much money for food but […]

The Science Coalition, which consists of over 400 organizations including over 60 universities, gathered on March 22 in New York City for their seventh annual media roundtable. UR President Joel Seligman joined several university professors to discuss how to raise federal funding for university-based research in science, a topic that has been at the heart […]

UR Security officers were summoned to Hutchison Hall at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday after a report of a suspicious white powdery substance on the first and second floors of the building, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.The building was subsequently evacuated upon the arrival of the Rochester Fire Department and the Hazardous Materials Unit. […]

Undergraduates at UR will see a 6.9 percent increase in tuition next year, coupled with a 3.6 percent increase in room and board costs. In total, the cost of attending as an undergraduate will increase by 6.1 percent."Next year's increase is driven by a combination of factors including rising costs," Chief Financial Officer Ronald Paprocki […]

Starting Monday, students will be able to access a survey on the Hive Web site to vote on the off-campus businesses that they would like to see accepting Flex starting in the Fall. This initiative, started by the Students' Association Senate and headed by sophomore Greg Meditz, has taken effect as the result of ongoing […]

The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center received $1 million in federal funding on Monday. The federal grant, secured by U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-Fairport), will be used to purchase a trilogy radiosurgery system for cancer treatment."We have seen tremendous advancements in the treatment of cancer, but there are many more challenges ahead," Slaughter said. "With […]

The Students' Association Senate approved the addition of an opinion poll to the April 10-April 12 SA election ballot. The poll will gauge student interest for the Senate's proposal to create tiered parking fees that reflect the distance from parking lots to residence areas of the River Campus."We had hoped to have our proposal approved […]

I've never felt like it's all that easy to get off campus and find things to do within the city of Rochester. Coming from the area of Burlington, Vermont, where a large part of the cultural activity for the city is compressed into one small and very active area, Rochester initially seemed to be a […]