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Do you like bold and inventive music? Are you always searching for bands that stand out from the typical radio-friendly groups? Then I'd suggest avoiding Southcott, whose debut album, "Flee the Scene," lacks originality and ambition.Hailing from Rockland County, NY, Southcott supplies a solid 26 minutes of generic, albeit well-played, rock music on "Flee the […]

The women's tennis team's astounding 8-1 win over LeMoyne College on March 7 provided the momentum they needed to have a successful spring break. The team headed to Los Angeles during spring break to play various local and visiting teams, ending the week with a 2-1 record.The opening match against No. 12 ranked Carnegie Mellon […]

UR softball has started with a bang. Going into their third week of games, the Yellowjackets are at 8-6. The Yellowjackets started their season against Ripon College, sweeping them 8-1 and 6-3 in a double-header.UR then went on to face Washington University in St. Louis and Case Western Reserve University in their first games of […]

Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. Luckily for the UR baseball team, the aforementioned statement is a fact. Although the team is 3-9, the season is long and there is plenty of time to make up lost ground. Despite the poor start, the team is still tied in the Liberty League standings in second […]

After playing against two top Northeast teams, the Yellowjackets flew to California for a four game road trip over spring break. Winning against only one team for the week dropped their ranking from seventh to 11th in the Northeast Regional rankings.The team started their road trip against second-ranked Middlebury College.Sophomore Eric Hansen started things off […]

"The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief," said author Hilary Zunin in her 1992 book Art of Condolence. This sentiment unfortunately describes the mood of the women's basketball team as they left the John Long Center in Scranton, Pa. after a tough 66-63 loss in the NCAA Women's Division […]

The tables in Douglass Dining Center were cleared away last Friday night to make room for the two dueling stages used in UR's first Battle of the Bands competition. The event, organized and executed by UR Concerts, featured nine groups, each given 15 minutes to perform while they were rated by a panel of five […]

Musicians have thrived on the patronage of young listeners attending concerts, buying CDs and collecting memorabilia. Music marketing has adapted to this niche and evolved along with record labels in order to appeal to the cookie cutter listener through MTV, hit music stations and other popular media conglomerates. Most record labels aim and select their […]

Currently, students on campus have no way of knowing whether the apparel they are wearing was manufactured in a sweatshop. The Worker Rights Consortium is the premier independent monitoring organization that gathers information for socially responsible universities on the labor conditions under which apparel bearing university logos are produced. Factories producing this apparel are routinely […]

Your goal to raise social awareness on campus is an admirable and necessary one. Human Rights Week was well done and deserves commendation. However, Students for Social Justice, many of your actions and efforts seem misguided. Many Americans and UR students believe we need an exit strategy from Iraq, so you held the "Is Hindsight […]