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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a town hall-style meeting with representatives from various college services, including parking, dining, facilities, the bookstore and security. However, although the meeting was open to all students, no more than 10 came. Half of them were SA senators, mostly from the projects and services committee. The event […]

In 1999, a small group of women began a project called the V-Day College Initiative: Until the Violence Stops. Their goal was to eradicate violence against women by shedding light on the issue. They also hoped to raise money to benefit grassroots organizations working to stop violence or help women recover from it. To begin […]

It's amazing how many things the liberal Democrats could assert into meaningful political momentum. There is a vastly unpopular war, a Republican leadership indicted for blatant graft and corruption, a presidential wiretapping program with highly dubious claims to legality, top vice-presidential brass under investigation for leaking classified information, bipartisan oppostition to the U.A.E. deal, Osama […]

Officers were called to the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.Initial reports given to the officers indicated that several individials had broken house windows in addition to assaulting a SAM brother outside of the house. The officers were given differing stories based on the […]

Two seperate groups met yesterday in Wilson Commons to raise student awareness at the Career and Internship Expo about companies that participate in the military-industrial complex in the United States.At 1:30 p.m., a group composed of Students for Social Justice members donned black tape mouth covers and handed out flyers to students and other participants […]

Two more patients at the UR Medical Center have been diagnosed with Legionnaire's disease following the first diagnosis of the current outbreak last week. Of the two new cases, one of the patients died after being removed from life support this past Sunday. Part of the reason for the patient's death, according to URMC, was […]

UR reached a settlement last week with law firm Dolin, Thomas & Solomon LLP, which represents hourly employees who claim they were not paid for overtime worked.The suit affects up to 40,000 current and former hourly employees and could cost UR up to $9.05 million.Hourly employees that worked for UR and its affiliates since 1999 […]

The women's basketball team took a trip down south this past weekend after stopping to play a game in Cleveland on Friday. Failing to gain the excitement like they had at home, they fell to the Case Western Reserve University Spartans.The Spartans started the game with a 10-0 run, igniting a fire that could not […]

The UR squash team became the Conroy Division Champion for the second year in a row at the Collegiate Squash Association team championships held at Princeton University this past weekend.UR beat Haverford College 6-3 in the quarterfinals and Wesleyan University 6-3 in the semifinals on Saturday. They then defeated rival Vassar College 6-3 in the […]

The city of Ithaca treated the men's indoor track and field team well this past weekend, as they had one individual champion, one champion relay team and many high-placing finishers.The Yellowjackets traveled to their final regular invitational of the season last Saturday, where senior Matt Tierney won the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.59 […]