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UR's annual Winterfest began on Friday as both the men's and women's basketball teams faced off against the University of Chicago Maroons in their respective games and were victorious. The festival, which is designed to break the winter dreariness, kicked into full gear later that evening with a performance by comedian Pablo Francisco.Francisco's show was […]

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nabi Magomedov died Tuesday in an automobile accident on the New York State Thruway. Also killed in the crash were Magomedov's wife, Natalya Shcherbinina, and their three-year-old son Amir Magomedov. The accident occurred in Harriman, NY after a tractor-trailer truck crossed the road's meridian and struck Magomedov's car head-on.Magomedov, a graduate […]

Have you ever sprinted out of your dorm room in a hurry to get to the frat quad and realize that you neglected to turn off your light? Or perhaps you are one of those people who leave your AIM on all night hoping for your crush to instant message you at 6 a.m. Embarrassingly, […]

With Valentine's Day around the corner, I feel it necessary to prove to my readership that I am far sweeter than your average guy. First off there's my decency - when I get a wrap at the Pit and they charge me for a six-inch sub, I take the extra dollar and put it in […]

I was doing fine. Even though one of the scariest holidays for all singletons was rapidly approaching, I still had a good attitude. I was embracing the pink. I was eating those little Necco hearts with obscure messages and I had been invited to a Valentine's Day party by my friend Katherine - of course […]

Who is he? Patrick Harris hails from Washington, D.C. and is a sophomore majoring in English and Music Business. He is involved in a broad array of activities on campus, which include being on the Executive Board of UR Concerts, taking on the role of DJ Redline on his WRUR show "Selective Exposure" Friday nights […]

Choice is a word that frequents discussions of women's issues with great regularity and yet it is often misunderstood. Many who do not deem themselves "pro-choice" have a common misconception of those that do identify as pro-choice - that they assume pro-choice is equitable to pro-abortion. This misconstrued idea of what it means to advocate […]

Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Clint Dempsey and Oguchi Onyewu are among those who will will represent the United States in the World Cup this summer. Yet most Americans don't care. A sport that garners the attention of the entire European continent and has a total of more than two billion supporters around the world barely […]

The men's basketball team began a home stand this past weekend, hosting two games against conference foes - the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis. Entering this past weekend with a 3-4 record in the University Athletic Association, the Yellowjackets came away with two solid victories to improve their conference record to […]

You definitely don't want to turn the page just yet. Why not? Well, don't you want to see what's going on over at Eastman? Not really? Oh - you think it's all about that classic music "crap" that you're not in to. No, you're the Metallica fan and the jazz junkie and the alternative listener […]