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Students consider dining ranking
UR Dining Services was ranked sixth in the nation by The Daily Meal, an online publication which recently released its 2014 list of 75 Best Colleges for Food in America. According to the Daily Meal, schools were evaluated in a variety of areas including nutrition, sustainability, accessibility, services, events, surrounding food scene, and “the X-factor”. […]
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Gym closure displaces frequent visitors
Sections of the Goergen Athletic Center (GAC) are closed this month for renovations to the upstairs weight room. The “Fitness Center Improvement Project” is scheduled to take place from Sept. 8 to Sept. 22 and will involve UR Facilities workers installing a new floor in the Bloch Fitness Center. It became necessary to repair cracks […]
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Students wait in hotels for completion of Brooks Crossing
Brooks Crossing residents will move out of hotels and into the new building next week, as decided by a team of UR officials who reviewed the building on Wednesday, Sept. 10. While awaiting the building’s completion, the building’s residents are being housed at Staybridge Suites and the Radisson Hotel Rochester downtown. The construction, organized […]
Features
UR FOOT: Starting out the year on a high point
In 2008, a group of UR Outing Club members came up with the idea of doing an orientation trip for freshmen--a few days of outdoor adventure with their new peers before settling into college life. Determined to make their idea a reality, the group became a branch of the Outing Club and eventually evolved into […]
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Student Leaders Turn on Charm to Entice New Members
Year after year, Yellowjacket Weekend kicks off the school year with the Friday afternoon Activities Fair in Dandelion Square. Clubs and organizations representing a wide range of interests come together, showcasing their most unique qualities and personalities as a way to inspire new students to join them. From club sports like lacrosse and tennis, to […]
UR Tech
UR Tech: 3D Pizza
3D printers are amazing things. You walk into a lab, plug in a flash drive with a bit of software, and an object that would have taken professional fabricators weeks to build appears in 30 minutes. The process can be mesmerizing to watch, seeing your virtual design woven into reality layer by layer, the tiniest […]
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Where in the World?
This year, UR has over 340 international freshmen, the most it has ever had. Here are a few snapshots of this year's freshman class. LESLIE KAZE Kigali, Rawanda An ambitious student with a passion for health research and helping others, Kaze was immediately attracted to UR’s high standing as a top research institution. Although she […]
Culture
‘Phantom of the Opera’ lives up to its grand legacy
One day, while enjoying coffee at Java’s, I was shocked to find an advertisement for a revival of “The Phantom of the Opera,” done by Cameron Mackintosh at Auditorium Theater. I had seen it performed in the Playhouse Square Theater in Cleveland, Ohio five years before and been under the assumption that I would be […]
Culture
‘Madame de Sade’: chains, whips, and suffering
In today’s Western civilization, we pride ourselves in the excessive amount of freedom we believe we deserve – but is our extreme freedom one in which morality is applicable, and can freedom have a detrimental effect on the self? In a broad sense, these are the questions that the UR International Theater Program’s new show […]
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Rochester Optical makes prescription Google Glass
Rochester Optical announced its commercial release of digital lens-optimized prescription lenses for Google Glass on Tuesday, April 15. “A Google search will reveal that Rochester Optical is on the forefront of digital vision and prescription lenses,” Rochester Optical Smart Glass Team member Tim Moore said. Named Smart GOLD (Glass Optimized Lens Design), the lens is […]
