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While some of my friends were basking in the sun on some tiny island in the Caribbean for spring break, I was in the city that started it all - the city that solidified civilization as we know it today - Rome. Getting there was no easy feat. Enduring an eight-hour flight may be considered […]

The All-Campus Judicial Council ruled unanimously against freshman John Fuentes in his appeal to have his named placed on the Spring 2005 election ballot for a 2008 senate seat."[Fuentes'] negligence and lack of initiative to learn about the requirements are not an excuse that the Council accepts as reasons for overturning the decision of the […]

For the second year in a row, three undergraduates have been awarded Fulbright fellowships abroad, with as many as five more winners possible.There have been 11 applicants to seven different countries for 2005-06, and thus far seniors Ashley Poelma, Elizabeth Boerman and Thomas Hildebrandt have been selected as winners.According to Fellowships Coordinator and Academic Counselor […]

The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House received a prestigious award from the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan Monday night for its efforts in film preservation."We had been thinking about them for some time," Director of Collections and Special Projects at the Anthology Film Archives Robert Haller said. "[The […]

Jacks Professor Emeriti of Child Education at Stanford University Nel Noddings addressed the topic of education in a democratic society on March 29."When we think about aims, we think about guiding stars," Noddings said. "Aims are tied to the society in which we live, the culture in which we live, so aims have to change." […]

This year, for the first time, student input was sought in the form of online surveys in order to improve Dandelion Day."We are working very hard to make everything that people asked for in the survey happen," Event Chair of the Campus Activities Board and senior Anna Lessenger said.The survey was sent to students, who […]

KASA celebrates Korea NightThis year, the Korean American Students' Association expanded Korea Night to not only include a traditional Korean dinner and performance, but also feature a Korean fair in Wilson Commons and a Korean Game Night."Everything went really well," KASA President and senior Johnny Won said. "We had three main events instead of one, […]

All negotiations between the Service Employee International Union and UR came to an end on March 17. "While the campus and hospital contracts had historically been negotiated separately, and had each been effective for two-year periods, the 2002 contracts had a mutual expiration date in October 2004," Manager of Labor Relations Fay Norton said. "Because […]

My long journey to discovering the nirvana of free software began slowly. I started off putting Linux on an old computer my dad brought home from work. It was too slow to use for anything else, but I was pleasantly surprised to find Linux running at speeds comparable to my spiffy new Windows machine. Busy […]

The PC is the platform of choice for game developers to introduce cutting-edge technology to the market. Anti-aliasing, real-time shadows and realistic water effects were all pioneered on the PC. Now, all the amazing features in the world are useless if the end-user doesn't have the architecture to run these games, but with the PC, […]