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The Academy Awards are basically a sham designed by the studios to increase box office returns more than to recognize any art or achievement in filmmaking - because Hollywood is about the bottom line above all else and doesn't care what it has to do to maximize profits. Unfortunately, I think we all know this […]

Fact is stranger than fiction. This seems to be the current mantra for television executives of almost every network. Television viewers are being inundated with high quality reality events - and I use the words "reality" and "quality" sarcastically. While watching the 77th Annual Academy Awards, I couldn't help but notice that the majority of […]

I'm not the type of person who discovers new music from watching any of the MTV channels, but MTV-U is to blame for introducing me to the haunting melodies of the pop band Eisley. Last spring, Eisley had two EPs and a single that looped continuously on MTV- U. After I first heard the song […]

Four Eastman School of Music composers had an opportunity to hear their orchestral works read on Feb. 23 and 25.Two Eastman composers participated in an orchestral workshop with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on Feb. 23. The BPO is a professional orchestra and holds an annual competition for composition students to have their orchestral works read […]

Brad Lubman conducted Musica Nova this week in a thrilling concert of student compositions in Kilbourn Hall on Feb. 28.Featured on the program were works by senior Zach Wadsworth, graduate student Marco Alunno, senior Daniel Pesca and graduate student Vera Ivanova.Wadsworth composed "Venus and Adonis" on William Shakespeare's text, as adapted by Gretchen Snedeker. The […]

Cricket is one of the newest sports on the UR campus. This semester's cricket club, a club sport, shows the true meaning of choice and diversity on campus. Started about a decade ago, the UR cricket club became inactive after its management graduated and did not find a successor. Beginning last year, a new wave […]

Safe Zone campaign should be respectedWhat are the College Republicans doing parodying Safe Zone? The Safe Zone campaign, initiated by the UR Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance, is a very real and very necessary project to help people who are transitioning into non-mainstream sexual culture. The people it is designed to protect are routinely […]

The Students' Association Senate's recent decision to decrease the total number of senators is a positive response to the changing nature and needs of the student body. It represents an acknowledgement that students are better represented by peers of the same class year rather than by residential location and increases competition for available senatorial seats.Previously, […]

When a natural disaster as great as the tsunami that killed 300,000 people and orphaned more than 50,000 children in Southeast Asia occurs, one never knows how to react. Some UR students have risen to the occasion and have begun a fundraising effort that expects to draw in $10,000 by the end of the semester. […]

Harvard drop-out Bill Gates speaking at a Governor's Conference on education recently alleged that our high schools were like "teaching someone about computers with 50-year-old mainframes." Geek-speak translators tell me this was a challenge to our traditional curriculum, which is entirely obsolete for the 21st century. What of it?Everyone has issues with our public schools, […]