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The Students' Association Senate began preparations for next year's new government by changing the composition of senate while maintaining the fall and spring election schedule. Additionally, senators approved a proposal to ease annual financial burdens, during Monday night's meeting."I think that transition is going to work out pretty well," SA Senator and sophomore Brian Clancy […]

UR Security officers responded to reports of someone firing what was believed to be a BB-type weapon out of a fourth floor window in Hoeing Hall on Feb. 19 around 7:30 p.m. One student reported being hit by an object fired from this area. Officers identified the room in question and established contact with four […]

Fraternities Alpha Delta Phi and Sigma Alpha Mu received word on Feb. 18 that they would be allowed to return to their houses in the Fall semester. "Everyone is really excited," Vice President of ADF and sophomore Rob Fitzgerald said. "After the downer of getting kicked out of the house we were in for 75 […]

Israeli Consulate Speaker Amir Ofik visited UR to share insight on the current affairs between Israel and Palestine on Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. "We don't have all the answers," Ofik said. "We need to be open-minded and not think that our solution is the only one."The evening started out with a brief overview of […]

Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University Ranjana Khanna presented a lecture titled "Asylum and Disposability" on Feb. 23, discussing the changing definition of asylum and its implications for feminist politics."[Understanding post-globalization asylum is an] important mechanism for the advancement of feminism," Khanna said.She spoke of her latest research in the concept […]

Paradoxes come in all varieties and magnitudes and are a part of nearly all facets of day-to-day living. For example, how is it possible that not all of my black tops will perfectly match the color of my black pants? Isn't all black the same? However, forget for a moment that these inexplicable blips appear […]

There are only five years left in Congress' mandate that a third of the ground vehicles and a third of the deep-strike aircraft in the military must become robotic by 2010, largely through a program called Future Combat Programs, according to the New York Times. The Pentagon is facing a daunting task that appears to […]

The Sophomore Class Council held its first "Sophomore Saturday," designed to give sophomores and all other undergraduates a chance to get off campus and experience the city of Rochester. This past weekend, the Sophomore Saturday consisted of four events, with a focus on arts and culture. The first day's event was a trip to Artisan […]

A team of researchers at the UR Medical Center recently discovered a drug called parthenolide that could become a potential cure for leukemia."We found that the compound parthenolide that comes from feverfew - which is derived from a plant called Bachelor's Button, a kind of chamomile plant - can be used to significantly kill leukemic […]

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom," Jawaharlal Nehru, free India's first Prime Minister, said on Aug. 15, 1947, as the nation rejoiced on the eve of its freedom after 157 years under British rule. India did awaken, only to be greeted by the […]