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Can't you do anything about the comics section on the online edition? The scan is so small there's no way a normal person could read them. And, as far as I can tell, there's no way to enlarge the image.As it is now, you might as well not even bother posting them at all. It's […]

After years of attacking networks such as Napster and Kazaa as havens where young punks circumvent copyright laws and download illegal music files that they then share with their friends, killing an artist's ability to make a decent living, music industry veterans have started to actually support downloading music online. Why the about face? Why […]

If you're anything like me, you've recently been feeling like a victim of the multiplex. You buy your tickets, hoping for entertainment, but after leaving the theater, you feel only loss.Never again will you get those two hours and $7 back. Your efforts would be better spent reading a book, but who wants to waste […]

Todd Lowery, current director of music at Gunma Kokusaid Academy in Japan, visited the Eastman School of Music Education and Arts Leadership Program students this week to discuss teaching abroad. Lowery graduated from Eastman with Bachelor's degrees in both Performance and Music Education and a Master's in Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media. After teaching music […]

On Jan. 18, Eastman School of Music chamber music students observed school-aged children actively listening to an excerpt from Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time." The Antares Quartet performed this and other contemporary selections, engaging both their young audience and older observers. The Antares Quartet includes violinist Vesselin Gellev, cellist Rebekka Patterson, clarinetist Garrick […]

Students of Professor Robert McIver presented a benefit performance in memory of the esteemed Professor William McIver on Friday, Jan. 21. The program featured Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Serenade to Music" and Warren Martin's "The True Story of Cinderella." All proceeds from the concert were donated to the William McIver Memorial Scholarship Fund. This fund will […]

All through your high school years, you worked hard to get good grades, studied and endured the Scholastic Aptitude Test and managed one too many extracurricular activities - all in order to send prospective colleges a wonderful rsum. Finally, you've made it to UR, a place that will help launch your professional life. It's time […]

In seventh grade, my friend sold me his used Sega Genesis and games for $23, to be paid in installments. Although my parents wouldn't let me hook the Sega up to the television until I raised my grades, it was still exciting to know that I finally had a video game system inside my house. […]

I began rushing a fraternity in October of 2001 without considering living in a fraternity house. Over the course of my freshman year, I frequented the Delta Upsilon house. It quickly became apparent to me what it is that separates the experience of living in a residential fraternity from living in the dormitories - a […]

Saturday's snow storm could not stop the UR men's and women's swimming and diving fans from coming out to see the last home meet of the season against both SUNY Fredonia and McMaster University. The men edged out McMaster, 130-127, and solidly overcame Fredonia 167-85. "Facing two different teams gave us more of a challenge […]