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Security Update
An unidentified suspect reportedly stole a bag from the counter area in the computer store in Fauver Stadium, according to UR Security.The incident occurred at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 30, according to Security. The bag had been left momentarily unattended by a staff member.The staff member reportedly went to another area of the store to […]
Video service available at UR
UR recently partnered with Cdigix, a digital media service provider that caters exclusively to colleges. The Cflix online video broadcast service that Cdigix offers will provide students with the ability to legally download movies onto their computers. The decision to partner with Cdigix comes a year after UR's partnership with online music service provider Napster, […]
Fire code requires changes, upgrades
As the New York State fire code has tightened, many students and groups have had to change their routines and upgrade their buildings to meet the new higher standards. Director of Residential Life Logan Hazen has worked to inform students of the new rules. "We know it's coming," he said. "We were hoping to get […]
Free, fair trade argued
About 150 students, faculty and community members gathered for "World Trade: Free or Fair," a panel discussion organized by the UR "Make Trade Fair" campaign, in Hoyt Auditorium last night.The five panelists tried to "distinguish rhetoric from reality" as moderator and Chair of the History Department Theodore Brown noted. After an introduction by junior Sam […]
Court derails UR patent bid
UR's lengthy litigation against Pfizer, Inc., marketers of cox-2 inhibitor drug Celebrex, came to an end on Nov. 29 when the Supreme Court declined without comment to hear the university's appeal. The denial of UR's petition upholds a summer ruling by a federal appeals court that invalidated the university's method patent covering processes used to […]
AIDS conference is informative
Bobbie Bryant, from Action for a Better Community, spoke with students at the Ruth Merrill Center about the effects of HIV/AIDS in our community on Nov. 30. The discussion took place on the eve of National AIDS Day. With recent statistics showing that the number of people living with HIV or AIDS has risen to […]
Entrepreneurial Take Five program started
The first "Kauffman Take Five Entrepreneurial Year" will be available, only to seniors, starting Fall 2005. The new program will be funded by the $3.5 million grant awarded to UR by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City in Dec. 2003."What we're looking for is people who will use their Take Five year to […]
Campus Briefs
UR buys old Wegmans buildingUR bought the empty Wegmans building on Mt. Hope Avenue within walking distance of campus this past September. Although the long-term use of the building has yet to be decided, it is being used for a number of short-term purposes such as parking and "swing space" for the UR Medical Center."Wegmans […]
Humiliation treasured
From fifth through eighth grades, I managed to acquire acne, braces and a sinus infection that lasted more than six months and eventually required surgery to correct. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a real dork, because I knew how to make a joke about the fat girl's elastic pant waist to the skinny popular […]