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UR Security officers were summoned to the Psi Upsilon fraternity house at 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 19 to break up an altercation in progress. Officers arriving on the scene located six individuals, all identified as undergraduates, who appeared to be involved in the incident, according to UR Security.Two of the individuals were YU members, according […]

At the start of the 2005-06 academic year, George Eastman House's Selznick School of Film Preservation will be offering a two year master's program in film preservation in conjunction with UR. The new program will build on the current 10-month certificate program by incorporating English and Film Studies classes at UR into the hands-on archive […]

The $57.5 million high-speed ferry service between Rochester and Toronto has been suspended after only three months of operation because of over $1.7 million in debt.In 2002, Governor George Pataki anticipated that the ferry would help revitalize Rochester, ultimately "boosting tourism, creating new jobs and establishing a quick and convenient transportation link with Canada." The […]

When the Inter-Campus Music Center moved into the house previously used by Alpha Delta Phi, they found a new paint job, new carpets on the floors of the rooms and many other improvements the Office of Residential Life made over the summer. But they also found a padlock over the door of the kitchen. Due […]

Despite some online voting problems, the Students' Association Senate and Freshman Class Council elections concluded Wednesday night. Elections ran from Monday through Wednesday night at a table in Wilson Commons and online."The results posted tonight are in no way final," Chief of Staff, Elections Committee Chair and sophomore Alex Pearlman said. "Due to some system […]

UR has fallen from 35th to 37th out of the best national universities since last year, according to a recent issue of the U.S. News and World Report. "In the grand scheme of things, there's some semblance of reality in the rankings," Provost of the University Charles Phelps said. "[But] they always have to pass […]

The UR volleyball team won two more games this past weekend, improving their record to 6-1 by winning four straight matches. UR beat SUNY Oswego 3-0 and pulled off a well-earned win over SUNY Geneseo 3-2 a few hours later.The win over Oswego was a cinch. In the end, the score was 30-11, 30-7, 30-15. […]

The men's tennis team started their fall season this past weekend at the Middlebury Invitational. The team faced formidable opponents, including defending champion Middlebury College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Drew University, Skidmore College and Colby College.Junior Josh Bruce-Black made it to the semifinals of singles Flight C, but failed to advance by losing to John […]

I have spent the last few days putting off writing this article simply because I could not think of an introduction. So now I'm resorting to the cop-out method of writing an introduction stating the fact that I don't have one. Have you ever used this method on papers? My favorite is starting papers off […]

UR baseball Head Coach Joe Reina took a few weeks off this summer teaching the sport in Japan as part of a program operated by Major League Baseball. This was Reina's second trip with the MLB Envoy program, the first being in the summer of 2002 in Germany. The MLB Envoy Program selects the game's […]