Archives - CT Staff

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 […]

Playing three games in five days, most teams experience let downs, whether it is emotionally, physically or mentally, in a tough scenario like that. However, UR's men's soccer team is not like most teams. The Yellowjackets are better, more experienced and able to use lots of guys to compensate for those types of let downs. […]

The Students' Association Senate formed a new committee to examine the current policy towards funding politically involved student organizations, on Sept. 13.According to existing SA bylaws, supporting political parties or candidates makes a student organization ineligible for funding."The Political Finance Committee will try to figure out what is meant by the term 'political,'" Committee Chairman, […]

This year's ESPY Awards brought to light one of the most powerful sports stories of our generation. Sadly, it is also one of the least known. Maybe a few of you soccer diehards have heard of George Weah before he received this year's Arthur Ashe Award - for work that transcends sports. For those who […]

UR's energy was put to the test during a dramatic seesaw battle in which the St. John Fisher Cardinals secured a 38-34 win over the Yellowjackets with a late-game fourth-quarter touchdown. "The atmosphere of the game was intense," junior linebacker Ray Finocchio said of the crowd of roughly 4,000. "You could feel the crowd's energy […]

The Yellowjackets approached Wednesday night's game against Nazareth College with a 1-1 record stemming from a dominating win over SUNY Oswego on Sept. 4 and a 2-0 loss to the nationally-recognized SUNY Cortland Red Dragons on Sept. 8. "We're a pretty young team," Head Coach Michelle Andre said, "but [we have] lots of talent." Of […]

An American music icon was honored at Eastman on Sept. 9. Eastman Place, across from the Eastman School of Music on Gibbs Street, was renamed the Miller Center after Mitch Miller and his family. Miller is not only an Eastman graduate from the class of 1932, but is also a native of Rochester.He renamed Eastman […]

Considering it costs more than $30,000 a year to attend the Eastman School of Music, $60 a semester may not seem like a big deal to some students. Others, however, realize just how many packages of noodles they could get at the closest Wegmans for this amount of money. What exactly, then, is this "activity […]

Please publish the following letter in your paper. I can be reached at 212-683-9000, or 917-251-0024. Home address 36-44 Crescent St. Long Island City, NY 11106. I'm writing to at least one paper from each state. Thanks for your help. Sallie Mae the biggest loan lender, and one of the biggest companies in the U.S. […]

Tony Scott, as a burgeoning pundit, you're a discredit to your ilk. Are you implying you haven't made up your mind about your choice for President? In this, what some call the most polarizing election in history, you've cast your lot in with the small slice of fickle undecideds who must have slept through the […]