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The History of D-Day
UR is the only college in the United States to adopt a weed as its official emblem. Due to the abundance of the dandelion flower, the university officially established "dandelion yellow" as the school color in 1893. For years, the dandelion has adorned UR souvenirs, been designed into the architecture of buildings on campus and […]
From the pressbox
I've hit a plateau. All forward progress - writing aspirations, job hunting, showering and other basic hygiene - has ceased. I have completely stalled. My roommate has started dusting. Hell, if it weren't for e-mail, you wouldn't be reading this column. Admittedly, I didn't expect the obsession to reach this level. But am I upset […]
Track visits Roberts Wesleyan, Hamilton
The women's track and field team continued to roll toward the postseason on Saturday. The team split between meets at Hamilton College and Roberts Wesleyan College. Although both meets were non-scoring, the women clearly performed well, garnering several top finishes.Freshman Melinda Huang started the day off at Hamilton, placing fourth in the high jump with […]
Track steamrolls over the competition
The men's track and field team split up, with part of the team traveling to Hamilton College for the Hamilton Invitational and the remaining members staying closer to home at Roberts Wesleyan College last Saturday. For the second week in a row, the team competed in non-scoring meets. And once again it was a very […]
Men conclude regular season above .500
The UR men's tennis team ended the regular season on Friday April 16 with a record of 9-8 and a 2-0 conference record. UR played against Wesleyan College and New York University, winning both matches 5-1 and 4-2, respectively, on April 10.In their first outside match since Spring Break, the men won five of the […]
Baseball wins against eighth-ranked team
Coming off a 17-15 roller coaster loss, the Yellowjackets rebounded, pulling out a 9-8 win against SUNY Cortland. The win came in their final at-bats against the Red Dragons, the top-ranked team in the Eastern region on April 15.The missed opportunity was still looming as UR had given up a one-run lead in the top […]
The true value of learning in everyday life
Many people equate learning with an educational institution of some sort, be it grade school, high school, trade school or college. They usually equate it with spending a portion of their growing years in these institutions learning the basics of human survival, be it reading, writing and arithmetic or basic job skills. It is at […]
Superheroes in immortal peril
Superheroes are in serious trouble. Many people watch some of the movies but have never bought an issue of a comic book in their life, so that statement shouldn't be surprising. But as someone who has read comic books since "X-Men #1" in 1991, a recent change in my reading showed me that there's a […]
Letters to the Editor
As an alumnus of both UR and the CT, as well as the current editor of a weekly newspaper, I was extremely disappointed to read Editor Chadwick Schnee's admission that a March 25 editorial observer by Kim Gorode entitled "C-SPAN has a place too," plagiarized much of its content and language from a Baltimore Sun […]
New BME/Optics building should strive for eco-friendliness
Give me an L! Give me two E's! Give me a D! What does it spell? "LEED!"But what the heck does it mean, and perhaps more importantly, what does it have to do with a more familiar combination of letters, "UR?"Good questions.LEED is a term which some savvy students have recently been throwing around without […]