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Dialogue
As letters, memos and e-mails circulate around campus reacting to the recent College Republicans' affirmative action bake sale, the Black Students' Union has responded by organizing a dialogue on the topic of affirmative action, inviting all SA groups to attend. This dialogue is only one of many recent and upcoming dialogues about issues of university-wide […]
Campus Briefs
Sophomore Jeff Ellsworth and senior Kenneth Valero sponsored a discussion on rising UR tuition costs in the Welles-Brown room yesterday. This was in conjunction with their CAS 230 Conflict Resolution class, which is co-taught by Dean of Students Jody Asbury and Director of University International Relations Cary Jensen. About 15 people attended the event, including […]
Rome burns as Nero laughs
Trumpets have heralded rises of glory and downfalls of greatness. Today, the trumpets are at full blast. Each is a deafening blow declaring the end of Pax Americana. It is not the first time these warnings have been sounded, but it is indeed the last.Our Rome is ablaze and our Nero sits upon the hill […]
Cell phones enthrall the easily distracted
The battle has subsided. The two difficult, painful years I spent under the rule of my old cell phone - a heinous call-dropper and diabolical voice-scrambler - have passed. What has replaced it is a phone like no other - a meta-phone of sorts, created by NASA engineers to control satellites and text message each […]
Gary Cox receives award
Gary Cox, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, received the William H. Riker prize on April 2. UR held a ceremony in the Welles-Brown room of Rush Rhees Library to present the prize. "Bill Riker, were he alive today, would be immensely pleased to have Gary Cox win […]
URMC recognized for strong performance
The Strong Memorial Hospital, a part of Strong Health, was recently ranked as one of the 100 Top Performance Improvement Leaders under the Major Teaching Hospitals category. The rankings were conducted by Solucient, a company that maintains the nation's largest health care database from over 2,900 hospitals and powers health care decisions for providers and […]
Baseball bludgeons Medaille
Head Coach Joe Reina was just looking for a chance for his team to get a game in. "It's been rough. We've been able to practice, but it was important to get out and hit the ball and play, just to let us iron some kinks out before conference play," Reina said after his team's […]
Crew increases cool by a factor of four
Our second race of the year was the UAA Championship in the Indianapolis. The location is significant because it is roughly 577 miles away from Rochester. Our status as a Club precludes the use of airplanes and bullet trains, meaning we arrive at races via a van ride. In North Wales, there is a village […]
Golfers overcome bad weather
Another competitor loomed large on the final day at the McDaniel College Golf Invitationals at the Links at Gettysburg - the weather. Despite the conditions, the Yellowjackets finished second behind Wesley College of Delaware.Day one featured a rain-soaked golf course, but day two, with temperatures in the mid 30s and wind gusts up to 40 […]
Women compete in suburbia
Despite the inclement weather that has prevented the women's track and field team from practicing outside for much of the outdoor season, the women have continued to improve as the postseason rapidly approaches. Last weekend, they competed in the SUNY Brockport Invitational. Although the meet was non-scoring, the women continued their early season success.Junior Effuah […]