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"Jersey Girl" has a number of elements that should make viewers a little nervous before they see it. It's a romantic comedy, and in many ways is targeted more for the female audience. It stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, and we know what happened the last time they were cast together. It has the […]

My girlfriend is leaving this summer to get ready for graduate school. I am a junior and want to be supportive, but lately we have been getting in a lot of fights. My friends all say to dump her and have a free summer, but I don't know. What should I do?~Fed-up in FairchildDear Fed-up,Don't […]

Towers, the first coed residence halls at the university, were opened in 1963. Offering a new, unprecedented suite-style concept of living, Towers was a housing option for juniors and seniors who wanted to live in small, single-sex groups of six students. Suites were arranged coed by floor, with the top two floors of each tower […]

With registration for fall 2004 classes underway, many students have already selected their course load. However, if you couldn't get into Studio Art 151, "Introduction to Digital Art," you may be at a loss as to what other classes are available yet unique and set apart from, say, an introductory biology course. The Undergraduate Course […]

Affirmative action, which recently has become so controversial on campus that groups on both sides of the issue have called for immediate judicial and administrative action against the other sides, is not practiced on campus."I don't define [what we do] as affirmative action," Director of Minority Student Affairs Norman Burnett said. "We support diversity in […]

Last night, the Elections Committee disqualified Students' Association presidential candidate and junior Ilana Kaplan-Shain following numerous alleged by-law infractions. As a result of her dismissal, the Elections Committee decided to nullify this past week's SA presidential election in order to give all students a fair opportunity to vote for one of the three remaining candidates. […]

The lecture "Why Quantum Computing?" explained the theories of quantum mechanics behind a recently developed imaging system and the possible resolution of a paradox first proposed by Einstein. Assistant Professor of Physics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Physics John Howell made the presentation and discussed his work."We showed that Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen were not correct […]

Last night, unofficial results of the Students' Association Senate race were made available. A total of ten senators for the 2004-05 academic year were elected by 1,282 undergraduate students."I was really happy with the turnout," SA President and senior Chris Calo said of the vote.Two senators per class year will be welcomed to SA Senate […]

This week, River Campus students headed to the polls to elect members for their 2004 - 05 Students' Association. In several weeks, members of the Eastman student body will be doing the same.The College of Arts and Sciences and Eastman are the two schools under the umbrella organization that is UR. Yet the majority of […]

The Eastman Opera Theatre and the Eastman Philharmonia, conducted by Benton Hess, presented Steven Diagle's production of Carlisle Floyd's opera "Susannah" last Thursday. The program and posters widely advertised the topics of this "American opera - hypocrisy, lies and betrayal." However, the work deals with ever-important issues such as personal treachery, dishonesty and maliciousness, and […]