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Great Big Sea's intense whirlwind touring schedule finally brings them to Rochester for a Saturday, April 3 show at Water Street Music Hall with special guests, The Push Stars.They are promoting their seventh album, "Something Beautiful," which previously received high reviews in the Campus Times. They are known for their powerful live shows and their […]

Billed as a show featuring the Boston purveyors of funk and the local jam band of choice, Addison Grove Project, featuring The Niche, will play at Milestones tonight.The Niche will kick off the show at 9 p.m. This local band will be promoting their first CD, "Building Up," featuring songs about everything from urinal cakes […]

Mike Doughty, the former front man of the band Soul Changing, will be performing at Milestones on April 2 to promote his six-song EP "Rockity Rock."Doughty's solo effort is a drastic change from his stripped down, groove-obsessed roots with Soul Changing. Featuring little more than Doughty plucking on his acoustic guitar, his live show is […]

Women & politics discussedA panel discussion called "Women in Politics" was held in Dewey 1-101 on March 30. The panel addressed issues ranging from why female representatives remain scarce in government to the unique challenges and expectations that women face when they are elected.Members included Director of the Anthony Center for Women's Leadership Nora Bredes, […]

The Student Association Presidential debates were held last night in the Friel Lounge of Wilson Commons. The candidates debating were sophomore and SA Senator Matt Goldblatt, junior and Chief of Staff Ilana Kaplan-Shain, junior and Deputy Speaker of the Senate Pete Nabozny, and sophomore Dan Rudolph. All three candidates with leadership experience in student government […]

U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first ever recipient of the Nursing Health and Humanity Award from UR's School of Nursing, on March 26."Senator Clinton has been a tireless advocate for nurses and the practice of nursing," Dean of the School of Nursing Patricia Chiverton said in a press release. "She understands how important […]

35 professors sent a letter to President of the University Thomas Jackson, in response to last week's College Republican "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" protest. The letter, dated March 26 and signed by Associate Professor James Johnson and 34 publicly unidentified professors, was read in several classes this week along with Jackson's response.At the heart of […]

Recently, the All-Campus Judicial Council has ruled against Sigma Alpha Mu in connection with the theft of Christmas ornaments from Rochester neighborhoods, suspending the fraternity's housing privileges. This decision, unfortunately timed so that SAM cannot live as a group next year, comes in the wake of a similar action which prevented Alpha Delta Phi from […]

Last Friday's College Republican-hosted affirmative action bake sale elicited charged responses from students and university faculty alike, including a letter written by Professor James Johnson that was signed by 34 faculty members condemning the event in uncouched terms and demanding censure and punitive action from the university. In return, President Thomas Jackson defended the students' […]

The All-Campus Judicial Council made a preliminary recommendation yesterday that the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity should not live in their house on the Fraternity Quadrangle next year. The ruling came as the result of a Dec. 31 incident in which security officers found holiday decorations inside the SAM house that had been reported stolen from […]