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Eurotrip' seeks continent, chicks
With all the hype about Oscar season's chokehold on mass media, it is good to see a movie get back to film fundamentals - incessant nudity, boozing, raunchy behavior and punch lines that leave no sex joke unturned. Adhering to the ever-popular genre of teen sex romps, such as "American Pie," "Eurotrip" - from the […]
Sex' leaves, women unsatisfied
Sunday nights have been forever altered. My Sundays consisted of me planning my entire day around that precious half hour when time stood still. For that half hour, four women completely held my attention. For six years they have made us laugh, cry and believe that we, too, had the skill to run around Manhattan […]
Democrats demonstrate hypocrisy with Nader
Well, in case you were wondering the "Green Monster" is back. No, I'm not talking about Fenway Park - and let's face it, the only thing that park will be seeing is Alex Rodriguez's baseballs hitting off the side of it. Ralph Nader has announced he will run for president in 2004 on a third-party […]
Dining improves
Despite any complaints that students may have about ARAMARK and Dining Services, they have always shown that they are willing to listen to suggestions and take every request seriously. As such, they are always looking for ways to improve dining services on the campus.The changes that ARAMARK and Dining Services announced for the coming school […]
Oscar Predictions
Game time, baby. Professing to have absolutely no expertise in the field, I'm here to give some Oscar predictions. Actor in a Leading RoleFirst off, I have a cripplingly huge bias towards "Lost in Translation." I don't know - I guess I'm just a troubled youth trying to find his place in a big, scary […]
Banff conveys 'mountain culture'
The Banff Film Festival made its annual stop in Rochester on Feb. 23, at Snow Country Sports. According to Banff representative Courtney Scott, the objective of the Festival is to convey to its viewers a sense of "mountain culture." This usually means presenting films concerned with outdoor sports, but the films also sometimes relate to […]
Persistence leads to trials shaping life for good
Nearly everyone has, at one point in their life, faced trials and tribulations in their everyday living. These life-altering events have undoubtedly shaped, molded and formed their views of the world, and have greatly influenced their values and beliefs in the process. They also have a lasting lifelong impact, be it positive or negative, and […]
Jackson not sweating rights of workers
I wish to comment on President Jackson's policy on the university's position on joining the Worker's Right's Consortium. His justifications for not joining are incomplete, misleading and not wholly accurate. Between 1999 and 2001 the student movement known as "No Sweat" mobilized a significant portion of the campus to ask that the university join the […]
From the pressbox
The recurring theme of the preeminence of sexuality in sports was brought up yet again in the news with the University of Colorado football sex scandal. Seven women have recently come forward to assert that they had been raped by Colorado football players or recruits, in various incidents since 1997. Now the university is investigating […]
Mutant mouse' quest conquered
A team of scientists from UR and the University of Melbourne, in Australia, are working together to create a new "mutant mouse" that could one day help to cure a series of rare diseases that affect young children.Director of UR Transgenic Facility Carl Pinkert and Ian Trounce from the University of Melbourne teamed up a […]