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The largest UR Career and Internship Connection fair will be held in New York City on November 7th. Over 30 organizations, including JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers and the NYC Office of Management and Budget will be participating in the career and internship fair."This is the biggest fair yet," Career Center Director Burt Nadler said. […]

For the second year in a row, a group of UR students won first place in the American Association of Artificial Intelligence robot contest held in August in Acapulco, Mexico. UR also tied for third place in the Robot Rescue competition, where a robot maps a chaotic environment while attempting to find human "casualties."Led by […]

After almost a year of talks, a wage settlement has been reached between UR and Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union Health Care Employees and SEIU Local 200 United. The settlement follows a case brought to the National Labor Relations Board and a U.S. District Court, with the grievance of workers not receiving […]

Several campus student groups were recently forced to comply with modified fire safety regulations initiated by Governor Pataki's Executive Order 103, a move toward stronger fire prevention on college and university campuses.Executive Order 103 establishes a Campus Fire Safety Task Force which was established after a January 2000 dorm fire at Seton Hall University in […]

This weekend, students, parents, alumni and faculty will converge on campus for the fourth annual Meliora Weekend. This year, major speakers include Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, and New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.Assistant Director for Alumni and Student Relations Jennifer Linton said that registration - currently around 5,000 - is […]

The UR Sorority and Fraternity Review Committee held its first meeting on Friday. The committee, which has been charged with reevaluating the mission of the Greek community at UR, was started this year to help deal with recent problems and make sure that fraternities and sororities are able to contribute to the community at The […]

Get ready to enter a goth-punk world of mayhem and blood feuds. A world in which vampires live to hunt werewolves and everyone wears different varieties of black clothing. This is the "Underworld."If you like slow, convoluted plots and contrived dialogue, this movie is definitely a winner. If, on the other hand, you want a […]

At the beginning of the season, the men's soccer team made it their goal to win the UAA conference - a task that has eluded them in the past several seasons. Last Saturday, UR started conference play on the right step with a key 3-1 victory over Brandeis University outside of Boston.The Yellowjackets came into […]

If the usual multiplex fare is getting you down and you've already exhausted your options at the Little Theatre and Dryden, you're in luck. Rochester is having one of its many film festivals. The ImageOut Film Festival started Oct. 3, and continues through Oct. 12.Focusing on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender- themed cinema, 12 of […]

With the rise of New German Cinema after the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962, several young directors collectively thumbed their noses at the "traditional" German films produced by the Ministry of the Interior. Rainer Fassbinder, along with other influential directors including Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and Volker Schlndorff, boldly declared "Opas Kino ist tot" - Papa's […]