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Take a half-dozen eunuchs, four ex-thieves, two soldiers, and one sex-starved inn owner and you have the cinematic tour de force that is "Dragon Inn." Filmed in beautiful rural China, our protagonists fight to the bitter end to preserve the power of the emperor in this most-famous of kung fu movies. Any aficionado can tell […]

Dandelion Day - the great day where students take a break from their work and celebrate the beautiful spring weather. This day is shrouded in the haze of time, as there's nobody left on campus who really remembers the first one which began in the slow return to normalcy of the post-World War II years.After […]

Aries (March 21-April 19) - While the stars indicate that your luck is good, any time it snows in March is a good sign someone or something has it out for you. I'd recommend that you stay indoors for the next couple weeks.Taurus (April 20-May 20) - Class registration is coming up, be kind to […]

April is National Poetry Month, and to honor it literary organizations across the country will be holding special events to celebrate poetry and its importance in American culture. Poetry has played an immense role in our history. If you don't think so, just look to some everyday examples like our national anthem. Written by Francis […]

In an artistic attempt to express opposition to the war with Iraq, Bread & Puppet, a puppet theater, performed Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in Hillside Lounge. Bread & Puppet, which originated in New York City and is now based in Vermont, travels around the world to address social justice issues.Wednesday's performance "Insurrection Mass with […]

After two years of service in the Students' Association Senate, Class of 2004 Senator Peter Ordal resigned last week.Ordal's departure was not a direct result of recent struggles within the student government and the All Campus Judicial Council rulings regarding elections. "As long as I've been on senate there have always been internal matters eating […]

With recent international affairs and the restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service into the Department of Homeland Security, new measures have been taken that affect international students at UR."They're generally tightening down on everything," Director of International Relations Cary Jensen said.Beginning as far back as the 1993 Trade Center bombing, new procedures were brought […]

Dean of The College William Green rejected a proposal to raise the student activities fee for next year -a proposal that was created by the Students' Association government. The proposal was to raise the fee by $25, increasing the amount collected by nearly $100,000."The status of student government is a little uneven at best," Dean […]

An undergraduate student was reportedly assaulted while walking to the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house on March 23 at approximately 4:20 a.m.Two members of a group of four persons crossed the fraternity quad from the sidewalk between the Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternity houses and struck the victim several times in the face. The […]

James Zavislan, an associate professor at the Institute of Optics, is currently working on a microscope that is able to image unprepared tissue with cellular resolution in order to uniquely identify immune cells. "I enjoy the scale of optics," Zavislan said. "Optics plays a role in all scales of the universe - from galaxies to […]