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The City of Rochester is home of the Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bausch and Lomb, garbage plates and maybe, soon, UR faculty and staff.As of March 17, UR has been encouraging faculty and staff to buy homes in the city and not just its suburbs. In fact, seminars sponsored by Rochester City Living - […]

Three thefts occurred in Anderson Tower last week. In one incident, an unidentified suspect entered a secured room in Anderson Tower and stole a student's credit cards, several blank checks and $50 in cash.While she was canceling her credit cards, the victim was advised that one of her cards had been used in Irondequoit to […]

UR - along with 30 other members of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education - is participating in a survey regarding campus life."We're looking at how students spend their time," Director of Research at COFHE Anthony Broh said. "It's a way of providing context for administrators."As Dean of The College William Green mentioned in a […]

Michael Moore acknowledged his standing ovation Wednesday night by passing his recently won Oscar around the front row of Strong Auditorium. "This is the people's Oscar," Moore declared, speaking for the first time since his controversial acceptance speech on Sunday night. Moore, the well-known writer, director and political activist, spoke on the Bush administration, the […]

Students' Association Senator and sophomore Ilana Kaplan-Shain filed an appeal last Tuesday, contesting the All-Campus Judicial Council's decision to nullify the recent elections. This latest attempt to overturn ACJC's ruling was unsuccessful."I'm disappointed that they chose not to overturn their ruling, but I feel that the ACJC is a fair body," Kaplan-Shain said. "They chose […]

UR's Dandelion Day is being watched carefully this year, as concerns about drinking have led the Dean of Students' Office to question the nature of the event, particularly the drinking that goes on across campus. D-Day has been under some degree of scrutiny for several years. The event has been left off of the academic […]

A panel discussion was held Monday night in the Welles-Brown Room to discuss the differing opinions and issues concerning abortion.Jennifer Smith, the co-president of Amnesty International, organized the discussion and presented each of the speakers to the audience. "I was glad to see this issue being openly discussed in a way that let people hear […]

We live in fictitious times. We live in a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war Mr. Bush. Shame on you."Michael Moore's acceptance speech last Sunday at the Oscars was inappropriate. […]

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The most successful season in the history of UR women's basketball came to a close this weekend with two tough losses in the NCAA Div. III Tournament. In their first trip to the Final Four, UR suffered losses to eventual champion Trinity University of Texas in the semi-finals and the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire in […]