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The women's hockey team is playing a more difficult schedule this year and, as a result, is not winning as often. However, the tougher competition has allowed the team to improve greatly in just its third year.Last weekend, UR split two road games to improve to 3-7. The Yellowjackets lost to the University of Massachusetts […]

After finishing the regular season with an 16-9 overall record, the women's basketball team will have a chance to defend its Upstate East Coast Athletic Conference Championship this weekend at the Louis Alexander Palestra.UR was awarded the privilege of hosting the tournament despite receiving the second seed in a four-team field after the No. 1 […]

My eyes were glued to the TV last Thursday night, and along with the rest of the country, my heart sank when 21-year old Olympian Michelle Kwan fell out of her jump and onto the ice. The tension was thick and the anticipation was high for the rest of the women's ice-skating event. In the […]

The women's track team rebounded from a poor showing last year to break three school records at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships last weekend at St. Lawrence University's Newell Field-house.UR earned 40 points and posted a strong sixth-place finish in the 15-team field.The Ithaca College women's team edged St. Law-rence 131-128, successfully […]

Men's club hockey dominated its final game at the Genesee Valley Park ice skating arena Thursday night outshooting Syracuse University 62-24. The overwhelming shots on goal advantage did not translate into victory, however, as the fourth-seeded Yellowjackets were upset by the fifth-seeded Orangemen 7-3 in the first round of the Eastern Collegiate Hockey League championships."We […]

Is your life stressful? Exams and papers getting to you? Are you finally fed up with your messy, annoying roommate? Has your closeted-gay boyfriend broken up with you for the third time this week while you were engaged in a campus-wide hunt for your AWOL chinchilla?That's all well and good, but we all know that […]

Hello from the UR Study Abroad program in Arezzo, Italy. What I want to illustrate is that study abroad is not meant to be simply an extension or appendage of private education.One of the purposes of study abroad is to reaffirm, and to some extent resurrect, one of the core beliefs of our educational system […]

All hail the queen of teen angst! The woman who always got the last laugh in her break-ups by stabbing them with her blatant, sharp lyrics, Alanis Morrisette comes back with her third American full-length release to tell us about wrong-doing lovers and general sessions of emotional outbursts.How can one forget the power that "Jagged […]