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In 1999, on an ordinary afternoon, music instructor Liz Shropshire was driving to the home of one of her piano students while listening to National Public Radio. Shropshire, who has over 20 years of experience in instructing emotionally troubled students from four to 60 years of age, had an illustrious career as a teacher in Los Angeles. But her afternoon went from ordinary to life altering after she heard one particular story that troubled her. The NPR news reporter was interviewing women who were thrown out of their homes in Kosovo and had to resort to living in refugee camps in Albania. The conditions of their homeland were abysmal — former president of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s minorities and the retaliatory NATO bombings left them husbandless and sonless. All that they had left were their firsthand youngest children and the clothes on their backs. Read More

Two UR undergrads, Meg Battin and Daniel Ludwig, formed the new non-profit UR Uganda. They will be spearheading a trip to Uganda this summer to help build a medical clinic, among other tasks. Read More

Just when you thought your sex life would get dull on the far-side of fifty, Sex expert Amelia Titus discusses an unconventional way to feel the love. Read More

Fashion guru Kelsey Burritt tells you why the fashion industry is not so tangible and oh so relevant. Read More

We entered the 1,000 Pillar Temple in Warangal and were blessed. The monk applied the red mark — the Kumkum ­— to our grimy, dirty, ignorant, American foreheads in this holy place. Read More

Timothy “Little Timmy” Garvey was found last Thursday after accidentally spending his entire freshman orientation lost in Wilson Commons. “I was just looking for Panda Express, and the next thing I knew, I was crossing all of these weird, confusing bridges,” Garvey said in an interview after his discovery. “It was so cold…” Garvey, a […]

Gabrielle Solis, (Eva Longoria) Parker, from “Desperate Housewives” made John Rowland’s (Jeff Metcalfe) being a handyman gardener look like the best vocation ever. All a young guy had to do was lounge luxriously in the sun, gently snip off rose thorns, and pass lemonade cups with his burly, sun-licked forearms. Seems like an easy way […]

Living in style has become a joke. The punch line is greatest on college campuses like our dear UR’s, where the school uniform appears to be a heather grey sweatshirt with leggings and Uggs. One of my friends once told me that Rochester is not New York City. Ignoring the statement’s surface blatancy, I think […]

A hard-working Rochesterian and former UR Dining employee is only four days away from fulfilling one of her dreams. On Monday Sept. 13, Erlande Exeart, 39, will finally be able to open her long imagined Caribbean bar and grill on 104 Platt Street at High Falls.  From catering in the Meliora, Eastman School of Music, […]

While many people say the best things in life are free, sometimes it doesn’t feel that way when you’re a college student. With increasing tuition, book fees and expensive nights out, college expenses can be overwhelming. Money management and financial planning are great ways to ensure you get the best bang for your buck throughout […]