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Athlete of the Week: Michael Peacock
Anyone who has attended a men's soccer game this year has undoubtedly heard the booming voice of junior goalkeeper Michael Peacock echoing throughout the stadium. Peacock has been a rock in the backfield for the 'Jackets this season.The financial economics major from Rochester has limited his opponents to scoring, on average, just 0.51 goals per […]
Two women qualify for Nationals after regional contest
This weekend, both the men's and women's cross country teams competed at the NCAA Atlantic Region Cross Country Championships hosted by St. Lawrence University.The women placed ninth out of 30 teams with 245 points. Junior Sadie Gollub and freshman Lauren Norton were selected to run in the NCAA Division III National Championships.Gollub finished in 18th […]
From the Pressbox
Most of us have been playing and watching sports in at least some capacity since we were too young to go to kindergarten. They take up a huge chunk of our lives for being just elaborate games. Hey, just look at the Campus Times about a quarter of it is dedicated to sports each week. […]
Lisa Lampanelli talks Courtney Love and the Ivy League
Beginning her stand-up career in the early '90s, shock comic Lisa Lampanelli has performed on everything from 'The Howard Stern Show" to roasts of Pamela Anderson, Denis Leary and William Shatner. She has released DVDs including 2005's 'Take it Like a Man" and 2007's 'Dirty Girl... No Protection." In 2008, she was nominated for a […]
Music group does the cat walk ?Project Ramblers? style
How do you describe a night of 'Project Runway," cross-dressing and a cappella? Wildly entertaining.On Saturday Nov. 15, when I arrived in Strong Auditorium at about 7:20 p.m. for the Midnight Ramblers' fall show, scheduled to start at 8 p.m., the theater was already nearly one-third full. My friends and I were astonished at how […]
Ballet Performance Group stars in show
I am sure many of us like to blast our latest iTunes playlists and dance around the room. I know at least I do. Though I am not the best dancer, there are many great dancers in Ballet Performance Group. This past Friday, BPG held its semester show in Strong Auditorium titled, 'Forever on the […]
MAG brings Russian history to Rochester
If you can spare a few moments from cramming for midterms or have a pronounced love for all things Russian, it would be very much worth your time to take a trip to the Memorial Art Gallery to peruse its main exhibit, 'Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs" and its […]
Supporting the U.S. troops, one garbage plate at a time
From the outside looking in, garbage plate-eating contests, dance-offs and four-legged relay races probably don't seem like they are serving much purpose; but from the inside looking out, you need only to justify these actions with three simple words: 'Support the Troops."'When you look around campus, it's not that students don't want to support the […]
Converted Chevy showroom makes for a comfortable caf
It's been years since the building at 200 East Avenue traded in its Chevrolet Corvettes and Impalas for cappuccinos and mochas. Still, everyone who walks into SPoT Coffee today pays a small tribute to this former Chevrolet showroom with a catch of their breath and a sweep of their eyes up and over the expansiveness […]
Going the distance with alternative fuel sources
With a climate crisis at hand and our country's strong dependence on foreign oil, we are at a turning point. Many potential solutions have been raised and debated, some more realistic than others. One of the more feasible methods for decreasing the use of standard oil products is the process of taking conventional diesel engines […]