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Students pack Drama House for "Rumors" performances
To be perfectly honest, I don't think that I've been to a theatre since I saw "The Nutcracker" in fifth grade. Like most children of that age, I had a terrible allergic reaction to the long bouts of inaction, the seeming lack of plot as well as the general lack of interest to many of […]
Women's hoops crushes two to enter Sweet 16
The women's basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 this past weekend after topping St. Lawrence University on Friday night and SUNY Cortland on Saturday. The 'Jackets (22-5) are heading to Scranton, Pa., where they will face the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, Bowdoin College. Prior to the start of the […]
Bathroom newsletter displays gender distinction
Students have probably noticed the University Health Service Health Promotion Office's "The Monthly InSTALLment" plastered in public bathrooms across campus. Students may have also noticed that the March 2007 "InSTALLment" is double-sided, with one side entitled "Wellness for UR Women" and the opposite side entitled "Men's Health." Both sides make a point of educating students […]
City Cycles program soon to be reinstated
After folding last August due to thefts, City Cycles will be reinstated this spring with the support of Students' Association funding. "We hope to launch the program in time for spring, and we expect that the student body will receive it very well," Students' Association Senator, Projects and Services Committee member and sophomore Mike Furlani […]
Thomas delivers speech
Helen Thomas, United Press International's White House correspondent for more than 50 years, spoke Tuesday night to a full crowd in Hubbell Auditorium as the keynote speaker of Women's History Month. Her message to the audience, which incorporated the women's right movement, the civil rights movement, the Iraq War and the War on Terror, was […]
Wu deals with energy
David Wu, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UR, has developed a way of considerably boosting the bacterium Clostridium thermocellum's ability to produce ethanol.Ethanol, which has been touted of late as the solution to the world's energy needs, is often referred to as "corn oil" by supporters of the quest for renewable […]
Distinguished pianist performs original composition
Last Sunday, Feb. 25, the Eastman Philharmonic joined in concert with Barry Snyder, a favorite of both Rochester and Eastman and an internationally awarded pianist, to perform at the majestic Eastman Theatre. The night marked the premiere of the piece "Shifting Trek," a concerto composed by Eastman alumni Sydney Hodkinson. Born in Manitoba, Canada, and […]
Campus arts through the eyes of a UR artist
At an impromptu sushi dinner at the Plum House on Monroe Ave., senior Julian Klepper and I sat down to converse about the artistic scene at UR. Klepper, an award-winning filmmaker, placed first in the Auckland Student Film Festival for his film titled "Life Accelerated." The plot was a fictitious dramatic comedy about his journey […]
Concert trip tough on ears
You don't know cold until you've stood outside Douglass in the middle of February, wearing a tank top, with shoulders clad in just-washed hair that's hardened into poetic looking but awkwardly rough icicles. That marked the beginning of my experience at the Gym Class Heroes concert last Friday night, as I stupidly decided that bringing […]
Jewish holiday Sukkot offers important lesson
The other day, I was talking to my sister Valerie, currently a high school senior, about her impending entrance into college. It turns out that Valerie is nervous about fitting into a liberalized institution of higher learning after being (in her words) trapped within the conservative confines of her parochial, all-Jewish high school. "Remind me […]
