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Love and uncertainty
"Go, if you want to / I never tried to stop you" sings Robert Smith, lead singer of the soul-searching, alternative mood rock band The Cure, as wistful guitar lines wail over eerie distortion effects. I've listened to this song, "End of the World," many times before, however I've never been able to relate to […]
UR goes for RecycleMania victory
Starting on Jan. 28, UR will participate in an epic but friendly competition on a scale that it has never before known. It will involve the participation and focus of students, faculty and staff, all working together for 10 weeks. The goal will be simple: to make UR's per-student recycling output the highest of the […]
Indoor track qualifies in 8 events
After an intensive week and a half of training during winter break, the women's track and field team competed at last weekend's invitational at Rochester Institute of Technology. Though it was a non-scoring meet, the women came away with Eastern College Athletic Conference qualifications in six events, bringing the total number of qualifications to nine."This […]
Swim trip to Ohio results in two wins
The UR swimming and diving teams each came home from Case Western Reserve University with a win on Saturday, but the way the teams took care of business could not have been more different. The women dominated Case, winning by a score of 145-92, while the men won the final event of the day to […]
Life, Love… Sport
Welcome back dear readers! You are reading Life, Love? Sport (interesting stories from the Super Bowl Edition). Today we will try to uncover the stories that have not yet been reported by the mainstream media. For example, did you know that the backup to the backup to the backup of Hunter Smith, the Colts punter, […]
Security Update
A man who was one time associated with UR was observed attempting to download a movie onto his computer in the ITS Center in Rush Rhees Library, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.The movie was a copyrighted motion picture, and therefore, the download was illegal.He departed from the library before officials could arrive, but […]
URMC programs get funding from GRHF
The UR Medical Center received more than $1 million from the Greater Rochester Health Foundation in the form of Opportunity Grants for five of its programs relating to health care and the community. These are the first awards to be given out by the Foundation since its inception in 2006."The University of Rochester has a […]
Greek life recognized nationally
The new Fraternity and Sorority System at UR was awarded the Grand Bronze Excellence Award by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. The third place award was in the Student Union, Student Activities, Greek Life, Leadership category and will be presented to the University in April. In the opinion of many Greek Life leaders […]
Actor speaks about diversity
On Tuesday, Tony Award-winning actor B.D. Wong from NBC's Law and Order: SVU and HBO's Oz gave a speech in Hoyt Auditorium to a packed audience. His speech, entitled "All the World's a Stage: From Exclusion to Inclusion," not only detailed his hardships in life due to racial self-image, race-based rejection and diversity, but also […]
UR observes MLK day
Though UR has traditionally observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a week-long series of commemorative events, the past two years have been marked by the absence of students on the holiday itself due to the semester break. Next year, students will once again not be in class to mark the day created in remembrance […]
