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Welcome back folks! It's that time of year again. The time when the Kansas City Royals attempt to not lose 100 games, the Arizona Cardinals fool everyone by winning their first game, dads get sent to jail for beating up little kids at football games and track stars run the hundred yard dash in three […]
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WRUR signs partnership contract
Campus radio station WRUR announced the signing of a five-year contract with local NPR affiliate WXXI to expand a partnership between the stations that is designed to attract more listeners and expand the programming on both."This is a rare opportunity for UR," Vice President of Communications Bill Murphy said. "To have a student-run organization operating […]
Security Update
A Rochester man was taken into custody by Rochester police near deKiewiet Tower on Tuesday, according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty. Willie Clark, 42, was first observed acting strangely near a bike rack and UR Security was notified, prompting officers to stop the man for questioning.After being stopped by security, Clark was discovered to […]
Car-sharing program begins
On Tuesday, UR became one of 33 colleges and universities nationwide to provide a car-sharing service known as Zipcar. The program makes four cars available for all UR community members to borrow. The cars are available for all students 19 years old and older. UR's program is unique in that it is one of four […]
Freshman overload UR
Over a quarter of this year's freshman class had to get to know more than one roommate as they moved in to their new dorm room this year. UR's largest freshman class to date has forced Residential Life to house dozens of first year students in triples and 20 students in quadruples."We always formalize the […]
Deaths stun student body
"Few tragedies are quite as saddening for a university community as the death of one student. The loss of four only compounds our terrible sense of grief," President Joel Seligman wrote to the University community on Aug. 9 after hearing news of the recent deaths of two UR alumni, Krystle Dixon '05 and Steven J. […]
Two Rush Rhees departments merge
The Management and Government Documents departments of Rush Rhees Library have merged and are now located in a room off of the Martin Messenger Reading Room on the second floor. The old Management Library is being converted into a staff room as part of a renovation made possible by donations from the Gleason Foundation.This merger […]
Housing crunch also felt by upperclassmen
Residential Life experienced a severe shortage of housing units while attempting to place upperclassmen in on-campus housing for the fall semester. The shortage was caused by an unusually large sophomore class and a high percentage of seniors returning to reside on campus."The University has done a good job in advertising [itself] as a residential campus," […]
No sophomore slump for the Format
The Format was started in 2002 in Peoria, AZ, when two friends, singer Nate Ruess, and multi-talented instrumentalist Sam Means began writing songs together. Later that year, they released their first EP and, sure enough, they scored themselves a deal for a full-length follow-up to be released on Elektra Records. Their 2003 effort, "Interventions and […]
