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Biodiesel wins national award
The efforts of UR students to find a solution to a common environmental obstacle were rewarded when their project, UR Biodiesel, received the Excellence in Innovations for Sustainability Award by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI).UR Biodiesel is a project created by undergraduate students to turn extra fryer oil from dining service centers into […]
Setting better priorities than Joe Stack
Two weeks ago, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer, posted his suicide note in the early morning, lit his home on fire and left to fly his airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Why did he do it? Beyond the faith that we put in government control of our money, the answer to […]
There's no business like snow business
Mt. Everest sits as the tallest peak in the world, reaching a height of 29,029 feet. Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa sits at a mighty 19,341 feet. And UR, sitting in lovely Rochester, N.Y. (the 12th snowiest city in the United States), at a mere 520 feet above sea level, has one thing in common with […]
Bipartisanship is an unattainable objective
Anyone following politics today has probably noticed the bitter partisanship and ideological intensity preventing any sort of agreement in Washington. Some people wish we could go back to the days of parties working together flawlessly as U.S. representatives first and partisan hacks second. But there is one big problem. Historical trends have culminated in this […]
Sports stadiums: Who should bear the costs?
Due to the economic recession, some state and city governments are cutting spending on essential public services such as education and mass transit. Yet in major sports venues across the United States, tax dollars are being used to subsidize the costs of building stadiums for professional teams.According to the Daily News, the sports stadium for […]
ECACs next after successful meet
Last weekend both the men's and women's track teams raced to great success at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships for indoor track and field at Rochester Institute of Technology.The women's team placed second out of nine participating teams. The team took three first place finishes junior Jacqueline Cinella in the 800-meter run, […]
Win finalizes season
As the final game of the season comes and goes for the men's basketball team, hopes arise for the possibilities of the next chapter of the team's basketball career.'We will learn from our mistakes this year and be better off next year for it," junior guard Mike Labanowski said. 'I am really excited about the […]
Women?s basketball rolls into NCAAs
May it never be said of the 2009-10 women's basketball team that they fail to bring some drama to the court. Many of the games this season have been marked by reversals of fortune and when the games matter most, those turnarounds have been the most pronounced.Three months ago, when UR took on Emory University's […]
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Sports figures held to unrealistic standards
When the clock finally ran down, and the New Orleans Saints were crowned the winners of Super Bowl XLIV, the crowd went wild and most people cheered that the underdog team had carried the day. As the enchanted spectators started dancing in the confetti-infested dome, one picture from the memorable game stood out Drew Brees […]