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From the Pressbox
Its use is as rampant in professional locker rooms as it is in college dorms. The benefits seem endless. It will give a football prospect coming out of college an extra burst of speed to lower his 40 time and subsequent draft position into the first round. It will help melt away the extra inches […]
Women 4th in NEWCHA
In the fourth season of the women's ice hockey club the team joined a newer, stronger conference. The team started playing in the Northeast Women's Collegiate Hockey Association -- an inaugural league that features seven teams including strong hockey schools such as Clarkson University and Syracuse University.UR started their season 0-6, but with three games […]
Men take their second straight trip to the NCAA tournament and look poised to make it all the way
In the wake of an easy 78-48 win against Carnegie Mellon University on Saturday and intense NCAA Division III Selection Sunday, the UR men's basketball team found itself set upon the road to the Division III National Championship for the second consecutive year.Seeded number one in the East Region, the Yellowjackets have earned a first […]
We Ken Do It
UR employee Travis Ichikawa and sensei Jose Rivera, members of the Rochester Kendo Club, display tactics in the Japanese form of fencing, Tuesday, March 4. A group of students invited the RKC to give a demonstration in the hopes of starting a kendo club at UR. RIT recently started a kendo club and every Ivy […]
Panel opens dialogue
The Welles-Brown Room was filled on Thursday at 7 p.m. with students, faculty, and community members eager to discuss the misperceptions and related problems facing student groups on campus."We are here to listen and learn about misconceptions in order to create a learned and open environment, not to prejudge," moderator Gladys Pedraza-Burgos said. "It is […]
Students join protests
Over a hundred shivering UR students gathered around the steps of Rush Rhees Library at noon on March 5, but while the temperature dropped, the students' debate on the pre-emptive war in Iraq was just heating up. Students for Social Justice in conjunction with the Rochester Campus Action Network and the UR branch of Amnesty […]
Approaching war in Iraq?
As a possible war with Iraq approaches, the international community has mixed reactions. On Tuesday it was announced that more troops will in fact be deployed to the gulf region. Currently, there are approximately 215,000 troops ready for combat, and another 60,0000 were sent in the most recent deployment."We're dealing with Iraq because the dictator […]
Senate elections void
The All-Campus Judicial Council released their decision Monday voiding the recent Senate elections, deeming them unconstitutional since not all students were able to vote. Further, junior and At-Large candidate Atul Gulati was disqualified for failing to follow election bylaws.The ACJC's decision stated that the online voting system prevented many students from voting and no clear […]
Democracy Matters makes impact on political dollars
UR students have joined together in an effort to change the way people run for elected office. They are part of an organization that's becoming more and more prominent on college campuses nationwide known as Democracy Matters.Democracy Matters focuses mostly on the "clean money" part of campaign finance reform, which means that they work to […]
Africa video series hosted on campus
The Frederick Douglass Institute for African-American studies continued its annual video series Wednesday with a showing of "Liberia: America's Stepchild." The video, which shows the history of Liberia from its founding to the recent civil war of the 1990s, fit in with this year's theme of focusing on the issues of Modern Africa. The showing […]