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I?ve figured out college
There is a shifting point in most people's college experience; a point where one goes from-new to-campus and blindly following the large crowds of also confused freshmen, to being the one who is directing the large crowd to a known destination. This shift happens for most people at varying times in their college careers. It […]
How not to burn a grilled cheese
A few weeks ago, I decided that I would put my suite's kitchen to use and make myself a culinary classic a grilled cheese sandwich. The result of these best-intentioned efforts, however, turned out not to be a golden brown and melty sandwich, but rather billows of smoke, a burnt table cloth, a ruined pan, […]
Standing up to don?t ask don?t tell
Lieutenant Dan Choi's mother responded in confusion when her son told her that he was gay.'She said to me, "I love you... but gay doesn't exist,'" Choi recalled to an attentive crowd that filled the seats of Hubbell Auditorium on Friday night during the 'Battling Don't Ask, Don't Tell" event, sponsored by 11 UR organizations.The […]
Take-out Chinese proves delicious
Ming's is located on South Clinton Avenue in the Swillburg Neighborhood (which was named back in the 19th century when George Goebel ran one of Rochester's prominent pig farms and collected garbage of swill for the pig's feed. Just a fun fact, but no worries, there's no garbage there nowadays!).The restaurant advertises itself as a […]
Cross country bike trip aims to alleviate housing crisis
He will be part of the Bike and Build Program, a nonprofit organization which sends out several hundred young people to benefit poverty housing across the country through fundraising raising awareness of the problem and building projects. Seghal will be biking from Providence, R.I. all the way to San Francisco, Calif. an average of 70 […]
Sexual health fair offers sex tips and free chocolate
All this and more awaited students last Thursday in Hirst Lounge in Wilson Commons.UR's fourth annual 'Sex and Chocolate," hosted by University Health Services Health Promotions Office, featured representatives from AIDS Rochester, The Gay-Straight Alliance, students from the HLS 216: Peer Health Advocacy class here on campus, as well as a local sex shop, to […]
Online marketplace offers possibilities
It's really a steal too bad I already took calc. I also did a quick survey of other handy textbook Web sites, e.g. Amazon, Ebay, Alibris, even the UR Bookstore, and none of them offered a better price. That free online calculus text costs more than $200 new and $162.85 used at the UR Bookstore. […]
Satisfy yourself with sake and samurais
However, one of my favorite genres is the samurai movie. Some excellent movies to watch are mostly the ones starring Japan's equivalent to Clint Eastwood: Toshiro Mifune. His works with Akira Kurosawa are some stellar pieces of cinematography. 'Yoshiro," 'Sanjuro" and 'Seven Samurai" are amazing movies and 'Mifune" is a total bad-ass. Thus, it would […]
Security Update
Thievery on the Frat Quad: Delta Kappa Epsilon flag nabbedIn the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 25, an unidentified individual shimmied up one of the front columns of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house and proceeded to remove the fraternity's flag from where it hung in front of the house, according to UR Security Director […]
Economic growth spurs cooperation
The transformation and development on the west side of the Genesee River has been a gradual process. Boarded up shops have been dismantled and replaced with modern commercial storefronts. About 400 UR undergraduates now call Riverview Apartments in the Plymouth-Exchange (PLEX) neighborhood, home, while UR financial services, human relations and an employment center now occupy […]