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Reina steps up to the plate, leads the swing in UR baseball

The UR baseball squad will have a new skipper at the helm this season. Last May, Director of Athletics and Recreation George Vander-Zwaag appointed Joe Reina to lead the Yellowjackets in the upcoming year. Reina replaces interim coach Dave Palese, who had stepped up from the role of assistant coach to fill the vacancy after […]

Men?s cross country falters without top runners at RIT

The men?s cross country team was up against tough competition Saturday, placing third with 62 points out of four teams at the Rochester Institute of Technology.The team had hopes of showing the state that it is a squad that is going to turn a lot of heads. Instead the team faced one of those off […]

From the Pressbox

As the country attempts to get back to a normal life, I think that there is one thing missing.Everywhere you go everybody talks about is what happened and what is going to happen ? which is very understandable. But the one thing that is missing is good ole? American humor. There hasn?t been much of […]

Unlocking and entering

Imagine this ? you and your boy or girlfriend come back to your suite from a romantic date. None of your suitemates are around and you guys are hanging out and then making out. Then, the door to the suite swings open and your little rendezvous is interrupted by a couple of UR security officers, […]

Editorial Comic

Naming the Pub

Editorial Board: Tasker's Pub

The resurrection of a campus pub has been a project four years in the making. After first being proposed by the Residential College Commission in 1997, the pub was unanimously endorsed by the Students? Association Senate and the Faculty Senate in the spring of 1999. After the idea was sent to the Board of Trustees […]

Editorial Board: Don?t assume

The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. were barbaric and the individuals responsible for the acts should be punished. However, it is important to realize that Muslims are not the enemy, Arabs are not the enemy and people of ethnicities beyond those in western Europe are not the enemy. To treat them as […]

New Name for Pub in WC

Why not name the new pub in Wilson Commons after heroic alumni Jeremy Glick? Glick was on one of the doomed flights taken over by hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. Media reports suggest that cell phone calls from the airplane indicate strongly that Glick and a few other passengers may have intentionally crashed the plane […]

Ansel Adams

In regard to last week's article "Adams' photography highlights nature's finest," George Eastman died in 1932 and Ansel Adams was commissioned to take photographs for the University in 1952.

Pub promised in Wilson Commons

After nearly four years of resolutions, promises and problems, John LaBoda, president of the Students? Association, announced, ?we are going to have a pub here on this campus around the start of next semester.? The announcement came at the conclusion of the 152nd Convocation ceremony last Friday.The pub will be on the third floor of […]