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A winter coat is always a statement. When you carry something around all day on your back, or under your arm when you can’t bear to wear it in the tunnels, it sort of takes on the qualities of a second skin or a fifth limb.

In the wake of bullying-related-suicides in the GLBTQ community, UR’s PRIDE Network talks about cyber-bullying and new items on their agenda.

There exists a room in the depths of Wilson Commons, disguised as a custodial closet, that Harry Potter’s Fred and George Weasley would ogle over. It’s a small closet filled floor to ceiling with boxes of candy and sweets –– the stock room for the Common Market. While its location will remain undisclosed, if you happen to sneak a peek at the right time, you might find junior Mo Seraji and sophomore Kathleen Shannon pouring over a giant silver pot, concocting delicious mixtures such as Worms in Dirt.

Next Monday, on Oct. 4, at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Democratic governor made famous nationally for soliciting a hot prostitute, will return to the glittering cameras again. This time, rather than offering a chewed frown and a lukewarm apology, Spitzer will be hosting a talk show covering both political and popular issues — his wife and mistress notably absent.

After a lengthy discussion with Parking and Transportation Services this Wednesday, the Committee of Alternative Modes of Transportation (CAMT) received authorization to begin construction on the elaborate zip-line project. The 2,148 foot steel cable will stretch from the top of Rush Rhees Library on the River Campus to the front door of Building A in the extremely inconvenient multi-trillion dollar off-campus housing complex of Riverview Apartments.

I studied abroad in Milan, Italy last year, utilizing the UR’s sponsorship of the IES Program located right in the heart of the city. As an interdepartmental studies major with a concentration in Italian studies, choosing to study in Italy was a very natural decision. I supplemented my concentration by studying the Italian language and culture in its natural environment, away from my American university.

In 1999, on an ordinary afternoon, music instructor Liz Shropshire was driving to the home of one of her piano students while listening to National Public Radio. Shropshire, who has over 20 years of experience in instructing emotionally troubled students from four to 60 years of age, had an illustrious career as a teacher in Los Angeles. But her afternoon went from ordinary to life altering after she heard one particular story that troubled her. The NPR news reporter was interviewing women who were thrown out of their homes in Kosovo and had to resort to living in refugee camps in Albania. The conditions of their homeland were abysmal — former president of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s minorities and the retaliatory NATO bombings left them husbandless and sonless. All that they had left were their firsthand youngest children and the clothes on their backs.

Two UR undergrads, Meg Battin and Daniel Ludwig, formed the new non-profit UR Uganda. They will be spearheading a trip to Uganda this summer to help build a medical clinic, among other tasks.

Just when you thought your sex life would get dull on the far-side of fifty, Sex expert Amelia Titus discusses an unconventional way to feel the love.

Fashion guru Kelsey Burritt tells you why the fashion industry is not so tangible and oh so relevant.