Mets tired of late-season chokes

With the start of the new season, Mets fans are asking themselves if this will finally be their year after three consecutive heartbreaks.

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Kaplan: Accessibility still an uphill climb

This past April, two students, Catherine Urban and Genevieve Bernier, had both been temporarily physically disabled and navigated the Geneseo campus on crutches for an extended period of time. During that time, Urban and Bernier had many difficulties getting around campus, but noticed that for some of these problems, there could be simple solutions if the school were to take action.

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Out of Bounds: Bills break in San Francisco

Playoff dreams for the Buffalo Bills were broken for the ninth consecutive year on Sunday, when fans watched the last essential home game of the season end with a 10-3 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

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The shot seen 'round the world

Geneseo men's basketball forward senior Scott Morton leapt into the national spotlight Tuesday night after footage of his improbable, game-winning basket against Oswego was broadcast on ESPN's SportsCenter as the No. 1 play of the day.

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Local rape trial ends in acquittal

Livingston County Court Judge Dennis Cohen acquitted a 2008 Geneseo graduate on charges of rape in the third degree in Livingston County Court on Monday.

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Hockey, abortion, book bans - oh my!

Of all people who could be one heartbeat away from running our country, I cannot think of anyone more unqualified or dangerous than Sarah Palin. I'm really not sure what scares me more: Palin's lack of experience involving foreign policy, her lack of knowledge on any sort of fiscal policy, or her reactionary social views.


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Out of Bounds: As Yankee Stadium fades, so does the New York dynasty

Attention Yankee fans: Put away your hats and jerseys and start making plans for October that don't involve baseball, because your team is not going to be playing. The Dump in the Bronx also known as Yankee Stadium closed for good on Sunday, and for the first time since 1993 the Yankees get to watch the playoffs on TV.

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SUNY facing worst cuts in over 10 years

Only one quarter into the 2009 fiscal year and the State University of New York operating budget-already weakened by several cuts-has been reduced once again.

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Students say that college is no friend to physically disabled

In response to long-standing complaints about handicap accessibility at Geneseo, students toured the campus with wheelchairs and crutches on Wednesday, April 16. Their aim was to make it known that many physically disabled students find the campus unaccommodating.

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Panel to evaluate campus accessibility

In response to students' concerns about handicap accessibility on campus, Chris Hilderbrant of the Rochester Center for Disability Rights will visit Geneseo on Wednesday, April 16 to provide insights into improving accessibility awareness.

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Out of Bounds: Buffalo Sabres 'fans' covering campus? That was so last year

As we all know, on July 1 of last year Buffalo Sabres co-captains Chris Drury and Daniel Briere both bolted from Buffalo and signed major free agent contracts with the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers, respectively. What I didn't realize was that apparently Sabres fans at Geneseo have also "signed" with apathy after realizing that the Sabres will not be the Eastern Conference power that they were last year.

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Restaurant Review: Applebee's service not up to standard

A couple of weekends ago, my mom came to visit me and take me out to dinner. Since Applebee's had just opened, we decided we would try it out. Since Geneseo doesn't have many "sit-down" restaurants, I figured that a restaurant like Applebee's would be a welcome addition to the town. After spending an evening there, I think I figured wrong.

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Obama dominates as students' choice in Lamron poll

Presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has surged in recent primary elections, surprising many who felt that New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was poised to take the nomination.

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T-shirts land student in NYC jail

T-shirts calling for the firing of an unpopular professional basketball coach landed a Geneseo student in hot water over Winter Break.

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Official: speeder in Charity case was officer

The I-390 speeder who was pursued by a state police officer after the officer pulled over a Geneseo student who was then killed in a hit-and-run was a Dansville Village Police officer, a senior Dansville village official has told The Lamron.

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Local Politics: Monroe County

Last Tuesday, Nov. 6, Monroe County did not receive the full political overhaul that seems to be necessary if the county legislature is going to ever accomplish anything that doesn't involve back-door contracts and clauses that allow the legislature to hide information from voters.

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Grad commands national airwaves

Since graduating from Geneseo in 1987, John Tournour, known on the Fox Sports Radio airways as "JT the Brick," has taken a long and winding career path that has led him to become one of the most successful sports talk personalities on the air today.

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Warning shuts down Greek rush

On the weekend of Sept. 1, Geneseo's Greek organizations cancelled all their "open rush" events after a warning about alcohol from the dean of students.

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Senior protests paying for cap, gown

Geneseo senior and political science major Stephanie Remick has taken the seemingly small issue of the cost of a cap and gown and turned it into something she hopes will cause the College to change a policy.

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Local rally marks National Global Warming Day

On Saturday, April 14, approximately 1,400 rallies were held across the nation in observance of National Global Warming Day.

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