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R&B superstar Alicia Keys will be appearing at the Turning Stone Casino & Resort Event Center on Thursday, March 11, as part of her Freedom Tour, which kicked off on Wednesday in Chicago. The tour follows the release of her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom, released in the fall of 2009.

"Being invited to the Tomb family may introduce you to some interesting people, but you may not live to talk about it." That was the message on promotional posters for the spring play, Tomb With a View, put on by the Utica College department of performing and fine arts.

The Carmen Carmonica Jazz Trio performed at the Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series on Wednesday, March 3, in the library concourse. The trio featured Carmen Caramanica on guitar, Rick Compton on drums, and Cosmo Castellano on bass guitar. They played seven songs.

The Black Student Union (BSU) held its first on-campus party, "Black in the Day," on Saturday Feb. 27 in the Library Concourse. The party was free of charge for Utica College students only. Half of the concourse was set up with tables and chairs for students to sit and eat the pizza, hot wings and several beverages that were provided.

As the seasons prepare to change, many of us tend to get hit by the "love bug." We either have relationships that made it through the cold winter or we are beginning to notice someone in a whole new light. For whatever reason, when the weather changes for many of us, it seems the attraction to people seems to change with it.

The average expectance of a college student is becoming almost completely unfeasible. Students are expected to study at least 20 hours per week, involve themselves in the campus community, and exercise 30 minutes a day, five times a week, all whilst tending the fields, generating mobster-like schemes, and slicing, dicing and sautéing their ways to becoming owners of their very own 5-star restaurants.

A lot of people that go to UC say there is not a lot to do around the Utica area. So we decided to do a little investigative reporting about double dates. What we found might surprise some people who thought it would be hard to do a double date for $50 or less.