Issue
Volume 57, Issue 77
Andy Robinson suspended from Bulls indefinitely
By: STEPHEN MARTH
On Tuesday, junior guard Andy Robinson of the men's basketball team was suspended from the team indefinitely for his actions last week in a Facebook marketplace incident. [read more]
Angelic salutation
By: DAN MECCA
Sadness is the million-dollar emotion in writer/director David Gordon Green's Snow Angels, a confidently made, comfortably envisioned look into a world most viewers probably know a little about: the small town. [read more]
A Terrible Truth
US Army and Marine Corps offer waivers to felons to boost dwindling numbers
There is a war within the army itself to combat low enrollment. According to CNN.com, the Army and the Marines have started issuing felony waivers. The crimes range in degree of severity, from burglary to drug possession. In fact, the article said that two men who have made terrorist threats against the US are now serving in the US Army. [read more]
Big success at home for track
By: DAVID SANCHIRICO
After starting their season on the road, the Buffalo men's and women's outdoor track and field teams held their first home meet on Saturday. UB Stadium provided friendly confines for the Bulls as they dominated the field at the UB Invitational, Buffalo's only outdoor home meet of the year. [read more]
Bulls shine in near sweep of the RedHawks
By: BRIAN MEINDL
In its first three-game home stand of the season, the Buffalo baseball team took two out of three games from the Miami (OH) RedHawks. A series of timely hits, outstanding pitching, and late-inning heroics helped the Bulls to pull off the near sweep. [read more]
Charges against UB professor Steven Kurtz dismissed
By: JOANN PAN
A federal judge dismissed charges of mail and wire fraud against Steven Kurtz, a UB professor in the Department of Visual Studies, ending his four-year long ordeal on Monday. [read more]
Earth Day rally continues despite good news: UB will launch nationwide search for expert to head UB Green
By: JOANN PAN
In the midst of student chants for a more environmentally friendly campus, breaking news changed the agenda of the daylong rally. [read more]
Giving thanks to UB
By: EVAN NEMEROFF
Only a few more days left of school forever. That's pretty remarkable to think about as the semester winds down and I get ready to venture into the wonderful place called the "real world." [read more]
Green jobs: environmental careers
By: VICTORIA ORERO
A panel held in the Student Union on Wednesday evening addressed the topic of green jobs and their significance to the world community. Panelists in attendance were there to help students with their questions on the subject of environmentally friendly careers, and how they can go about obtaining one. [read more]
Normalcy on trial in a Mad Max world
By: JOE O’CONNELL
Banal and boring have never been so intriguing. [read more]
Remaking Buffalo one wall at a time
By: KELLY WARTH AND RACHEL GOOD
When UB graduate Kimberley Moore looks at the Broadway Market downtown, she sees more than blank walls - she sees a chance to revitalize the community with art. [read more]
Roller hockey finds success with little financial aid
By: BRIAN MEINDL
Since 1998, the University at Buffalo club roller hockey teams are some of the elite clubs in all of the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association. Despite its lack of funding from the university, the Wings recently became the first regional champions in the Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association history, winning both the Division 1 and B divisions. [read more]
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Gallipani named MAC East Player of the Week [read more]
Struggling at being smart
By: JENA BROWN
Possibly the most sobering and dry cinematic experience so far this year, Smart People is a small film with a big cast that includes Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City), Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point), Ellen Page (Juno) and Thomas Hayden Church (Spiderman 3). With an undertone of wit with a dramatic plotline, the film offers highbrow observation of real issues. [read more]
The system has failed
Laptop theft endangers personal information for thousands of students
A laptop at Buffalo State College was stolen which will potentially affect students all across New York State. The laptop stored the social security numbers of thousands of applicants, current students and alumni of SUNY schools, according to News 4 WIVB TV. [read more]
What’s (still) going on?
By: DAN MECCA
Who says idealism is dead? While the amount of media and communication readily available when compared to the amount of activism present is initially disconcerting, let us not remain unsettled and smug in what many believe is a nation's comfortable complacency. [read more]
You can see her signing
By: CHRISSY CASILIO
She stands proudly next to distinguished speakers, administrators and local politicians. She's signed for celebrities like Conan O'Brian and Stephen Colbert, and world leaders like Collin Powell and Al Gore. Diane Curthoys stands next to famous faces and gives deaf students the chance to enjoy everything UB has to offer, as UB's sign language interpreter. [read more]
