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When I arrived at UB, I hated it.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution Tuesday afternoon opposing the “severe police response” to a pro-Palestinian protest on campus May 1.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students clashed with each other and with Student Association (SA) President Becky Paul-Odionhin for more than an hour at a tense and sometimes fiery SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening.
UB dropped its Student-Wide Judiciary case against former UB Council student representative candidate Jack Walsh on Tuesday, after student prosecutors failed to find that he violated an election rule prohibiting dishonesty.
Two pro-Palestinian demonstrations and one pro-Israel rally made their way through UB’s North Campus on Sunday and Monday, extending a tumultuous week of protests on campus that began Wednesday afternoon.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) has allocated $314,405 — aside from artist fees, which the SA has not made public — for expenses for this year’s Spring Fest concert.
Editor's note, May 5: UB originally reported that five of the 15 protesters arrested on Wednesday were students. The university's Student Conduct Office announced on Sunday that it had "discovered" that two of the protesters previously categorized as unaffiliated with UB were students. This article has been updated to include that new information.
Editor's note, May 5: UB originally reported that five of the 15 protesters arrested on Wednesday were students. The university's Student Conduct Office announced on Sunday that it had "discovered" that two of the protesters previously categorized as unaffiliated with UB were students. This article has been updated to include that new information, as well as to include reports from protest organizers that more demonstrators were injured.
Editor's note, May 2, 11:46 a.m.: The university has just released a statement that revised the number of protesters arrested to 15, among other clarifications and new statements. This article will remain in the condition in which it was published, but a new story can be found here.
A federal judge appeared skeptical of a right-wing UB student group’s claim that a Student Association (SA) policy targeted it with a “constitutional injury” by prohibiting the club from becoming its own legal entity.
In a tight vote, the Student Association (SA) Senate voted Wednesday night to call on College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Dean Robin Schulze to resign.
Voters have re-elected Alika Turton to a second year as the UB Council Student Representative. She won 45.26% of votes in a three-way race that concluded Wednesday night.
Student Association (SA) Senators were unable to vote on an advocacy resolution that would have called for the UB Foundation to divest from “companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine” at Wednesday night’s meeting, after SA President Becky Paul-Odionhin withheld the resolution from the meeting’s agenda.
Incumbent UB Council Student Representative Alika Turton alleged Tuesday evening that she has been harassed and threatened during the course of the ongoing three-way Student Representative election.
Tickets for this year’s Spring Fest concert will become available at noon Monday, Student Association (SA) president Becky Paul-Odionhin announced in a mass email to undergraduate students this morning.
When Stanley Chen became the UB Badminton Club’s secretary in the fall of 2022, he was essentially starting from scratch. A previous club e-board failed to request a budget from the undergraduate Student Association (SA), leaving the club with just $200 in leftover fundraising proceeds — nowhere near enough to obtain the equipment or practice space its players needed.
A policy that would introduce a formula for awarding undergraduate clubs supplemental funding failed to pass at the Student Association (SA) Senate Wednesday night, but is likely to emerge in an updated form at the body’s next meeting.
Organizers from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called on the Student Association (SA) Senate to pass resolutions advocating for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and increased financial transparency from the UB Foundation at last week’s SA Senate meeting.
The Student Association (SA) Senate’s advocacy efforts stalled as soon as they had begun Wednesday afternoon.
Ricardo Castillo will be The Spectrum’s editor-in-chief for the 2024-25 academic year.