Conradicalism
Tony Conrad's music and films have often defied conventionality. His work is often described as traditional manipulations of rhythm and melodic form - experimental and acerbic, a rejection of the structure of high culture.
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Tony Conrad's music and films have often defied conventionality. His work is often described as traditional manipulations of rhythm and melodic form - experimental and acerbic, a rejection of the structure of high culture.
One of the most gruesome historic displays of human cruelty, an event that led to the death of more people than the Roman Conquest of Carthage and the Spanish Inquisition, is almost non-existent in the historical record.
The Fulbright program, established after World War II to promote the international exchange of scholars and ideas, has provided grants to thousands of students from around the world to pursue diverse fields of interest in non-native countries.
Recent legislative proposals to tighten immigration laws and student visa requirements have sparked concern in the world of higher education.
As part of a nationwide campaign against sweatshops worldwide and the unfair labor practices of U.S. corporations, the National Labor Committee headlined UB's "Sweatshop Day of Action" Monday, culminating with a speech in Pistachio's in the Student Union.
Inequities in pay and benefits between part- and full-time faculty members in colleges and universities nationwide caused members of the United University Professions, a union for faculty and professionals within the SUNY system, and the Western New York Committee on Contingent Academic Labor to rally in the Student Union Social Room Tuesday.
In a lecture and reading delivered Thursday at the Center for the Arts Screening Room, author Andrew X. Pham shared vignettes and ideas from his book "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam."
Last week, UB announced its athletics program will be the subject of a year-long, intensive study as part of the National Collegiate Athletics Association Division I certification program.
While Americans everywhere lament the terrible loss created by the recent terrorist acts upon the World Trade Center, there is a greatly pervasive and insidious sentiment that has struck fear and terror to Arab and Muslim Americans. This sentiment is the same that arose when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor almost sixty years ago, prompting officials to send Americans of Japanese descent into dehumanizing internment camps. Now in the wake of this national crisis, this sentiment has once again arisen, and now the targets are Arab-Americans.