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It's a Friday afternoon in McCarley Gardens, a housing complex in the Fruit Belt area of the lower East Side of Buffalo. Afternoon light filters through the trees lining the red brick townhouses.
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It's a Friday afternoon in McCarley Gardens, a housing complex in the Fruit Belt area of the lower East Side of Buffalo. Afternoon light filters through the trees lining the red brick townhouses.
Directly outside the Student Union on Monday and Tuesday, students were greeted with a question: "What do you think about human rights?" Members of the UB Students for Life handed out pamphlets with photographs of aborted fetuses, mirroring the billboard display behind them.
You might see them touring the dark caverns of the grain elevators on the bank of the Buffalo River, or catch a glimpse of them in the halls of Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex. Historical preservationists, many of whom are also professors, can be found all across the Buffalo area working on conservation projects.
Jillian informed her mother that cars were expensive. A whole $110, she said. She told a passenger by her side that her sneakers were three weeks new.
The Center for Material Informatics (CMI) is doing what it can to revitalize the City of Buffalo.
It's as clich?(c) as the string bikinis, cheap booze and that hint of sweat smell in the air - tanned bodies, parading the shorelines of destination tropic on Spring Break.
The UB Veterans' Association plays an active role in the lives of students who have managed to juggle civil duty with civil studies.
Her heels echo on the aluminum floor. The wrinkled skirt she wears shifts back and forth as her body struggles to stay balanced. Flyaway hair strands frame her face, which is covered in smudged eyeliner and remnants of lip stain. Stockings bunch awkwardly at the knees, and the early-morning sun reflects off the label-less plastic bottle poking out of her purse.
I had my first pack of cigarettes at age 6. Granted, it was a plastic sleeve filled with sugar sticks that I bought from the soda and sweets shop down the block. Nonetheless, if it looks like a cig and held like a cig - well, you know the rest.
When President Barack Obama addressed UB in August and talked about his plans to revolutionize the American educational system, he pushed for affordability and increased value in the college experience.
It's easy to miss the Hayes A. Annex building on South Campus. The small aluminum-sided warehouse, nestled in between Diefendorf Hall and the Health Sciences Library, resembles more of a temporary construction site than a research lab with a nationally award-winning staff.
"I was very annoyed by it and disappointed because I feel like he just made a lot of agreeable statements that didn't really give you any information about what's really happening in America right now... Raising the minimum wage is a crazy idea because it only hurts the economy and hurts jobs and small businesses ... I would like for him to stop making all of these statements about how he's going to do things with or without Congress ... That to me is not very presidential at all. It doesn't show the qualities of a leader."
For Houghton College graduate Chris Way, the Kenya he studied was not the Kenya he found. On the contrary, the international development student who had devoted his college education to global poverty alleviation and intercultural studies saw great joy in the Kenyan people.
"Do you want us to come up with you?"