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President Trump tests positive for COVID
By ELIZABETH NAPOLITANO | Oct. 2, 2020President Trump announced early Friday morning that he and First Lady, Melania, tested positive for COVID.
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Legal observer struck by vehicle in Niagara Square
By ALEXANDRA MOYEN | Sep. 24, 2020Police are investigating an incident where a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck during a Black Lives Matter protest in Buffalo’s Niagara Square Wednesday night.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice and SUNY honorary degree awardee, died, aged 87
By ELIZABETH NAPOLITANO | Sep. 19, 2020Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a prominent women's rights activist known for her ceiling-smashing work as the second female Supreme Court Justice, died yesterday of complications due to metastatic pancreatic cancer today, aged 87.
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UB student sentenced to 24 months in prison for threatening former professor
By ELIZABETH NAPOLITANO | Sep. 11, 2020Daniel Richter, a former UB student, will serve 24 months in prison for threatening to harm his former UB professor.
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‘No justice, no peace’
By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and JULIAN ROBERTS-GRMELA | June 12, 2020Omran Albarazanchi wishes he had been “more vocal” when he heard instances of “pure racism” during high school.
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Friday crash leaves five students injured, two critically injured, as of Saturday
By JULIAN ROBERTS-GRMELA and BRENTON J. BLANCHET | Feb. 2, 2020Five students were injured, two critically injured, as of Saturday morning following a Friday night car accident on Sheridan Drive near Sweet Home Road, according to Amherst Police. A 20-year-old student from Centereach, NY was driving a 2012 Chevrolet when the vehicle and Amherst Police vehicle collided shortly before midnight, according to the Amherst Police. UB spokesperson Cory Nealon says Amherst Police is investigating the collision.
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Community upset with UB over Tonawanda Coke research study
By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and BRITTANY GORNY | Oct. 24, 2019Local activists are upset with UB for its role in environmental studies on the former Tonawanda Coke plant. The plant, which manufactured coke –– a fuel made by heating coal or oil –– was convicted in 2013 for violating the Clean Air Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
FEATURES
HVNNIBVL takes LA
By AMAL ELHELW | Sep. 22, 2019John Hannibal remembers when he was 12 years old and the other kids would be playing video games, while he was home learning how to produce music. He wanted to do something "cool" and "different." Music was his avenue to do that.
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UB community talks New York's minimum wage increase
By ANDREA BARRY | Feb. 8, 2015Art by Huramo Sato Angela Barca has been putting in hours in minimum-wage jobs since she was a freshman in high school and four years later, she?s noticing and increase in her paycheck. So is the rest of New York State. New York State?s minimum wage was raised 75 cents to $8.75 an hour on Dec.
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Piercing the norm
By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 4, 2014Jayralin Herrera, a sophomore environmental studies major, wanted her three piercings to have bilateral symmetry, which is having symmetry in respect to the center of your face.
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On-campus political groups expect low student voter turnout
By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 2, 2014Laura Mannara (far left), president of College Democrats,
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On-campus political groups expect low student voter turnout
By AMANDA LOW | Nov. 2, 2014Laura Mannara (far left), president of College Democrats,
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Four Spectrum editors earn finalist spots in national journalism competitions
By AMANDA LOW | Oct. 2, 2014Aaron Mansfield, Brian Keschinger, Lisa Khoury and Chad Cooper
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McCarley Gardens residents 'at ease' for now in Buffalo
By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 30, 2014The people of McCarley Gardens are now excited after learning UB is no longer planning on buying the low-income housing complex.
OPINION
My fight with nature
By AMANDA LOW | Sep. 14, 2014I immediately burst into tears once the stinger hit my finger. I was helping my roommate sort out the apartment?s recycling on a chilly afternoon with my sweatshirt hood up.
NEWS
Accidents lead to the deaths of two UB students
By AMANDA LOW and TORI ROSEMAN | June 28, 2014Two UB students died in June in unrelated accidents. On June 2, Rajan Verma, a 28-year-old first-year UB medical resident died in an accident at the Tralf Music Hall in downtown Buffalo.
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The great graduate debate
By AMANDA LOW | Apr. 29, 2014Every year, graduating seniors debate between two options as a stepping-stone into their futures: going straight to graduate school or pursuing a job. Questions of finances and potential unemployment weigh heavily in the minds of many soon-to-be UB graduates as they debate lunging into the professional world or continuing higher education.
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InFocus: #everything
By AMANDA LOW | Mar. 30, 2014If Facebook were a country, it would be the second most populated one. Every second, 9,100 tweets are sent - which is 1 billion tweets in fewer than five days.
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One Region Forward creates new Citizen Planning School
By AMANDA LOW | Mar. 25, 2014People from all over Erie and Niagara Counties will have the opportunity to champion an idea for community change. UB's Regional Institute (UBRI), a subset of UB's School of Architecture and Planning, is offering a new program to teach Buffalo residents how to create sustainable developments in the two-county region.
