Whether it was something as simple as watching a movie or asking someone to go on a date, many UB students had interesting responses to the question: “What do you plan to do this Valentine’s day?”
UB Blueprint is not only transforming the fashion scene at UB, but also paving the way for aspiring designers, models and entrepreneurs to thrive beyond campus.
As election season draws to a close, there are key issues several randomly selected UB students across campus told The Spectrum influenced their votes.
One thing that remains unchanged is the sentiment surrounding Halloween. For UB students, past and present, it has always been about partying. Tracey Drury experienced life at UB in real time, attending from 1988 to 1992.
The UB Student Association’s (SA) Fall Fest lit up Baird Point on Friday with performances by Saweetie and Rae Sremmurd, even after a late announcement about Cash Cobain’s absence that left some attendees disappointed.
From TikTok to the catwalk, fashion is moving faster than ever — and UB’s 30,000-plus students are quick to make new styles shine on the Spine. The Spectrum asked six UB students to weigh in on which trends they’re loving and which ones need to be tossed aside.
South Campus’ MacKay Heating Plant tower is home to a family of rare birds: peregrine falcons. UB installed a “Falcon Cam" to observe the two eggs and two hatchlings.
Senior computer science major Mohamed Ali Larbi Daho Bachir and 2023 graduate Jorge Zhang, better known as “Algerian roommate” and “Chinese roommate” respectively, regularly post wholesome and humorous videos of their daily lives and travels to the UB 2024 Snapchat story.
Finn, a therapy-dog-in-training, is the latest addition to the Veteran Services department and is already making some students’ days a little better.
As UB’s sole esports coordinator, James Basta is in charge of developing the university’s video game community behind the scenes.
Most people don’t even know it’s there. The KCT serves as a creative outpost, an incubator for new ideas squirreled away within the winding hallways of Ellicott. The theater, like its namesake, is a hidden gem.
While not quite as convenient as an Uber, students who spoke to The Spectrum said the NFTA was (at least relatively) reliable.
Some of UB’s biggest and strongest students took to the stage of the SU theater earlier this semester to participate in the first ever on-campus bodybuilding competition. The event was organized by UB’s newly formed Strength and Power Club, a student group dedicated to strength-training, bodybuilding and overall physical fitness.
UB educates thousands of international students from 101 countries across six continents.
UB removes just over a ton of waste from its campuses every day, a majority of which ends up in landfills. The university is working toward sending only 10% of UB-generated waste to landfills, but around 70-80% of waste currently goes to the dump.
The club was founded this semester as a forum for students who want to talk about issues at the nexus of philosophy, politics and economics.
For years, UB students have harbored an intense aversion to entering Lake LaSalle.
The intentionally disruptive tour was Lyons’ final project for their performative action class — and Mx. Ology’s last performance as a UB student.
Only one class at UB sends students to a strip club, discusses dinosaur pornography and has students talk to parents about “the talk”: COM 492.
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