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From left to right: Treasurer Ash Mallach, Secretary Gary Margossia, Historian Joel Muhigirwa, Vice President Ethan Fargo, and President Taeyoung Jeong. | Courtesy of Strength and Power Club.
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Building muscle and community

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.


Recycling collected from UB's campuses is sorted on South Campus, compacted into large bales and sold to a recycling mill. From there, the bales are broken down, sold to factories and made into new products.
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Where does that soda can go?

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.


Memorial for UB sophomore Linda Yalem, who was murdered on the Ellicott Creek Bike Path in 1990.
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Last on-campus homicide occurred almost 40 years ago

After Tyler Lewis, a sophomore business major at Buffalo State University, was fatally stabbed outside of the Ellicott Complex in October, University Police released a statement saying that it had been “at least 30 years” since the last homicide on campus.  The Spectrum dug into the archives and found that the last on-campus homicide occurred almost 40 years go.



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