While many students remain packed in the library preparing for their final exams this week, Jewish students are still finding time to celebrate Hanukkah.
Surrender, the only 18-and-up bar on Main Street in the Heights, has seen an increase in student traffic this semester after Buffalo Police cracked down on parties and UB disciplined more than 50 students during the few weeks of the school year.
Saba AL-Maani, a junior psychology major, felt it was her duty to speak up to the man, especially because she knows people cannot automatically identify her as a Muslim due to her choice not to wear a hijab and traditional attire.
Holiday spending can be tricky – maybe you picked up a part-time gig so you can afford better presents for friends and loved ones this year. Maybe you’ve been saving money for the last six months in preparation for the season.
The roommate selection process at UB begins when new and returning students submit a housing deposit in the beginning of January. They have until May 15 to submit their roommate preferences. Both new and returning students can choose their room and roommate preference. If students don’t submit a roommate request, they are assigned a roommate randomly.
Louie Mott plays, on average, 30 hours per week playing video games. Mott, a sophomore undecided major, began playing semi-religiously at 6 years old with games like Pokémon Silver on a Gameboy Pocket. He’s been in a 30 hour-per-week routine since he started high school in Central New York.
Dreitlein, a junior communication and English major, has become a figure in the Buffalo poetry community for his work. He won the 2015 Youth Buffalo/Niagara International Poetry Slam, has given two Ted X talks and started the temporary club UB Speaks.
While the wind blew outside foreboding a stormy Buffalo winter, in the UB dining halls Thursday night students could transport themselves – or at least their taste buds – to the islands of Hawaii.
Since 2001, UB has hosted International Education Week as a way to showcase the diversity of its campus community as well as its international programs and outreach.
The Student Association, along with several offices like the Intercultural and Diversity Center, brought the self-described “business/art project/social experiment” to UB. Dear World centers around photographing people who have encouraging and powerful messages written on themselves. According to Jonah Evans, the executive producer of Dear World, more than 200 students participated in the photo shoot in the Student Union.
Huminston is set to play Elle Woods in the upcoming UB production of “Legally Blonde.” The show will have ten performances, more than the usual six or eight that UB shows see, beginning Thursday Nov. 19.
Milan, a UB alumnus and Buffalo native, was the keynote speaker for the third annual Sex, Gender, Health Symposium on Nov. 4 and 5, sponsored by the Gender Institute and co-sponsored by the offices of UB Campus Living, Intercultural Diversity Center, Student Engagement, Wellness Education Services, Gay & Lesbian Youth Services (GLYS) and Buffalo Women’s Services.
Since she was 3 years old, Julia Slyer knew she wanted to be an Ironman. In October, she realized her dream for the third time, coming in fourth in her age group at the Ironman World Championships in Conah, Hawaii.
Fantasy football, like ESPN’s fantasy league or any other site, can allow participants to handpick a team of players and compete with other “teams” to see who has the best sense for success.
Well, we’ve all been there. It’s Sunday morning and you feel like a bus has hit you. It can be a struggle to get out of bed but your one motivation to be productive is food. The biggest struggle of all might be to have to decide what meal would be the perfect cure for your hangover. Check out this list of best hangover food near UB’s campuses.
While students and locals have historically clashed in the University Heights neighborhood over loud parties and drunken behavior, the two parties worked together this weekend to better curbside aesthetics in the Heights.
Come the month of November, men suddenly stop shaving. They’re not upset with Gillette – they’re participating in No-Shave November, also called Movember. The family of Matthew Hill, a father of eight from Chicago who passed away in 2007 from colon cancer, started No-Shave November in 2009.
Sthulmiller is just one of about 300 veterans taking classes at UB and adjusting to life outside the military and warzones for a chance at a college education. There are programs like the UB Veterans Association that allow veterans to come together and form a community on campus. Nicholas Manfredi, the president of the organization, wants to expand the organization to all of the veterans on campus.
It’s hard to find the motivation to start a workout routine without a consistent gym partner. Cesar Carrion has found an entire fitness family since starting his journey last fall, when he was at his heaviest weight of 191 pounds.
You don’t have to love nature to go to a park. Maybe you need a cheap date idea – as all of these are free to enter – want to exercise or just plain need space from your roommate stealing all the Wi-Fi. Here’s a list of some places worth your time in fresh air, near and far, big and small.
Solutions by The State News
