College is full of stress – stress from teachers, classes and lack of sleep. A normal amount of stress is healthy, but too much can be dangerous. Students who are feeling overstressed, overwhelmed by anxiety or who just need someone to talk to can utilize UB’s Counseling Services.
Harsanyi is now the recruitment manager for Aish Buffalo, a Jewish organization that is recognized among eight college campuses. This semester, the organization has been brought to UB’s campus as a way for Jewish students to connect to their heritage away from home in an educational way. Other outlets on campus for Jewish students include the Hillel, which hosts events around Buffalo and the Chabad House of Buffalo, which offers students a Jewish environment away from home.
It’s finally October – the month of changing leaves, pumpkin spice lattes and of course, Halloween. Before you get too excited and wrap up your month with plans to be cozy inside, check out some of these fun events around town while the outdoors is still bearable.
Jenna Harsanyi is now the recruitment manager for Aish Buffalo, a Jewish organization that is recognized among eight college campuses. This semester, the organization has been brought to UB’s campus as a way for Jewish students to connect to their heritage away from home in an educational way.
UB will feature three restaurants from the Buffalo area in all three dining centers – Culinary Crossroads Center (C3), Governors Dining Hall in Governors and Goodyear Dining Hall – on special nights throughout the fall semester: Sun Restaurant, Cantina Loco and Sato Ramen. The program started Tuesday night with Sun Restaurant and will continue for future semesters to come.
BSU held their annual Sickle Cell Auction on Sunday in the Student Union Theater.
Super moons are when the moon is in the closet part of its orbit to Earth. On Sunday, the super moon occurred during a lunar eclipse, which is when the moon, the sun and the Earth are in exact alignment. It occurs about twice a year and is what caused the moon to appear red.
The UB Humanities Institute partnered with SUNY Buffalo State, Canisius College, SUNY Fredonia and Niagara University to organize the festival. The keynote speaker was author Jill Lepore, who spoke on her book The Secret History of Wonder Woman the night before the festival at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
The LASA holds Latin socials, which consist of performances and educating participants of traditional Latin dances, every Tuesday night. The choreographers usually give a brief history of the dance and where it comes from, and shortly after, teach the dance to everyone who comes.
Buffalo Wings Service launched last weekend, making the shuttle service Buffalo’s first hop-on-and-off entertainment shuttle. The service provides rides with 26 total stops – 13 stops each northbound and southbound – and takes riders to Buffalo’s eight entertainment districts: the University Heights, Hertel Avenue, Elmwood Village, Allentown, Chippewa Street, Pearl Street, Canalside and Buffalo Creek Casino.
Andrade is one of about 40 UB students working on GRoW Home, an ultra-efficient house that takes advantage of energy supplied in all four seasons. The students will present the project, which they’ve been working on for the last two years, at the U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
Trebel, a new app that like Spotify and Pandora, allows users to listen to catalogs full of music but is exclusively for college students. With 3,000 colleges and 30,000 high schools in the United States, the app plans to start at large schools and move down into high schools.
Cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon, the crisp season is creeping into Buffalo. Time for big sweaters, leggings, a cup of hot cocoa and of course, some fun weekend activities to help explore Buffalo and enjoy the incoming season.
UB’s Thunder of the East Marching Band has a big job – the 123-person group learns new music every few weeks.
Resilient is the best way to describe the UB Step Troupe (UBST). Despite reputation and miscommunication problems that caused its membership to drop from the largest club on campus to a much smaller group, UBST celebrates its 23rd year of performing and competing.
UB's Table Tennis Club, which plays table tennis in Alumni Arena, is now looking to participate in the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association’s (NCTTA) upcoming tournament at Cornell University. The UB team hopes doing so would put the group back on track to where they were before they were derecognized.
You want to look like $1 million – but only have four dollars in your bank account. Even though you dragged your entire wardrobe from home to school, there’s never anything to wear.
Not every job at UB requires experience with food or customer service. There are 86 students and three recent alumni who serve as lifeguards at UB, according to Nathan Bourke, the aquatics director. Currently, 27 students are on the waiting list to be hired for next semester and need to take a lifeguard assessment.
It’s the ideal situation: four years of undergraduate tuition at a state school, completely paid for. When Michael Fiorica, a junior English major, applied for the Presidential Scholarship, he was under the assumption that if his grades were good enough, he’d automatically get the scholarship.
Palmeri ran a business out of his garage until word got out about the “master barber.” For four years, Palmeri’s barbershop Jonny the Barber was located on Main Street in Williamsville. Due to the shop’s growing popularity, he opened a new location on Delaware Street in Tonawanda three months ago.
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