In 2006, three male undergraduates from the UB Boxing Club, motivated not by their sport but by a shared goal to combat sexual violence, started the UB Men's Group. The group is now a peer-run, university-advised program sponsored by UB Student Affairs' Student Wellness Team.
Adrenaline can usually get athletes through a game. The heart pumps blood harder, respiration opens up, muscles contract and perspiration streams. Adrenaline was pumping through Kristen Sharkey on Jan.
The change from snow to - well, melting snow - in Buffalo causes many changes on campus. For one, students with seasonal depression will be wearing more smiles than shivers and frowns.
On Saturday, all new members of on-campus Greek organizations gathered in the Student Union for a mandatory anti-hazing workshop. UB requires each new member of Greek Life to attend the workshop.
It seems that the extravagant, drunk Spring Break beach parties of MTV and Girls Gone Wild are inaccessible to the average college student.
In two weeks, I'll be lying poolside in Florida, sipping on a Bloody Mary and checking my tan line every 30 seconds to see if the sun is actually strong enough to make me look like I'm another race in fewer than 10 minutes. My friends and I will definitely have a better time on vacation, of course, than we would in Buffalo's negative 4 weather.
Downing bottomless drinks at the beach, tanning by the pool and dancing at clubs until 5 a.m. may sound like just another unattainable Spring Break paradise. But for the approximately 12,000 college students who use
It was a cold November night in New York City. At around 11 p.m., then high school student Valentyna Yasinska drove down the city streets in a car filled with 15 brown paper bags holding sandwiches, fruit and drinks. Yasinska, a senior interdisciplinary social science major, was delivering these bags of food to the homeless. "Those people were literally living on the street," Yasinska said.
When Cory Russo, a senior business major, couldn't keep up with the Indian Student Assocation's (ISA's) Bollywood moves during practice, he knew exactly what to do: break out the Cotton-Eyed Joe. On Friday night, the ISA donned brightly colored skirts, veils and vests to share the epic love story of the Taj Mahal through the art of dance.
Her grandfather never stopped fighting, so why should she? Since the moment last year's Relay for Life event concluded on April 12, 2013, Megan Rosen, a senior biological science major, has been planning this year's event.
Alexandra DeFeo, a senior communication major, has a reason to believe in God. Three of her friends were driving down the highway in a yellow Hummer.
When Samantha Considine, a junior exercise science major, broke her foot practicing gymnastics her freshman year at UB, she was forced to choose between giving up her sport and fighting past the injury. For her, the choice was obvious. Injuries are not foreign to members of UB Gymnastics, a Student Association club.
A little girl went "number two" in her pants while waiting for her mother in Wegmans' childcare center.
One. She gripped the bar as tightly as she could and pulled herself upward. Ten. Michaela Rubin's chin raised high above the bar.
Young men in search of brotherhood often set their eyes upon UB's Greek Life. They pledge for a fraternity for a semester and then become brothers. Some students find fraternity elsewhere. Mike McGuire and Matt Wheeler found brotherhood at Ellicott Creek Volunteer Fire Company.
What do you do with a B.A. in Italian? Scott Sackett found his answer in filmmaking. Although Sackett, a UB alumnus, has made his career in radio and television producing and is currently working on three films, his path in college was neither defined nor typical.
Yevgeniy Jason Shkodnik knew what he wanted. As an 11-year-old at the Gordon Kent's New England Tennis Camp in Connecticut, he fell in love with the sport.
Katherine Rizzone led students through their first experience at an art museum. She held earth science labs outdoors.
Smoothies, robots and snowball fights: Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) relies on these unconventional tools in their work to create a more environmentally friendly atmosphere on campus. ESW is a Student Association project-based club with about 50 active members.
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