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Last Tuesday, SA extended the petition deadline for president and treasurer after only one candidate for each race received the necessary amount of petition signatures to run for those respective positions.

President, treasurer candidates will run unopposed in SA e-board elections

By THOMAS ANDREWS | 12:00pm

Students will have few options when they head to the virtual polls this week to vote for the 2021-22 SA e-board.

The referendum — identical to one held in September when students voted by a nine-point margin to nix the mandatory fee — will be open to all undergraduates and held from Wednesday at 10 a.m. to Friday at 5 p.m. on the SA website.

SA will hold mandatory student activity fee referendum this week

By GRANT ASHLEY | Apr. 19

UB will hold 17 in-person commencement ceremonies from April 30 to May 16 at various locations on its campuses.

UB to hold in-person commencement ceremonies for Class of 2021

By MATTHEW SZCZEPANIAK | Apr. 17

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for the May 2020 killing of Minneapolis native George Floyd.

‘I hear the urgency in your voice’: President Tripathi responds to the Derek Chauvin Trial

By JULIE FREY | Apr. 16

The Academic Policies and Grading Committee recommended to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee that members encourage professors and faculty to be flexible.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee declines to add student wellness days

By GRANT ASHLEY | Apr. 14

UB continues to refuse to implement wellness days following a Tuesday meeting between the SA e-board and administrators.

SA officials, administrators reach stalemate in Thursday meeting on academic calendar

By GRANT ASHLEY | Apr. 14

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The UB Faculty Senate’s Academic Policies and Grading Committee will hold a meeting Tuesday evening to discuss a resolution calling on the university to add “mandatory wellness days” to the academic calendar.

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Faculty Senate Executive Committee to discuss adding mandatory wellness days

By JACK PORCARI | Apr. 13

The UB Faculty Senate’s Academic Policies and Grading Committee will hold a closed-door meeting with Student Association Assembly Speaker Austin Wolfgang Tuesday evening to discuss a resolution calling on the university to add “mandatory wellness days” to the academic calendar.

The CDC and FDA issued its recommendation Tuesday after six women — all between the ages of 18 and 48 — developed blood clot symptoms six to 13 days after they received the J&J vaccine.

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UB pauses plans to open on-campus Johnson & Johnson vaccination site

By JUSTIN WEISS and Nitya Cohen | Apr. 13

UB will postpone plans to open an on-campus vaccination site after federal authorities called for an immediate nationwide pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to concerns of rare but severe blood clots.

Student Union Room 145 was found unlocked due to a "mechanical problem" on Sunday evening.

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Student Union testing site left unlocked over the weekend

By DAN EASTMAN | Apr. 12

A door to Room 145 in the Student Union — one of UB’s on-campus COVID-19 testing sites — was left unlocked over the weekend, giving visitors unrestrained access to roughly 3,200 COVID-19 tests and valuable PPE.

UB spokesperson John DellaContrada announced Sunday that “SUNY provided UB with 200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and we anticipate receiving more of the vaccine as the national supply increases.”

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SUNY students won’t be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine

By DAN EASTMAN | Apr. 11

SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras announced Friday that students at the state’s 64 public institutions will not be required to get vaccinated for COVID-19 ahead of the fall semester.

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Spectrum editor wins Best Sports Column Writing at SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards

By MATTHEW SZCZEPANIAK | Apr. 11

Spectrum senior sports editor Anthony DeCicco took home first prize for sports column writing at the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards Saturday.

The new COVID-19 testing lab can process up to 150,000 Clarifi COVID-19 tests per week, a 75% increase from before.

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UB opens new testing lab, introduces different collection method

By ANUSHKA SHARMA | Apr. 9

SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras announced the opening of a new COVID-19 testing laboratory located on UB’s south campus Monday.

Jacob Barkan says he and other students were inspired to start the demonstration after feeling “fed up” with the university’s “utter disregard” for mental health breaks.

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‘It’s hard to protest burnout when you’re burnt out’

By ALEXANDRA MOYEN and NATALIE DOLLER | Apr. 8

Only seven students held signs asking UB administrators for academic relief as part of a UB Feeling Burnt Out demonstration at Flint Loop Wednesday.

The “Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act” states that anyone over the age of 21 may carry up to three ounces of cannabis and 24 grams of cannabis concentrate, along with a maximum of 12 plants per household — six mature and six immature plants.

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UB has no plans to change its cannabis policy, despite statewide legalization

By Alex Falter | Apr. 7

The “Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act,” which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, states that anyone over the age of 21 may carry up to three ounces of cannabis and 24 grams of cannabis concentrate, along with a maximum of 12 plants per household — six mature and six immature plants.

UB Spokesperson John DellaContrada announced Monday that the university is in the “preliminary” stages of establishing an on-campus student vaccination site.

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SUNY to administer 18,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine before summer break

By JULIE FREY | Apr. 7

SUNY will provide 18,600 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to residential students across 34 campuses prior to the end of the spring semester, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras announced Tuesday.

Student email is currently powered by Google Workspace, which includes services like Gmail and Google Drive, while faculty email is powered by Microsoft Exchange (on-premise).

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UBmail will switch from Google to Microsoft Exchange Online

By BRENDAN KELLY | Apr. 6

UBmail will completely transition to Microsoft Exchange Online within the next three-to-four years for both students and faculty, according to J. Brice Bible, vice president and chief information officer for UBIT.

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The Spectrum elects 2021-22 editor-in-chief

By ELIZABETH NAPOLITANO | Apr. 6

The Spectrum’s editorial board elected Reilly Mullen, a junior English and political science major, to a second term as editor-in-chief for the 2021-22 academic year on Monday.

UB is “actively” working on establishing a COVID-19 vaccination site, which is “dependent on the availability of the vaccines in the coming weeks.”

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UB in ‘preliminary’ stages of developing on-campus student vaccination site

By JUSTIN WEISS , GRANT ASHLEY and DAN EASTMAN | Apr. 5

UB is in the “preliminary” stages of developing an on-campus student vaccination site, according to university spokesperson John DellaContrada.

Calendar changes would have to be drafted, debated and approved by the Faculty Senate and its executive committee before being promulgated by Tripathi. Only six weeks of classes remain in the spring semester.

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Student Association Assembly passes resolution calling for mandatory wellness days

By GRANT ASHLEY | Apr. 2

The Student Association Assembly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on President Satish Tripathi and the Faculty Senate to add mandatory “student wellness days” to the academic calendar.

There were 3,800 anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020, according to Stop AAPI Hate.

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UB co-sponsors panel on Asian American discrimination

By Nitya Cohen | Apr. 1

Speakers not only highlighted the lack of Asian American representation across various facets of American society, but proposed solutions as to how organizations and institutions can combat a lack of racial diversity within their ranks.