As the final minutes ticked away in the March Student Association election, Carson Ciggia stood motionless; his mind wandered off. Earlier that day, Ciggia and his campaign partner and running-mate, Christian Andzel, were eating pizza at La Rosa in The Commons, talking about what would happen if they won.
On Thursday night, the seven Student Association presidential candidates were scheduled to participate in a debate in the Student Union Theatre.
Gloria J. Parks Community Center was packed with concerned University Heights citizens, Buffalo Police officers, students and a UB administrator on Monday night. The area, which is home to thousands of students, is riddled with crime and unsafe housing conditions, but is also a go-to location for student nightlife. Many of the 70-plus community members who attended the meeting were angry with the student-related problems that, they said, have been around for decades. UB, the City of Buffalo and the University Heights Collaborative are coming together and attempting to find a solution. Much of the room's tension lay between UB and the Buffalo Police. Mickey Vertino, the University Heights Collaborative president who hosted Monday night's gathering, said the situation near South Campus is "getting out of control," but urged everyone to not turn the discussion into a "blame game." There were three main points of contention throughout the meeting: Students shouldn't live in the Heights without UB guardianship; UB shouldn't drop its students off on South Campus late at night because many are drunk upon arrival and University Police should patrol the Heights; and Buffalo Police shouldn't be held responsible for disciplining UB students. Shutting down the 24-hour bus system The UB Stampede bus system has been running 24 hours a day since 2009.
Tuesday afternoon marked the first time that Edward Schneider, director of the UB Foundation (UBF), addressed the university's Faculty Senate.
Elad Eliahu believes the Student Association cheated him. Last week, Eliahu ran independently for one of the six on-campus senator positions; 593 students voted.
The time period to submit a petition for a spot in the Student Association presidential election closed at 3:30 p.m.
The HOUSE Party swept the Student Association Senate elections on Thursday. A total of 593 votes were cast. The new on-campus senators - Allen Liu, Daniel Giles, Anthony Field, Laura Grassi, Alana Barricks and Tryceena Gordon - who represent the HOUSE (Honoring Our Undergrad Student Expenses) Party, won the six available positions.
The portrait of a woman in a black suit jacket with a white corsage over her left breast pocket stood on the floor of a dim-lit stage, supported by a wooden painter's easel. In the crowd were community members, looking on to honor a woman who exemplified the history of African-American culture in Buffalo. Each distinguished speaker commemorated her by sharing an anecdote to help describe the life she lived. Her purpose was to build communities in Buffalo and Western New York. Her name?
Student Association members are looking forward to a packed schedule of new events surrounding this year's homecoming bash. SA, in conjunction with other on-campus organizations like UB Athletics, is on a mission to provide students with not only a better college football experience on game day, but also a more engaging Spirit Week and homecoming.
Michio Kaku's journey to finishing Albert Einstein's final manuscript started in his parents' garage. When he was in high school, Kaku built an atom collider that generated a magnetic field 20,000 times that of the earth, which is "enough to pull the fillings out of your teeth if you got too close to the book." On Wednesday night, Kaku, a world-renowned physicist, futurist and popular science advocate, addressed a packed Alumni Arena as the inaugural speaker of the 27th annual Distinguished Speakers Series.
Since the economic recession of 2008 and its effects on the U.S. economy, college graduates from many disciplines have found it much harder to find employment in their fields after leaving school, according to UB Career Services Director Arlene Kaukus. Many of these students came to college with ambitions of finding work strictly with a private-sector company after graduating.
On Thursday, Sept. 19, UB police and emergency medical personnel responded to a student in distress in a lecture in Knox Lecture Hall, according to UB's official statement.
More than half of American college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing, according to HazingPrevention.org.
The Greece Athena School District released a statement today identifying the UB student who was found dead Sunday afternoon as freshman Nicholas Arieno. Arieno, a graduate of Greece Athena High School in Rochester, was 18 years old. The Buffalo Police Department (BPD) responded to a call at 12:30 p.m.
The election for a new Student Association president will take place Oct. 7-9, according to SA Vice President Lyle Selsky and Treasurer Siddhant Chhabria. SA planned for the vote to be at the end of October, but Selsky said the SA constitution states a reelection must take place within three weeks of the resignation.
The election for a new Student Association president will take place Oct. 7-9, according to SA Vice President Lyle Selsky and Treasurer Siddhant Chhabria. SA planned for the vote to be at the end of October, but Selsky said the SA constitution states a reelection must take place within three weeks of the resignation.
Amidst the oversized pictures of coffee grinds, white flowers and steaming cups plastered on the walls of Starbucks hangs two printmaking pieces by UB alum Teke Cocina. Cocina graduated in May with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in visual studies with a concentration in print media.
The Student Association controls $4.1 million of student funds. In the past five years, its leaders have been the source of five major scandals. Last week's resignation of President Nick Johns - who was accused of a litany of offenses, including harassment, falsifying time sheets and mishandling funds - is the latest in a pattern of impropriety that has been steady since 2008. Let's rewind: - In the 2012-13 school year, Treasurer Justin Neuwirt accused President Travis Nemmer and his "cronies" of rigging SA's election to get Johns voted into office. - In 2011-12, Treasurer Sikander Khan attempted to invest $297,000 of student funds in a mobile application from a fraudulent company called "Virtual
Mike Jiang thinks Buffalo is missing some culture. His solution? A bubble tea bistro in The Commons. Jiang, a UB alum who majored in business and communication, is opening a Kung Fu Tea, a popular destination for bubble-milk tea in the New York City area.
At 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Student Association President Nick Johns signed his resignation papers in front of Vice President Lyle Selsky and Treasurer Siddhant Chhabria. Johns was accused of harassment, inappropriately accepting gifts, mishandling SA funds, hiring personal friends over more qualified candidates, being absent from important events and falsifying documents. A petition for Johns' impeachment was circulating and had over 2,000 signatures. In a written statement to The Spectrum, Johns said he resigned because the "prolonged conflict would create fundamentally irreparable fractures in the structure of the SA." He also said he could have beaten the charges against him because the "ridiculous" allegations were "unsubstantiated and [the] evidence [was] circumstantial." "Win or lose, it would have clouded the entire academic year in a mire of discontent and distrust," he wrote.
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