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Student Association presidential candidates announced
Oct. 1, 2013The time period to submit a petition for a spot in the Student Association presidential election closed at 3:30 p.m.
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HOUSE Party sweeps on-campus SA Senate elections
Sep. 29, 2013The 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.
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UB rededicates Cora P. Maloney College
By JOE KONZE JR | Sep. 29, 2013The 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?
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Stampede of events on its way for homecoming 2013
By JAMES DRAGONETTE | Sep. 26, 2013Student 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.
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Back to the Future'
By BEN TARHAN | Sep. 26, 2013Michio 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.
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Call of duty
By JAMES DRAGONETTE | Sep. 26, 2013Since 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.
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Sophomore dies after medical emergency in Knox Lecture Hall
Sep. 24, 2013On 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.
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"Handling hazing, one handprint at a time"
By KEVIN HONG | Sep. 24, 2013More than half of American college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing, according to HazingPrevention.org.
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Deceased UB student identified
Sep. 24, 2013The 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.
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Election date for new SA president is announced
Sep. 23, 2013The 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.
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Election date for new SA president is announced
Sep. 23, 2013The 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.
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On-campus Starbucks showcases UB alum's art
By RACHEL KRAMER | Sep. 22, 2013Amidst 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.
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Johns' resignation is latest in series of Student Association corruption
By AARON MANSFIELD | Sep. 22, 2013The 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
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Kung Fu Tea to open in The Commons
By KEVIN HONG | Sep. 19, 2013Mike 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.
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"After Johns' resignation, Student Association looks ahead"
By SAM FERNANDO | Sep. 19, 2013At 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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Student Association President Nick Johns resigns
By SAM FERNANDO | Sep. 18, 2013At 4:45 p.m. today, Student Association President Nick Johns signed his resignation papers in front of Vice President Lyle Selsky and Treasurer Siddhant Chhabria. Selsky is now interim president, effective immediately. Chhabria said he and Selsky met with Johns earlier this week to discuss his future in SA.
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Top 10 highest UB-paid salaries
By SARA DINATALE | Sep. 17, 2013UB is directly paying $15,000 more to Provost Charles Zukoski than President Satish Tripathi. But annually, Tripathi is actually taking home more money than the provost. Tripathi, on top of his base salary of $385,000, also receives $115,000 per year from the SUNY Research Foundation and $150,000 from the UB Foundation (UBF), according to a UB press release issued when Triapthi was appointed president in 2011. The Spectrum obtained the university salaries of UB's top 10 highest paid employees, but many UB higher-ups receive supplemental compensation - which were not included in the numbers provided by the university - in addition to their annual salaries. With the compensations, Tripathi's take-home is higher than Zukoski's, according to UB Spokesman John Della Contrada. UBF, though associated with UB, is a private corporation that manages gifts to the university. Tripathi isn't the only UB administrator receiving monies in addition to his UB salary.
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SA office broken into for second time in two weeks
Sep. 17, 2013Last weekend, an unidentified suspect broke into the Student Association office, room 350 in the Student Union, and stole three 50-inch flat screen televisions, marking the second SA break-in in the past two weeks, according to Vice President Lyle Selsky. He said the University Police Department (UPD) is still investigating the details of the incident, but he doesn't believe anything else was stolen. Selsky said SA is currently looking to purchase security cameras for the SA office to prevent another break-in. Two weeks ago, Selsky said an SA master key - a swipe card - was missing from the SA office.
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With great money comes great responsibility
By MOHAMMED SHARIFF | Sep. 17, 2013Editor's note: For the purpose of this article, the budget amounts include rollover funds from the previous year. The Student Association, which currently controls over $3.6 million, is responsible for the budgets of over 150 student clubs.
