The story of a beautiful village girl, combined with a dance that has lived through centuries, came together in downtown Buffalo for the final performance of a renowned local dance company.
In July 1869, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - better known as Mark Twain - arrived in Buffalo, N.Y., as a rising star in the literary world.
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Melissa Kathan, a freshman accounting major, has been elected as the new Student Association Assembly speaker. All but two of the approximately 30 Assembly members in attendance voted for Kathan on Wednesday night, according to current Assembly Speaker Steven Jackson. Jackson conducted the election.
The UB Council serves as the primary oversight and advisory body to UB and its president and senior officers.
Harrison Kim, a senior business major, has been making his own money since he was 14 years old.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee (FSEC) proposed holding classes on the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and maintaining no classes on Labor Day. The Faculty Senate was unable to vote on the decision during its meeting on March 5 because there were not enough voting members present.
Students and faculty stared at Brian Kupferberg and 30 of his Jewish fraternity brothers who walked around school in a single-file line in complete silence, dressed in all black, on Monday afternoon. As they walked around a crowded North Campus, a student in Capen Cafe broke the silence as she exclaimed to her friend: "Oh, I think it's for Holocaust Remembrance." The brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, a few sisters from Phi Sigma Sigma sorority and campus Rabbi Avrohom Gurary embraced the uncomfortable stares and whispers as they thought of what their parents, grandparents and ancestors affected by the Holocaust went through.
Veronica Hardy, a freshman geology major, was shocked and dismayed when her floormate, with whom she was having sexual relations, sent the naked pictures she sent him that he said he wouldn't show a soul to their entire dorm. She didn't understand why Ron Kestler, a freshman undecided major, would betray her trust and the "wonderful and strong relationship of two weeks." Kestler didn't understand why she was upset, as most of the boys came to the general consensus that Hardy was "pretty attractive, definitely a sober five; probably a drunk eight." Her neighbors' approval did not alleviate Hardy's sadness. "I just can't fathom why the guy I totally fell for two weeks ago would take my personal pictures that I sent to him in confidence and send them to other people," Hardy said.
When Roger Ebert became a film critic in 1967, he came across an obscure film from an unknown director at the Chicago International Film Festival. The film, then titled I Call First, was the debut feature of Martin Scorsese.
For the first time in over 40 years, the SUNY Buffalo Law School won first place the Niagara International Moot Court Competition. Since 1968, the competition has brought American and Canadian schools together to compete in mock court trials and practice addressing issues in front of the International Court of Justice.
A team of UB engineering students is shooting for the stars. The students built a satellite that will track space debris to help avoid possible collisions.
When junior running back Branden Oliver went down with an injury in the third game last season, many were concerned the dominant Bulls' ground game would shift to ineffective. Oliver was fresh off a season in which he had dominated competition - running for a school record of 1,395 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Max Levitt never performs the same song and never wears the same costume twice. He spends hours perfecting each routine, song, dance and costume.
Although the football team does not have an on-campus indoor facility to give refuge from the rough Buffalo winter, the quarterbacks spent the offseason together training and taking advantage of the Buffalo Bills' indoor field house.
You might have noticed your Facebook friends list is growing rather red. This week, the Supreme Court began its deliberations on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and on California's Proposition 8 in what is shaping up to not only be the case of the year but also one of the most important decisions of our lifetime. For the next few months, the highest court in the land will be determining if Sec.
Humans are inherently good and inherently violent, and how we act just depends on if the better angel has the upper hand, according to Steven Pinker. Humans have a "better angel" and a "worse angel" within them, and each has a tendency to control human actions - namely the choice to commit acts of peace or acts of violence, he said. And, right now, the better angels are prevailing.
It's a nerve-wracking countdown to the most important day of many women's life: her wedding day. She chews her fingers and fidgets anxiously as butterflies flutter in her stomach.
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