The bus is packed. Students are crammed next to one another in the tight, container-like space. Some are fortunate and able to rest in the coveted seats while others have to stand for the next three minutes.
Editor's note: On Feb. 7, Lisa Khoury asked Ellen Dussourdthe following in an email: "How many international students live in the University Heights or what percent live in the Heights?" Dussourd responded on the same day: "I have no way of knowing how many of our students or what percentage of our students live in University Heights." In Dussourd's Letter to the Editor, she wrote, "Most international students live in the Heights." Khoury wrote: "Many, if not most, of the 5,500-plus international students who come to UB live in the Heights, said John Wood, senior associate vice provost for international education." Dussourd suggested Khoury talk to Wood, who couldn't provide a number of students living in the Heights, either.
UB's Student Association is closer to becoming a not-for-profit organization following Wednesday night's Assembly meeting. Although the Assembly accepted SA President Travis Nemmer's motion to "support the SA in its continuing processes to reform itself as a not-for-profit corporation" with overwhelming support (20-1-4), the proposal was met with some criticism. Carson Ciggia, SA presidential candidate of the Forward Party, and his running mate, Christian Andzel, have questions regarding the proposal that would incorporate SA. "[Students] have no idea what this is," Andzel said.
Before this year's spring break, the last vacation I'd been on that I could remember was to Puerto Rico when I was 7 years old. I spent the week having my hair braided by local women and playing with a Beanie Baby parrot that my mom bought me at the hotel gift shop, which I cried hysterically over after an overzealous playmate snapped off its TY tag in the heat of an argument. Needless to say, I was wholly unprepared for the booty-shaking, tequila-shotting, banana-boating sin that was rumored to ensue on the Xtreme Trips getaway my friends and I planned to attend this year. In our senior year, my pledge class is a group of 13 girls who've been friends since we were freshmen.
It isn't often that America's most prestigious university is in the news for negatives. However, Harvard University has hit headlines constantly over the last few months after a scandal within the Ivy League's undergraduate school, Harvard College, led to a controversial email search of resident deans. Concerns arose over the potential privacy invasion, but that doesn't mean Harvard's hunt wasn't justified. The school was cast into the spotlight back in August when Harvard publicly revealed nearly half of the students in a 279-student government class were suspected of having cheated on a take-home final exam.
It felt like I was finally making it. After years of writing, I finally got my first scholarship. The money funded my stay at Time Square's Sheraton Hotel, where the College Media Convention - one of the nation's most well known learning events for college journalists - was being held. My 29th-floor room fit my youthful hubris.
For three months last spring, Eddie Montesdeoca was homeless. His friends' floors were his bed. Alumni Arena's showers were his bathroom.
Last Friday felt like any other Friday. I went to class, picked up some Wendy's afterward and sat on my couch for the rest of the afternoon sending silly memes to my roommate while he was at work.
Through a 10-year study, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has proved a new method of treating post-concussion patients. In January, UB released evidence that proved the effectiveness of an aerobic exercise program in treating athletic and non-athletic patients and restoring normal cognitive function after a concussion. Research in post-concussion patients began in response to the traditional protocol of dealing with injured athletes, according to Barry Willer, director of research for the UB Concussion Management Clinic and professor of psychiatry.
Before this year's spring break, the last vacation I'd been on that I could remember was to Puerto Rico when I was 7 years old. I spent the week having my hair braided by local women and playing with a Beanie Baby parrot that my mom bought me at the hotel gift shop, which I cried hysterically over after an overzealous playmate snapped off its TY tag in the heat of an argument. Needless to say, I was wholly unprepared for the booty-shaking, tequila-shotting, banana-boating sin that was rumored to ensue on the Xtreme Trips getaway my friends and I planned to attend this year. In our senior year, my pledge class is a group of 13 girls who've been friends since we were freshmen.
The men's basketball team entered this season a year removed from one of the best seasons the program has ever produced. The Bulls played much of this season with new players earning a significant increase in minutes, including a true freshman with the reins at point guard, and failed to reach the aspirations of last year's success.
On a rare occasion and for a fleeting second, the elephant in the room was too big to ignore. But the decision quickly turned into a matter of who let it come in in the first place. This past Sunday, Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays, 16 and 17 years old respectively, were found guilty Sunday of raping a 16-year-old and were sentenced to a year in juvenile prison.
Before this year's spring break, the last vacation I'd been on that I could remember was to Puerto Rico when I was 7 years old. I spent the week having my hair braided by local women and playing with a Beanie Baby parrot that my mom bought me at the hotel gift shop, which I cried hysterically over after an overzealous playmate snapped off its TY tag in the heat of an argument. Needless to say, I was wholly unprepared for the booty-shaking, tequila-shotting, banana-boating sin that was rumored to ensue on the Xtreme Trips getaway my friends and I planned to attend this year. In our senior year, my pledge class is a group of 13 girls who've been friends since we were freshmen.
On March 14, The Spectrum was notified that Editor in Chief Aaron Mansfield had received a Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence award for his sports columns. The actual place awarded will be announced at the SPJ Region 1 Spring Conference, which will be held April 12-13 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Jody Kleinberg Biehl, The Spectrum's faculty adviser and director of UB's Journalism Certificate Program, submitted four of Mansfield's columns to nominate him for the award.
Rumors circulating on the internet claim Kendrick Lamar, Steve Aoki, Bad Rabbits and 5 & A Dime will be performing at UB on April 14, the confirmed date for Spring Fest. On Friday afternoon, post-R&B group, Bad Rabbits announced their involvement in Karmaloop presents: Campus Verge Tour on Facebook, along with an image listing their show dates and rapper Kendrick Lamar, electro-house musician Steve Aoki and DJ/producer 5 & A Dime as their tour mates. The image lists a 13-city tour, which will start at University of Central Florida on April 9 and conclude at SUNY Cortland on April 27.
Four years ago when Kyle McJury was pledging to his fraternity, the freshman would fill his free time cleaning out yards and shoveling driveways for the elderly and disabled residents who couldn't do it themselves. Today, McJury, a senior finance major and vice president of community service for UB's Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa chapter participates in various community service projects with the fraternity. Founded in 1925, Delta Sigma Pi, a national fraternity, is the university's largest professional business fraternity that prides itself on its involvement in the community.
Whether you are a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior, there will be that moment when you have a sinking feeling of panicked bewilderment. What are you going to be when you grow up? My parents, aunts, uncles, friends and teachers have been asking me this question for as long as I can remember.
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