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Comme des Carson
Mar. 26, 2013Editor's note: This article is a satire piece. It is not to be taken literally. 'Carson' is a pen name.
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Presidential candidate concerned about pace of SA incorporation
By TAYLOR BRUNDAGE | Mar. 26, 2013Student Association presidential candidate Carson Ciggia is questioning the motives for and approach to incorporating SA. At a town-hall style information meeting in Norton Hall on Monday at 9 p.m., SA President Travis Nemmer pushed those who attended to encourage other students to vote in favor of incorporation.
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Meet the candidates: SUNY delegates
Mar. 24, 2013Every year, UB undergraduates elect four SUNY delegates to act on the students' behalf in Albany. The four delegates travel to the state capital to meet with members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, raising legislators' awareness of issues that matter to UB students.
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UB's Battle of the Bands crowns opening act for Spring Fest
By FELICIA HUNT | Mar. 24, 2013As an unsigned artist, the struggle to make music while remaining financially stable is a tough feat.
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Eighteen minutes to change perspectives
By ANDREA SAADAN | Mar. 24, 2013Kevin Purdy is looking for normal people - average, everyday people - who are passionate about what they do to speak in front of hundreds of people for 18 minutes. Purdy, a freelance writer, is the founder and license holder of TEDxBuffalo.
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Friday night fight
By SAM FERNANDO | Mar. 24, 2013On Friday night, the Student Association hosted two debates between the candidates for SA president and treasurer.
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Meet the candidates: President
Mar. 24, 2013The president shall serve as the chief executive officer of the Student Association and has the ultimate responsibility for the enforcement of the constitution and bylaws of SA.
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Accusations of injustice shroud SA election
By AARON MANSFIELD | Mar. 24, 2013Student Association Treasurer Justin Neuwirt almost sees this year's election process as a bigger disgrace than last year's $300,000 scandal.
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Meet the candidates: Vice President
Mar. 24, 2013The vice president both directs and assists the Student Association's recognized clubs and student organizations.
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Meet the candidates: Treasurer
Mar. 24, 2013The treasurer is the chief controller of the Student Association's multi-million dollar budget. He or she is in the president's cabinet, is chairperson of the Senate Finance Committee and is a voting member of the Emergency Powers Council.
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Change of pope may cause 'change in melody'
By ERIC CORTELLESSA | Mar. 21, 2013A month after a pope resigned for the first time in over 600 years, Jorge Mario Bergoglio took his place.
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"Us, the students"
Mar. 21, 2013Imagine buying a new book online that you've been looking forward to reading for a while and which you've been told is incredibly beneficial. After a few weeks of anticipation, you get it in the mail, tear apart the package, open the book and find most of the pages have been torn out.
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The all-rounder
By TONG MENG | Mar. 21, 2013The 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.
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Letter to the Editor
By Ellen Dussourd | Mar. 21, 2013Editor'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.
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Students question SA's approach to become not-for-profit
By TAYLOR BRUNDAGE | Mar. 21, 2013UB'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.
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[Spring] breaking tradition
By LISA DE LA TORRE | Mar. 20, 2013Before 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.
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Freedom to information
Mar. 20, 2013It 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.
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Disillusionment at the Sheraton
By Brian Josephs | Mar. 20, 2013It 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.
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Home is where you make it
By SAM FERNANDO | Mar. 20, 2013For three months last spring, Eddie Montesdeoca was homeless. His friends' floors were his bed. Alumni Arena's showers were his bathroom.
