Come Nov. 6, there are two names on the ballot most Americans will recognize. But it is the names under "Barack Obama" and "Mitt Romney" that will likely go unnoticed. Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode and Rocky Anderson are just four of the many third-party candidates who will appear on a ballot in many states this year.
Chris Collins - Republican candidate
Forty-four percent of 1,242 UB students surveyed are voting for President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election. Twenty-three percent said they will vote for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, 13 percent are undecided and 20 percent aren't voting. Distinguished political science professor James Campbell thinks Obama failed to fix the economy in his four years, and it's time Romney takes over.
Buffalo students have started to step out of the college classroom and back into the elementary school classroom.
With the presidential election right around the corner, UB students - along with the rest of the country - are fervently defending their opinions and candidates. Molly Strauss, a senior business administration major, decided the best way to support Mitt Romney was to take to Facebook and comment on her Democratic friends' statuses, harassing anyone who supported Obama. Strauss has begun to alienate her friends with her ignorant and completely inaccurate comments.
Time for a lesson on rape and pregnancy from some of our country's candidates for political office: Todd Akin, Missouri Senate candidate, says pregnancies that result from "legitimate rape" are rare, and women have a way of shutting things down. Rep.
Shana Wirechowski thought showing her parents a room full of human brains was the best way to introduce them to UB. On Wednesday, Wierchowski, a first-year medical student, toured the Museum of Neuroanatomy with her parents.
Anna Schimpf was visiting her friend at UB when she crashed her white SUV into South Lake, the body of water adjacent to South Lake Village on UB's North Campus, at approximately 7 p.m.
Shana Wirechowski thought showing her parents a room full of human brains was the best way to introduce them to UB. On Wednesday, Wierchowski, a first-year medical student, toured the Museum of Neuroanatomy with her parents.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." - President-elect Barack Obama, Election Night 2008 It was a night that all things were possible, not only across America, but in Western New York: Nov.
In order to prepare you as best we can for the upcoming election, we have included the stances of lesser positions that are up for election next Tuesday.
In order to prepare you as best we can for the upcoming election, The Spectrum has broken down each candidate's platform to help you make an informed decision in the voting booth on Tuesday, Nov.
After narrowing the field to four candidates, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has selected Liesl Folks as the new dean of the engineering school. Folks' position will be effective at the beginning of the Spring 2013 semester.
With high rates of unemployment and sluggish economic growth, the fate of the economy is among the most important issues of the presidential campaign.
A late night incident at Buffalo State landed the college on the morning news. Just before 4 a.m., two students were robbed at gunpoint in their dorm room. The suspects took cash and a cell phone and then fled the scene.
Hundreds of students pile into the lecture hall, take their seats and open up their computers to Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter.
At 9 years old, Grace Armbruster faced one of the most challenging obstacles in her life. After struggling with reading in her classes for years, she finally found out why she always felt left behind and wasn't learning things as fast as the rest of her classmates. She is dyslexic. According to research done by Headstrong Nation, one in seven Americans is diagnosed with learning disabilities.
A tradition that lives almost two decades is a force to be reckoned with, especially in the fickle minds of college students.
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