When Donnie Burtless went to UB, he only dined at two restaurants: Burger King and Young Chow. He didn't eat eggs until he was 24 years old.
The City of Buffalo is a historic one, and it dates back all the way back to the late 1700s. Did you know it was once the eighth-largest city in the United States?
There's that old saying that goes, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." On Friday, the Homeless Alliance of Western New York released "Opening Doors: Buffalo and Erie County Community Plan to End Homelessness," a planto eliminate chronic homelessness by 2017. The report claims the community could save as much as $8,893 per client providing immediate and permanent housing for chronically homeless persons (defined by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as being without a home for one year or longer or four or more times in a three-year period). Money is the universal language, though.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has narrowed its search for a new dean to four finalists. The search committee has chosen Liesl Folks, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Fotis Sotiropoulos and Joseph Hartman as the top candidates for the position. One of these four will replace Harvey G.
UB expected 40 students to take advantage of gender-neutral housing (GNH). Twenty-three students are participating in the new housing option.
One year ago, the UB Students for Life set up 300 miniature wood crosses only to find them defaced differently five times.
Mitt Romney's recent bump in the numbers has been replaced by a small bump in the road following Friday's September unemployment report. Despite plotting to basically take down the full staff of PBS, the nation's rate of unemployment unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent in September, down from 8.1 percent last month and marking the lowest it's been since President Obama took office in Jan.
Five students were arrested on Tuesday when police seized three guns, cocaine, marijuana, pills, $800 in cash and other illegal drugs from their University Heights home. Exercise science majors Cameron Hom, John Marchant and Jared Eder; School of Management student Ethan Mirenberg; and undecided major Michael Daley were arrested from their 86 W.
Adam Gassman couldn't concentrate on studying for his law school final; he was too distracted and angered by the news media.
Phillips Stevens Jr. is heading to Nigeria next month and is coming back to UB with a new title: chief. Stevens, an associate professor of anthropology, is going to Nigeria on Nov.
It's coming. The coughing, the sneezing, the watery eyes and the endless tissues. Your roommate has it: her boyfriend has it, your professor has it and that girl who sits behind you has it.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of students dressed in black and white congregated to Knox 20 to pay tribute to a soldier who was driven to commit suicide after enduring months of bullying and hazing from his superiors. As they filled the lecture hall, a white tri-fold board that said, "We Are Danny Chen," stood in front of the room and faced all in attendance.
Students charged with political excitement filed into the Union Wednesday night, gearing up to watch President Barak Obama and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney duke it out in the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. With provided popcorn in hand and laptops open, students live tweeted and followed fact checking online as Obama and Romney debated numerous polices, the economy, healthcare and tax plans.
In the past two weeks, Buffalo Police has searched two houses on W. Northrup Place for drugs. On Thursday, University Police confirmed students were arrested from 86 W.
"If you had a million dollars and you didn't have to work, what would you do?" It is an admittedly
Last year, the UB's Alpine Ski Team sent five varsity men and five varsity women to the conference regional qualifiers at Bristol Mountain Winter Resort in Bristol, N.Y.
Oct. 3, 1992 is my documented birthday. But I don't consider it the day I was born. The revamped Jake Knott was propelled into existence sometime around sixth or seventh grade, when my dad opened life's curtains and exposed my mind to true cinema.
I hate UB meal plans. I really do. It's time for some real food. But unless you buy ingredients from the Elli or CVS with Campus Cash, you need to spend real money.
After a below-average performance in the Cornell Invitational, the women's tennis team stepped up and crushed Big Four rival Niagara - securing its first win in its first contest of the year. The Bulls (1-0) came away with a dominant 7-0 victory when they hosted the Purple Eagles (0-1) this Saturday at the University Tennis Center. "I think we played well against Niagara," said junior Tanvi Shah.
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