As of 1:50 p.m. on Friday afternoon, Sikander M. Khan has resigned from his position as SA Treasurer, effective immediately, following the $300,000 Virtual Academix scandal and police investigation. Khan declined comment for the time being. The decision comes five days after the Senate began a petition to initiate Khan's recall.
There were two outs, runners on first and second base, and the count in the pitcher's favor. When all seemed lost, a rookie player on the softball team connected on a moonshot into deep left-center field.
I'm Nathaniel Smith. I'm a 23-year-old African American from the Big Apple. I love basketball, I love baseball, and I love football. But there is a special spot in my heart for hockey. I know, a black guy, loving hockey?
Student Association Treasurer Sikander Khan sent out the 2012-13 proposed budget on Monday after not attending Sunday's Senate meeting. At that meeting, Senate started a petition to recall Khan and suspended his pay. Engineering Coordinator Dan Pastuf made a budget because Khan failed to make his own budget by the April 14 deadline.
Mia Jorgensen, the incumbent University Council Student Representative, is running for re-election.
Current incumbent Mia Jorgensen's position as University Council Student Representative is being challenged by junior business major Daniel Ovadia.
Allen Aucoin's alias, Dr. Fameus, suggests he's used to life in the limelight. Aucoin, "a born again DJ," has been famous for years - he's the drummer for the electronica band, The Disco Biscuits. But he decided to voyage into a new frontier while the band is on a break from touring.
The majority of students aren't getting their books off shelves - they're getting them online. Others don't buy them at all.
With a week left in the NBA regular season, there are a number of Finals contenders that have question marks written all over their injury-rattled rosters.
The baseball team has found just about every way to lose this year. It has watched other teams celebrate walk-off victories, its pitching has allowed more runs than the offense can keep up with, and the offense has been completely silent.
The longer days, warmer weather, and the smell of fresh cut grass can only mean one thing: it's spring.
"I would say to Sikander that I am disappointed that he did not attend the Senate meeting on Sunday to answer the senators' questions. We all have concerns about this whole situation and how this all happened. I would also ask why the two senators, myself and Sarah McCreary, who voted against moving the $300,000 from the Cash and Investments line in to the Projects line, were left off the list of senators who were presented to and asked to sign a proposal about Virtual Academix."
On Tuesday, the online poll for the University Council Student Representative opened and will remain open until Thursday, April 19.
For centuries literary critics, theorists, and analysts have traced the roots of popular themes and aesthetics back to surprising historical periods and works of literature. Last Friday, at Scholars at Hallwalls, Ramon Soto-Crespo, associate professor of American Studies and author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico, gave a lecture on his experience in this realm of literary exploration and how it will impact the last chapter of his upcoming book, Biotropics. "In my research for that project I became captivated by the emergence of 'white trash' subjectivity as a byproduct of slave emancipation in the Caribbean," Soto-Crespo said. This discovery inspired Soto-Crespo to start reading long-forgotten pulp fiction - cheap writings focused on sensationalist topics.
UB is making its campus more accessible to people with disabilities, and this weekend, for the first time ever, it held a symposium opening the conversation about future advancements. This idea was the center of the "Diversity in Disability" Symposium, held on Saturday at the Center for Tomorrow from 9 a.m.
On Sunday evening, the Student Association made the decision to start a petition to initiate recall proceedings against SA Treasurer Sikander Khan.
The Student Association Senate derecognized the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on Sunday, finally reaching a decision after months of controversy about the club's constitution, which requires officers to endorse Christian beliefs. The Senate also resolved that next year's SA will review each club's governing documents between May 1 and Aug.
On Sunday evening, the Student Association made the decision to start a petition to initiate recall proceedings against SA Treasurer Sikander Khan. The Senate would not be initiating recall proceedings as a legislative body, but as members of the student body.
The Student Association Senate derecognized the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on Sunday, finally reaching a decision after months of controversy about the club's constitution, which requires officers to endorse Christian beliefs.
UB President Satish K. Tripathi met on Wednesday with students and faculty to discuss the last year in office and his vision for the future of the university. Tripathi was appointed in April of last year; "Realizing Our Vision, Transforming Our Future," was an open forum held about possible plans moving forward while Tripathi is in office. Tripathi talked about his plans to hire approximately 250 to 300 new faculty members to support the students - he hopes to bring in more quality students as soon as possible. "We must become better," Tripathi said.
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