Adeela Khan didn't think twice before forwarding an email about an upcoming Islamic conference in Toronto to fellow Muslims back in 2006. But that simple act didn't go unnoticed by a New York Police Department intelligence analyst more than 300 miles away.
A man unaffiliated with UB stole $1,656.50 worth of textbooks from the UB Bookstore on Saturday. He returned on Monday to try to do it again. Terrance McDuffie, a 24-year-old man from East Amherst, asked a bookstore associate behind the textbook counter to get him four economics textbooks, two of each of them, on Saturday.
As he steps onto the stage, the anxiety builds in the stomach of Yotom Rabinowitz. He sits at the piano in front of hundreds of people, accompanied by six other musicians, ready to preform as an opening act for the Buffalo Philharmonic. The nerves settle in his stomach as he put on a mask of pure concentration that glistens with the sweat of focus, while his fingers glide naturally across the piano keys as the effortless task of making music consumes him. Once his performance ends, he doesn't get to relax.
Soledad O'Brien is a woman who loves to tell stories. At only 45 years old, O'Brien has worked on 25 documentaries for CNN ? she's won numerous awards, traveled across the globe to give a voice to the unheard, and has even extensively researched Martin Luther King Jr.'s private libraries and speech manuscripts. This past Thursday, O'Brien spoke to a sold-out crowd ? full of more than 80 religious, student, and community groups ? at Kleinhan's Music Hall as a part of UB's 25th-annual Distinguished Speaker Series. The speech was also the 36th installment of the university's Martin Luther King Jr.
The Associated Press exposed the New York Police Department over the weekend for keeping extensive and secret records on Muslim student groups in the northeast, including UB's Muslim Student Association. The NYPD investigated MSAs at universities all across the northeast because in the past, numerous people arrested or convicted on terrorism charges had been members of Muslim clubs at school, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the AP. A November 2006 NYPD "Weekly MSA Report" marked "SECRET" details that then-UB MSA member Adeela Khan posted a link to a Muslim event in Toronto on the MSA's website, which featured speakers that the NYPD considered to have ties to "extremist Islamic
Fifty-nine thousand people visited The Spectrum website in the past two days. Almost 23,000 people clicked on Lisa Khoury's column against tattoos. Six hundred forty-four comments came from readers around the globe ? in nations like Australia, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand ? and that's on the website alone. Countless blogs have shared her column, and she's received 827 response emails before press time. The Spectrum has gone viral. On Monday, the newspaper published two columns ? one in defense of tattoos and the other, a counterpoint, against body art.
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