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Year in Review
By MADELEINE BURNS | June 30, 2011There's never a dull moment at UB. To help our newest readers catch up, The Spectrum has compiled a list of the most talked about stories from the 2010-2011 academic year.
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Best Of UB
By AKARI IBURI & STEVEN WROBEL | June 30, 2011Category: Best Library Spectrum Opinion: Oscar A. Silverman Library, Capen Hall
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Akari Iburi
June 14, 2011Hailing from a town where the cows outnumber the humans, I never imagined I would be writing for a student newspaper at a university with nearly 30,000 students as potential readers of my words.
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Madeleine Burns
May 28, 2011I'm a Buffalo baby; I have lived downtown in the beautiful and eclectic Allentown my whole life. I read, write, run, play the piano, watch Law & Order SVU marathons, pry my journalism-loving nose into everyone's business, and am always behind schedule.
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Rebecca Bratek
May 25, 2011If 20-year-old me met 14-year-old me, I think that 14 year old would not believe her eyes.
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The Living Wall' Project Encourages Student Creativity
By Rebecca Bratek | Apr. 28, 2011From simple sketches to an intricate span of wooden modules, first-year School of Architecture students have taken their designs from paper to reality with "The Living Wall." "The Living Wall" is the culmination of a yearlong project in which 80 first-year architecture students have designed and built their own living modules.
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Welp!
By JENNIFER HARB | Apr. 28, 2011I guess I've been thinking of graduation as a major end point. My friends are moving away, I'm going to wander in foreign places for a bit, and I don't really know where we'll all end up.
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"A Little Time, A Lot to Give"
By AMANDA WOODS | Apr. 28, 2011Julia Perot stared at her computer screen, her mind running in overdrive as accounts of the devastation from the 2010 Haitian earthquake flashed across CNN's homepage. Perot, a senior mechanical engineering major, is a unique news consumer in that these stories, combined with her skill set and her personal faith, prompted her to take action. Joined by her twin sister Laura, a senior computer science major, Aaron Boucher, a junior health and human services major, Arthur Adams, a 2010 UB alumnus, her father, and her pastor, she will spend the first week of June in Port-au-Prince serving an orphanage in the still-struggling city. The main goal of the project will be to repair the water tower at the orphanage, which the approximately 100 residents and missionaries have no choice but to bathe in and drink from ? at the risk of infection.
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Reaching New Heights
By Andrew Wiktor | Apr. 27, 2011Every year, thousands of UB students risk their lives by renting homes that violate city and state building codes. In an eight-block radius within the University Heights, 75 landlords rent properties that total hundreds of violations. Since August, four houses rented by UB students caught fire.
