News
UB 2020 receives official local support
By REN LAFORME | Jan. 21, 2009Elected officials from Western New York and UB officials gathered downtown on Friday to announce a bill that asks for Albany's support with the UB 2020 growth plan.?
Grant to pave a new way
By KEELEY SHEEHAN | Jan. 21, 2009The United States Department of Education has awarded a $4.7 million grant to a UB professor and his son to aid their efforts in making public transportation more accessible for people with disabilities.?
Victorian bedrooms and scrambled eggs
By TIMOTHY MONAHAN | Jan. 21, 2009In a fast-paced American society that's full of everything modern and shiny, it's easy to overlook the old-fashioned bed-and-breakfasts scattered across the Western New York region.?
The beginning of the end
By STEPHANIE SCIANDRA | Jan. 16, 2009Thousands are expecting the world to end three years from now, perhaps an education won't be as useful as we think, stop studying.
International Bowl provides new experience for athletes
By SAMANTHA HICKS | Jan. 16, 2009Something amazing happened on Jan. 3. For the first time in Buffalo's history, the football team played in a bowl game.
Smoking ban gets students burning
By TIMOTHY MONAHAN | Jan. 16, 2009With the impeding university-wide smoking ban around the corner, students are sounding off with both delight and discontent.
A home showcasing of latest 3-D tech
By Matt Mosher | Jan. 16, 2009Imagine sitting in the comfort of your own home, watching a brand new action-packed movie. Suddenly, the movie erupts from the TV and comes to life, explosions bursting out of the screen and casting a fiery red-orange glow around the entire room.
This modern viewership
By Editorial | Jan. 16, 2009Johannes Mehserle has been formally charged with murder for the New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old male who was detained after being involved in a fight on a subway train in Oakland, CA.
MAC Championship bound?
By David Sanchirico | Jan. 16, 2009During the fall, the football team, tired of earning the reputation of "losers," shocked the world and won the Mid-American Conference Championship against Ball State.
Bulls roll on the road
By Andrew Wiktor | Jan. 16, 2009While many students were killing time between semesters, the wrestling team competed throughout the country for supremacy on the mats.The Bulls (9-4, 1-0 Mid-American Conference) traveled to Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio and Iowa with the hopes of gaining experience against quality wrestling programs.
Spectrum attempts to settle with proposal
By PHIL LUCSOK AND STEPHEN MARTH | Jan. 16, 2009When students went home for winter break, leadership from both The Spectrum and the Student Association (SA) were hoping that a resolution to the current crisis brewing between the two organizations would come to fruition.
Lady Bulls continue downward spiral
By DAVID SANCHIRICO AND BRIAN MEINDL | Jan. 16, 2009For the women's basketball team, fortunes have been anything but good. On Wednesday night, a productive second half could not save the Bulls (4-12, 0-3 Mid-American Conference). Poor shooting doomed the Bulls as they lost to Kent State (12-3, 1-2 MAC) 79-61.
Football success rubs off on UB
By STEPHANIE SCIANDRA | Jan. 16, 2009As the Buffalo Bulls landed a chance to participate in the 2009 International Bowl, their Cinderella story was sealed.











