OUTpatient, a LGBTQ club from UB’s Jacobs’ School of Medicine, organized a different kind of protest to Michael Knowles’ on-campus speech.
The auditorium had reached full capacity, leaving some who waited in line unable to attend the event.
Young Americans for Freedom hosted Michael Knowles, a conservative political commentator, on Thursday night in Slee Hall. Hundreds of students gathered to protest the speech.
Conservative political pundit Michael Knowles spoke at Slee Hall on UB’s North Campus as a guest speaker invited by the UB chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) Thursday night.
The protester, who is not affiliated with UB, was charged with harassment, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
The data breach of UB Box Office’s third party vendor, AudienceView, may have compromised customer information from August 2022 to February 2023, an investigation by the UB Information Security Office found.
Attendees will have to pass through security checks and be wanded.
The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) received a “steady stream” of calls, emails and contact forms regarding conservative commentator Michael Knowles’ speech slated for this Thursday, according to EDI Director Sharon Nolan-Weiss.
The Erie County District Attorney’s office announced it won’t press charges against any individuals in connection with the events surrounding Allen West's speech last semester.
Knowles, a host at The Daily Wire, has drawn national and local criticism after delivering a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in which he said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”
A lawyer for the family confirmed that a grand jury has been convened in connection with the case.
UB students with religious and medical exemptions no longer have to undergo mandatory weekly surveillance testing as of the fall 2022 semester.
Campus Dining soft-reopened two dining locations — Whispers Café and Hubies — on Feb. 27, and both locations started their normal operating hours Monday.
UB won’t bar conservative political commentator Michael Knowles from speaking on campus because of its need to “uphold the principles of the First Amendment,” the university said in a statement Sunday.
Reconstruction will likely take place over the next three to five weeks.
Some UB house staff said that they have “continuously been overworked and underpaid” on an anonymously created website.
Michael Knowles will speak at Slee Hall on Thursday, March 9 as a guest for the Young Americans for Freedom. The speech was originally slated for April 26, 2022, weeks after another YAF-sponsored speech by Allen West sparked student protests on North Campus.
Although shootings at institutions of higher education are rare, police stressed the importance of developing a personal escape and lockdown plan.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her Fiscal Year 2024 New York State Executive Budget proposal at UB’s North Campus on Monday.
It remains unknown how many of the 292 affected customers are UB students.
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