Newly elected SA President Adolyn Cofie wants students to feel more important on campus. She wants them to feel their concerns are being addressed and they have an outlet for their problems.
“If you can do one thing, be an “Adeline” in the world,” Brent wrote. “Be passionate about helping others less fortunate, have a smile on your face, a laugh in your heart, and a Disney tune on your lips.”
UB is charging around 16,000 students up to $1,000 in fees for services they won’t have access to this fall.
In 2019, UB spent close to $46 million on athletics, with a 56% subsidy, making UB the highest athletics spender among Division 1 schools and the third highest subsidizer, according to a report done by Eastern Michigan University analytics professor, Howard Bunsis.
Last year, dozens of the Latin American Student Association's roughly 300 members gathered in the flag room during Hispanic Heritage Month to dance merengue, salsa and bachata. This year, students carried on the tradition, but danced at home in front of their computer screens instead.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a prominent women's rights activist known for her ceiling-smashing work as the second female Supreme Court Justice, died yesterday of complications due to metastatic pancreatic cancer today, aged 87.
After a three day election, senior political science and philosophy major Adolyn Cofie has been named SA president for the 2020-21 school year.
Student Association elections, which were postponed from March 24 to March 26 due to COVID, are taking place online today through September 16.
UB dropped nine spots in the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released Monday.
UB men’s basketball player Malik Zachery was arrested by North Tonawanda Police after allegedly stabbing a Canisius men’s basketball player during a pick-up game Wednesday.
Daniel Richter, a former UB student, will serve 24 months in prison for threatening to harm his former UB professor.
Amherst Police took a larceny suspect into custody near UB’s north campus Monday.
The UB Police department received 19 calls regarding COVID-19 violations last week, according to a redacted complaint summary obtained by The Spectrum Friday.
Tombstone-shaped picket signs marked the grounds of UB’s south campus lawn on Friday morning, August 14. But as of September 3, UB administrators have remained dead silent about the grim presentation.
Just four days after campus reopened for the fall semester, the school is already reporting 46 known cases of COVID-19. That number is expected to rise in the coming days, as UB begins surveillance testing and students continue to mingle with their peers.
Over the past few months, UB has attempted to roll out one of the most ambitious plans in the institution’s 175-year history: reopening campus amid a global pandemic.
With pressure mounting, UB announced Tuesday that it will begin random COVID-19 surveillance testing next week.
Campus Living is reporting a 37% reduction in on-campus housing assignments, from 7,864 students in fall 2019 to 4,817 students in fall 2020. This figure does not include residential advisors, community assistants or academic assistants.
UB will strip the names of racist namesakes Millard Fillmore, James O. Putnam and Peter B. Porter from four campus locations.
Students living on-campus will not be permitted to host guests in their rooms, according to the updated 2020-21 housing agreement released by Campus Living last week.
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