All I ask of a sports fan is that they know what they are talking about and can express that opinion without getting red in the face.
This is a time to reflect on tragedy and to slowly come to grips with what we have learned. Our counterparts at Virginia Tech have been affected in life-changing ways, and the last thing any of them deserve to hear right now is what's at fault in their system.The same could be said of a nation injured again by violence in schools.
It was a weekend of mixed results for the rowing team as the Bulls sent two teams into the Grand Finals and two into the Petite Finals in the Knecht Cup at Villanova on Saturday."I think of all the events, this Knecht Cup was a very well attended and very competitive regatta," said head coach Rudy Wieler.
After the Don Imus fallout, I realized not only how often women are degraded in music, but how fun it is as well.
It had been a long time since the Buffalo softball team was able to win a game, let alone a close game.
Hadisubroto and Villa named Athletes of the WeekSenior Yules Hadisubroto of the men's tennis team and junior Tina Villa of the track and field team have been named Athletes of the Week.Hadisubroto improved his singles record this season to 18-13 with his efforts this weekend.
Students nationwide will be joining together this spring with something profound to say: nothing.
A professor in the Graduate Department of Learning and Education recently took on a countrywide endeavor in education when he was appointed to the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel.
Zombified college kids stagger and drag their way towards a small faction of survivors consisting of a couple, a pregnant woman, a jaded cop and a comedian who always gets it first.
In 2003, Jayson Blair scared mass media in a way that it will never fully recover from. He wrote one fabrication after another, and they were put into print as fact - by The New York Times, no less.Now, in 2007, a shock jock who hit it big with an on-air routine of name-calling and bipartisan political bashing has been fired for an off-the-cuff racist statement.What do these two cases have in common?
Locking down the Virginia Tech University campus would be akin to shutting down a small city - and even then, there's no guarantee that a student concealing weapons couldn't find a way in, campus security experts said."In this situation, the shooter was a legitimate student who had an ID card," said Robert Rowan, director of the emergency response team at the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus.
Amidst the grief and controversy following the shootings at Virginia Tech on Monday, the question that most concerns some UB officials is, what would we have done?"Colleges and universities should be - and generally are - safe havens... places where the currency is ideas, not violence.
Students armed with work gloves and trash bags took to the streets on Sunday for the Student Association
Although the horror of 32 innocent students and professors on Monday at Virginia Tech was several hundred miles away, shock and sadness have gripped many at UB.
In an age when rock is flooded with bands that cite influences like Jimmy Eat World and Blink-182, it
The Buffalo Central Terminal again became a junction of sorts when 35 student artists converged to demonstrate their highly variegated senior theses this Sunday.The exhibition, titled
Imagine a gorgeous summer day with the clearest blue sky ever seen in Buffalo. Now imagine a lone Frisbee zooming across the sky, being chased after by group of high-spirited college students.
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