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.
It was only a matter of time before the Buffalo men's baseball team won a close game. The Bulls have lost six games this season but finally changed their fortune this weekend by taking two out of three games from Mid-American Conference foe Western Michigan.
It has been almost seven months since the closing of the M&F University Grocery and Deli, but under new ownership and with an optimistic outlook towards the future, the shop's bright red "OPEN" lights are shining once again.
Year two of the Turner Gill coaching regime officially got under way Saturday afternoon at the annual Blue and White football game.The UB Stadium welcomed fans for previewing next year's squad and they witnessed the Bulls' offensive team (White) come out against the defensive squad (Blue) 51-32.
Students are losing seats in the Health and Sciences Library on South Campus - displaced by local teenagers and homeless people.
As time stubbornly ticks away, the American citizens that embody the proud United States continue to become more and more sensitive and outraged with every thing that is seen, said, or acted out.
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Buried in the back pages of newspapers and passed over in favor of moreDon Imus coverage, some very sad news came and went.
We, the undersigned, for the purpose of bettering our school and community, object to the presence of a National Guard recruitment office for the following reasons:- UB is a state school, and so required to field the occasional presence of recruiters, but is the only SUNY school to allow recruiters to utilize student resources, such as an office.
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