The final week of The Spectrum Challenge has finally arrived. Now it is up to the competitors to let the habits they have developed over the past four weeks become lifelong changes in their every day lives.Although Joyce Wang only lost one pound, she began frequenting the gym at Governors regularly and has addressed her tendency to overeat at each meal.
He's sinewy. He's ripped. And he knows it.When Joe Seldin, a fifth year psychology major with an accent so distinct it could only mean he is from Long Island, decided to join the Mr. Buffalo bodybuilding contest April 7 at the Center for the Arts, he knew he had a lot of work ahead of him.
Here we are, folks, halfway through the second four years of the second Bush administration. In the past six years we've seen Republicans and Democrats alike back "speculative facts" in the form of WMDs, a near-perfect smear campaign against the very "smear-able" John Kerry (props Karl Rove), an economic scandal involving Cheney's Halliburton, questionable democracy within the Patriot Act and events down in Guantanamo and, oh yeah - the war is still going on.
Jill Esposito, the aerobics and program director with the Buffalo Athletic Club on Niagara Falls Boulevard, knows first hand how difficult it is to stay in shape while going to school full time.As an undergraduate studying exercise science at UB, she can remember rollerblading with friends along the bike path during the spring and summer, but the winter months were always the most difficult between classes, work and assignments.
As the weather gets warmer, conference play is heating up for the Bulls. The women's tennis team went 1-1 on the weekend, as they defeated Bowling Green on Friday but fell to nationally ranked Western Michigan on Saturday.
In the future, wireless technology will work seamlessly and in the background, according to Mark Shepard, assistant professor of architecture and media study at UB.Shepard presented the last installment of the Cutting Edge Lecture Series, entitled "Media, Architecture and Computing in a Wireless World," held Saturday in the Center for the Arts.
You can only have your heart broken so many times. Unable to pull out close games all season, the Buffalo baseball team knew it was only a matter of time before a close one went their way.
Two positions that will help shape UB over the next seven years were filled last week when Jonathan A.
The vibrant Saturday night air was filled with pride as Jambo Africa 2007 celebrated community across cultures in Harriman Hall on South Campus."Jambo" is the word for "Hello" in Swahili.
Alright, it's recipe time. Grab one handful of self-snapped nude photos taken at your parents' house, throw in a couple life-threatening bouts of depression, countless online blog battles, write some songs about it and what do you get?
The University at Buffalo University Council elections are currently underway. Voting began Monday at 9 a.m.
According to a study from the UB Regional Institute, violent crime is high in Buffalo, and police officer levels are low.The recent policy brief, "Violent Crime in the City of Good Neighbors," described the Institute's finding - that Buffalo is one of the only cities found to have both a higher violent crime rate and fewer police officers than the group average.
So this is what the music industry has come to.A few months ago, I hopped into my younger brother's car for a ride."What are we listening to?" I asked."Just some commercial rap from two weeks ago," he replied.My brother wasn't knocking rap in general, but rather what passes for "rap" today.
The Decemberists could sing the phone book and it would sound good, but it would be more their style to sing the dictionary.
Every year when I hear that the first pitches of baseball season are being thrown out, the oldest image that I can remember comes into my mind: sitting in my stroller at the age of two watching one of my dad's softball games in Schiller Park on the East Side of Buffalo.In a few years, after leaving the now gang-ridden area of the Queen City, I would eventually line up in the batter's box and grow an infectious love for sports in general just like my dad did.
They may look like dimwits and act like imbeciles, but don't let that fool you. They're liberals.
The 14th Dalai Lama has made plans to revisit the United States by participating in a local Foreign Leadership Exchange program, trading places in America with used vehicle tycoon Billy Fuccillo.The program, started by Amherst Town associate director executive vice-chair for information Dennis Black, will launch a new era of learning and peace by August 2007.
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