With the pressing need to find a roof to have over their heads next semester, some students are ditching the usual University Heights scene for a more welcoming, dependable area: The Elmwood Village and Allentown.Residents here feel assured that if their roof were to suddenly start leaking in the wet winter months, their landlord would be readily available to fix the problem.
Waking up to the smell of rotting garbage, some UB students dress in bitter cold bedrooms and slush through snow to their cars, hoping they're still there.
Third time is not the charm for the Christian-rock group Anberlin. Their newest album, "Cities," is more like a listless sequel of their sophomore release "Never Take Friendship Personal."One of the first things listeners will notice is frontman Stephen Christian's hearty voice.
Women who have endured a miscarriage usually have few options for preventative treatment until they miscarry multiple times.
For the 15-year-old kids in the gifted math program on the second floor of Baldy, "Full of It" might seem like a great film.
Senior Managing Editor Silas Rader was elected the Editor in Chief of The Spectrum for the 2007-2008 academic year Monday night by the paper's Editorial Board."Being afforded such an opportunity as to lead a student publication at SUNY's flagship institution is a tremendous honor," Rader said.
The expense of a vacation is a big factor for students deciding to stay home, but they say they are finding other ways to fill up their time while being productive.Courtney Huether, a sophomore political science major, found a job in her hometown of Rochester during spring break week."I am working at Abercrombie," Huether said.
Growing up in an Italian family, I was raised into the Catholic religion as Italians always are. Up until now, as an essentially non-practicing Catholic, I was under the impression that God was an unobtainable, unseen power.
Move over Drew Carey, the Bulls are coming to town again.It's been four years since the men's basketball team failed to advance to the second round of the Mid-American Conference tournament and coincidentally, it's been four years since the Bulls were seeded lower than eight.This year, the Bulls head to Cleveland as the 10th seed, preparing to face off against seventh seeded Central Michigan at 5 p.m.
Nothing beats the classics. When describing The Feeling, the first group that comes to mind is The Beatles, another classic British band.
After sweeping Marshall the last time the two squads competed in May of 2005, Marshall returned the favor defeating the Bulls in four straight this weekend.The Bulls (1-6) are currently on a six game skid having lost four this past weekend to the Thundering Herd (6-2). The teams played two double-headers at Epling Field in West Virginia, where they struggled at the plate and lacked consistency from their starting rotation.In the first game of the series, Buffalo showed some offensive firepower scoring eight runs in the first two innings.
Two standout performances highlighted the ECAC/IC4A Championships this past weekend for the men's and women's indoor track teams.
This past Saturday, the Cutting Edge Lecture Series brought a topic of worldwide concern to the Center for the Arts where renowned paleoclimatologist and assistant UB professor Jason Briner his Arctic research on global warming to an audience of about 125 people.The event was the second in the series and part of UB's "A Greener Shade of Blue" campaign.The large audience was mostly made up of local high school students."The turnout was the largest so far in the series' history," said event organizer Michele Bewley.
An energy saving project which was invested in 10 years ago has been paid in full, and now UB stands to gain an annual savings of $4 million from the investment.
As a local TV show host and director of UB's Pharmacy Residency Program, UB alumna Tammie Lee Demler has left her mark in her field both at UB and throughout New York State.For Demler, putting her focus on the single dream of becoming a pharmacist opened new doors of opportunity she never knew existed."A family friend was a pharmacist and he just loved what he did," Demler said.
With spring break only days away, the push is on to provide safety to those students bound for sexual experiences.
The silver lining in the clouds was easy to find for the men's tennis team in Ithaca, N.Y. on Sunday morning.For the first time in its Division I history, Buffalo (4-6) was able to score more than one point against an Ivy League opponent in dual-meet play.
Overall it was a bittersweet experience for the women's tennis as it endured an up and down two days this weekend.
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