It was a series of highs and lows for Bulls baseball during the first two games of a three-game set with Mid-American Conference rival Akron.The baseball team split the first two games of the weekend series with the Zips on Friday and Saturday.
Male Athlete of the YearKyle CerminaraTaking down the competition, this dominant wrestler compiled a 36-1 regular season record in his senior year while breaking university records for career wins, takedowns, and dual meet victories.
In its first-ever Mid-American Conference championship, the women's tennis team was shutout by perennial powerhouse Western Michigan, 4-0.The Bulls finished with their best regular season since entering the MAC in the 1999-2000 season, and head coach Kathy Twist is positive about the team's chances for next year."They were excellent today, every court was battling," Twist said.
The UB Zen Buddhism Club threw an atypical birthday party on Saturday.With activities including meditation, crafts and a feast, the celebration in the Student Union honored the 2,500th anniversary of the birth of Guatama Buddha.Born Siddhartha Gautama around 563 B.C.E.
When someone challenges you to a white-off, don't panic. They aren't calling your racial identity into question.
Warde Manuel stepped onto UB's campus as the university's new Athletics Director eight months ago, and with the academic year coming to a close, Manuel sees both successes in his first year here and places in which he can improve."I'd probably give myself a C, mainly because I give the effort I give and I think it's substantial and I put heart and soul into my job but I always think that there's room for improvement," Manuel said.
The last thing 40-year-old men and women need is a drama-comedy flick to tell them how bad life can be at that age.
David Schirm's "Welcome to the Promise Land" conveys a mastery of subtlety. Lavish arrays of color seep through to construe an unordinary world.Schirm's work is displayed on the CFA's second-floor gallery through May 20.
"United 93"Opens Friday, April 28AMC Maple Ridge, Elmwood Regal, Transit RegalDirector Paul Greengrass has a taste for the tragic.
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The Student Association secured the most high-level positions out of any school in the SUNY Student Assembly last weekend, winning three e-board spots at the organization's spring conference.New SUNY SA delegates Christopher Mendoza, Melody Mercedes and Eliot Sherman each won positions at the Saratoga Springs meeting, which was their first conference and SUNY experience."We're the only school that got three members elected," Mercedes said.
Drop the book bag, kick off those shoes and socks, grab a mat, and get ready to stretch your horizons at one of UB's yoga classes.It is instructor Jacqueline Bogdan's hope that after 45 minutes of stretching, twisting, balancing, and synchronizing every move with their breaths, students will have worked out some of the kinks of everyday life."Sometimes I fall asleep at the end," Kelly Vo, a senior social sciences major, said.Vo, who goes to the gym on alternate days, uses the Tuesday and Thursday yoga classes to stretch and relax."It is really relaxing," Vo said.
After spending six days at the Erie County Medical Center, the Porter Quad resident who fell out of his fourth-floor dorm room was released in good condition, according to University Police.
Re: "Helping kids rise above autism" (April 26), the local number to get involved with the Son-Rise program is (716) 639-7395.
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