"Sold out" was an understatement - the place was packed. Wednesday night at the Town Ballroom, kids were popping out of the woodwork right up until headliner Motion City Soundtrack stormed the stage.The Minneapolis-based rockers opened with "Capital H" from their old album, which instantly had the crowd moving as one.
Most college students don't start the first day of their freshman year thinking about their plans for graduate school.
Ilia Nossov gave up his presidential aspirations when he abandoned his UB Evolved efforts and began campaigning on behalf of the Progress party on Wednesday.The move raised eyebrows with the UB Advocates, who offered suspicions that Nossov was promised a job with a potential Progress administration.
The year 1992 was the hottest year on record, until it was eclipsed by 2002. That was overtaken by 2005, and experts say that record isn't safe either.According to energy policy attorney Luis Martinez, who lectured on ending global warming at Lafayette Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, temperatures aren't getting any cooler, "global warming won't wait." According to Martinez, whose lecture was sponsored by the UB Green office, climate change is happening so rapidly that people must act now if they hope to save the planet.Since 1979, the size of the North Pole has decreased by more than 25 percent.
This year's Student Association elections have been filled with questionable campaign tactics, and as the elections came to a close on Thursday, both the UB Advocates and Progress party continued to level allegations of dirty politics.Following Tuesday's reports of an e-mail from Viqar Hussain that was sent to the UB athletes listserv, Progress party candidates have alleged that the UB Advocates were "dorm-storming," or distributing campaign flyers throughout the residence halls and slipping them underneath dorm room doors.If UB Advocates did personally slip flyers into dorm rooms, that would be a violation of Residence Halls policy."Tuesday I got out of the shower and saw the flyers underneath my residents' doors, and they were under my door," said Ashonte Stills, a junior academic assistant and Progress candidate for SUNY SA.
Every four years, society must endure the mud-slinging contest that some may refer to as the presidential elections.
Sometimes getting back to basics is just what the doctor ordered, especially for a team that had piled up a mere nine hits and no runs in the last three games.All that changed Wednesday, when the baseball team scored 11 runs to win its game against the Canisius Golden Griffins, 11-3."I'd like to take credit for getting the hitters out of their slumps, but we just told them after that long weekend to get back to basics and swing at pitches in their zone," said head baseball coach Bill Breene.From the outset, the players showed that they value the advice of their coach highly.
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In search of an offense that disappeared for the past week, the softball team traveled to the University of Pittsburgh to take on the Panthers in a doubleheader at Trees field Wednesday afternoon.
UB has a lot of open space, but some in the administration would like to see that space better used.
From their shotgun-sinning lyrics, head-cracking snare hits, aggressive guitar riffs, and rumbling bloody bass lines, Jersey boys My Chemical Romance are famous for giving 110 percent to their fans on and off stage.
Following up their freshman effort on Epitaph records, "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count," with an equally amazing album could have proven a difficult feat.
The Town Ballroom will be the hot spot this Wednesday as upcoming power-punk band Motion City Soundtrack rolls into Buffalo on their "Commit This to Memory" tour.
From dancing in the nutcracker with the Pittsburgh ballet in elementary school to being the coxswain for the Buffalo rowers, senior Kaitlin Buchheit has learned a lot about her sense of balance.
Zacarias Moussaoui isn't fighting for his life. The surly character who has been chosen as the hangman for the U.S.
Plagiarism today is easier than it ever has been. Combine the simplicity of cutting and pasting with access to the Internet, and ripping off someone else's work can be an attractive shortcut for many students.
Candidates for SA elections only have about a week to campaign on campus, and even then it's all but limited to a small square of floor in the Student Union.
Nestled into the end of a hallway in Fargo, a quiet dorm room provides a gamer sanctuary for Rocco Bacelli and his two roommates.
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