Junior Jessica Lister won her first pole vault event of the outdoor season, bounding 11 feet, 9 3/4 inches at the Raleigh Relays on Saturday.Lister's victory at Paul Derr Track in Raleigh, N.C., was the second in as many weeks for Buffalo pole vaulters.
With the election for next year's Student Association leadership starting on Tuesday, the most crowded race in years is starting to live up to its billing, as each party is expected to be campaigning heavily in the coming days.So far, the competition hasn't spurred any major clashes, but while many students remain apathetic, some have expressed worry over various issues the election has created (see "Letters to the Editor, page 5). And if endorsements are any indicator, the student body seems certainly to be divided.
With the election for next year's Student Association leadership starting on Tuesday, the most crowded race in years is starting to live up to its billing, as each party is expected to be campaigning heavily in the coming days.So far, the competition hasn't spurred any major clashes, but while many students remain apathetic, some have expressed worry over various issues the election has created (see "Letters to the Editor, page 5). And if endorsements are any indicator, the student body seems certainly to be divided.
Earlier this week I had to sit through SA club endorsements for candidates running for SA e-board positions.
If Buffalo's Skyway were to fall tomorrow, no one would cry. Well, maybe if anyone were on the bridge when it fell, but there really aren't that many people who really use it.Destroying the Skyway would get rid of an eyesore, expedite Buffalo waterfront development and probably save taxpayers millions.
Election time always seems to bring out the worst in everybody. With SA elections only a week away, I am sorry to say that the politics have already begun.
I am responding to an article that appeared to stray off your opinions page and landed in the Arts & Life section of your March 24 issue: Alex Nasarewsky's article criticizing the Blocks' study linking party affiliation with childhood personality traits ("Asinine, not academic"). Nasarewsky claimed that the research was "clearly advancing an agenda." Block's agenda was nothing but advancing science.
Where else could one find a giant papier mach?
As a curious and oftentimes concerned member of the student body, I find myself constantly solicited from every direction by abstract notions, like voting for faceless candidates, platforms without even clear plans of realization of their goals, as well as concerns addressed with only appeasing targeted solutions.
The Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace will be headlining Spring Fest on April 21, according to a report on Buffalo's WEDG 103.3 The Edge.Student Association officials would not confirm the band's performance, but SA President Dela Yador said he hopes to make a formal announcement sometime this week.Yador did confirm the concert's Friday date at Alumni Arena."It was real tough, as usual, getting bands locked down," Yador said, "so we had to lock it for the 21st."Yador declined to comment on the WEDG report, made by a disc jockey last week, and said the entire line-up would be announced, as usual, only after all contractual loose ends are tied up.If confirmed, Our Lady Peace will have some competition that night -- pop-punk bands Fall Out Boy and All-American Rejects are scheduled to play at HSBC Arena.
A string of defeats for Buffalo softball grew in bleak fashion over the weekend. On Friday and Saturday, the team was shut out in four games at the East Carolina State Farm Pirate Classic, including a loss to the California Golden Bears, who are ranked No.
Joseph M. Henning, associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology, lectured on "Commemorating the Perry Expedition: From Gunboat Diplomacy to the Cold War," on Friday as a part of the Asia at Noon lecture series.Henning spoke about Matthew C.
Twenty-nine years of irreplaceable dedication to helping students who need the most has made Toni Schunke an unforgettable individual in the UB community.Schunke, who has worked at UB since she was 18 years old, the senior administrative assistant in the Office of Disability Services (ODS), is retiring on March 31, ending a 29-year career marked with generosity and love for her job.
After compiling an 8-1 dual meet record since October, including winning five straight since the start of February, the women's tennis team opened its Mid-American Conference schedule with two losses.Friday afternoon the Bulls began their conference play with a 6-0 loss to Western Michigan before dropping a second match on Saturday to Bowling Green, 5-2.The Broncos, ranked 67th in the latest poll by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, beat Buffalo in seven of nine match-ups.The Broncos began the doubles matches with an 8-2 victory.
If you frantically start ripping out your hair while listening to the same 10 songs on Kiss 98.5 and Wild 101, you're not alone.
Because American film studios produce an ample number of sci-fi and fantasy films, there isn't much reason to begin importing more of the genre from overseas.
UB art in TonawandaTwo art exhibitions, "I'm in the wrong film" by Hans Gindlesberger and "Memory of November" by Soyeon Jung, premiered this Saturday at the Carnegie Arts Center.
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