For the fifth time this year, junior long jumper Roy Richards won the title in the long jump. His latest victory, on Saturday, came at the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletics Association Championships in Boston, Mass.Richards' win was his second in as many weeks after he took the long jump crown at the Mid-American Conference Championship last weekend.
In a scene reminiscent of mailmen carrying in bag after bag of mail in "Miracle on 34th Street," protestors from UB Students Against Sweatshops traded sacks of letters for wrappers and old newspapers in an effort to prove what they consider an injustice done to sub-contracted janitorial workers hired by the university."We'd like to let everyone know how much trash is left in our lecture halls," said Rachel Wilson, a junior sociology major, via megaphone to students and workers at tables in the Student Union Tuesday at noon.
Though gay marriage has been replaced by Katrina relief and Republican scandals at the forefront of national debate, you can bet it will be there in 2008.
Was Lawrence Cheeley's response to Michael Flatt's "We Pay Your Salary" (Feb. 22) commissioned by the university?
"It's never too early for a faggot joke. Too bad we have a faggot in the front row."There's something that would stop the person who made this statement - and it was made in a UB classroom this year - from using the word "nigger": the threat of consequence.Racism is received with zero tolerance, as it should be.
Over the past few years, gay-themed movies have been coming out of the closet in droves. The first movie that springs to everyone's mind is "Brokeback Mountain," but the truth is that there is currently an influx of similarly themed movies that are making their way into the mainstream in record numbers.
On the cover of Quasi's newest album, a jagged lion leaps from a boom box. This is an apt metaphor for music that aggressively grabs its prey and does not let go until it has ravaged the listener's senses.The Portland, Oregon-based duo, Quasi has a new album "When the Going Gets Dark," the follow up to 2003's "Hot S***."The duo consists of Janet Weiss, the drummer of Sleater-Kinney and Sam Coomes, who has performed with artist Elliott Smith.
For the most part, I agree with Lawrence Cheeley's ("Professors are not students' servants," March 3) comments on the privileges and rights of a higher education.
Over the past decade, the gay rights issue has pushed its way to the forefront of society: in politics, in religious debates, and in the entertainment industry.Whether you accept it, are apart of it, or want nothing to do with it, we are encased in a diverse sexual environment that stretches from campus to across the country.Kyle Anderson is not what one would consider the stereotypical gay man.
This is in regard to Mike Flatt's column "We pay your salary," Feb. 22.No, you really don't pay your professor's salary.
The third and fourth games of a four-game series at Marshall failed to entertain as much as the previous two, which included countless rallies, ties, lead changes and late-inning heroics.Buffalo baseball won the first game on Friday, 8-7, and lost both sides of a Saturday doubleheader by scores of 10-9 and 20-3.
The music industry has seen its share of remarkable artists who also happened to not be straight.
This past weekend, I plunged into a near-frozen Lake Ontario with the elderly, the beer-bellied, and the elderly beer-bellied to join the prestigious ranks of the Polar Bear Club.
The women's tennis team recorded its record-breaking sixth shutout Sunday, defeating Niagara 7-0 at the Village Glen Tennis Center in Willamsville.The match started with Buffalo's senior Kristen Ortman and sophomore Natalie Dean facing the Purple Eagles' Danielle Grenier and Julianne Prokopich.
He was a photo major. Tall, dark, and handsome. He held doors open, he was a superb listener, was almost a straight-A student.
Okay, so "Brokeback" didn't take best motion picture at the Oscars.So what?Pick up an issue of the New York Times, and you'll read that society just isn't ready for gay cowboys to steal the limelight.But the issue is not homosexuality, it's what people enjoy most.
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