Though some students here at UB might want better classes and more of them, few actually protest the issue, let alone riot.
In response to, "Muslim cartoon controversy opinions vary across campus," Feb. 17: As a sporadic, aspiring comic artist I've been following the Mohammed cartoon controversy, well, religiously.
If Mullally sang like her "Will & Grace" character Karen, every lens in the Center for the Arts would have been shattered and every eardrum tortured.But behind a lurking rhythm of snappy, pulsating piano, Megan Mullally sang "St.
February commemorates Black History Month, but that rich heritage is something the UB African American studies department celebrates every day.African American studies sprung out of the civil rights movement in universities across the United States.
Current: "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997)Canadian director Atom Egoyan, paints a tragic portrait of a town overcome with grief when a school bus falls through the ice, killing nearly all of a small town's children.
As students deal with test deadlines and paper due dates, one dreaded deadline approaches that any student who works winces in anticipation: April 15, the income tax filing deadline.The idea of tabulating refunds, claims and deductions is daunting for every major, from English to physics.
After a healthy helping of high quality cinema for the holiday movie season, film companies have since dished out unappetizing leftovers in the form of bad horror films like "Final Destination 3" and "When a Stranger Calls" and substandard genre-fillers like "The Pink Panther" and "Firewall."
Most of the time, 184-pound wrestler Garrett Hicks is a precursor for Buffalo's All-American Kyle Cerminara.
For many years, potential pharmacy, architecture and nursing students have received acceptance letters to UB based on intended majors, yet were never sure if they would actually ever get those degrees.
Watching the fat get sucked out of an character's butt and pumped into a container marked "mayo" doesn't exactly make for a romantic movie.The filmmakers of "Date Movie," Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, attempted to make a movie on which couples could compromise by combining raunchy with romance.In addition to cutting and pasting scenes from classic chick flicks, it also contains over 20 different movie references from contemporary cinema.
For students applying to UB for a selective program like architecture, nursing or pharmacy, reforms under discussion in the admissions process may better ensure that those accepted to the university end up in their desired fields.In the past, large numbers of students have been accepted into programs based on admissions rates rather than a set quota.
It might still be winter in Western New York, but Buffalo's boys of summer are ready to start their season.
In a society where bigger is better and where what you've done establishes the amount of respect you receive, sometimes you have to tell little white lies just to keep up.
For a decade now, the African Bazaar has annually descended on the Student Union, each year searching for a different theme, a new way to present a familiar event.On Wednesday, students and clubs celebrated the 10th anniversary of the February bazaar focusing on the theme "Oral Traditions," giving participants the chance to share stories, proverbs, art and traditional African food with both each other and the UB community.The centerpiece event was the "Proverbial" Open Mic, where students had a chance to read an African proverb to passersby and those gathered for the bazaar."Suffering and happiness are twins," read one student, who was greeted by applause.
A $335.25 receipt for books isn't usually cause for an epiphany, but for students whose parents didn't pick up the tab, lazy visions of weekends playing Xbox and going to the bars vanished like the hard-earned dough in their pockets.
With their debut album, "On Top of Our Game," Dem Franchize Boyz chuck themselves to the bottom of the rap barrel.In the tradition of Kris Kross and J-Kwon, Jermaine Dupri introduces us to yet another commercial, bubble-gum pop group of talentless rappers.Hailing from Atlanta, Parlae, Pimpin, Jizzal Man and Buddie attempt to follow in the recent success of Atlanta rappers T.I.
The image of a plastic baby doll's head being blown up like a balloon on the verge of popping is just something that stays with you.Set in a small town in the Midwest, "Bubble" focuses on the lives of three people that work at a doll factory.
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