Early last week, Congress gave 175,000 students with previous drug convictions a second chance to receive financial aid, revising the Drug Provision Law for the first time in seven years.Until now, the controversial law allowed the government to block aid from students convicted on drug charges.
Allowing former UB officials to collect on hefty salaries while in semi-retirement is simply bad business.
In its third shutout of the season, the women's tennis team is still unbeaten in dual meet action.
In Wednesday's edition of The Spectrum, I was dismayed and disappointed regarding a particular statement made by Jeremy Burton ("Understanding the Bulldozer," Feb.
In a Monday article titled "As SA's first black male president, Yador brings family values," it was factually incorrect that Dela Yador is the first black president of the Student Association.
In Cassell's essay "Malcolm X and A Little Blonde Co-ed," the historian writes that this moment was one Malcolm X would later deeply regret, writing in his autobiography that, "I'd never seen anyone I ever spoke to before more affected than this little white Graduate student / School of Social WorkAlthough few people would call Malcolm X a conservative, he was probably more of a reactionary than a radical.
When addressing illiteracy, I don't think we can begin at the university level ("Illuminating illiteracy," Feb.
Students in their teens and twenties have stolen grandma's sewing needles and yarn and are using knitting as more than a way to create those lovely potholders.
Writer Joe Forte's "Firewall" has some fairly overdone elements: a classy bad guy with a British accent, a man trying desperately to save his kidnapped family and a bank heist.But while "Firewall" does not have the most unique plot to hit screens this year, it remedies the routine story with solid performances, direction and style.Director Richard Loncraine ("Richard III") has Harrison Ford, ("The Fugitive," "Star Wars") play Jack Stanfield, head of security for a global bank.
Clark Hall has been a home for UB athletics and intramurals for over 70 years, and little has changed since it was built in 1937.
"Presidents throughout our history have authorized the warrantless surveillance of the enemy during wartime, and they have done so in ways far more sweeping than the narrowly targeted terrorist surveillance program authorized by President Bush."- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who defended the NSA's spying program to the U.S.
While Buffalo locals might wish that the state of their current economy was a product of fiction, its art and cultural society still thrives.Next week, Main Street bookstore Talking Leaves will combine appreciation for literature with the opportunity to discuss its thematic relation to Buffalo's fall into Rust Belt obscurity.Nancy Welch, author of "The Road From Prosperity," a collection of short stories about struggling families who lived in Ohio in the 1970s, will be doing a reading from her book as well as signing copies at the Talking Leaves store in the University Heights.While to Welch the event will just be a reading, she is not here for that reason alone.
The UB Mock Trial club, which specializes in acting out fictional hearings and cases, is suffering from fiscal problems that are anything but moot.Although funded by the Student Association, under the Special Interest Service and Hobbies Council, many club members say the real difficulty is not competing against Ivy League teams or making it all the way to Nationals - which the team has done consistently for the past three years - but that the greatest trial is receiving enough funds to compete.According to Carrie Zimbardi, a team captain and junior legal studies major, the budget for UB Mock Trial at the start of this year was $1,900.
I heard a crazy idea from another editor at this publication.He suggested a week where students can walk through the Student Union without being accosted by party fliers, invitations to rush, free Frisbees and undergraduates with political agendas.
In big-time games, big-time players need to play well. It's no different in any sport.For the inconsistent men's basketball team, big-time veterans like Yassin Idbihi and Roderick Middleton seem to be playing well this season, but never quite clicking at the same time.
The pool was filled, but depth certainly played a role in Eastern Michigan's victories over both of Buffalo's swimming and diving teams at the Jones Natatorium in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Saturday.In the conference match-up, the Eagles handed the Bulls a 123-71 loss on the men's side and a more competitive 125-103 loss to the women's team.
Is it yet clear to Muslims why so many people couple violence and terrorism with Islam? Forgive me for stating the obvious, but a protester standing in the picket line with an AK-47 perched at the ready surely illustrates some degree of militarism.
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