It's no secret that college students eat out a lot. They choose everything from fine dining to frequent fast food runs, which makes it easy to spend financial aid money on meals.What many students don't know about, or take advantage of, is the wide world of discount offers available to them in the Western New York area.
In the Nov. 18 story "Rising costs pummel UB," the $11.8 million energy conservation project in cooperation with Chevron Energy Solutions is being implemented on South Campus, not North Campus.
To raise UB to the level of other top-flight universities, President John Simpson has emphasized UB's need to increase its annual revenue from research and philanthropic donations.Although UB's coffers, which pale in comparison to those of schools like Ohio State, won't reach elite levels anytime soon, the executive vice president for finance and operations reported on Monday that UB is moving in the right direction.In a report to the UB Council, a high-profile advisory board to the president, James Willis said the university has doubled the sum of philanthropic collections it had at this time last year.
While most college students traveled home to stuff their faces with turkey over the break, UB men's basketball stuffed the basket in the Las Vegas Holiday Invitational, falling to nationally ranked Boston College but pulling out two stellar wins.After trouncing Buffalo State in the first game of the invitational, the Bulls traveled to No.
The film adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" provides an easy alternative for students who are too lazy to read the Cliff's Notes summary, but does not hold the same weight as the novel on which it was based.It is the kind of movie couples rent on nights spent at home but seldom finish.
Imagine the noise made by a cheese-grater abrading an alley cat. If you deem this tolerable, you might like the voice of Matt Arbogast, the lead singer of The Gunshy.Their new album, titled "Soul," features violin, stand-up bass and trumpet accompaniments, but their melodic composition is nowhere near powerful enough to hide the horrors of the lead vocals.Arbogast's voice is similar to that of Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget, and on top of that, he tries to force a Scottish accent.
In the pages of The Spectrum this semester there have been many references to student apathy. In the article "Atrophied Action"(Oct.
If you thought a baby's shirt covered in regurgitated food was repulsive, just wait until you see one of these tees.
Picketers braved the cold weather Friday to send a message to Starbucks: the mistreatment of coffee bean farmers will not be tolerated.The student protesters, led by Eric Levinson, posted signs highlighting this alleged mistreatment as they stood outside of the coffee hub.
For the average pre-professional student, life is not always a bowl of cherries filled with late night parties and an agenda of different social activities.In medical schools around the country, only one third of all applicants are accepted.
Updates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East are an almost daily part of national print and television news, but there are some who believe there is a pro-Israeli bias in the mainstream media that causes the stories to never be completely covered.Freelance journalist Alison Weir, founder and executive director of "If Americans Knew," an organization dedicated to "providing Americans the disturbing facts we're not receiving from our news media," is one such doubter of American journalism.In a presentation Friday night to a near-capacity crowd of UB students, professors and community members at the Classics V Banquet Center in Amherst, Weir shared her point of view and personal experiences from traveling through Gaza and the West Bank.
A crowd of roughly 700 turned out at UB Center for the Arts Friday to hear sportswriter Mitch Albom speak about life, death and lessons learned of the two men who inspired him.Those men were his uncle Ed--who was the inspiration for the character Eddie in Albom's best-selling novel "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"--and Morrie Schwartz, from the popular memoir "Tuesdays With Morrie.""They weren't rich.
I am writing to you in response to your recent "Door-button laziness wastes money" article (Nov. 16).After reading the article I felt not satisfied, but distraught.
The jewel in UB's athletic program began play Friday night with a win over Canisius College. Another men's hoops season is underway and if Friday's crowd is any indication, basketball fever has returned to UB in a big way.
Dominating three teams on your home turf is one thing, but breaking a school record held by the opposing team's head coach - that's just the nail in the coffin.Kyle Cerminara broke the UB mark for career dual meet takedowns Saturday during an impressive Bulls wrestling sweep, shattering the record last set by John Stutzman, who was on the opposite side of the mat as the head coach of the Bloomsburg Huskies.UB went 3-0 at Alumni Arena in dual meets against Gardner-Webb (1-5), Bloomsburg (3-1) and Findlay (1-2). Recording 20 takedowns in the three matches, Cerminara set a new mark of 149 with the majority of the season still ahead.The previous record held by Stutzman was 135, but Cerminara passed that on Bloomsburg's Jesse Hasseman, just feet in front of Stutzman himself."It's a record I always wanted," said the 197-pound senior Cerminara.
Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto star in this cult hit about four Coney Island residents whose lives spiral out of control under the influence of various drugs.
There's not always a raucous crowd of thousands cheering him on, but junior Dan McKenna has quietly become one of UB's biggest athletic stars.McKenna finished 12th out of a field of 174 on Saturday at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships.
For 110 years now, Buffalonians looking for a little exercise before the big Thanksgiving meal have hit the streets to run the Turley Trot, a quirky road race that has become a local tradition as much as the turkey itself on the table.Over a century old and still kickin', the starting gun for the annual Turkey Trot 8K race will fire at 9 a.m.
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