Ten meters high, staring down into the pool below, the divers stand ready. The fear that would claim even the toughest of men about to fall into the blue depths, nowhere to be found on their stoic faces.
As football season wraps up and fans come out of the woodwork for the basketball season to start, it's easy to lose track of UB's spring sports.But while the temperatures drop and the snow piles up, the Bulls' spring warriors don't have the luxury of an off-season of rest and relaxation."This is their primary time for strength training," said Cheyenne Pietri, strength and conditioning coach for all UB varsity sports.
I am writing in response to a letter written on Nov. 7 ("Scientology extortion should not be on campus") in which a student decided he would write down "some important facts" about the Church of Scientology.
If I were in charge of the alphabet, the letters "T" and "O" would be the first to go. So what if we'd only have 24 other letters to use?Kudos to the Philadelphia Eagles for getting T.O.
R&B star Fantasia is successful in many ways despite her functional illiteracy, as was Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens head coach, Jacques Demers.One might reach the conclusion that literacy is overrated.
Gerald Rising doesn't seem to understand the meaning of retirement.Since retiring in 1994, after over 30 years of teaching as a Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus in the department of learning and education, he has yet to succumb to a life of boredom and afternoon naps."I tell people to practice saying 'No' five years before they retire.
We're all familiar with "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth." So getting a rare taste of one of Shakespeare's B-side works, "The Winter's Tale," puts the renowned playwright in an entirely new light.UB's production of "The Winter's Tale" will run Nov.
Everybody wants to be Johnny Cash. Musicians from Elvis to Kurt Cobain and Trent Reznor to Nick Cave have made efforts to resemble the Man in Black, in various ways.Why wouldn't they?
Basketball newbies signedNational Signing Day was on Friday and the men and women's basketball teams took advantage of the opportunity with each team harnessing four players to sign National Letters of Intent.Reggie Witherspoon, head coach of the men, snagged two guards and two forwards for his 2006-2007 team.
This story is part of an ongoing series about the changing face of UB.Even Lucinda Finley couldn't tell you exactly what UB means by "faculty.""The one thing that is clear about faculty is that there is no definitional blurriness over people who are hired on the tenure track," said Finley, vice president for faculty affairs.Outside of that though, things get murky.
Kahla Walkinshaw cannot walk on water, but she can move pretty fast under it. Walkinshaw, a junior on the UB swim team, recently set a pool record at Canisius College, and in 2004 competed at the Canadian Olympic trials.
President Simpson's UB tenure has focused on improving the university's standing within America's elite research schools.
Tristeza's "A Colores" is a fantastic album to accompany making out or studying. But if the activity requires a little more energy, the Black Eyed Peas are a much better bet.The San Diego-based quintet has done an admirable job filling the niche reserved for spacey, psychedelic, instrumental music.
Smoking will make you blind.It will also give you 14 kinds of cancer, make you impotent, kill your babies, fill your arteries with toothpaste, cause global warming and it will definitely, without a doubt, kill you.Those are just some of the things anti-smoking advertisers have shouted.
Students can expect to see fewer lawn mowers and more foliage on campus as UB goes au naturale.In a continuing effort to make UB a more earth-friendly place, the Environmental Task Force and the staff members of UB Green are allowing some areas on campus to return to their natural state.The Natural Regeneration Project began in 1995 as part of a plan developed by the ETF called UB2025, according to Erin Cala, and those designated areas basically remain untouched."The intent was to reduce energy consumption and air pollution by reducing grass cutting and to provide a buffer zone along the edges of North Campus and allow these zones to return to their natural state," said Cala, an environmental educator with the UB Green office.
One year later, the UB student-owned Brazilian clothing boutique Fofa Brazil Jeans is bustling with business and happy customers.
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