In response to recent reports of secret CIA prisons in Europe and Asia, President Bush made a blatantly contradictory statement Monday when he declared that the United States "does not torture" its prisoners.
Soccer isn't the only sport at UB creating excitement this season. Unbeknownst to most students, the men and women's club rugby teams are generating buzz with their successes in postseason play.The men and women's teams, nicknamed the Mad Turtles and Flying Squirrels respectively, are about to embark on a journey that could put them in a position neither team has been in before.
While frustrated parents and neglected girlfriends may be contemptuous of the ever-evolving videogame industry, joystick enthusiasts everywhere will no doubt praise an up-and-coming video series that puts their favorite pixilated characters in the center of music television.
Booty-shakin' for Boyardee is The Clarks' modus operandi, if you will.The Pennsylvania-based rock quartet are headlining this Friday's show at Club Infinity as part of "Rock for Food 2005," to which they encourage audience members to bring in canned goods.Experienced in the field of entertaining, The Clarks please fans with enjoyable straight-up rock rather than muddle through esoteric, non-melodic sounds."What we want our listeners to get from our music isn't a deep meaning, but simply any type of enjoyment or fulfillment in a positive direction," said Robert James, lead guitarist for The Clarks.
When Dr. Satish Mohan told his former colleagues at Stanford that he was taking a job at UB, they gave him a warning."The college is okay, but the town is doomed," Mohan recalls them telling him.While recent politics in Erie County and the City of Buffalo have given those Stanford doomsayers' predictions some credibility, Mohan's election to Amherst Supervisor gives him a chance to stem the tide and prove his ex-colleagues wrong."I want to grow this town," Mohan said.
A second match against a tough opponent would be a daunting task for some. For UB men's soccer, it's an opportunity the team relishes."They really fancy a chance to get back at Northern Illinois," said head coach John Astudillo about his players.The third-seeded Bulls (13-3-1) will attempt to seize that second chance in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference tournament when they face off against the second-seeded Northern Illinois Huskies (11-5-2).UB is fresh off a dominating victory over sixth-seeded Indiana Perdue Fort Wayne on Tuesday night at UB Stadium.
Beautiful handmade costumes, months of rehearsals and a chance of winning one thousand dollars in cash can mean only one thing: it's time for Muqabala, the annual talent competition held by the Indian Student Association.On Saturday Nov.
At their first formal meeting this year, the SA Senate accepted a number of nominations for the finance committee but has not confirmed any of them as of yet.The nominees will be questioned at next Monday's meeting and five of them will be confirmed.
Only two games are left in the season for UB football and its head coach, Jim Hofher.Hofher, who was fired on Tuesday by athletics director Warde Manuel, will coach the final two games of his career at UB knowing that they are his last.Gemara Williams, senior cornerback and assistant team captain, said many outsiders are focusing on Hofher's termination, but the team and coaches are focused on winning the games."I think (the coaches') mindset is the same as ours," Williams said.
On Monday they filled the Student Union, chanting, "U-N-I-T-Y," "P-O-W-E-R" and "P-R-I-D-E." They marched from the Union to Capen Hall and back to spend the rest of the day with performances by the gospel choir, the step troupe and a series of other activities that started Black Solidarity Week with a passionate show of student voice."It was one of the largest turnouts in the past three years," said Tricia Grannum, Black Student Union president and a senior communication major.
The pilot program being used by 21 UB professors allowing access to photos of students within their classes presents challenges to students' privacy, but seems worthwhile nonetheless.The program was brought into fruition to address the perceived need for greater interaction between faculty and students.
Talking about sex is easy, at least with most college students. What's harder is having an honest, intellectually stimulating conversation about it."To do it or not to do it, that is the big question," Alan Soble, a research professor at New Orleans, said at his Tuesday night lecture at UB's Center for Inquiry.The presentation, titled "The Conundrum of Sexual Morality: Where to Draw the Line?" focused on three distinct strains of philosophical thought about sex.Soble's paraphrase of Hamlet illustrated the way each of these schools of thought seeks to resolve the central problem of human sexuality.Soble, a prominent thinker in the field of human sexuality, made it clear that his goal was not to provide easy answers but rather to encourage introspection and public discourse."If I am at all successful, you will go away more confused than when you came in," he joked.Throughout his speech, Soble did not downplay or advocate one set of ideas over another.
UB is running the pilot version of a program this semester that would provide faculty with lists showing the faces of every student in their classes.Twenty-one faculty members, most of whom have had positive responses to the idea, are now trying out the prototype, which was created last semester and can be accessed online through a professor's MyUB page.Officials say that in 300-person lecture halls, the lists will promote a more personal learning environment for students, although some students have expressed privacy concerns surrounding the creation of such a database.MyUB technology officials and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee met Wednesday to discuss pilot program's progress.
It was no surprise that UB football head coach Jim Hofher was officially fired Tuesday, but for those who were unaware of the events leading up to his dismissal, here, in a special Spectrum report, is the true unabridged story:Saturday morning.
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