If finishing the season on a high note is a good thing, the UB rowing team topped off the fall season with its trumpets blaring in harmony.Of the ten boats that UB entered in the Head of the Fish Regatta held at Saratoga Springs, eight finished in the top five in their respective races.
It's become a math equation: white coach plus comments about black athletes equals media backlash.Air Force Academy football head coach Fisher DeBerry, a white 67-year-old man, recently made the claim that "...Afro-American kids can run very, very well.
Nikesh Singh Panthlia made it to the semi-finals in his B bracket and Mike Rockman advanced to the quarterfinals on the A side before both players bowed out to stiff competition last weekend in the Cornell Invitational.Competing in its final event of the fall, the UB men's tennis team made the trek out to Ithaca where Cornell, Hofstra, Fairfield, Colgate, Army, Boston University, and Marist faced off in eight different tournaments.Assistant Coach Nick Zieziula said the event was a good test for the Bulls."It was solid playing against Boston U, Marist, Army, Colgate and Cornell," Zieziula said.
I do believe in the concept of government. However, I don't believe in this one.In this day and age, with soaring populations and groups of people conditionally antagonistic to one another, governments are necessary to organize like-minded and geographically distinct blocs of citizens in order to promote peace, justice and order.The idealistic, utopian society with Somalian tribesman and Dutch windmill farmers holding hands in a circle, singing "We Are the World" is no more than a hippy's wet dream.Marx was the first to splatter his bed sheets, and because of his "Manifesto," millions of Russian peasants starved to death.
UB President John Simpson's message at Tuesday's annual meeting of the voting faculty was that higher education is in trouble."Every state is getting out of the business of supporting their public higher education," Simpson said.After the address, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee debated UB's policies concerning academic dishonesty.Simpson said that per capita, New York is second or third in the country when it comes to how much it spends on its public education, from kindergarten to 12th grade.
With only a small sampling of Sarah Bettens' mellow tunes and introspective lyrics, it's easy to see that the album's title "Scream" might just be an artistic statement.Perhaps she's referring to the inspiring and righteous lyrics.
All the Tom Cruise hype aside, Scientology isn't merely alive and well in Buffalo, it's growing. And the next stop on the ambitious church's expansion is none other than UB's North Campus.Theresa Reile, a Scientologist for 30 years and current president of the Church of Scientology of Buffalo, said the religion focuses the true self of one's spirit and she is eager for UB students to experience it for themselves.Though UB has no clubs or organizations based on Scientology, the Buffalo church, which is on Main Street, is putting the finishing touches on a new "life improvement center" that is planned to open this week.
Why do people get married? Why are so many people divorced? How does something that starts out promising inevitably turn sour?"Wedlock," running through Nov.
The parameter of the room is outlined with lime green walls visible only where old photographs are not hung.
I was walking from the Student Union to Knox this Halloween when I saw her coming. She was walking quickly, with long strides.
According to the most recent Buffalo News polls, the race for Buffalo's mayor is already decided.
On Halloween, Bush frightened liberals of all persuasions.The White House picked the highly conservative federal appellate judge Samuel Alito Jr.
Led by the hot racket of sophomore Andreea Novaceanu, the UB women's tennis team played some of the best Division I competition in the country last weekend at a three-day tournament in Dartmouth.Novaceanu came into the tournament as the number-two seed in the flight A brackets and did not disappoint.
Now I won't claim to be an expert in the hip-hop world either, but the "Hip-hop anonymous" (Oct. 31) article doesn't quiet touch on the full spectrum of the hip-hop world.
Animals are magnificent. They make wonderful companions, know the secrets of the universe, and are sometimes rather tasty.
The UB Law School recently received an endowment to create a $323,500 memorial scholarship to honor the memory of the late Carmen P.
Despite continuing student skepticism over how the Student Association uses its fleet of vans, SA officials say they have kept misuse to a minimum.While the occasional student will still see the vans rolling both on and off campus past midnight and wonder what SA is doing at 1 a.m., the office logbooks show nothing out of the ordinary.According to Mark Sorel, SA's administrative director, SA did have problems several years back with abuse of the vans, which were paid for with student funds.
Tucked away in a barren lot off of Union Road in Cheektowaga is Moving Miracles, a dance studio where, like other studios, adults and children go to have fun, learn to dance and express themselves freely.What sets this studio apart is these dance students had never been able to express themselves before.Moving Miracles uses dance and movement to help students with mental, emotional and physical disabilities overcome their limitations to express themselves, a process the studio says helps them in all aspects of their lives."There is something majestic about the power of dance, it allows for people to express themselves without using words," said Sheila Dollas, founder and president of Moving Miracles.Dollas' dance career was curtailed after sustaining injury to her back in a college dance class many years ago.
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