Last December, President Simpson publicly acknowledged what everyone in the UB community has known for a long time; our Athletic Department needs help.By hiring Gene Corrigan to assess our athletic program, Simpson took a pivotal step for UB Athletics.
A new semester has not only brought new faces to UB, but also a new face to the Student Union. Renovations have given the building's focus point a new look and features that officials say should improve its ability to be a campus hub.
A pair of home-invasion-style robberies in the University Heights has left students on edge and police on guard as the search for the suspect continues.An unknown assailant robbed students living in two apartments at knifepoint in the past week, according to Buffalo Police.
It always hurts when a top ranked athlete leaves your program for greener pastures. This summer the UB wrestling team felt the good and the bad of top high profile transfers as they lost junior Mark McKnight while gaining Burt's Ryan Needle from Ohio State University."There is a lot of reasons I transferred," said Needle.
Who would have ever imagined a small city of less than 15,000 inhabitants would launch one of Interscope Records' newest pop sensations?Kaci Brown, pop vocalist extraordinaire, began her career as a teenager in Sulphur Springs, Texas, 80 miles east of Dallas.
Here we go again.UB football suffered another inauspicious opening Thursday night, losing 38-0 to the University of Connecticut Huskies in front of a sell-out crowd in Hartford.Much like the way the season ended when the two teams met last year, the Huskies put on a home field spectacle, thoroughly trouncing the Bulls both on offense and defense."We didn't create enough first downs in the drives and we weren't consistent in our running game," said head coach Jim Hofher.
Coldplay is almost too good to be true. In just 5 years they've climbed to the top of the rock world with overwhelming success.
The tuition. The meal plan. The books.After paying for the normal college necessities, mandatory student fees seem like a real rip-off.What may seem like just another fee to add on the tuition bill actually provides a wealth of free events and services that many students don't realize.Besides funding recreational activities such as intramurals and athletics, UB clubs and organizations, and other events on campus, the fee provides a variety of health and wellness services for students to utilize.The Wellness and Health Services, as well as the Counseling services offer free appointments, workshops and events to improve physical and emotional health as well as wellness in a college atmosphere.Sherri Darrow, director of Wellness Services, spoke about the mission of her program as well as some its upcoming events."As people become more workers and less students and as they leave the university, it is important to think about how to carry principles of health and wellness into the workplace," she said.
Sharey Edholm and Marley Becker stepped off the bus outside Our Little Roses orphanage home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
This weekend kicks off another season for the men's soccer team as they host their annual Bulls Classic.
A year after winning the ACC championship as an assistant for the North Carolina Tarheels, new head coach Jim Lodes plans to make UB women's volleyball a Mid-American Conference powerhouse.Coach Lodes used a not-so-novel perspective on coaching to help his UNC squad break school records in both winning percentage (.889) and wins (32-4) last year."Work hard, recruit good kids, train well," he said.
After students have managed to spend their summer earnings, maxed out their credit cards on textbooks and other school supplies, the average college student's bank account has seen better days.
To compete with peer institutions and become a top-flight university, UB needs to increase both its enrollment and faculty by significant numbers in the coming decade, according to President John Simpson.Simpson's call to hike the student population by at least 5,000 and faculty by 250 has received both positive feedback and skepticism over whether such expansion can be done properly.Simpson addressed the subject this summer in an issue of the Reporter, where he compared UB to the universities of Washington and Ohio State, which enroll about twice as many students but have a similar range of academic programs.
From Buffalo to EuropeAfter spending four seasons as a part of the UB men's basketball team, 2005 graduates Turner Battle, Mark Bortz and Daniel Gilbert have signed contracts to play professionally overseas.Battle, 2005 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, has signed with BC Kalev in Estonia.
Monday marked a new semester for students, a semester to have a clean slate and start fresh, hopeful of making improvements on the past.Thursday holds the same significance for the University at Buffalo football team.After a dismal 2-9 season last year, capped off by a 29-0 loss to the University of Connecticut, the Bulls return to UConn's Rentschler Field to redeem themselves."We couldn't be more energized and enthused about heading into a season as I believe our team is right now," said Bulls' head coach Jim Hofher.
These days, I don't know which it's more exciting to be: a newspaper writer or a newspaper reader.
This Friday, I turn 21. I've been waiting about 18 years for this, ever since I was first told, "You can have more when you're older."I had yet to understand the allure of the drink, but I already felt excluded.
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