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.
Wes Craven's "Red Eye" has the same problem that many potentially good action movies have these days.
When looking back upon childhood, it's strange to think of all the stuff that got old so quickly.
I favor a united Ireland negotiated by the British and Irish governments as well as the elected representatives of the Nationalists and Unionists of Northern Ireland.
Why is it so hard for people to respect UB as a Division I school?Just because the university hasn't received a hunk of molded bronze or fancily cut glass within the past five years, give or take, doesn't mean it is any less deserving of Division I status than any other team.If championships are the only way a team can be recognized as a legitimate organization, many would have to say buh-bye to their favorite teams.
Allegations of sexism have been fired at the UB administration after Lynne Kurdziel-Formato, a popular and well-respected UB teacher of over twenty years, was denied tenure this past year.Kurdziel-Formato, an assistant professor for the department of theater and dance, was denied tenure in November and then forced to leave UB, despite pleas and demonstrations from students.
Nearly two months after performing at this year's Spring Fest, rapper Cassidy turned himself in to Philadelphia police on charges of murder, attempted murder, reckless endangerment, aggravated assault, conspiracy and weapons possession, according to MTV News.The incident took place on April 15, just two weeks before Cassidy, whose real name is Barry Reese, came to UB and performed with Elephant Man and Snoop Dogg at Alumni Arena.
Just eight weeks after college sports guru Gene Corrigan released his analysis of the UB athletics program, the school solved one of its most pressing issues this summer, hiring Warde Manuel as its new athletic director."We have selected a director of athletics who is thoroughly steeped in the world of intercollegiate sports at the highest level, and one who knows the critical importance of balancing athletic and academic excellence," said President John Simpson at a July press conference where UB announced Manuel's appointment.Manuel has spent the last nine years at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he had been one of the school's seven assistant athletic directors since 1998."Basically I've been in Michigan for nine years, seven of that full time," said Manuel, who came to campus for the football team's media day earlier this month, but arrived for good on Monday.
They say that you should never mix your drinks.In the case of the new Terry Gilliam flick "The Brothers Grimm," the same warning should be applied to mixing genres.
Former UB student Gregory Pachmayr steps out of his one-room hut, constructed of cinderblock and a thatched roof, and takes a look around.There is no electricity or running water, so he strolls over to the nearby bore hole on his compound to fill a bucket.
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Since the publication of her book, "The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine," life for Barbara Tedlock, a distinguished teaching professor at UB, has been one wild ride.Her book, which is in the process of being translated into Danish, German, French, Spanish and Turkish, has garnered worldwide attention as a text on the practice of Shamanism, the world's oldest form of religion and medicine that is still widely used today.Tedlock spent part of the summer months traveling back to Guatemala, where she filmed additional footage for a six-hour documentary titled "Breaking the Maya Code," that will air on PBS in November.Night Fire Film, a small production company based in LA, approached Tedlock seven years ago at the inception of the project.
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