When Pat Taylor went to class from his house on Lisbon Avenue last year, he could pretty much roll out of bed, walk to the Main Street bus loop or hop in his car, and be on campus in about 10 to 15 minutes, even during the first-day-of-classes rush.
Aside from advanced research, distinguished professors and high academic standards, UB has become a prominent university with help from outside donations.Every year, UB receives millions of dollars through private and corporate donations that benefit numerous departments in the form of scholarships, facilities and research funding."Philanthropic support takes UB to a level of excellence that it couldn't possibly meet with state funding and tuition alone," said Ed Schneider, director of the UB Foundation, which is the department that handles donations."UB needs as many resources as possible," said Schneider.
BaseballFriday:Kent State9Buffalo2Sunday:Kent State7Buffalo3M. BasketballGame twoSunday:Kent State25Buffalo12W.
Saturday night's Spring Fest left the people who went with a few unanswered questions: where was Jadakiss, and why was there a delay of over an hour before Snoop Dogg took the stage?Jadakiss, who signed a contract last week to play at Spring Fest, dropped out of the concert late Friday afternoon, according to Student Association officials."We got a signed contract with Jada, and everything was good," said SA Vice President Dela Yador.
In the April 29 article "UB announces Dalai Lama's visit to campus," it was incorrectly reported the Dalai Lama would be turning 80 this summer.
The Student Association Senate approved SA's $2.8 million budget for 2005-2006 on Friday by a unanimous vote of 15-0.As promised last semester, clubs received a 10 percent increase and entertainment a 45 percent hike over the amount they received last year.
For students staying in Buffalo during the summer to work or take classes, finding a place to stay can be a difficult and lengthy ordeal.
When did we start allowing such ignorance to fill the pages of our campus newspaper? Not only was the "Affirmative action hurts UB" letter (April 25), written by our own Andrew Tarnowski, offensive - it was laughable.
Trained and initiated as a shaman in highland Guatemala by a K'iche' Mayan couple in the mid-1970s and the granddaughter of an Ojibwe midwife and herbalist, Barbara Tedlock is no ordinary anthropology professor.In her fifth book, "The Woman in the Shaman's Body, Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine," the distinguished teaching professor aims to put women and the feminist dimension back into shamanism."This is a book that puts women back into spirituality and science," Tedlock said.
After attaining its highest seed ever in the 10-team field at the 2005 Mid-American Conference championships, the No.
Somewhere in transit between Reno and Buffalo, in the middle of the night while squished between two massive football players in one of the last rows of a tiny puddle-jumping airplane, I was ready to throw in the towel on my newly born Spectrum career.
After Thursday afternoon's sweep of IPFW in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference men's tennis tournament, the Bulls were eliminated in the semifinals of the tournament by conference powerhouse and tournament host Western Michigan, 4-0.Facing the second-seeded Broncos (17-6), the No.
The typical UB student doesn't worry about inventories, marketing and the ever-advancing world of business technology.
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" begins by stating that homo sapiens, as in humans, are the third most intelligent species on the Earth, not first as we presently believe.
With the doors at Alumni Arena set to open for Spring Fest, the doors of the Student Union Theater opened to the rhythms of Japanese culture Saturday as Japanese SA held its second annual Japan Nite.The performance was divided into several different sketches, all of which were related to the show's central storyline about a Japanese princess and her bodyguard's trip from the past into the modern day.Shintaro Yamazaki, president of Japanese SA, said Saturday's cultural event was a sequel to last year's inaugural Japan Nite.Especially with the buzz generated by Spring Fest, Yamazaki said he was happy with the turnout."We sold over 250 tickets," said Yamazaki, a junior business major.
I decided to write because I am not convinced that the article "The lighter side of Rushdie" (April 29) does full justice to Salman Rushdie's captivating talk.
There was no way to avoid it. If you were there, you were muddy. When it comes down to it, no one goes to Oozfest for good volleyball.
Further reflection on arguments in favor of affirmative action lead one to conclude that the present system must either be completely overhauled, or abandoned in favor of other methods for solving these problems.The first issue which arises in the argument for affirmative action is the past mistreatment of minority groups by whites.
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