Extending its shutout streak to an impressive six victories in a row, the Marshall Thundering Herd trampled the UB women's tennis team 7-0 last Friday.With this win Marshall, currently ranked 67th in the nation, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, brought its record to 13-7 overall and 5-1 in the Mid-American Conference.
For Erin Hoppe, a sophomore psychology major and member of the fledgling Feminist Action Group, activism here at UB isn't just about affecting political or administrative change.
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Voyeurism was encouraged Saturday night at the CEPA Art Gallery on Main Street in Buffalo. It was just one of the art displays that are part of the region's largest collaborative art exhibition, the "Beyond/In Western New York" biennial exhibition.The exhibit premiered Friday night at the UB Art Gallery in Amherst, the UB Anderson Gallery in Buffalo and the Carnegie Art Center in North Tonawanda.
UB baseball dropped all three games of a three-game weekend series at Miami (Ohio) over the weekend.The first game saw a final score of 10-1, while the Bulls dropped game two 6-5 and lost the third game 8-5.
On Thursday at Big Orbit Sound Lab, Animal Collective played an unforgettable show, while supporting act Ariel Pink played a show most people who went will try hard to forget.The concert at Big Orbit in downtown Buffalo started off with an announcement that Ariel Pink was having van troubles, and would be arriving late.
Situated in a small building right next to Studio Arena Theatre is the downtown location of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
The death knell may be sounding for the death penalty in New York, as lawmakers in Albany blocked the reinstatement of Governor Pataki's 10-year-old capital punishment law last week.
UB football may not find consistency under center before the 2005 season starts, but the team will have its coach locked up for at least two more years.Bulls' head coach Jim Hofher has signed a contract extension with Buffalo extending through the 2006 season.
Young singer/songwriters often grow weary of playing at the same coffee shops for the same group of supportive friends every night.A group of artists, mostly from Buffalo, have decided to take matters into their own hands and come out with a compilation to snatch some exposure.
Ancient healing techniques, such as Reiki, are becoming an increasingly popular way to de-stress and unwind among college students.Originating among monks in Tibet, Reiki began as a sacred art, which then appeared in Japan in 1890 and later made its way to the United States.Defined as "universal life energy," Reiki is the art of channeling positive energy by placing the hands on different points of the body.
Recently George Zornick's column addressed the politics of "death" ("November in April," April 6). Discussion points on human mortality and other issues surrounding death were found in Zornick's column and a conservative letter to the editor.
With Spring Fest less than two weeks away, the Student Association is fighting to keep Jadakiss in the lineup.
The UB football team closed the spring portion of its practice regimen on Saturday with the annual Blue-White Scrimmage, a game that pits the Bulls' defense against the Bulls' offense.
Just last week, it was fact. Congress had passed it as law, and the State Department made it official: starting in 2008, for the first time, everyone entering the United States from Canada would need a passport.Opponents of the law cried foul, saying such a change to the world's longest undefended border would cripple travel, tourism and the economy, especially in areas like Western New York.
Jun Xu, a doctorate student in the economics department, won the Graduate Student Association election for president last week after three days of voting.Jillian Flood and Aubrey Balcom, who both ran unopposed, won the positions of vice president and treasurer, respectively.Xu, a three-year member of the GSA finance committee, beat candidate Patricia Mahomond, an American Studies student and the outgoing GSA treasurer, by 81 votes.
Although they might not admit it, many students have fantasized about leading the swashbuckling life of a pirate.It might have been years ago, after reading Peter Pan.
While the case against UB art professor Steven Kurtz moves slowly towards a trial, members of the national academic and art communities drew a full crowd to the Center for the Arts Wednesday night for a symposium entitled "Art, Law and the Patriot Act."Supporters of the embattled artist and popular professor gathered to discuss Kurtz's current situation and how the outcome of his pending trial could affect the arts, scholarship, law enforcement and our society as a whole.Kurtz was arrested last May for the possession of bacteria cultures he kept in his house for his unique artwork.
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