April has arrived and most students have submitted their FAFSA forms and are trying to figure out how much money they need to have saved for next year.
Several thousand people are expected to attend the Caribbean Student Association's 30th annual Carifest, entitled "Diamonds in the Sand," Friday at 6 p.m.
Longtime UB professor Frederick Morin has stepped into a dual role as interim vice president for health affairs and interim dean of the medical school as UB searches for permanent replacements for both jobs.Morin was appointed to the two jobs last week, as Margaret Paroski, who has the same dual responsibilities, is leaving UB on April 18 to take a position with Kaleida Health Services.Morin said he will focus on implementing programs that allow medical students to work on their residencies within the medical community of Western New York.
A weekend of races on the Charles River in Boston started out rough but ended with success for the women's crew team, which left Beantown with a handful of first-place finishes.As the team began competition on Saturday, Mother Nature was relentless, providing strong winds, heavy rain, and a temperature of 40 degrees.
No form of contraceptive available provides 100 percent protection. Mistakes happen. Condoms break.
A throbbing headache, excruciating bodily pain, a relentless feeling of self-deprecating guilt: for anyone who has suffered these, or any of the crippling symptoms of the hangover, there is finally a beacon of hope and it lies, shockingly, within a book."The Wrath of Grapes," Patrick Meanor's literary attempt to cure this all-too-common collegiate malady, is subtitled: "A Complete Hangover Cookbook and Guide to the Art of Creative Suffering." It's just that - an amalgam of cures for what he calls "the 'physical' and 'metaphysical' hangover."Meanor, an English professor at SUNY-Oswego, hasn't drunk in 27 years, but he possesses a wealth of knowledge on the hangover and its potential cures."The Wrath of Grapes," obviously a spoof on the Steinbeck novel, combines countless literary allusions to the hangover, with Meanor's philosophical musings and scientifically based physical cures.
It is about time that the twisted minds at work behind more adult-geared comics were exploited for the sake of cinema.
A very smart professor once told me that anyone who has lived through a late-November day in Buffalo knows they are going to die someday.
Track & FieldOhio InvitationalSaturday:Men: fourth out of nine teams, Women: first out of 11BuffaloSoftballGame oneMonday:Kent State1Buffalo0Monday:Buffalo6Kent State4W.
The mellow sounds of Carimi, a popular Haitian band, flowed from the Flag Room in the Student Union on Tuesday afternoon as some members of the Haitian Student Association took part in the organization's dancing workshop.According to Witzard Joseph, HSA's president, the workshop on Tuesday was a part of HSA's annual Haitian Awareness Week.The week began with a Creole workshop on Monday and the dancing workshop on Tuesday.
The Center for the Arts played host to two major campus cultural events this weekend -- Arab Night on Saturday and China Nite on Sunday.With every new act at Arab Night, the audience went wild with cheers and applause.
The words of UB's head track and field coach, Vicki Mitchell, resonated with Buffalo's athletes as they faced tough Mid-American Conference competition and both the men's and the women's teams came out in the top five."We are from Buffalo and we are made for tough conditions!" Mitchell proclaimed.The University at Buffalo women's track and field team battled to their second win of the outdoor season at the Ohio Invitational in Athens on Saturday.Meanwhile, the men's team had to face tougher competition, including several MAC schools, but the Bulls raced hard and finished in fourth place."The men had a very strong meet across the board.
This is the first story in a two-part series on the late Robert Creeley, an eminent poet who taught at UB from 1964 to 2002.
The members of UB's Society of Automotive Engineers' clean snowmobile team don't have a tan to show for their spring break.But they do have seven first-place trophies.Led by captain Brian Belmont, a junior mechanical engineering major, the team took first place for performance, fuel economy, noise reduction and design practicality to put them in first place at a national competition in Houghton, Mich.The team faced stiff competition from 13 schools in over 10 categories ranging from an oral presentation to a 100-mile endurance trial.
James Howard Kunstler is scaring the crap out of me.The author of "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century," a novel about what he sees as an impending oil crisis, allowed an adaptation of his book to be included in this week's Rolling Stone.
The High Speed Scene rocks harder, a lot harder, than Weezer. Maybe not as hard as Weezer ten years ago, but they blow the hell out of the new "Beverly Hills" song by Weezer that's on the radio these days.Fast, cleanly produced, and filled with hooks, the debut CD from San Francisco's The High Speed Scene is probably the best album that won't be heard or written about anywhere.Except here, of course.Pop-punk has become a curse word for both rock critics and fanatics.
After a rain-soaked Sunday postponement in Kent, Ohio, the University at Buffalo softball team (7-21 overall, 3-4 Mid-American Conference) split a Monday make-up doubleheader against the Kent State Golden Flashes (15-13 overall, 3-2 MAC).The Bulls lost the first game in a 1-0 nail biter, but were able to rebound and win the second game by the score of 6-4, led by homeruns by two of UB's seniors, Ann Magur and Melissa Pace.
The Kylesa press copy of "To Walk a Middle Course" is a crude item. It's a burned CD, your standard Sony CD-R with crudely scripted Sharpie letters denoting the name of the band and album.
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