The crowd was fitted in black, as if ready to engage in forbidden nightlife activity. Speakers were slung from the rafters and bulged from the ornate carvings in the walls of the former auditorium.
The concession speeches for this year's losing Student Association Presidential candidates will be the easiest in school history.
National attention, a million-dollar office suite and a team with the 35th highest RPI in the country has been a long time coming for Jim Kwitchoff, assistant coach for the UB men's basketball team.The coaching spotlight is normally on UB head coach Reggie Witherspoon, but Kwitchoff has always been part of the Bulls' success the past two seasons.A long time friend and fellow coach of Witherspoon, Kwitchoff took a leap of faith six years ago when invited to become assistant coach of the UB Bulls, one of the 20 worst teams in America at the time.Kwitchoff had a stable, well paying job as an assistant principal at Lockport High School.
CLEVELAND - Five hundred UB students, a writhing blue and white mass, packed two sections of the upper deck Thursday at Cleveland's Gund Arena.The crowd of students stood for the whole game, cheering the Bulls' players by name and raining off-color chants on referees and Toledo Rockets.The students set the tone in the minutes before the game, when the Rockets' cheerleaders ran onto the court.
There is only one word to describe the 2005 University at Buffalo baseball team: anxious.The Bulls are anxious on the field to make up for a 15-39 finish in the 2004 campaign - dead last in the Mid-American Conference.Anxious to get the team's first win after a 0-6 start, UB has hope for a lucky seventh game of the season.Even after a rocky start, coaches and players alike are maintaining a positive attitude that there is plenty to be excited about with this team, and that the only direction to go is up."We're going to come out and win more than we did last year - we feel that we have our best team yet in the five years we've been in the program," said Bulls' head coach Bill Breene.
Electronic music reverberated through the Center for the Arts Tuesday in the first of several performances for the Music is Art series at UB.This week's "Live @ The Center" featured electronic music with performances by David Kane and Damien Simon.
CLEVELAND - Essentially an offensive non-factor through the Bulls' last 18 games, Calvin Cage tied a season-high in scoring, pouring in 23 points to lead the UB men's basketball team to an 85-72 Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinal victory over the Toledo Rockets on Thursday afternoon in Cleveland's Gund Arena.The win over the No.
Student Association Vice President Dela Yador will run uncontested for the SA presidency in three weeks on the only full ticket in the upcoming election.Yador's party, Elevation '05, includes candidates for president, vice president, treasurer, and the four SUNY SA delegate positions.
Jonathan Yedin, a junior political science and economics major, was declared the winner of this week's UB Council election on Thursday.Almost 900 students voted online in the election, which ran Monday through Wednesday.
On any given day, a walk through the atrium of the Center for the Arts can be unremarkable. The bare white walls and high ceilings have a minimalist feel, but are being transformed on Tuesday evenings for the Music is Art series.Cool lights, ornate Persian rugs, enormous couches, and comfy pillows disguise the atrium to create a coffeehouse atmosphere for students to enjoy free of charge.The series is sponsored by Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls and the Center for the Arts.
With the countdown to senior commencement drawing to a close, seniors are making plans for their future.But just where will the degrees some of these seniors receive take them?Daniel Ryan, the director of Career Services in 259 Capen, separated the graduating student body into three sections according to their motive for finishing college."Some people come to college to expand their minds, to read and gain experiences.
Musician Alexander Fiterstein is like Kenny G with a clarinet.However, Fiterstein willingly lacks the flowing hair, he doesn't own a curling iron and his music is intended for more than just elevators and dentist offices.Actually, the only thing they have in common is their reputation for going solo.Fiterstein is well endowed with gifts that could qualify him as a musical prodigy.
Two political and oratory opposites clashed on the stage of Alumni Arena Thursday, as former U.S.
The wind is howling, the snow is still falling, and the temperature has yet to climb above freezing.
With their school-record 21st victory, the Bulls have advanced to the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference for the first time in school history.The Bulls' opponent will be the Western Michigan Broncos (19-8) who defeated the Akron Zips by six points in overtime in the quarterfinals.Akron could not find an answer for Ben Reed, who dominated the Zips with 24 points.
Regarding "Out Loud and Proud" in the March 9 issue, which contains the quote "our campus is really awesome and liberal."Aside from sending shivers down my staunchly conservative spine, these words forced me to come to the realization that it is now perceived as 'awesome' for a publicly-owned campus to take sides on of one of today's greatest moral and genetic debates, that is, homosexuality.Even if you believe being homosexual is acceptable there's still no excuse for the flaunting of any sexuality in such a public display as those described in the article.
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