Students passing through the Student Union got a unique taste of the Middle East on Monday as UB's Hillel kicked off Israel Week with an Israeli market called a "shook."Organizers of the weeklong celebration said they hope to bring to campus a greater awareness about Israel through an array of different events.
A popular and cheap way for many UB students to get to and from home is in jeopardy as the ramifications of President Bush's 2006 budget become clear.
This was going to be the week that I resign myself to the fact that I'm the senior arts and life editor who happens to love basketball, and write some sort of bullcrap article about what the cast of Boy Meets World is up to these days.Not today, Corey Matthews.
In the Friday, Feb. 11 issue of The Spectrum, the opposing team in the basketball photo was incorrectly misidentified as UConn.
About the only thing the average voter, both red and blue alike, seems to know about Howard Dean is the looped image of his red-faced scream in Iowa during the Democratic primaries.
In a time when the music world is full of artists trying to be completely different, the members of the Genkin Philharmonic West succeed.
Tenacious offensive production from the bench and a dominating advantage in rebounding capped off a nationally televised victory for the University at Buffalo men's basketball team Saturday afternoon.Entertaining the sixth-largest crowd in the history of Alumni Arena, the Bulls (15-7, 8-6 MAC) legitimized their pursuit for a Mid-American Conference title as they bounced Ball State (12-9, 7-6 MAC) 67-58 in front of 5,989 vivacious fans in UB's first-ever nationally televised game, aired on ESPN2."The crowd was great, they gave us a boost when we were down," said the Bulls' senior point guard, Turner Battle.
M. BasketballSaturday:Buffalo67Ball State58W. BasketballSaturday:Central Michigan69Buffalo45WrestlingFriday:Buffalo18Central Michigan16W.
The first impression is unavoidable.Fans view a preview of the movie "Constantine," which looks relatively interesting, but they discover who is starring in it.
Student Association President Anthony Burgio recently disclosed SA Entertainment's DJ Series, an event popular with UB students, would not be continued this spring semester.Burgio said the decision to put the series on hold is not definite, but given the amount of time left in the semester and SA's current focus on Spring Fest, it's unlikely there will be another DJ Series event this semester."A DJ Series event is like any other type of small concert or bringing in a comedian.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of physicist Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, or miracle year, UB's physics department is planning to arrange commemorative events to help students remember Einstein.The year 1905 is known as Einstein's miracle year due to the publication of his most renowned works, including his ideas on the physics of life and special relativity, published in German journals.The United Nations has declared 2005 the International Year of Physics.
Pickup games of basketball after school with siblings are normal things. But on March 5, Roderick Middleton, a 6-foot-3-inch guard on the men's basketball team, will have the chance to go head-to-head with one of his brothers on the collegiate hardwood.Middleton will proudly wear his Buffalo blue and white, and his younger brother, Cedrick Middleton, will wear the blue and gold of the Bulls' Mid-American Conference rival Akron Zips.Though they are opponents on the court, Roderick said he still gives Cedrick advice about the game."We talk before and after every game," said Roderick, an economics major who strives to play in the NBA one day.
"Cause if you take every single person who lacks imagination seriously, there's no end to it," says Oshima, a genderless character from Haruki Murakami's acclaimed new novel, "Kafka on the Shore."Go to a local bookstore, browse the shelves of new fiction and see if Oshima's observation isn't correct.
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South Campus' Harriman Hall could have been easily mistaken for the 1920s Savoy ballroom on Saturday evening."Stompin' at The Savoy," an event sponsored by the Black Student Union, marked the 14th anniversary of their first event as a club and has historical significance.In the 1920s, African Americans were only allowed as performers at the famous "Cotton Club" in Harlem.
It appeared as though UB's wrestling team was going to let another close match slip through its fingers on Friday night until sophomore Jake Blowers stepped on the mat at 165 pounds and electrified the crowd.The Bulls (2-10 overall, 1-4 in the Mid-American Conference) were trailing Kent State (7-13 overall, 1-2 MAC) 16-9 when Blowers, in the second-to-last bout of the night, tossed Nick Brenner with a head-lock throw and then wrapped him up so tight that the fans began to gasp for air."I wasn't really planning on that but he was pushing pretty hard so I went for it.
Over the past year, UB has established an undergraduate degree program in cooperation with the Singapore Institute of Management.The program is offered at the SIM campus in Singapore, and consists of four years of course instruction developed and approved by UB to satisfy the university's bachelor's degree requirements in business administration.
As construction for the $7 million Alfiero Center draws to a close, grand opening celebrations are tentatively scheduled for late April, according to university officials.The new center, located next to Jacobs Hall and behind Lockwood Memorial Library on North Campus, will serve as the hub of the management school.
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