With 13:34 left in Tuesday night's men's basketball game between UB and Northern Illinois at Alumni Arena, Bulls senior Danny Gilbert committed one of his four steals and was immediately fouled.
With another conference victory under their belts, the UB Bulls have faced the top teams in the Mid-American Conference, and now they are set to face the worst.The Bulls (11-5 overall, 4-4 MAC) match up well against the Marshall Thundering Herd (3-13 overall, 0-7 MAC), a team that has yet to pick up a conference victory this year.Marshall gets the majority of its points from a player coming off the bench in Joe Miles.
After movie stars Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn splashed the big screen this summer as dodge ball warriors, the ball-chucking sport has seen a surge in nationwide popularity.Now UB has joined in on the gym class fun, offering dodge ball for the first time as an intramural sport.Because dodge ball is a standard sport in many elementary, middle and high schools, Edward Michael, director of recreation and intramurals, said he believes recent popularity along with nostalgia for the childhood game will generate plenty of interest."Students love the sport.
I would like to commend Dena-kay Martin for a well-written, much needed opinion piece ("A showy, selfish nation," Jan.
The Red Barn in Demopolis, Alabama doesn't lie. The crimson clapboard structure hasn't changed much since its barn days, though it's now a restaurant; and it sits right at the heart of the South, deep in Red America.Two friends and I set out over winter break in search of Red America, defined for us as the mysterious land between the coasts, full of guns, rebel flags, Wal-Marts and Bush voters.Talking about a cultural divide between "Red America" and "Blue America" became common a few years ago.
Bright Eyes' founder Conor Oberst is known for two things: his writing and his over-the-top tender delivery.
I would like to commend The Spectrum on bringing to light the complexities encountered daily by commuter students ("For winter commuters, getting there is a daily battle," Jan.
The UB women's basketball team will take on the Toledo Rockets Wednesday night, looking for their first road win of the 2004-2005 season.
M83, the creation of Anthony Gonzalez, a resident of France, creates a lush sonic landscape reminiscent of such shoegazer acts as My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive.
For the staff members, senators and assemblypersons of the Student Association, the spring semester ball officially starts rolling Monday when SA President Anthony Burgio will unveil a new "platform" at a press conference in the Student Union.The new proposals won't exactly knock anyone's socks off, but they should lead to a stronger SA for the long-term, Burgio said."What I asked each department to do is to set a few goals.
If 2002's "Source Tags and Codes" made ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead reason No. 3,016,743 to love Austin, Texas, then the trio's Tuesday release of "Worlds Apart" is 3,016,743 A.While "Worlds Apart" retains enough of the style for which the band won favor with "Source Tags and Codes," especially in the remarkable "Will You Smile Again?," it is far and away a more accessible record.
The start of the new semester can be demanding for students. This, coupled with bad weather and the additional stress of spending a month's worth of food money on textbooks, can be a real pain in the neck - and back and shoulders.Health Services is now prepared to help students take care of these pains.Since Monday, UB's Student Health Office began offering students the chance to receive chiropractic care on campus.
SUNY Chancellor Robert King will remain in his position after rejecting an exit package, The New York Times reported.While he will not be leaving immediately, King has made plans to leave SUNY in the next six months, anonymous sources in the Times said.A plan was in place for King to take a sabbatical from the role of chancellor and accept a $170,000 leave of absence.
What happened to the good old days when horror movies consisted of supernatural homicidal maniacs mercilessly killing a group of teenage campers or a couple having sex?
UB raised over $1,000 from students during a three-day fundraiser that ended Monday and will go towards aiding the children who were victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami, according to UB officials.Mary Clare Fahey, who helped organize the fundraiser, said she is happy with its results.
When Sriram Vilayanoor woke up the morning of Dec. 26 and checked the online version of India's national newspaper, The Hindu, the news splashed across the Web site was nothing Vilayanoor could have prepared himself to see.At that point the reports coming out of India said an earthquake had rocked the region, leaving 1,000 people dead and many more homeless.But as the day went on and the death toll steadily increased, Vilayanoor and the rest of the world learned India, along with over a dozen other countries, had also been struck by a deadly tsunami that would claim almost 300,000 lives.
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