Just over a year ago, noted television journalist and UB alumnus Wolf Blitzer came here and delivered a speech for the Distinguished Speakers Series.
Erratic production on offense continued to haunt the women's basketball team as they lost six of eight games over winter break.The inconsistency shown by the Bulls can be attributed to the team's youth and inexperience on the floor, with only one senior cracking the starting five and just two seniors on the roster overall.The Bulls did register two wins, including a convincing defeat of Miami of Ohio on Jan.
After receiving an anonymous e-mail about plans to protest President Bush's inauguration last month, Jesse Gordon of Massachusetts began to search for the originator of the message and ended up in the middle of a media storm.When he could not find out who sent the message, Gordon enlisted fellow Democratic activists nationwide in a protest of his own and set up the Web site NotOneDamnDime.com.
Welcome to "Across the River," a new feature in The Spectrum, where we'll catch up with artists and personalities outside the context of an upcoming show or newly released work.
In 2005, questions about futures - academic, social, and financial - will dominate campus news. Should SUNY pass more tuition increases, including proposals for yearly hikes?
"House of Flying Daggers" director Yimou Zhang is this generation's Sergio Leone. Leone dominated the Western genre in his series of "Spaghetti" Western films, which included "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." Prior to his work, the Western genre, though attractive in many ways, consisted mostly of B-grade direction, writing and acting.With 2002's "Hero," released in the U.S.
The UB men's basketball team won six of the eight games they played over winter break, reaching ten overall wins on the season and evening their conference record.Heading into these games, the Bulls (10-4 overall, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) had their share of problems, including poor shot selection, too many outside shots and not enough ball movement.
Those dreaded months of snowbrushes and salt rings on jeans are now officially here. But when it comes to mental health, gloomy winter days can be much more than just a nuisance.According to the Web site for the SAD Association, Seasonal Affective Disorder affects about a half million people during the colder, sunlight-lacking months of September through April, with December January and February being the most affected months."It's not an independent disorder.
Upon noticing that the food and plates were in a different location than usual when I entered Richmond dining hall Wednesday night, I asked the person swiping my card if it was "holiday dinner night." "Christmas dinner night," came the reply, to which I thought, "Why can't the dinner represent more than one holiday?" Christmas was still two weeks away, and as a friend pointed out, Wednesday evening marked the second night of Hanukkah.Walking into the dining area, I noticed a large Christmas tree prominently displayed on a central table, around which were two long tables filled with food.
'Tis the season to be jolly. So goes the famed saying that many have heard since birth. In many ways this illustrates how the holiday season is that special time of the year.People smile, the ground is perfectly covered with just the right amount of snow, and, of course, loved ones are brought closer together.However, all the smiles and affection can soon come to a screeching halt when it turns out that the person who was thought to love and care gives a gift that does not quite cut the mustard.
This year's incoming freshman class collectively read Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" in UB 101.
It is taking over living rooms, dorm rooms, attics, basements, computers and television. Like an epidemic, the popularity of Texas Hold'em style poker has spread across the nation.ESPN's "World Series of Poker" is the biggest contributor to the outbreak of Texas Hold'em.
Chilly Buffalo winters are good for much more than freezing your pipes and leaving salt streaks on your windshield.
While most of the UB student body is away over winter break in some place warm, eating home-cooked meals and celebrating after final exams, the men's basketball team will be hard at work.The Bulls (4-2 overall, 0-1 Mid-American Conference) have five games scheduled against conference opponents, including a home game against the Toledo Rockets, the team that eliminated the Bulls from the Mid-American Conference playoffs last March.The game against Toledo is the Bulls' first opportunity to exact revenge on the team that ended UB's best season since joining the MAC.Bulls' head coach Reggie Witherspoon isn't thrilled about the Toledo game falling during break."I would much rather play them during the school year, when the Maniacs are here," Witherspoon said.
The Student Association Assembly rejected Tuesday night a proposal from UB officials to ban freshmen from parking along the Academic Spine next semester.By a 17-2 vote, the Assembly called the plan unfair and used the rest of the meeting to draft a counter-proposal that was signed by Assembly Chair Hassan Shibly and SA Senate Chair Mazin Kased.The results of the meeting were reported incorrectly in Wednesday's issue of The Spectrum.The new Assembly proposal asks that all commuters have Spine parking privileges year-round, that on-campus residents be banned from those lots from 9 a.m.
After bouncing back from a disappointing Mid-American Conference opener with an overtime victory against the Elon Phoenix, the UB men's basketball team will return to the friendly confines of Alumni Arena to take on local rival, the Niagara Purple Eagles, on Saturday at 7 p.m.The Bulls stayed over the .500 mark by battling Tuesday en route to their second overtime victory of the young season by defeating the Phoenix 70-63, thus improving their record to 4-2 overall on the season.Though the Bulls' record doesn't reflect a poor start to the season, UB head coach Reggie Witherspoon isn't thrilled with the play of the team in their most recent games."We're kind of fighting and struggling through a struggle period for us, but these are normal at this point in the year," Witherspoon said.
The man in the picture that went with the story "Haiti Gets a Helping Hand from UB Minister" in Monday's issue is Joel Payton, not Rev.
America is the only industrial and democratic nation that does not have universal health care. To top it off, while our gentle Northern neighbor enjoys the security of price-controlled medicines, we are left to swallow an increasingly bitter pill.
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