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Theresa Payton visits UB as part of Distinguished Speaker Series
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 19, 2017Theresa Payton believes America’s approach toward cybersecurity is “fundamentally broken.”
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Dean Robert Shibley faces possible censure
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 19, 2017UB’s Faculty Senate will decide next month whether or not to publicly censure Dean Robert Shibley after a faculty subcommittee found he mishandled an associate professor’s dismissal in 2016. Several administrators gave emotional appeals on the dean’s behalf to remove the public censure resolution at the Oct. 17 Faculty Senate meeting. Those who support the dean said he never violated official policy and did not act alone or unethically in his decision.
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Vice President Mike Pence visits Buffalo
By News Desk | Oct. 19, 2017Vice President Mike Pence visited Buffalo on Tuesday to meet with Rep. Chris Collins and discuss Trump’s tax reform plan with local businesses. More than 200 supporters greeted Pence at the airport upon his arrival around noon, according to The Buffalo News. Pence greeted the crowd and shook hands with Collins, an early supporter of the Trump campaign and then left for a Republican fundraiser at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens.
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Classes in Clemens Hall cancelled Tuesday due to flooding; extent of damage unknown
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 16, 2017A ruptured water valve on the fourth floor of Clemens Hall caused extensive flooding from the basement to the fourth floor, according to University Police. Facilities were notified about the flooding at approximately 8:00 p.m. Monday. Facilities staff members turned the water off and university police activated the fire alarm to alert people to evacuate the building.
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UB eliminates Student Readership Program
By MADDY FOWLER | Oct. 16, 2017UB has eliminated its Newspaper Readership Program, which provided students, faculty and staff with complimentary copies of The New York Times and USA Today. The program was eliminated because it was costly and had a “poor distribution process,” according to UB Spokesperson John Della Contrada.
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DifCon series tackles ‘Taking a Knee’
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 16, 2017UB will begin the year’s Difficult Conversations series with “Taking a Knee,” a talk centered around kneeling for the national anthem, culturally offensive mascots and language in sports. “Taking a Knee and Other Issues of Speech and Expression in Sports” goes from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. on Oct. 18 in 10 Capen Hall, presented by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, the School of Law and the Division of Athletics.
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UB’s Civil Liberties Union fights for students' rights to a defender
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 16, 2017UB students who get in trouble at the school aren’t allowed to have lawyers or law students defend them during administrative hearings. Members of UB’s Civil Liberties Union want to change that. They say UB’s practice of making students face administrators alone could be a violation of laws that protect due process.
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By News Desk | Oct. 16, 2017Campus UB working with NFTA to make public transportation more accessible A research partnership between the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and UB’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access is working to make buses in Buffalo more accessible for disabled riders, according to UBNow.
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Students march to raise awareness for Rohingya refugee crisis
By ANNA SAVCHENKO , HARUKA KOSUGI and KEVIN LAM | Oct. 15, 2017UB students and the local Muslim community gathered at Flint Loop on Friday to raise awareness of the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis. UB’s Muslim Student Association organized a march from North to South Campus to spread awareness of the region’s ongoing ethnic persecution.
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Man commits lewd act in Alumni Arena
By News Desk | Oct. 13, 2017A man reportedly committed a lewd act in front of a 14-year-old in the Alumni Arena men's sauna at approximately6 p.m.Thursdaynight. The incident was reportedon Friday. The victim described the subject as a balding white male in his 40's with colorful tattoos on each arm and significant body hair, according to a UB Alert.
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By News Desk | Oct. 12, 2017Campus Terra cotta mailboxes, winning design in-house competition, installed in Hayes Hall UB set up a series of architectural competitions for students in an effort to “further beautify” the space with student designs following the reopening of the newly renovated Hayes Hall last semester, according to UB Now. The most recent effort was a faculty mailbox redesign.
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Global Market Café planning committee holds community feedback event
By MADDY FOWLER | Oct. 12, 2017Rainy Liu is excited about the Global Market Café because she thinks it will give international students a taste of home. More than 1,200 students, faculty and staff participated in four different focus groups in SU 228 Wednesday. Participants sampled global-inspired dishes that reflect potential menu options for the Global Market Café.
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The bones of Buffalo: human remains offer insight into the Queen City’s forgotten past
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 12, 2017Their names were Michael and Frederica. Michael was an Irish immigrant who worked on the docks unloading lumber, before an injury rendered his leg useless and his family impoverished. Frederica was the wife of an alcoholic, who beat her and cursed her every time he drank. UB researchers called these people Michael and Frederica, but even tireless community research efforts were not able to name the 372 people whose remains were discovered in unmarked graves on UB’s South Campus.
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UB to revoke Harvey Weinstein’s honorary degree
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 11, 2017UB will revoke the honorary doctorate it awarded Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in 2000 , after an investigation by The New York Times revealed Weinstein had settled multiple sexual harassment charges over the course of his career. Female actresses, reporters and employees of Weinstein told the Times he had a practice of cornering women under the guise of “business meetings,” then making unwanted sexual advances. “The university is well aware of the allegations involving Mr. Weinstein,” said spokesperson John Della Contrada in an official statement. “The university has initiated the process, pursuant to the SUNY Board of Trustees policy, for the revocation of a SUNY honorary degree.”
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UB students hold candlelight vigil for Las Vegas shooting victims
By MAX KALNITZ | Oct. 10, 2017Students gathered Tuesday night outside the Student Union for a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival. On Oct. 1, a shooter opened fire on concertgoers from the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, overlooking the Las Vegas Strip. At least fifty-eight people were killed and close to 500 were injured before the gunman shot and killed himself. The attack is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. modern history, according to CNN.
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Former Spectrum editors nominated as 2016-17 Pinnacle award finalists
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 9, 2017Two former editors of The Spectrum have been nominated for national college media awards. The College Media Association (CMA) has nominated Tori Roseman and Mike Akelson for Pinnacle awards for the 2016-17 season.
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By News Desk | Oct. 9, 2017Campus Steering committee seeks student input on Global Market Cafe Students and faculty are invited to share their input on the global market cafe with members of the steering committee, according to UBNow. The focus groups are open to the campus and will take place at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
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UB to hold re-burial ceremony for remains uncovered by construction
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 8, 2017A reinterment ceremony will be held on Oct. 11 at 11 a.m. in the Newman Center that will culminate nearly a decade worth of research into the remains of late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century persons buried in the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetery on Bailey Avenue. The ceremony commemorates the lives of 372 people buried in the Erie County Poorhouse Cemetary on Bailey Avenue.
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Male points handgun at woman on Winspear Avenue
By News Desk | Oct. 8, 2017Two women reported they were approached by two unknown males at approximately 1:10 a.m. Sunday near South Campus, according to a UB Alert. Buffalo Police are investigating the incident, which took place on Winspear Avenue near Rotary Road. One of the suspects pointed a silver handgun at one of the women. The suspects reportedly fled East toward Bailey Avenue. The victims described subject who brandished the gun as a male, 18 to 20 years old and roughly 5 feet 2 inches tall. The victims were unable to describe the second subject. The alert urged members of the university community to stay alert, always travel with other people and report on unusual activity or suspicious persons to UPD.
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President Tripathi’s State of the University Address reflects on the year’s accomplishments
By SARAH CROWLEY | Oct. 6, 2017President Satish Tripathi’s sixth annual address took full stock of the year’s accomplishments; from the completion of 1 Capen and 1 Diefendorf, to the development the new medical campus, as well as the year’s record-breaking scholarly achievements.
