The final game of a six-game home stand for the UB volleyball team ended Friday night in similar fashion to the previous five games: with a loss.Over the past two weeks, the Bulls have lost six straight matches at Alumni Arena.
John B. Simpson was inaugurated as the 14th president of UB Friday in an event rich with academic ceremony and talk of UB's future.In his acceptance speech, Simpson spoke of his long-term vision for the university and emphasized the role of public higher education in America."I pledge to you today that UB's very first priority will be the considered pursuit and practice of academic excellence," Simpson said during his speech.
During the summer of 2003, a major blackout hit much of the eastern seaboard. In response to the crisis, switches were flipped all over campus.
With hip-hop music blasting outside the Student Union Tuesday and the sight of students taking mid-semester fury out on a small Jeep, the Car Cruncher event kicked off Spirit Week with a bang.Homecoming Weekend was right around the corner as hundreds of students signed up to hit the stationary car with a sledgehammer, leaving dents, shattered glass, and some personal frustration behind."People have been constantly showing up, there hasn't been a break all day," said Greg Baker, a senior international business major and event worker.After all the strong blows and heavy hits, the car was hardly recognizable."It looks like something you would see in a junkyard.
At Squeaky Wheel, a dark and dingy little building tucked inside the heart of Buffalo, the wine and beer are served in styrofoam cups for $2 donations.
Undecided student voters seemed to be few and far between following the last of the presidential debates last night concerning domestic issues."I think John Kerry contradicts himself.
The women's soccer team will host two games this weekend against middle-of-the-pack MAC opponents.Last season's 1-0 loss in Toledo is remembered by players as a fierce and rugged match at which both schools played gritty soccer."It's been a pretty good rivalry with them over the past few matches," said Bulls assistant coach Thomas Garigen.
Winless in the Mid-American Conference this season, the University at Buffalo volleyball team suffered its eighth straight loss on Thursday night at Alumni Arena, falling 3-1 to the Marshall Thundering Herd."They just executed better than we did.
A notable decline in the international student population was discussed at the Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting Wednesday.Faculty Senate Chair Peter Nickerson, a professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, said a notable part of the student body is having increasing difficulty in obtaining student visas.
On Wednesday, questions about wives, minimum wage and healthcare dominated the third, final debate.
Eat, sleep, and breathe soccer. That's what junior defender Pam Schneck does for the University at Buffalo's women's soccer team.Schneck said she was always kicking a soccer ball around as she grew up in the Long Island town of Dix Hills."I've been playing soccer since I was five years old and I still love playing just as much as the day I started," Schneck said.Most of her free time, dating back to the beginning of her childhood, has been spent playing soccer.
Few imported bands fare well with the American young adult demographic. The recent saturation of radio airwaves with domestic talent is something that the Music could change, perhaps heading up a renaissance British invasion.The Music's latest release, "Welcome to the North," is a collection of catchy mainstream rock that is likely to entice many music lovers looking for authentic flair."Welcome to the North" begins with a mellow title track before picking up the tempo.
While perusing the shelves of the University Bookstore in search of lighthearted and meaningless entertainment, I came across a self-help guide entitled, "The Hipster Handbook." Intrigued by its cyan color and the silhouetted depiction of fashionable young adults on the cover, I decided to purchase it as a joke (only not really).Inside, the book shed light on the world of Hipsters, a rare and deliberately endangered subculture of trendsetting, Dostoyevsky-toting, postpostpostmodern Chai drinkers who form their identity through obscure music and a pretentious vocabulary.
A city plagued with the inevitable consequences of crime not only turned away crowds but also devastated the Icon, located at 391 Ellicott St.
Wednesday night wrapped up the last of three presidential debates in an election that has sparked partisan fervor on both sides.
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