The undergraduate comprehensive fee -- which goes towards technology, transportation, athletics, campus life, and health services -- has been increased by $52.75, bringing the total comprehensive fee to $738.25 per semester.This year's increase is close to an eight-percent jump in the comprehensive fee.
Readers may absorb their environment a bit differently after reading Chuck Palahniuk's work. What was once beautiful may become a discomfort.
This past summer was a chance for most students to hang out with friends, work at boring summer jobs, and vaguely think of the coming semester.
Paul McGuigan tried to make an intelligent remake of the French film "L'Appartement." He had color themes, mixed timelines, big stars and a popular screenplay from which to draw.
With dry erase boards on the doors and posters up in the hallways, the Super 8 Motel on Flint Road welcomed a new group of students this week due to a lack of space in on-campus housing.Last year, after accepting a record freshman class, the administration housed 155 students in two local motels and a South Campus office building until space was found in the residence halls.This semester, the hotel-housing plan is back, but only one hotel is being used.
Anticipating the first-ever sellout in the history of UB's 31,000 seat stadium, the Division of Athletics has set aside 7,500 student-only tickets for the highly touted UB football home opener on Sat., Sept.
With six months under his belt as the university's president, John Simpson has decided to take UB in a new direction by re-organizing the structure of the administration.Simpson said he decided to shake things up in the administration after several months of talking to his colleagues."I spent six months listening to people and their difficulties and aspirations and thought about them and how to accomplish them," Simpson said.
An important tenet our society was founded upon is the right to free speech. It is essential to our democracy.
This is the time of the great annual American migration, when millions of restless young people range across the country, bearing great dreams for the future--and way too much stuff.
The clock at a small gas stop in Brockport ticked past 3 a.m. Most of America was asleep. But passions were running high on the protesters' bus."All I have to stand by is my word.
Just a few months after ten of their starters graduated, the UB women's soccer team is trying to find a new chemistry.The team has started the season with two shutout losses.
For the past two seasons, the Mid-American Conference has been on the rise, receiving recognition for upsetting juggernaut football programs and getting ranked in the Top 25.Led by Heisman hopeful Byron Leftwitch, the Marshall Thundering Herd stunned the NCAA in 2002 by finishing in the Top 25.
Summer seemed a little longer than usual this year. I wish I could say it was because I was having a ridiculously good time-which isn't all that false-but it simply is God's way of punishing me with anticipation.For what?Danza, Danza, Danza!Now, I'm not a big television fan to start with, but "The Tony Danza Show," premiering September 13 in national syndication, may very well be the reason I didn't hyperventilate last Friday after the final episode of "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" (more on that later). Craiggers, I'm going to miss the crap out of you, but let's face facts: Tony Miceli plus daytime television equals television gold.
When Satish K. Tripathi was told he had been selected as UB's next provost, he could hardly contain his excitement.
With a minute and a half remaining in the second overtime, Syracuse University (2-0-0) scored the game-winning goal and handed the UB women's soccer team a 1-0 loss in its non-conference home opener on Sunday afternoon at RAC Field."I think playing Syracuse gave us an opportunity to look at our attack as well as our defense," said Head coach Jean Tassy.
Whether you have been on campus for only a few days or you are a seasoned UB veteran, by reading this you are now familiar with UB's undergraduate newspaper, The Spectrum.Ten thousand copies of our paper are distributed around UB three times per week.
Although the chair of UB's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, William Barba, had seen his share of term papers, he had never experienced one like Kevin Pitra's.
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