Former UB Professor Wins Literature Nobel
By GEORGE ZORNICK AND LINTON WEEKS | Oct. 3, 2003J.M. Coetzee, a South African writer whose fiction deals with the cruelty and foibles of humankind, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday.
J.M. Coetzee, a South African writer whose fiction deals with the cruelty and foibles of humankind, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday.
Every year during the second week of October, the Student Union is filled with cheers, screams and men with cleavage.This is the annual drag show sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance.
Prior to joining the Mid-American Conference in 2002, the University of Central Florida (1-3, 0-1) was listed as a Division I-A Independent, with no conference to call their own.
Howard Dean will kick off his Raise the Roots tour tonight in Washington, D.C., aimed at attracting college-aged voters to the polls when he contends for the U.S.
As a senior year student at UB, I have been able to observe student politics for a few years now and have noticed that ever since former Student Association President Christian Oliver took office in 2001, issues like the alleged wasteful spending have constantly been brought to light.
Members of the university are remembering a student, classmate and friend lost a week ago in a fatal car accident.Friends of Bryan Argo, who was a senior history and Latin major, speak of a warm, caring and slightly reserved young man always willing to help a friend."He always had a smile on his face," said Sonya Kokil, a junior pharmacy major who had known Argo since they both attended Niagara-Wheatfield High School.
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Riding the nation's longest losing streak after dropping 15 straight games, the UB Bulls (0-5, 0-1) travel to sunny Orlando to challenge the University of Central Florida Golden Knights (1-3, 0-1) in Mid-American Conference football action at the Florida Citrus Bowl.Saturday's game will be the fifth time that the schools have met, with UCF owning a perfect 4-0 record against UB, while averaging 49.5 points per game.Last week, the state of Ohio owned both teams, with UB dropping a 38-21 decision at home to Akron while UCF committed eight turnovers in a 36-16 loss at Kent State.Despite the struggles endured by the Golden Knights this season, Bulls' head coach Jim Hofher said UCF's record might be deceptive.
Tony Conrad sat in a well-lit corner of Buffalo State College's Burchfield-Penney Art Center, cursing at a sewing machine for two straight hours Wednesday night.In front of a rolling camera, Conrad, director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Media Study at UB, fed projector film through the sewing machine before the image was projected onto a screen.
To discover the newest addition to on-campus living, students need only to grab the remote control.
It's the toast of Broadway; a "classic" musical that succeeds in today's trendy world of modern rock operas and script-less concept revues."Thoroughly Modern Millie," winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best Musical, brings back a style of storytelling that many thought was long gone.
Broadcast journalist Wolf Blitzer touched upon his roots at UB and major world issues at his Distinguished Speakers Series lecture Thursday evening in Alumni Arena.As an anchor for CNN, Blitzer has broadcast many of the major news stories of the past decade, from locations as far as Bosnia and Iraq.
Last month, an 18-year-old girl died of complications from taking the abortion pill RU486, marking the fifth death worldwide resulting from the use of the pill.The victim, Holly Marie Patterson, received the pill from her local Planned Parenthood Clinic.
Buffalo and Western Africa don't exactly have much in common, and no one knows that better than UB soccer star Cheick Diarra.Diarra has called both of these places home during his life, which has taken him all over the world.There is no disguising the fact that Buffalo's weather is anything but tropical, so it does seem a little odd that Diarra would come to UB."It was funny, I was playing at the Empire Games and I met a friend that played for UB and he kind of recruited me," said Diarra.
Standing out in Division I-A football and proving that your team deserves to be mentioned along with BCS schools is a tough feat.
The Spectrum will be republishing a letter that ran on Sept. 26, entitled
Graduate student Nagarajan Kannan stands on the top of a very large heap -- two million graduate students studying in the United States.Kannan, 32, a doctoral student in the civil engineering department, has recently been elected president of the northeastern region of the National Association of Graduate Professional Students.