Solemn prayers and quiet remembrance characterized UB's memorial service Thursday for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.As part of the services, a flag was flown at half-mast over the North and South Campuses.
As part of a recent environmentally friendly donation to the State University of New York, a tiny fleet of Global Electric Motorcars is beginning to make its appearance at UB.UB received 10 of the zero-emission, golf cart-sized GEMs as part of an effort to cut down on air and noise pollution in public places.
Between managing an academic and social life and putting in hours at a steady job, it is not surprising that the average college student is not getting enough sleep.
Second to baseball, I'm convinced that our national pastime must be giving advice. As Americans, we all love telling others what to do; whether we're showing the Iraqis how to form a democracy or our younger siblings how to make water-balloons, our natural tendency is to assume a position of expertise.
As the nation prepares to observe the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, UB officials are finalizing a memorial ceremony to allow students and faculty to back and remember together."Many students come from that area and we wanted to have a ceremony that students could participate in," said Bruce Kolesnick, associate director for marketing and programs, conferences and special events.The ceremony will begin at 8 a.m.
It is hard to miss the giant rats appearing daily outside the Jacobs management center construction site, and that's the point, union member picketers say."The rats are there to represent bad contractors - contractors that don't always play by the rules," said Dan Kuntz, regional organizer for the Laborers' Upstate New York Organizing Fund.The inflatable rodents and cockroaches, which have appeared every morning since Sept.
A stream of students filed into a room in the Center for the Arts on a recent Wednesday afternoon.
Welcome to "The Sharpest Point," the newest weekly feature here at Spectrum Sports. Each week, the sports editors (Jim Byrne, Corey Griswold, John Norman and Darren Riethmiller) will be posed with a question dealing with sports.
In between frantic pockets of time in which Spectrum staff rush to get articles edited and new stories assigned, truly desperate conversations take form in the offices at 132 Student Union.
The UB Women's Soccer team continued their winning ways over the weekend going 2-0 at the UTEP Invitational in El Paso, Texas.Emily Russell was the star of the weekend, having a career week and scoring five of the Bulls' six goals in the two-game sweep.
For the last dozen years, the Buffalo community has come together to raise money and awareness for anti-rape safety and remember the tragic death of Linda Yalem, the UB student raped and murdered while jogging on the Ellicott bike path.
A member of the UB community has replaced a lamp taken from the memorial of a fallen UB athlete, which was stolen Labor Day weekend.
Concerning printer gridlock, I believe there are other solutions that could be explored.First, have the computers set so that each terminal can only send two jobs to the printers at a time.
The Visual Studies Speakers series kicked off on Monday evening with the 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner Deborah Willis.Willis' lecture is part of the weekly, one-credit speaker series hosted by the Departments of Media Study and Art.
The last year has been an incredible one for The Spectrum - and I'm not talking about how awesome I think the paper is becoming.
So the Bills whacked the Patriots 31-0 on Sunday, and the Red Sox failed to sweep the Yankees and are only one game up on the Mariners for the Wild Card.
A UB law student will receive a distinguished award this weekend for her extensive community service.
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