Fallfest 2003 Lineup
By NICHOLAS MENDOLA | Aug. 27, 2003This year's line-up for Fallfest is official. The unnatural trifecta of Lil' Kim, Busta Rhymes, and Godsmack will be taking the stage on Friday, Sept.
This year's line-up for Fallfest is official. The unnatural trifecta of Lil' Kim, Busta Rhymes, and Godsmack will be taking the stage on Friday, Sept.
A flood of freshmen and transfer students has forced UB officials to house 155 students in two local motels and a South Campus office building for the fall semester, until space is found in the residence halls.Students are living in the Super 8 Motel on Flint Road in Amherst and the Microtel on Hospitality Center Way in Tonawanda.UB officials also converted three floors of Michael Hall on South Campus, which houses the student medical center, to residential housing.Joe Krakowiak, director of UB Residence Halls and Apartments, could not confirm a date by which students would move out of the hotels.
Years of practice and putting engineering skills to work will culminate in a laundry competition for the UB Robotics Club when they head to Knoxville, Tenn., on Sept 8 to face opposing robotics clubs.In Tennessee the club will take part in a television competition that will schedule teams of three, each representing a college, against one another in a fourteen-team tournament.
As the 2003 college football draws nearer, I had the chance to ask Buffalo Bulls head coach, Jim Hofher, a few questions about the upcoming season.
In recent months, the news has been filled with stories of children, students, parents and grandparents being prosecuted for illegal file sharing.
There isn't anything I love more than watching two up and coming quarterbacks go down to injury during the preseason.
Somewhere in between writing 90,579,485,789 articles for this issue and another thrilling game of office baseball, the three editors of this year's Arts and Entertainment desk decided that their first column would be better reading if it featured introductions by each of them individually.
I'm sure you've heard it all by now: "The world of journalism has seen better days," or "I hate the media," or "Remember the time I spit on a journalist?"It seems like every time I read the paper, I hear another voice from the community saying the media can't be trusted.
Eight months have come and gone since President Greiner announced his plans to leave his position as president of UB, and there is still no official word on who will replace him as head of the university.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse- "Greendale" (Aug. 19)Let it be said that Neil Young has a busload of ambition left.
This off-season was not an easy one for NCAA Division I Basketball. Investigations by the NCAA seem to be evolving everywhere, from Georgia to right here in our respective back yard at St.
Officials believe American college students are turning to pain-relief medications for more than merely backaches, and Buffalo is no exception to the trend.Opiate-based prescription drug abuse is on the rise in America among 18 to 25-year-olds, said the U.S.
The heated debate between the Student Association and Sub-Board I, Inc. regarding funding and representation is over.
Football is not the only Division I-A sport here at UB. Actually every sport here is D-I besides the club sports.
The UB men's soccer team has made the Mid-American Conference playoffs for the past three seasons.
As the school year begins at UB, students from across the country are moving in their rooms and preparing for a semester of learning and hard work.
Among Buffalo's many venues for live music and theater, UB's Center for the Arts is not only a local gem, but a regional asset as well.
A major part of undergraduate course selection each semester involves making provisions for general education courses - courses that often incite groans of disgust from returning students and may not pertain to a student's major but fall under university requirements for graduation.Such courses include math, writing, history, basic social sciences and computing.Peter S.
President William R. Greiner announced in January that he would step down from his position as president of UB, effective on June 30, 2003.
After a summer of long meetings, negotiations, arguments and compromise, Sub-Board I, Inc, will remain an entity at UB.It will not be the same organization it was in May, however.