Participating in a Division-I sport is like having a full-time job. For the athletes at UB there is no time for a serious job while playing in their sport.
The men and women's track teams may be nearing the end of the season, but they are competing like they are gearing up to do great things and breaking a few school records in the process.
Stephon Marbury and the Phoenix Suns put on quite the show Saturday, proving why the NBA Playoffs are just as exciting as ever.
The Buffalo Bulls battled, of that there is no question. They battled so hard that when they had the opportunity to steal a victory, they did not know what to do with it.The Buffalo Bulls (8-24, 3-10 MAC) dropped two games to the Miami RedHawks (20-16-1, 8-3 MAC) in very emotional contests at the Amherst Pepsi Center on Saturday.
Lizzie West would have been the perfect replacement for Natalie Merchant when she left 10,000 Maniacs.
Latin American music saturated Harriman Hall, draped with 15 flags from Latin American countries, on Thursday night, as the Latin American Student Association hosted its 23rd annual culture show.The attendants sampled traditional Latin American cuisine, music and dancing throughout the evening."This event is an opportunity for us to celebrate our culture as well as our diversity amongst the nations that compose Latin America," said Dionisia Duarte, the president of the club.
It was a dark and stormy night and a killer was on the loose. And one by one, people began to die.Okay, so "Identity" isn't going to score brownie points from moviegoers with a one-of-a-kind premise.
When the UB softball team traveled to Central Michigan this weekend, they had a chance to put themselves back in contention to make the Mid-American Conference tournament.The Bulls started the series well but collapsed Saturday, dropping both games of the doubleheader and missing their opportunity to get back into the thick of things.Buffalo (14-16, 4-8 MAC) started the weekend off with a 2-0 shutout of the defending MAC champion Chippewas (21-13, 10-5 MAC), courtesy of another gem performance by their ace, Stacey Evans.
While other students spent Spring Break on a beach in Daytona or Cancun, two UB graduate students spent their vacation in a two-story metal cylinder that simulated conditions of Mars.For two weeks in late March and early April, Brent Gerry and Abbey Semple, doctoral students in the department of geology, replicated the living and working conditions of astronauts who landed on the red planet, all while in Utah.The UB duo was part of the 16th crew of scientists and engineers to man the Mars Desert Research Station, located a few miles outside Hanksville, Utah.
Students and faculty concerned with the recent reduction in classrooms and the upkeep of the remaining ones may be able to look forward to changes.The Faculty Senate Facilities Committee recently submitted a number of recommendations regarding maintenance and scheduling problems in classrooms to the administration.According to the report by the Faculty Senate Facilities Committee, centrally scheduled classrooms on campus have gone from a usage of 285 in 1978 to the current number of 138, without a decrease in enrollment numbers.Joseph Zambon, professor of periodontics and endodontics and a member of the FSEC, said the term "centrally scheduled classrooms" refers to classrooms, such as Knox 20, that are maintained and scheduled by the university as opposed to being controlled by the medical or law school.According to Zambon, each year, between the hours of 10 a.m.
The NBA Playoffs are upon us once again, but this time David Stern and the NBA have changed it up a little.
UB baseball comes home this weekend to get the ball rolling on all fronts, looking for improvement in every statistical category, most importantly their record.They will attempt to best the RedHawks of Miami (Ohio), who are a tough team to beat on one's best day, and UB will more than likely have their hands full.Friday afternoon UB (8-21, 3-7 MAC) welcomes Miami (17-16-1, 5-3 MAC) to UB Stadium for a four-game series.During the last two seasons of MAC play Buffalo has had a difficult time winning a single game in a series against a RedHawks team known for its terrific pitching and strong fundamentals."Miami is a team that does not make a lot of mistakes.
While many UB students will depart home this summer for time away from school, others will stay behind to earn credits and participate in various programs scheduled for the warmer months ahead.In addition to the usual summer courses - which Associate Vice Provost Katherine Ferguson said is "one of the largest academic course schedules in the Northeast offered this summer" - UB will offer a variety of programs and activities as part of the new "UB This Summer" program.Incoming freshmen can participate in the Academic Challenge and Enrichment Program, specifically designed to help them adjust to college life before classes officially start.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled Friday that research assistants at UB have the right to unionize.A vote will be held within the next month in which research assistants decide whether to join the Graduate Student Employees Union.
If anyone thinks college students are too old to play in the mud, they should pay a visit to the mud pit on St.
The future of Sub-Board I, Inc., is in question after its board of directors meeting Wednesday, in which doubts were raised on whether the Student Association would continue its participation in the organization.According to Lars Hansen, current president of SBI, after the officers for the 2003-04 school year were chosen, members of the 2003-04 SA e-board discussed pulling SA funding from Sub-Board, the corporation that controls student services such as the Michael Hall pharmacy, student medical insurance, Health Education and Human Services, and group legal services.Currently, undergraduate students contribute roughly $600,000 to SBI through an SA allocation and retain six seats of its 14-member board of directors.
Can Jamie Kennedy carry a movie by himself? While he has proven he can handle being the stupid guy standing next to the main character in films like "Scream," "Malibu's Most Wanted" is his first headlining film, and the answer movie-goers will find is that no, Kennedy is not leading man material.Kennedy plays wannabe-rapper Brad Gluckman, or (as he calls himself) "B-Rad." B-Rad lives in Malibu in a mansion with a five-car garage that's always full.
After 16 (or more) years of being engaged with the American schooling system, is it any wonder so many students seem to suffer from "senioritis" as the end of their final year draws near?This so-called affliction gets a lot of attention this time of year, and with good reason.
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