Thomas Garry and other UB students are frustrated by the university’s perceived lack of involvement in crime against students in the University Heights neighborhood, located right off of UB’s South Campus.
UB is currently on a federal sexual assault watch list along with roughly 200 colleges across the nation, according to a UB press statement released on Aug. 11.
UB students will now have to reserve a Fall Fest ticket online due to the Student Association’s new ticket policy. SA announced last week that tickets will only be given to undergraduate students and no tickets will be sold to the general public for the Sept. 10 concert.
Laws enacted in 2007 and 2008 have made smoking illegal in most German bars and restaurants, but – in typical fashion – Berliners have creative ways to skirt the justice system and indulge in their favorite habit. At night, dozens of bars in each of the city’s 12 districts have named themselves “smoking bars.” After 9 p.m., the bars close their curtains, stop serving food and allow customers to smoke inside the bar.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, international artists flocked to Berlin, drawn by its allure as a Nazi stronghold turned Cold War capital and by the availability of hundreds of decrepit and abandoned buildings that make perfect artist colonies. Today, more than 20,000 artists live in the city and more than 6,000 of them have galleries representing them, according to Berlin Visitor Center statistics.
For the past year and a half, millions of immigrants have – like the Albalkhis – traveled on rafts from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to Europe in the world’s largest migration since World War II.
Indeed, across Berlin, former law-breaking street artists and taggers are increasingly finding ways to turn their passion to profit. Dozens of new businesses that include graphic design, mural painting and teaching tagging to youth have blossomed in the German capital in the past 15 years. Tour companies offer “graffiti” tours by former taggers and artists and even the city’s senate hires former taggers to lead graffiti workshops as a way to engage disenfranchised youths.
UB undergraduates and Graduate Student Association-represented graduate students can pick up free tickets while supplies last. Tickets are limited to one per student and also available online to purchase for non-students. Each event will take place in Alumni Arena.
Dennis Black, vice president for university life and services, has resigned. President Satish Tripathi did not give a reason for Black’s departure. His resignation is effective July 7 and a search for a vice president will commence in the next weeks, according to the university’s news memo.
The library, affectionately dubbed “Club Capen” by students, closed down on Dec. 16, 2014 for renovation. The reopening was originally scheduled for November 2015, but after a few setbacks it was ultimately delayed. These setbacks included construction concerns and asbestos fibers in the vinyl floor tiles of the library in April 2015.
Charles F. Zukoski, UB provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, announced Thursday afternoon that Schulze has been appointed as dean.
Yiannopoulos, a controversial British journalist for conservative American news site Breitbart, did not give a reason as to why he could no longer speak at UB.
Fertig, along with roughly 60 other adjunct professors, full-time professors, teaching assistants and undergraduate students held a rally with United University Professions outside of UB Commons Thursday afternoon.
Mike Brown, a freshman computer science and political science major, has been elected the 2016-17 SA Assembly speaker.
UB will hold four different recognition ceremonies for graduating students including the Veteran and Military Recognition Ceremony, the ALANA (African-American, Latino, Asian and Native American) Celebration of Achievement, Lavender Reception (LGBT) and the University Honors College celebration.
Every spring, the dean of College of Arts and Sciences selects the students in the graduating class from each department with the highest academic achievement and most involvement in their department to be awarded as the “Dean’s Outstanding Senior.”
Dorminic Ong said he was not expecting to be selected as a speaker for UB’s College of Arts and Sciences commencement ceremony, and when he found out he was chosen, he was humbled. Ong, a senior communication major, is originally from Singapore and has spent his last semester at UB finding different opportunities for himself than what his home country can offer.
While some students find walking across the stage at graduation to be a milestone, which represents everything they’ve done to earn a degree, others say preparing for the long ceremony is just a hassle.
Forty-five students out of 143 in the current graduate class of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will begin residency training in Buffalo after graduating, according to The Buffalo News.
On Wednesday night, Spacey took the stage at Alumni Arena as the sixth and final participant of this year’s UB Distinguished Speaker Series in front of a packed crowd to discuss a wide range of topics. He discussed the origins of his acclaimed Netflix series “House of Cards,” his opinion of what it takes to tell a story and his belief that virtual reality will help transform the world.
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