College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty voted that they have confidence in the performance of CAS Dean Robin Schulze and no confidence in the performances of UB President Satish K. Tripathi and Provost A. Scott Weber.
The Faculty Senate unanimously voted last week to support the closure of the Nuclear Medicine Department due to “substantial debt, aging equipment, the lack of available capital to replace the equipment, decreased volume and an unsustainable business mode.”
UB’s Environment, Health and Safety Office has been investigating the origins of the spill but hasn’t found a “definitive source.”
Protesters are currently facing “approximately 14 pending violation-level offenses." Only one individual has been charged with an actual criminal offense — resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.
Bags of trash and recycling were taken from all three campuses and then analyzed. The results are being used to inform UB’s efforts to improve recycling on campus.
The resolution calls for an investigation into “ad hoc, dangerous and discriminatory” enforcement of UB policies and demands a public review of University Police protocols.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students clashed with each other and with Student Association (SA) President Becky Paul-Odionhin for more than an hour at a tense and sometimes fiery SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening. Attendees argued over experiences of hate and discrimination at UB, and over Paul-Odionhin’s continued blockage of a vote on a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed resolution.
UB will not charge the seven students arrested during last week’s pro-Palestine demonstration with Student Code of Conduct violations, a university spokesperson told The Spectrum Thursday evening. The seven students — plus eight protesters not affiliated with the university — were arrested on May 1 after they refused to disperse at sundown. UB administrators maintain that by doing so, the protesters violated the university’s Picketing and Assembling Policy, which prohibits “overnight assemblies.”
The resolution follows the use of a Stampede bus to transport arrested protesters from the scene of a pro-Palestine demonstration last week.
UB dropped its Student-Wide Judiciary case against former UB Council student representative candidate Jack Walsh on Tuesday, after student prosecutors failed to find that he violated an election rule prohibiting dishonesty.
The motion to hold a vote on the letter passed with 10 ayes, 2 nays and 2 abstentions.
Two pro-Palestinian demonstrations and one pro-Israel rally made their way through UB’s North Campus on Sunday and Monday, extending a tumultuous week of protests on campus that began Wednesday afternoon.
Pro-Palestinian protesters marched on campus and attempted to set up an encampment outside Hochstetter Hall. The night ended with multiple arrests and injuries. Here's how it happened.
The student turned himself in to (UPD) after he was identified by law enforcement. He was charged with a felony and a misdemeanor before being released with an appearance ticket.
On Friday, protesters gathered in Founders Plaza at 3 p.m. and circled the campus before stopping in the grassy lawn outside of Hochstetter Hall where Wednesday’s attempted encampment, and many of the arrests, occurred.
The undergraduate Student Association (SA) has allocated $314,405 — aside from artist fees, which the SA has not made public — for expenses for this year’s Spring Fest concert.
UB is focusing on phasing out single-use plastics on its campuses, in part due to an updated SUNY policy. UB Chief Sustainability Officer Ryan McPherson said that UB played “a key role” in developing that policy.
S. Todd Brown will assume the role of dean effective May 9. He has served as interim dean since July 2023.
Neither the alleged perpetrator nor the victim were affiliated with UB. A UB spokesperson said the "isolated" incident did not pose a "threat to the larger university community."
Five of those arrested were UB students. The rest were unaffiliated with the university. All the arrested individuals were released with appearance tickets.
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