In effort to alleviate traffic and parking for Bernie Sanders’ rally on campus, UB opened its Stampede buses to the general public Monday.
Toles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and Spectrum alumnus, came to UB Thursday as the honored guest in UB’s fourth annual Signature Series. He held a gallery presentation of his work in Capen Hall Thursday afternoon and held what he called an “informal discussion,” called “Talking Toles,” in Slee Hall Thursday night, in which he touched on his cartoons, career and political commentary.
The theater, which held approximately 300 students and residents from around the area, was covered in American-themed decor and the MSNBC name as Cruz spoke on a range of topics from abortion and contraceptives, to border issues and immigration.
Toles, a political cartoonist for The Washington Post who attended UB and drew for The Spectrum in the 1970s, gave a candid and at times humorous talk to the current staff.
The UBReUSE program will be collecting reusable dorm items from May 8-15 in designated bins across dorm areas. The program will also be collecting items in large tents near Ellicott and Greiner Complexes, as well as Hadley Village.
Sanders’ rally made North Campus a crowded and hectic scene throughout the entire day, with a line forming outside Alumni Arena as early as 8 a.m. and eventually wrapping all the way behind UB Stadium. Those who didn’t make it inside watched Sanders’ speech on a video board outside the arena.
UB’s branding initiative is aiming to make the university a “distinctive brand.” The strategy looks to unite all of UB’s schools and units around the “University at Buffalo” name and is focused on clearing up the longtime confusion about the university’s name, said Nancy Paton, vice president of university communications.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will be the second presidential candidate to visit UB in less than four days. Cruz is set to speak at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Ellicott Complex on UB’s North Campus on Thursday morning, according to WGRZ. The event will be a town hall meeting in accordance with MSNBC at the North Campus venue that holds 340 people. It will start at 11 a.m.
Locally Buffalo supporters wait in rain for hours to see Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders visited UB on Monday for his “A Future to Believe In” rally.
Sarah Koenig made the first season of her now award-winning podcast in her basement. She had to pause the recording each time one of her kids flushed the toilet upstairs. She didn’t realize just how popular the podcast would be until there were 300,000 downloads in just a few days.
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Sanders held his “A Future to Believe In Rally” in a packed Alumni Arena Monday – discussing the pay disparity between the top 1 percent and the rest of the country, the rising cost of college and student debt and environmental issues like fracking.
Bernie Sanders supporters began lining up outside Alumni Arena as early as 8 a.m. Monday – about eight hours before doors open and 11 hours before the Democratic presidential candidate will even speak at his “Future To Believe In Rally.”
The Student Association started giving out tickets in its third floor Student Union office around 10:15 a.m.
With limited access to kitchen appliances, some students resort to food delivery. This has sparked a frenzy of “online food-ordering” companies to bring their services to college campuses.
Some universities have faculty clubs, which provides a formal area for faculty and staff to eat together, or occasionally with students and visiting guests.
When Lisa Cannavale first noticed her Facebook newsfeed taken over by food blogs and how-to recipe videos, she got curious. She wondered whether there was a social media source that displayed UB’s wide array of food options. When she realized there wasn’t, Cannavale, a sophomore communication major, decided to start one of her own: an Instagram page named UB_hungry, which displays various photos of food in UB and currently has more than 300 followers.
Two people were shot at approximately 1:51 a.m. Sunday morning in the parking lot of Habibi Sheesha Lounge, a hookah bar located in the University Plaza Shopping Center just across the street from South Campus.
Students with a valid student ID were supposed to be able to pickup free tickets to Spacey's April 27 talk on Monday from 5-8 p.m. in Alumni Arena, but Sanders' recently announced rally will take place in Alumni Arena at the same time, so ticket distribution has been postponed until Tuesday. Students can pickup tickets from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a rally at the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum in downtown Buffalo on Friday afternoon.
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