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Bernie Sanders looks out at his supporters during his "A Future to Believe In" rally in Alumni Arena Monday night. More than 11,000 people came out to the rally, with more than 8,000 getting inside and another 3,000 outside. 
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Bernie Sanders brings supporters in huge numbers to UB

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.


Satish Tripathi (front), UB president and Allen Greene, UB Athletic Director (back) discuss UB’s recently launched branding initiative, which looks to unite all of UB’s schools and units around the “University at Buffalo” name.
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UB branding initiative looks to align university under one name

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 is set to speak at UB's Katharine Cornell Theatre on Thursday morning. 
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​Republican candidate Ted Cruz to visit UB

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.


Sarah Koenig, co-creator of NPR's podcast Serial, spoke at the Center for the Arts Monday night about her feelings and reactions to the first seasons of her podcast.
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'Serial' producer Sarah Koenig speaks at UB

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.


When Lisa Cannavale (pictured) first came to UB she found that the school didn’t have social media dedicated to showing food options on campus. This led Cannavale to create the Instagram page UB_Hungry, which now has over 300 followers.
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Student-run Instagram shows students where to eat around UB

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.


Kevin Spacey (pictured) is set to give his Distinguished Speaker Series talk in Alumni Arena on April 27. Bernie Sanders' rally at Alumni Arena has delayed the free student ticket distribution for Spacey's talk by one day. 
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Bernie Sanders' UB visit delays free student ticket distribution for Kevin Spacey

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.



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