A fire is beginning to burn in the Buffalo's women's basketball team (14-9, 6-6 MAC), one that cannot be stopped as the team moves closer to the Mid-American Conference Tournament.Wednesday night Buffalo traveled to Athens, Ohio, in a game originally scheduled for Tuesday night, but was postponed due to weather.
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If prejudice is to mean a preconceived judgment or opinion usually based on limited information, than that is the idea that you have conveyed from your column, "Affirmative Action Has Overstayed Its Welcome" (Feb.
Mayor Anthony M. Masiello's commitment to an intelligent preservation plan is an encouraging beginning to Buffalo's attempt at shedding its image as a dying city.According to a Buffalo News story from Feb.
I write this in response to (a column) appearing in the Feb. 19 issue of The Spectrum called "Affirmative Action Has Outstayed Its Welcome" by Jamie Lynn Perna.I think Ms. Perna has over-simplified and over-generalized the debate regarding affirmative action.
I am writing in response to Jamie Lynn Perna's Feb. 19 column "Affirmative Action Has Overstayed its Welcome." Affirmative action, contrary to Perna's erroneous information, was not created as "compensation for slavery," but to mitigate the negative effects of discrimination.
UBM. BasketballSat: vs. Miami (OH), noon (Empire)W. BasketballSat: @ Central Michigan, 2WrestlingSat: @ E.
"I can almost guarantee I am the only man in the world with a marmoset on my head right now," Jay Bennett joked, to a sparse but attentive and enthusiastic crowd at the Mohawk Place on Wednesday evening.On tour with the other half of his duo, Edward Burch, Bennett entertained the audience with over two hours of full-on, enjoyable, acoustic rock music - all while sporting a large, beige fur cap swiped from Mohawk head Marty Boratin.Thus far, Bennett is best known for his work in the standout indie rock band Wilco.
Sounds of whirring blades and crashing metal filled the Student Union on Thursday as 10 student-designed robots squared off against one another in a fight to the scrapheap.As part of Engineering Week, the Student Association Engineering Council and Clubs held its annual "UB Bot Wars" - modeled after Comedy Central's "Battlebots" - in which students design and build robots that compete to dismantle each other.The Society of Automotive Engineers took top honors with a robot named "Drill Sergeant." The UB Robotics Club's robot, "George," was the runner-up.Event Coordinator James Ambrose, a senior majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, served as the announcer and said UB Bot Wars surpassed his expectations."This event was very successful," Ambrose said.
"Urgent Application from the Director""Discreet Viagra Sales""Adult links and more""A beautiful bride for you"It is very likely that most UB students have an e-mail waiting in their inboxes with a subject line similar to those above.
I feel obliged to respond to your opinion piece, which ran on Feb. 19, titled "Affirmative Action Has Overstayed Its Welcome."You begin the piece by relating your frustration over not getting into your "top-choice college" while your friend was accepted (into) Cornell University.
The only good thing about hitting bottom is that there is nowhere to go but up. After suffering their worst loss in four years against Kent State Tuesday, UB (1-12 Mid-American Conference, 4-18) will look for redemption Saturday at noon when Miami (Ohio) comes to town.
He sits alone, with or without a table laden with papers. A poster board sign written in black magic marker proclaims his business: kung fu.Thoughts, opinions and assumptions about this man are as varied and widespread as any novelty at UB."I guess it'd be kind of cool to do kung fu.
A front-page article in the Feb. 19 edition, "Assembly Passes Amendments to Regulate Stipend Distribution," had an inaccurate sub-headline, "SA Treasurer Made Non-Voting Ex-Officio Member of Senate." The Senate must first approve the amendments before that action occurs.A front-page article in the Feb.
I am a literature dork, first and foremost. I have been ever since I learned the significance of those little symbols we like to call letters.
Here it is: actual, factual proof that the Ramones kicked butt."We're A Happy Family" is a Ramones tribute album and not just some outfit of no-name bands looking for cheap notoriety.
When you come to Buffalo, you expect snow. We all knew what living here would be like, and what we'd have to deal with in the winter months.
I recently read one of your readers' "feedback" on national holidays here at school and why he feels we should have had a day off this past President's Day.
While the physical body of Christine Dickerson, the 18-year-old freshman member of the women's crew team who lost her life in a December car crash, may be gone, her spirit lives on.Family members, teammates and friends gathered Tuesday night to christen a new four-person crew boat, "The Spirit of Christine Dickerson," in her honor."Every stroke will be for her," said team captain Sara Sheffer, wiping away a tear from her eye.
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