An Associated Press story, run on CNN.com on Oct. 16, profiled a charter school in Ramona, Calif., for using exclusively e-books as a substitute for actual textbooks.
Flyers advertising "Students Wanted! High Pay Opportunities! Great Experience!" can be spotted throughout campus.
When mainstream music like the new Dave Matthews Band or Blink-182 album is released, students can go to any music store and buy one of thousands of copies lining the store's walls.
With a faltering economy and an unstable post-Sept. 11-stock market, student investors are finding it difficult to part ways with their money to invest in stocks and mutual funds.With the added corporate scandal surrounding some of America's largest corporations such as Enron, ImClone, Tyco and Adelphia, many investors have been left searching for safe and reliable investments."Mutual Funds are probably the best way to go still," said Leslie Kessler, president of LJK Associates, an Investment Banking firm in Long Island, New York.
Running on a platform of better representation for students in the New York State Legislature, a UB student wants the chance to become the youngest New York state senator in history, if she is victorious in the Nov.
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In Jamie Lynn Perna's column "No Reason for Sniper to be on the Loose," she states that the sniper could possibly be trained by either the government or military.
"Knockaround Guys" starts with a bang and ends in a bang. This movie had more guns and violence than Vin Diesel's last movie "XXX," which can only equal fun for the masses.Barry Pepper, Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich, Andrew Davoli and Dennis Hopper star in the New Line Cinema drama "Knockaround Guys," written and directed by Brian Koppleman and David Levien.The movie starts with Teddy (Malkovich) and Benny (Hopper) playing two shady mob bosses in Brooklyn.
Is this a joke, or are the Cincinnati Bengals just that bad? How can one franchise suck so much? Just start Akili Smith, since the season is already over.
At a symposium regarding Buffalo's historical grain elevators held at Erie Community College on Saturday, Oct.
The unofficially dubbed "Last of the Mohicans" tour stopped by the Water Street Music Hall on Thursday, featuring Soulfly and the North Side Kings."We call it that because it's a hard life.
With the number one music video last week on MTV's Total Request Live, a new album debuting on the seventh slot of the Billboard charts and a sold-out show last night at the Showplace Theater, it's odd that Billy, the guitarist for Good Charlotte, is so concerned with getting respect.But it's one of his main sources of frustration in a career that, to say the least, has exceeded the band's expectations."It's definitely a challenge to be a respected band.
"The dissonance between the people and their leaders on term limits is deafening," said Michael Kramer in 1995 before a Senate subcommittee on the Constitution.
Tucked away in a small room in Porter Quadrangle in the Ellicott Complex, students are raising money for fellow students and the university.
Freeverse, a small book and gift shop, contains an artsy ambiance suitable for the traditionally art-oriented Allentown area.
American culture is replete with examples of corporations sponsoring everything from sporting events to television programs to the local telethon.
Oftentimes college football and basketball teams will schedule some cupcake non-conference opponents to serve as a "warm-up" for their league schedule.The UB men's club hockey team seems to have gone with the opposite approach.The Ice Bulls went 0-3-1 on the road against some of the stiffest Division-I club hockey competition in the country the past two weeks.
Since Oct. 2, Washington, D.C., area residents have been anxiously awaiting the capture of the sniper that has been holding them hostage in their own neighborhoods.
Questions about the Graduate Student Association's partnership with Sub-Board I, Inc. were answered last week when the new GSA executive board accepted the SBI accounting and services contracts for the 2002-03 school year.According to Vice President Shiju David, GSA's new executive board signed the accounting contract with SBI at the Oct.
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