Winter Storm Jonas covered the Northeast in a snow blanket this past weekend, leaving many students stranded outside of Buffalo and concerned about not getting to campus in time for the start of the semester.
All on-campus dorms and apartments were not supposed to open until Sunday, but will now open Friday at 9 a.m. to accommodate students traveling from the New York City and metropolitan area.
Buffalo Police is investigating the burglary in Truesdell’s apartment early Thursday morning - just one of many burglaries that have occurred in the University Heights neighborhood over the past month.
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Two suspects robbed a UB student of his cell phone and wallet while the student was walking down Winspear Avenue, located right off of South Campus, with a friend at around 10:35 p.m. Sunday. The victim said the two suspects, male teenagers wearing dark clothing, approached him asking to use his cell phone, then one suspect pointed a black handgun at him while the other struck him in the head.
The SA Assembly will ask the Faculty Senate to require that professors include information on sexual assault and Title IX polices on all course syllabi.
The collaborative assembled in Glora J. Parks Community Center to provide updates on developments within the Heights neighborhood. Mickey Vertino, president of the University Heights Collaborative, spoke about the new student housing complex, Axis 360, which will be located on LaSalle Avenue off of Main Street.
The policy will require that art projects outside the Center for the Arts have some kind of note or explanation to identify it as a work of art.
College students are notorious for pulling all-nighters during finals week. The extra hours spent awake are seen as a productive time to study for finals.
Students often have grievances about how professors decide to calculate their final grade and the dreaded finals week, which runs from Dec. 14 until Dec. 21 this semester, as a whole. Professors across different departments have their own methods for breaking down students’ grades, and some even adjust their class structure to fit student preferences.
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UPD Lieutenant Scott Marciszewski, Officer John Sindoni and Communications Officer Robert Adamski all received awards for professionalism on campus. The SUNY Chiefs Association Awards are held annually in Albany, New York to recognize the work university police departments within the SUNY system. The event presents officers with awards for heroism and professionalism.
The letter uses racial slurs and accuses several organizations, like the NAACP and the Black Lives Matters movement of being racist. Although UPD says the letter does not pose a direct threat to Oliver, it has run a number of assessments regarding the text of the letter, fingerprints and the physical letter itself. And as a precaution and per protocol, UB has shared the letter with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
UB has created a former foster youth program to help transition these youth through college. The program was initiated about a year ago and is through the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and Student Support Services (SSS) and works with the UB School of Social Work.
The Student Association Senate held its final meeting of the fall semester on Friday.
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Legacy Development, a Buffalo-based real estate developer, is currently constructing the first student housing complex in the Heights, called Axis 360, with an initial opening of 532 bedrooms in August 2016.
The lawsuit, filed by Jeffrey Malkan in 2011, alleged that Mutua violated Malkan’s due process rights when the former dean fired him in 2009. U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder also granted sanctions against Malkan and his attorney for claiming Mutua committed perjury in the case.
The Faculty Senate discussed topics of concern within the university, including the controversial “White Only” art project and the UB home ownership program in the Center for Tomorrow Tuesday.
Because there was no smoke or fire present in the buildings when the alarms went off, the incidents appear to be false reports, said Deputy Chief of Police Joshua Sticht.
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