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UB Seeking A 'Chance' To Improve Parking

Campus parking has been a major gripe among students over the past several years, resulting in UB's commissioning Chance Management Advisors Inc., a Philadelphia-based consulting firm, to conduct a study regarding parking and transportation issues on UB's campuses.While the final draft has not been completed, the company has raised several key issues.


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Sub-Board I and GSA

Graduate Student Association President Janine Santiago threatened to withdraw from Sub-Board I, UB's student-run service corporation, citing several complaints she has with the organization.


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Byrned to a Crisp

Boy, you have got to love those Mets fans. In the pre-season they got all pumped up because General Manager Steve Phillips brought in some high-priced "talent." Yeah, that's the same talent that includes Shawn Estes, who couldn't even hit Roger Clemens with the ball, never mind pitch close to .500 for the Mets.


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University Improvement

South Campus will, finally, receive renovations - school officials have laid out plans for expansions and improvements that will open apartment-style housing on South Campus, in addition to remodeling the residence halls currently available.The plans, announced at an Amherst Town Board meeting Monday night, call for the transformation of Goodyear Hall into apartments, construction of brand-new apartment buildings, and the renovation of Clement Hall and Harriman Hall.


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Sidelines

Men's SoccerThe team kicked off the season this past weekend at the Central Connecticut Tournament, coming away with a split.


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Rosh Hashana Gives Israelis Cause to Hope

JERUSALEM--Cheryl Matthews is deeply committed to her faith. But in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Friday at sundown, she began a prayer group to make her feel even closer to God.Yisrael Stefansky is giving more thought and more time to reading the psalms of the Hebrew Bible.


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UB Maps Out South Campus Renovations

As part of an "effort to improve culture and recruit students and retain students," Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs, and Michael Dupre, associate vice president for University Facilities, unveiled a "master plan" to create new residence halls and student apartments on South Campus during an Amherst Town Planning meeting Wednesday night.A major focus of the plan, Black and Dupre said, is to provide a sense of community, both on campus and off.Renovations to South Campus will include a revamping of Clement Hall, the transformation of Goodyear Hall into high-rise apartments, the construction of village-style apartments in place of McDonald, Pritchard and Schoellkopf Halls, and the transformation of Harriman Hall into the central hub of the South Campus community.University Facilities has already renovated several classrooms in Hayes Hall as well as masonry on the stone facades of many of the academic halls, and torn down two of the aluminum buildings that once stood in the center of the South Campus courtyard, Dupre said.He added that renovations to the academic buildings on South Campus often go unnoticed, though they are equally important to housing projects.


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Medical School for Dummies

In the minds of students, medical school represents many things: a great accomplishment, an exhausting financial endeavor, a lifelong goal, or that which is unattainable because you simply cannot understand algebra.As college students, many remain curious about the steps it takes to get into medical school.


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Scoreboard

UBVolleyballTue: Cleveland St. 3, Buffalo 0Local Pro TeamsBuffalo BisonsWed: Buffalo 12, Scranton/WB 4Thurs: Buffalo 6, Scranton/WB 5 (10 innings)


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Dell Officially Joins Bioinformatics Project

UB officially brought Michael Dell and more than 2,000 of his company's computers into its high-tech bioinformatics project Tuesday, creating a $13 million supercomputer that is likely the third most powerful in the world.The interconnected Dell PowerEdge servers are the latest addition to the university's Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the Center for Computational Research, which has secured $61 million in funding in this year's state budget and has attracted approximately $290 million from government and commercial partners over the last two years.More than 80,000 pounds of hardware have been installed in a former food services space in Norton Hall, just 90 days after signing a purchase contract with Dell Computer Corporation.


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UB Students and NASA Collaborate

An accepted proposal to conduct research on the effect of a micro-gravity environment on blood flow landed members of UB's chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at NASA's mission control last summer, where the team hopes to return later this year."Seeing the building, seeing mission control - it was really exciting to see the people I could actually be working with," said team member Nicole Kulpit, a sophomore aerospace engineering major.


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Jimmy Fallon

If you were among the many to see Jimmy Fallon last semester at the Center for the Arts, there will be no need to rush out and purchase his debut CD, "The Bathroom Wall." If you didn't catch the show, put the disc on your shopping list.Fallon, brought to fame by Saturday Night Live, pumps out 37 minutes of comedy and music on the album, taken from the tour that hit UB last Spring.The musical selections from the disc include "Idiot Boyfriend," in which Fallon sings in a falsetto voice to a groovy bass line about the worst boyfriend imaginable.


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UB Gets Additional Delegate

Thanks to the increase in the size of UB's undergraduate population, the Student Association has been granted an additional seat on the State University of New York Student Association.Last spring, the undergraduate student body elected three representatives to serve as UB delegates: Anthony Burgio, Yesenia Diaz and Kathryn Walsh.


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"Lights, Camera, Action ... News!"

Jason Aupperle plays Jason Stark: a hard-nosed, womanizing reporter, whose activities consist of sleeping with a colleague's wife and throwing pencils at Ron the Camera Guy.


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Def Fest

Def Jam artists Ja Rule and LL Cool J are the two headliners for Fall Fest, the annual free concert for UB students organized by the Student Association.


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Coldplay

About two years ago, Coldplay released "Parachutes," the perfect, post-breakup album. The calm yet dejected tone of the music of the mopey British four-piece band was the perfect sedative for stressed, jilted and loveless young adults.Although Coldplay had higher standards and refused to license any of their music, it's still not hard to foresee a song like "Trouble" serving as the soundtrack for the scene in a Cameron Crowe movie where one of characters is driving alone, dumped and depressed in the rain.


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