Prior to spring break, on the afternoon of Friday, March 15, there was a dogmatic display of righteous gibberish laid out by several Christian right advocates.
After an eight-hour meeting in a stuffy conference room at the downtown Buffalo Hyatt Regency on Saturday, George Pape, a junior pursuing three majors at UB, reflected on his future."My life really won't be my own for the next year.
Records are made to be broken, but not twice in two weeks and certainly not by two people in the same day.
Sociologists call them "toxic neighborhoods," communities where the confluence of chronic poverty, drug trafficking, unemployment, violent crime and low educational levels create and sustain a perpetual underclass.Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, where I and 30 other students from UB's Newman Center spent our spring break, is a textbook case study of such a community.The neighborhood made headlines last April as the epicenter of the city's three-day race riots, sparked by the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of a white cop.
In the article "Ultimate Frisbee: UB's Green Eggs and Ham," published April 12, UB Green Eggs and Ham captain David Bohnsack was incorrectly identified as assistant captain Dave Reynolds.
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April 15President William Greiner will host "Talk of the University" live on WBFO 88.7 FM from 7 to 8 p.m.A Spring AIDS Memorial will be held from 10 a.m.
On Sept. 11, every American remembers where they were and what they were doing when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked.
The Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society's UB chapter hosted a 12-hour dance-a-thon beginning Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m.
"I didn't know if I would have enough energy tonight," lead singer of No Doubt Gwen Stefani told the audience three songs into their set.
UB's Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics recently forged an international partnership with Biopharma Ireland, the country's new national institute of biopharmaceutical research and development.
UB has been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency (NSA) and is now eligible for a competitive grant which gives full scholarship support to undergraduate and graduate students seeking degrees and graduate certificates in information assurance disciplines.
Do you remember that basketball preview I wrote back in October? I exuberantly went through a team-by-team analysis and vigorously reviewed each major off-season transaction.
Arizona Diamondback left fielder Luis Gonzales will provide a new piece of used chewing gum for auction on the Internet.
Former President Bill Clinton's speech last Wednesday may have left many aspiring political science majors wondering what it would be like to have a White House internship on their own r?
The National Collegiate Athletics Association expects to approve a proposal in October that would lower the minimum SAT score required of student athletes while progressively increasing the stringency of academic eligibility requirements for returning and transfer students.
Charles Murphy, a Houston real-estate agent, just sold Barry Bond's 70th home-run ball, whose shot tied Mark McGwire's 1998 single-season homerun mark, for $52,500.
Estimates of the current market value of slave labor performed in the U.S. range as high as $1.4 trillion.
I am writing to you regarding the editorial entitled "From the Bleachers" in the April 11 issue. I was one of the "privileged" sitting in one of the "special front row seats" and can confirm firsthand that your editorial contained several factual errors.While it is true that there were some distinguished members of the Western New York community seated in the first few rows, most of the floor seats and especially its middle section were occupied by students.
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