To The Editor:I do not understand how The Spectrum can pretend to be "ethical" in dealing with this year's Student Association election.
State legislatures across the nation are increasingly linking state aid for public institutions of higher education to performance, an idea popular among politicians despite complaints from college officials.According to Research Associate Henrik Minassians, who works for the Rockefeller Institute, a research institute of public policy for SUNY, states generally use three methods for determining aid to colleges and universities: performance budgeting, performance funding and performance reporting.Performance budgeting examines overall academic performance and bases funding on a number of different academic indicators, such as grade performance and graduate job placement.
Hundreds of people decked out in green flooded the downtown curbs of Delaware Avenue Sunday afternoon for the annual St.
Rudolph Giuliani, former New York City mayor and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2001, has agreed to lecture at UB as the 2002-2003 Distinguished Speaker Series "Student Choice" speaker Wednesday, Nov.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shared his rule of thumb for constitutional interpretation with a crowd of lawyers, law students and faculty from the UB Law School Wednesday afternoon: the Shakespeare principle.The principle, courtesy not of a legal scholar or a jurist but of a high school English teacher, came when a "sophomoric" classmate took issue with the Bard's famous tragedy, "Hamlet.""Mista," Father Tom Matthews told the student, "When you read Shakespeare, Shakespeare's not on trial, you are."Society's long-established traditions, Scalia said, are to the judge as Shakespeare is to the English student.As an "originalist," Scalia believes judicial opinion should be based on strict interpretation of the words of the Constitution or, when the text is ambiguous, it should be interpreted as it was when the text was written."When I'm called upon to say what the text means . I look to what people have said for hundreds of years."The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, for example, "could mean that the Constitution requires you to draft women into combat or unisex toilets," Scalia said.
Even the most successful academic career is prone to common deterrents such as excessive partying and procrastination.
Two University Police officers were injured while making an arrest last Friday at the Biomedical Education Building.Ryan McNamee, a non-UB student, and three juveniles were skateboarding inside the building when police arrived and attempted to ID McNamee and his friends.
In contrast with the heated arguments and intense conflicts that have characterized this year's Student Association club endorsement meetings, the atmosphere at the People of Color Council endorsement meeting Thursday evening was subdued.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - When Coach Bob McKillop found out his team from tiny Davidson College would play Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA tournament, he joked that Ohio State's band is bigger than Davidson's student body.
To The Editor:I found the timing and content of Emily Dalton Smith's "As American As a One-Day Sale" (Monday, March 11) to be both inappropriate and distasteful.
To the Editor:One of the main stereotypes of politics is the assumption that all politicians are sleazy.
While finding quality, affordable childcare is difficult for many working parents, UB has helped to ease the burden for its students, faculty and staff by hosting a number of nationally accredited childcare options on campus.The Early Childhood Research Center, located on North Campus, and the University at Buffalo Child Care Center (UBCCC), with sites on both campuses, provide care for a combined total of about 235 children in the UB community.The UBCCC, situated on South Campus off Bailey Avenue and on North Campus near South Lake Village, offers a traditional daycare program that is typically closed to the public, with university members given preference over non-university applicants.
Cody Kroll, a graduate student and teaching assistant in the art department, is currently the sole teacher for both Sculpture I and II.
Too many times here at the University at Buffalo I hear students say if this school put out good sporting teams with winning records, they would go watch.
Results Party Files Libel Suit Against UB Students PartyResults Party presidential candidate and incumbent SA President Christian Oliver filed a libel complaint with the SA Elections and Credentials Committee Thursday afternoon contesting the content and wording of campaign fliers distributed by the UB Students' Party.Oliver identified two claims on the fliers as circulating false information.
Students hurrying between classes, anxious to check their e-mail or the latest breaking news, now have access to 15 additional "quick connect" computers in the hallway outside Lockwood Library, similar to those available in the bottom floor of the Undergraduate Library.
The Student Wide Judiciary decided Thursday that Yesenia Diaz, a Results Party candidate running for NYSSA, is permitted to remain on the ballot for SA elections next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sub-Board I is likened to a supermarket like Tops or Wegmans, in that it acts as a distributor for a variety of services and events for students, according to SBI Executive Director William Hooley.The organization is student owned and student run, but is overseen by Hooley and also enlists outside companies to help manage accounts.
The ruins of the Parthenon are 2,479 years old. Part of the Tower of London dates from A.D. 1076.
The NCAA Tournament brackets came out Sunday night, with the field of 64 (with Siena defeating Alcorn State Wednesday) ready to Duke it out for the National Championship.Little known, and mostly forgotten, is the National Invitational Tournament, which put out its tournament schedule last weekend as well.
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