Fundraising efforts to assist Tammy Milillo, a UB senior with cerebral palsy, replace $400 worth of her clothing stolen on Feb.
It's the time of year when players have one eye on the ball - and one eye on the scoreboard. With three teams locked in the eighth position, the Buffalo men's basketball team appears to have the inside track for a home playoff game.
UB student George Pape will be ceremonially confirmed as the newest member to the State University of New York Board of Trustees next Thursday, Feb.
There are two ways to fix a failing school system. One is from the top down. National and state lawmakers have used a variety of techniques to boost academic achievement.
What a difference three weeks make. Three weeks ago, the UB women's basketball team went toe-to-toe with the best the MAC has to offer, staying with Kent State for the full 40 minutes before falling 72-71 when they were unable to get off a shot at the buzzer.Last Wednesday, before 1,015 fans at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center in Kent, Ohio, the Bulls (9-17, 4-11 MAC) were out of the game before the fashionably late crowd had filed in.
In the Wednesday, Feb. 20 issue, the article "Around Elmwood 'Round Midnight?" printed the address of Le Metro as 5110 Main St., Williamsville.
Like all the horrible hazing stories from past years, the death of an Alfred student and other similar incidents recently reminded me of the value of thinking for yourself.
UB Step Troupe is in deep trouble. On Monday, the Student Association Senate fined the SISH club $1,000 and 100 hours of community service for misappropriation of funds.
The men's basketball team is beginning to relate to Dorothy, clicking their heels while saying, "There's no place like home." UB (11-15, 6-9 MAC) lost their fourth straight game away from Alumni Arena Wednesday night, suffering their worst offensive output of the season while falling 54-42 to the Toledo Rockets before 3,954 at Savage Hall.
Muslim students at UB do not have as many on-campus fellowship options as their Christian or Jewish counterparts.
Do you believe in miracles? Sports fans know exactly what that question means. Twenty-two years ago Al Michaels made that line famous when he posed it to the audience as time ran out in the USA's impossible second-round win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympic hockey playoffs.This year, had Canada cooperated and lost to Finland, the Americans' road to the gold would have been identical to our run in Lake Placid.
Students celebrating the Student Association's Engineer's Week played with their food and ate it, too.
The Knicks' season is making me very nauseous. With each late-game collapse I become more and more fed up with the way things are being run.
While other students hit the slopes or caught up on daytime television over winter break, six UB students traveled to Eastern Europe to negotiate the admittance of new countries into the European Union.The students, sponsored by the Political Science Undergraduate Student Association, attended the EuroSim conference in the Czech Republic to grapple with issues currently facing the EU.EuroSim is the Transatlantic Consortium for European Studies and Simulation, where students gather to debate contemporary European politics.
To The Editor:Permit me a few moments while I shed a few tears for the Greek community. It turns out the term "frat boys" is a very offensive label being applied to the Greek members of our school.
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Kerry Grant announced at Wednesday's Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting that his office has completed a report detailing the competitiveness of UB's graduate teaching assistant stipends, an issue the university has "constantly asserted every year . is a major problem."Under Gov.
The mailmen didn't know the envelopes they were carrying contained white powder. After anthrax mailings infected dozens people and killed five, everyone got scared.
Cutbacks in the state budget are threatening UB's Educational Opportunity Program, a state program that provides support services to disadvantaged, academically talented college students.
"AMERICA IS EXTREMELY NAUGHTY"-Protest Banner in Tehran, IranThe success of a major presidential address is judged by whether or not a particular phrase "sticks" in the political vocabulary.
Lobbyists from UB are working to secure millions of dollars in funding from both the New York State and federal governments as part of the university's efforts to place Buffalo at the forefront of economic activity in biomedical research.Faculty, administrators and employees in the university's Office of Government Affairs are working as a team to secure finances for the new Center of Excellence for Bioinformatics, said Bruce Holm, UB senior vice provost and chief administrator for the center.The Office of Government Affairs has representatives in both Albany and Washington, and continues to utilize SUNY's powerful Washington lobbying firm to leverage the university for additional government funding."Our ultimate mission is to bring back funding for the university," said Janet Penksa, former secretary to the New York State Assembly's Ways and Means Committee, and currently UB's associate vice president for government affairs.
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