"It's a birthday party!" A sentence like this gives the impression of a light-hearted celebration, a happy occasion - not the 20th anniversary of AIDS, arguably the gravest public health crisis today.In order to commemorate World AIDS Day, the UB AIDS Coalition held court in the Student Union Friday to raise awareness of the terrible disease and educate students on its effects.
I agree with Senator Mahon: SA clubs not doing well could be threatened with de-recognition solely due to overall budgeting concerns and the need for more money in the Senate Allocation Fund.
Mount St. Mary's sophomore Myriam Baccouche is known as one of the quietest players on her team. It was no surprise then that the soft-spoken forward/guard let her game do the talking on Friday night as the Mountaineers beat the UB Bulls women's basketball team 66-55 at Alumni Arena.Baccouche was 8-14 behind the three-point line, setting a school record for three pointers made, and was the game's high scorer with 26 points.
As I sat around the dining room table at Thanksgiving this year, I had an epiphany that turned out to be larger than the golden brown turkey in front of me.
Warm, loving relationships are a fact of life at colleges and universities across America. And so are sexual affairs.Problems arise when college kids involve themselves not with another member of the student body, but with a professor.
Singing without instrumental accompaniment is like walking through the woods without following a marked path: It can be done, but it's not easy.
As a second-year columnist I have become accustomed to angry criticism levied from those at odds with my opinions.
If one were to drop a bag of sand from a high elevation, it would not bounce. Instead, the impact would splinter into a million shock waves throughout the sand particles.
Peer-grading: one of the easiest ways for teachers to free up their schedules by enlisting students to do their work.
The Student Association decided Wednesday to cut 20 clubs not meeting SA membership mandates from its roll.
The Student Association Senate voted nine to three Wednesday night to de-recognize 20 SA clubs after the organizations failed to uphold basic club responsibilities and heed warnings of impending de-recognition.
There were no bright flashing lights, no dramatic announcement - only the music, which would speak for itself.
"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June.
Mike Richter had fallen out of the fraternity that represented the National Hockey League's most feared goaltenders.
Mary Jane Books, a private bookstore in Albany, recently won a lawsuit against SUNY Albany to force the university to release textbook lists to bookstores located off-campus.I wrote an article last semester about a similar situation here at UB.
Five sacks, four turnovers, zero points scored, six touchdowns surrendered. Based on the way the 2001 Mid-American Conference season has unfolded, it would be easy to assume that these statistics belong to an opponent of the five-time defending East Division Champion Marshall Thundering Herd.Guess again.They were the extent of Marshall's production the last time they faced the Toledo Rockets (back on Oct.
In a Nov. 28 editorial entitled "Embryonic Cloning: A Healthy Future," The Spectrum questions the fact that "the personal moral structures of healthy politicians are far more important than ... benefit from medical treatments using cloned cells." The appropriate question to ask, however, is: "When did Americans decide that it is acceptable to sacrifice our morals in exchange for personal benefit?" The Spectrum suggests that anything that has benefits should be done, so long as its benefits outweigh its moral detriment.
UB President William R. Greiner and Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Black spent Thursday night discussing transportation, the Millard Fillmore College and tuition and budget concerns on WBFO's "Talk of the University.""To kick off a discussion of tuition policy might be mistaken as [us] advocating a tuition increase this year," Greiner said in response to a question regarding tuition hikes.
The weekend before Thanksgiving break, six UB students took part in defending the wrongly accused in a high-profile murder trial.
Following another dismal season and the resignation of third-year head coach Nadine Lilavois, the UB women's volleyball team was faced with a single question: What could make the struggling team succeed?
Solutions by The State News
