For many students and faculty at UB, coming to campus poses a daily threat, not to their health but to their automobiles.On any given weekday, the school's 14,000 parking spaces are filled two-and-a-half times between 7 a.m.
An envelope containing $27,000 in the form of checks was reported missing Nov. 9 from an office in Fargo Quad, later recovered by Campus Mail and returned to the Office of Special Events.The inter-office envelope held checks and corresponding deposit slips and was supposed to be taken to the UB Foundation for deposit.
If you haven't seen the nine or so existing episodes of "Saturday Night Live's" "Celebrity Jeopardy" skits by now, you should do the following: get a box of Pop Tarts from the store, go onto Resnetster and type in "celebrity jeopardy," then proceed to laugh for about an hour as some of the funniest stuff ever to grace American television.Many a night the boys and I have squeezed into my neighbor's room, cramming for a spot near the computer to try to get a glimpse of Sean Connery bagging on Alex Trebek once again.
Everyone, at some time in their lives, has seen the work of the great French painters, whether on postage stamps or when flipping through art books.
Recent legislative proposals to tighten immigration laws and student visa requirements have sparked concern in the world of higher education."Right now there are lots of unknown things about the legislation," said Steven Shaw, director of international admissions at UB.
Grey concrete clashes badly with silver steel. It looks cold and lifeless from my view in the press box.
Since UB was rated #1 for "dorms like dungeons" by the PrincetonReview's ranking of America's "331 Best Colleges" earlier this fall, many students and faculty have questioned the validity of the study, especially in light of the university's ongoing mission to create a large-scale community through increased on-campus housing.The Spectrum reviewed information and interviewed staff from UB's sisterSUNYs, as well as several private institutions, to gauge the living environment and see how UB's residence halls are measuring up.This is the second piece in a three-part series examining six aspects of that report.Part IIOn-Campus Residency RequirementsOut of the six universities contacted, including the four SUNY centers and two private universities, UB was the only higher-education institution that does not require its first- or second-year students to live on campus.According to Joseph Krakowiak, director of University Residence Halls and Apartments, there are two reasons UB has not implemented such residency requirements: first, UB cannot accommodate the number of students such a requirement would generate and second, the university believes students should have the right to choose where they wish to reside."If [living on campus] is not mandatory, that means we have to try harder instead of saying 'no matter what you want, you have to be here,'" said Krakowiak.
I am writing regarding The Spectrum article "Sweatshop Foes Rally for Improved Conditions" dated Nov.
As the president of the UB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance, I feel that I must respond to the letter written by David Berman, published Nov.
The UB men's soccer team nearly overcame unbelievable odds last weekend, playing Bowling Green scoreless for 90 minutes and four seconds while being shorthanded.It was the 90th minute and fifth second that killed them.
A UB professor has been awarded what is believed to be the largest single grant ever given to a philosopher.Barry Smith, professor of philosopohy, received a $2 million Wolfgang Paul research award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Nov.
It is getting harder and harder for Americans with drug convictions to get an education. Twenty-one thousand potential students were refused federal loans for college in the last two years based on prior felony and misdemeanor drug convictions because of the 1998 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which precludes students from receiving federal financial aid for one year after a drug possession or two years after being convicted of selling drugs.
In sharp contrast to previous administrator statements that a student medical center is not, and will never be, an option for North Campus, a health care facility has been proposed for the Lee Road complex, which will someday link Ellicott to the academic spine.The health center would likely provide non-emergency medical care to students and operate in a manner similar to South Campus' Center for Student Health, commonly referred to as Michael Hall.
Members of the New York State Student Assembly's Western New York Region and Executive Board met Saturday to tour UB's campus, discuss legislative issues and promote solidarity amongst representatives from schools in the region.According to George Pape, NYSSA vice president, the e-board decided to divide the assembly into four parts-Western New York, North Country, Capital and New York City-to encourage frequent meetings in addition to the assembly's general bi-annual conferences.The event, which was hosted by the Student Association, provided NYSSA delegates from UB and other institutions of higher education in WNY an opportunity to network with one another and promote cooperation between student governments.Delegates also discussed the possibility of forming an anti-tobacco coalition in which student governments under the SUNY system would join together and lobby against the state investing tax dollars into pension funds and stocks from the tobacco industry."It's not about smokers versus anti-smokers, it's about how the money should be invested," Pape explained.In addition, Pape said the e-board discussed holding the Spring 2002 NYSSA Conference in New York City instead of the usual Utica or Upstate New York area as a "show of support for our brother and sister colleges in the city." The WNY region voted unanimously in favor of the NYC-based conference; other regions have yet to be consulted.
I find it interesting that for every day the American flag is flown in front Founders Plaza, there is a day when it is not.
The script called for pride, pageantry and paratroopers; and the Army Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.
The lack of convenient parking, particularly in the vicinity of the academic spine on UB's North Campus, is an oft-repeated complaint of commuters, much discussed but not yet resolved to student satisfaction.In an attempt to tackle what some students see as a chronic problem, representatives from a consulting service, hired by the university to study the campus parking situation this semester, solicited feedback from commuter students at a meeting held last Thursday.Chance Management Advisors, a Philadelphia-based consulting service specializing in parking and road access research and solutions, held a focus group session for students wishing to discuss the problem of parking on campus.
It's never an easy task living up to hype. You can either roll with the punches or fall through the cracks.
The results were the same as they have been the past five years, but it was not Marshall's usual formula for victory: Byron Leftwich was catching touchdowns instead of throwing them.It was the famed Michael Carey to Byron Leftwich combo that gave the Thundering Herd (8-1, 5-0 MAC) a 24-14 lead in the third quarter, en route to a 27-21 win over the Miami, Ohio RedHawks, (7-3, 4-1 MAC) to capture their fifth-consecutive MAC East Division title.
My education in activism began before I was able to read. As a child, I marched on Washington, attended peace vigils and participated in rallies involving nuclear proliferation, civil rights and world hunger, trailing wide-eyed after my father, my young mind attempting to make sense of the hoopla surrounding me.While other kids wore shirts featuring Mickey Mouse or Strawberry Shortcake or the Smurfs, my first-grade wardrobe included T's boasting "Build Homes, Not Bombs," "End Hunger Now," and one of my favorites, a shirt depicting rows of decimated trees juxtaposed with a lone mushroom-cloud emanating from a nuclear bomb.As I grew older, I began to learn about the issues that had brought my six-year-old self to the nation's capital, and longed to follow in the footsteps of my father, who was active in the civil-rights struggle of the 1960s and the Vietnam War protests in the following decade.The activism of those periods was synonymous in my mind with concrete political and social change - not simply long-haired, tie-dye-wearing, peace-sign-toting, free-loving, disgruntled hippies with too much time on their hands and too many chemicals in their bloodstreams.
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