Last Monday, a group of UB students played a Halloween prank that resulted in a friend's car catching on fire and singeing other vehicles parked nearby.The group toilet papered the car, parked in the Fargo lot, and left the scene.
Sub-Board I, Inc. confiscated all of Generation magazine's computer keyboards and mice Monday when its editors failed to remove a pirated copy of Quark Xpress, a publishing program, from their computers.
As part of a nationwide campaign against sweatshops worldwide and the unfair labor practices of U.S.
You can catch them almost anywhere on campus, except probably the men's locker room. Well, on occasion you might spot a couple in there.
Ask any editor at Generation magazine what it's like putting together a weekly magazine and they'll likely tell you it's a long, strenuous effort, a process one described as "anarchy in motion."Harder still is putting an issue together on computers missing keyboards and mice.Larry Piegza, information systems manager for Sub-Board I, Inc., which publishes Generation, discovered a copy of Quark XPress publishing software licensed to UB's Art Department illegally installed on the magazine's computers Monday afternoon.
"It was the year everything changed.- Stephen Franklin, "Babylon 5"Even in the midst of war, one can find something amusing.
Conor McPherson's flawless acting does little to mask lack of plot or substance, but "The Weir" provides a few scares.
The end of the semester is more stressful than ever, thanks to the complaints of concerned professors.
Five years ago, Kathie Lee Gifford and sweatshops became inextricably linked in the public eye when Charles Kernaghan and the NLC revealed the deplorable working conditions in the Honduran factories where Gifford's Walmart-based clothing line was produced.
Marching to the steady beat of homemade percussion instruments, a group of anti-sweatshop activists descended upon the academic spine Monday afternoon, awakening UB's often-sleepy campus with chants and cries for economic justice.
Ten vehicles in the Fargo parking lot were broken into and vandalized between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The citizens of Buffalo will go to the polls Tuesday to choose the Queen City's next mayor. On the one hand is two-term incumbent Mayor Anthony Masiello, endorsed by the Democratic Party.
For students pursuing unconventional studies, UB's special majors program offers a way to design a major appropriate for their academic needs.To become a special major, students must draw up a proposal defining their ideal major and presenting a curriculum supportive of that plan.
Students seeking apartment-style living may soon be able to look to South Campus, as well as North, for on-campus housing.
Seeking to address a shortage of instruction days under New York State Education Department policy, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School Kerry Grant proposed a change to the spring 2002 semester calendar at last Wednesday's Faculty Senate Executive Committee.The change will add four instruction days during finals week, removing two reading days and moving two days of exams to the weekend immediately after classes end.UB's currently scheduled spring semester is only 14 weeks long, falling one week short of the state's 15-week minimum requirement for full-time study.
Class absence policies will be standardized university-wide if a proposal currently under consideration by the Faculty Senate is ratified.The proposal requires professors to specify their absence policies in course syllabi and provide make-up opportunities for justified absences, including illness, family emergency, religious observances, transportation failure and "participation in University sponsored or endorsed activities." These activities include field trips, athletics competitions and performances, all of which are now accepted as valid excuses at each professor's discretion.Students, in turn, must notify their professors in writing at least a week in advance of planned absences, "provide reasonable evidence of the causes of absences" and complete missed course work.Currently, no university-wide policy exists.
Coming off a win last weekend in their opener against Siena College, the UB women's swim team split two meets Saturday afternoon at Alumni Arena.
In an effort to educate the UB community on the causes of the United States-Taliban conflict, the Office of International Educational Services and the Council on International Studies and Programs hosted a discussion of "Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.
On the strength of a solid first half, the men's soccer team defeated St. Francis University 2-1 Friday night to finish their regular season unbeaten in their final four games.The Bulls' final regular season record stands at 8-6-2 (2-3-1 in the MAC) and they will be the fourth seed for the MAC Tournament at Akron next Saturday.Friday night the Bulls executed a nearly flawless first half, connecting on two shots, scored by freshman Justin Higgins and sophomore Patrick Beckley respectively, to push UB ahead and ultimately put the game out of reach.
To The Editor:I could not help but respond to Aja Badame's deplorable opinion piece in Friday's Spectrum, entitled "Credit Gap." The author attempts to blame creditors for lack of foresight into her own financial matters.
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