The world-renowned Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company brought a glimpse of the rich and diverse Filipino culture to the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theatre Friday night.
Well, they were close.Last weekend, the women's volleyball team took to the road, and picked up two more losses as they faced Bowling Green University and Central Michigan University.
Like the version in our nation's capital, The Little White House, located at 5877 Main St. in Williamsville, is a sizeable but not extravagant building; with its large windows and plain white siding, the building looks like the ordinary home of a prominent family.When I went to dine at The Little White House, I had not yet made the connection with the national power center on Pennsylvania Avenue, so the excess of patriotic memorabilia struck me when I first entered the building.
The message was clear: build on what has been awakened in America and do not let the deaths of Sept.
A New Jersey postal worker was determined to have pulmonary anthrax Sunday, and health officials reiterated their advice that thousands of people who handle mail at their jobs in the District of Columbia take preventive antibiotics.
To The Editor:"Bring Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to justice," - in other words have them be dead or preferably trialed, then dead.
The decision of where to live can be a tough choice for students at UB. Living on campus or moving into an off-campus apartment both offer benefits and drawbacks and students are forced to weigh competing considerations in selecting their residence of choice.Living on campus, for example, tends to integrate students more fully into the campus and the university community.
549 Capen Hall (716) 645-2997 gresham@buffalo.eduThe PositionMary Harley Gresham is the dean of the Graduate School of Education and the vice president for Public Service and Urban Affairs at UB.
"This is a new business, and no one has any answers or any real plans on what's the best way to do it." - recently retired CIA senior intelligence officialUncertainty is the prevailing ethos enveloping our nation and its political leadership.
UBFootballEastern Michigan 24, Buffalo 20Men's SoccerBuffalo 1, Western Michigan 1Women's Soccerno games scheduledVolleyballBowling Green 3, Buffalo 0Central Michigan 3 Buffalo 0Cross CountryMens: 5th place finish at MAC championshipsWomen: 11th place finish at MAC championshipsProfessionalBuffalo BillsSan Diego 27, Buffalo 24Buffalo SabresMontreal 5, Buffalo 2New Jersey 3, Buffalo 1
For students 20 or 30 years ago, moving to college did not involve hauling computers, refrigerators or high-tech stereo equipment, but what students today consider bare (non-electronic) necessities - and, for the lucky few, a personal typewriter.Today, student rooms are packed with televisions, CD players, radios, alarm clocks, computers, printers, DVD players, game consoles, telephones, answering machines cellular phones and countless other gadgets and gizmos."In my room, I have a 27-inch TV, a stereo receiver, DVD player, VCR, surround-sound speakers, computer, printer, video camera, Playstation and Nintendo 64," said Steve Paul, a sophomore media studies major.
The absence of a "college town" adjacent to UB with quaint bookstores, coffee shops, eclectic restaurants and specialty retailers is often noted by UB administrators as an obstacle to building a North Campus community."Most great universities have this kind of thing either right on campus or across the street," said Cliff Wilson, associate vice president for Student Affairs.University administrators are attempting to bring a college town atmosphere to the North Campus by creating a "promenade" of shops, student apartments and a host of services that would link the currently isolated Ellicott complex with the academic spine.The presently-dubbed Lee Road Master Plan was the topic of three public meetings on the North and South campuses this week.
The University Honors Program recently announced establishment of the Research and Creative Activities Fund, a new grant offered primarily to honors students.
This spring, UB will make course-management software available to all its professors, putting them one click away from putting supplemental course material online.Starting next semester, the software, distributed by Blackboard Inc., will allow professors in every department to set up Web pages for their courses with course content, discussion boards, e-mail access and electronic assignment submission.Richard Lesniak, director of academic services at UB and project manager for Blackboard's implementation, said that after investigating other options over the course of several years, an Educational Technology Center taskforce chose Blackboard because "this is the one that's being used everywhere.
Although excited and optimistic about moving in to the luxurious apartment-style student housing of glorious Hadley Village, I did have some fears: My two stunning friends and I would have a fourth roommate we had never met, we had to decide who would bring what kitchen- and living-room accessories and none of us had ever been forced to endure one other's boyfriends for extended periods of time.
Their effort has been evident in every on-field encounter the Bulls have had this year. Unfortunately, victors are not determined by the amount of energy expended or the blood lost in battle.Vince Lombardi once said, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing," and to this point, UB has a deficiency of W's and an excess of L's.
Passing OffenseFor the second straight game the offensive line had a solid performance in giving Quarterback Joe Freedy the time he needed to find the open man.
The state of Buffalo: a city with a weak economy, a shrinking population, a declining tax pool, an outmoded industrial base and an educational system on the edge of calamity.Facing a $28-million budget gap, the Buffalo Board of Education voted Wednesday night to lay off 557 employees, 433 of which are teachers.
The Ukrainian Student Association has 30 members of Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian and Slovakian descent who "try to adapt and learn about each culture," said Maria Larisa Godenciuc, treasurer of the Ukrainian SA.Traditions:Wedding traditions are especially reflective of the Ukraine's struggle for freedom.
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