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Police Blotter 3/3 – 3/10
By News Desk | Mar. 12, 2015University at Buffalo police blotter - all information according to University Police.
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UB Council discusses campus renovations, student debt
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 10, 2015UB used revenue from NYSUNY 2020’s rational tuition program to hire 277 new faculty members from the time of the plan’s inception in 2011 to the end of 2014. But the additional faculty may have limited space on campus.
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Squire Hall evacuated for small fire
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 10, 2015A small fire in the basement of Squire Hall caused an evacuation of the building on Tuesday morning.
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Over 225 pounds of clothing donated to Hearts for the Homeless
By JASHONDA WILLIAMS | Mar. 8, 2015Thanks to the generosity of some UB students, about 225 more pounds of clothing will be made available to the homeless population of Western New York, which includes more than 5,750 people.
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The Spectrum elects 2015-16 editor in chief
By ALYSSA MCCLURE | Mar. 8, 2015The Spectrum’s editorial board unanimously elected Tom Dinki as next year’s editor in chief on Sunday. Dinki, a junior English major and current senior news editor at the newspaper, ran unopposed.
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Low attendance halts Faculty Senate vote
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 6, 2015Michael Chaskes, a professor in the Department of Medicine, is wondering how “anything is going to get done” at UB with the consistent struggle the Faculty Senate has getting enough members present at a meeting to take a vote.
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Committee formed to draft policy on professors assigning own textbooks
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 6, 2015The Faculty Senate Executive Committee assigned a committee to draft a policy on professors assigning self-published textbooks after a Spectrum editor presented her reporting to the Executive Committee Wednesday.
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SA Assembly holds forum on NYSUNY 2020's rational tuition plan
By ASHLEY INKUMSAH | Mar. 5, 2015All UB students will pay $300 more in tuition every year until at least 2020. But only about 10 to 15 students were present at a town hall style forum Wednesday night about tuition increases.
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UB and Independent Health Foundation pair to create video that pranks students into selecting healthy snacks from vending machine
By Katie Coleman | Mar. 5, 2015Students trying to make snack selections from on-campus vending machines unknowingly became part of the Independent Health Foundation’s initiative to spark UB students to start thinking about making healthy choices while snacking or dining on campus.
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Police Blotter: 2/24-3/1
By News Desk | Mar. 5, 2015University at Buffalo Police blotter from Feb. 24 to March 1.
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Spectrum editors place in Society of Professional Journalists national competition
By ALYSSA MCCLURE | Mar. 5, 2015The Society of Professional Journalists announced Thursday three editors of The Spectrum have placed in the SPJ’s Mark of Excellence regional awards competition.
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Small amount of natural gas leaked in Natural Sciences Complex, evacuation not needed
Mar. 5, 2015A small amount of gas was released in the Natural Science Complex this afternoon, which caused a professor teaching in NSC 225 to evacuate her class. University Police said it was “not a large scale incident,” and the evacuation was not needed.
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Many college students spend spring break engaging in beachfront debauchery, but not all
By ALYSSA MCCLURE | Mar. 3, 2015Roughly 32 percent of UB students are planning to go on vacation for spring break this year, according to a spring break survey of 218 students conducted by The Spectrum. But it’s not what every student is doing, despite culture’s obsession with the stereotypical college spring break experience.
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SUNY seeks student input on ‘rational tuition plan’
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 3, 2015UB’s tuition rates will increase $150 – or roughly 4 percent – every year for the next six years.
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Students look to get away from Buffalo’s record cold winter
By CHARLES W. SCHAAB | Mar. 3, 2015Andrew Kuch, a first-year MBA student, has been counting down the days until he can leave the record-breaking cold weather of Buffalo for the heat of Cancun, Mexico. He has been monitoring Buffalo’s weather every day this semester to make sure it’s safe to for him to make the commute to campus.
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Alternative spring breaks offer inexpensive trips and ways to give back to the community
By Katie Coleman | Mar. 3, 2015Alternative break programs coordinated through clubs and programs at UB offer students travel opportunities on a tight budget for fall, winter and spring breaks.
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Thirteen UB students arrested for fake IDs as part of three-bar sting
By Tom Dinki | Mar. 1, 2015Seventeen people – including 13 UB students – were arrested for using fake identification or using another person’s ID as part of a three-bar police sting.
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UB engineering clubs hold annual Engineers Week
By JASHONDA WILLIAMS | Mar. 1, 2015UB’s engineering majors dropped eggs from the third floor of the Student Union, catapulted ping pong balls into cups of water and held cage-match-style fights during Engineering Week.
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Elect Her comes to UB
By Tyler Szczesniak | Mar. 1, 2015It takes a woman 16 weeks to earn as much as a man in a given year and the United States is 75th in the world in terms of women holding positions in government, according to Diana Cihak, founder of Women Elect.
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'The Daily Show''s Jessica Williams to headline UB's 14th annual Comedy Series
By JORDAN OSCAR | Feb. 26, 2015The Student Association announced Wednesday that The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams will headline UB’s 14th annual Comedy Series on March 12.
