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Police Blotter: 2/24-3/1

By News Desk | Mar. 5, 2015

University at Buffalo Police blotter from Feb. 24 to March 1.

Emma Janicki, Lisa Khoury and Sara DiNatale (from left to right) have placed in the Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ) top three for the categories of general news reporting, investigative reporting and breaking news, respectively.

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Spectrum editors place in Society of Professional Journalists national competition

By ALYSSA MCCLURE | Mar. 5, 2015

The Society of Professional Journalists announced Thursday three editors of The Spectrum have placed in the SPJ’s Mark of Excellence regional awards competition.

Class is held as scheduled inside Natural Science Complex 225 at 2 p.m Thursday. The class prior to it was ended early by the professor after she smelled gas. UPD said it was minor leak and an evacuation was not needed.

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Small amount of natural gas leaked in Natural Sciences Complex, evacuation not needed

Mar. 5, 2015

A 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.

Breanna Cragg, a 2014 UB alumna, went to Cancun, Mexico, on her senior year spring break with 11 of her friends. She said the atmosphere was “100 percent” a stereotypical college spring break atmosphere and she spent the days drinking on the beach and the nights dancing at clubs.

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Many college students spend spring break engaging in beachfront debauchery, but not all

By ALYSSA MCCLURE | Mar. 3, 2015

Roughly 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.

UB’s tuition increases by percentages from 1984 to 2020.

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SUNY seeks student input on ‘rational tuition plan’

By Tom Dinki | Mar. 3, 2015

UB’s tuition rates will increase $150 – or roughly 4 percent – every year for the next six years.

Stock photo of Angelica Rochford, a junior social sciences interdisciplinary major, walking through the snow on North Campus last winter. UB will open on-campus housing early in order to accommodate students traveling from the New York City area, which will be hit by Winter Storm Jonas.

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Students look to get away from Buffalo’s record cold winter

By CHARLES W. SCHAAB | Mar. 3, 2015

Andrew 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.

Outdoor Adventure Club on a Florida beach. The group is traveling to Cayo Costa State Park, Florida this spring break where they’ll have no electronics, hot water, electricity, or housing.

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Alternative spring breaks offer inexpensive trips and ways to give back to the community

By Katie Coleman | Mar. 3, 2015

Alternative break programs coordinated through clubs and programs at UB offer students travel opportunities on a tight budget for fall, winter and spring breaks.

The Steer, located on Main Street in the University Heights, was one of three local bars where police held an operation focused on fake IDs Thursday night and Friday morning. Seventeen people - including 13 UB Students - were arrested for presenting a fake ID or using another person’s ID.

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Thirteen UB students arrested for fake IDs as part of three-bar sting

By Tom Dinki | Mar. 1, 2015

Seventeen 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.

UB students look on and take pictures of two robots battling for a win during "Bot Wars," an Engineering Week event held Friday in the Student Union.

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UB engineering clubs hold annual Engineers Week

By JASHONDA WILLIAMS | Mar. 1, 2015

UB’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.

Minahil Khan, Daniel Carter, New York State Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Shane Nolan and Corrine Cardinale at Elect Her on Saturday. Khan, Carter, Nolan and Cardinale planned the event, which featured keynote speaker Peoples-Stokes.

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Elect Her comes to UB

By Tyler Szczesniak | Mar. 1, 2015

It 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.

UB's 14th annual comedy series, featuring The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, has been rescheduled for April 2. Williams was originally set to perform in the Center for the Arts on March 12.

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'The Daily Show''s Jessica Williams to headline UB's 14th annual Comedy Series

By JORDAN OSCAR | Feb. 26, 2015

The Student Association announced Wednesday that The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams will headline UB’s 14th annual Comedy Series on March 12.

Approximately 50 professors and students march through Capen Hall on Wednesday afternoon advocating for better pay and treatment for adjunct professors as a part of National Adjunct Walkout Day.

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UB professors participate in National Adjunct Walkout Day

By CHARLES W. SCHAAB | Feb. 26, 2015

Approximately 50 faculty members and students participated in National Adjunct Walkout Day by marching in protest of adjunct faculty rights and wages, risking potential termination.

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Learning from Ferguson

By MARLEE TUSKES | Feb. 26, 2015

The Social Work Graduate Student Association presented “What Ferguson can Teach Us: Working Together for Justice and Community Safety” on Wednesday afternoon.

UB students study in the Law Library in O'Brian Hall. UB's law school has announced a new program that will allow some students admission to the school without taking the LSAT.

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UB Law School to offer LSAT-free admission for some students

By Katie Coleman | Feb. 24, 2015

Starting in the fall of 2015, some students will no longer need the exam to get into UB’s law school. UB students who meet certain criteria will not be required to take the LSAT for admittance into UB’s law school for the 2015 fall semester.

(From left to right) Joe Tuberdyck, Matt Kreidler, Martha Bohm (Faculty Advisor), Nate Heckman, and Christopher Osterhoudt, around the model for the GRoW House at the Riverview Solar Technology Park.

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Construction on UB's GRoW Home begins

By JOSE ESCOBAR | Feb. 24, 2015

About 30 students from various departments across UB are working together to build a modular home that will embrace the urban farming culture of Buffalo with its four seasons.

Jeffrey Basil is led away in handcuffs on Jan. 21 after a jury announced they’d found him guilty of second degree murder in the death of William Sager. Basil was set to be sentenced on Monday, but the case has been adjourned until April 7 now that his attorney is filing a motion to set aside the verdict.

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Basil's Molly's Pub murder sentencing delayed

By Tom Dinki | Feb. 24, 2015

Convicted murderer Jeffrey Basil’s sentencing won’t come for at least another two months, now that his attorney is filing a motion to set aside the verdict.

The UB Solar Strand, located on North Campus, was recently recognized by The Wall Street Journal on a list of the best architecture of 2014.

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UB Solar Strand makes best architecture of 2014 list

By Tyler Szczesniak | Feb. 22, 2015

The Wall Street Journal officially recognized the UB Solar Strand, located on North Campus, in its list of “The Best Architecture of 2014: Sense and Sensitivity.”

From left to right: (sopho)MORE House instructor Terri Budek and students PJ Krohl, Julie Schoonover, Ely Cuberos and Tommy Tsang participate in Re-Tree Buffalo. (sopho)MORE House is a community and living class for Greiner Hall sophomores.

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UB sophomores try to do more with (sopho)MORE House

By JASHONDA WILLIAMS | Feb. 22, 2015

(sopho)MORE House is living and learning class for sophomores living in Greiner Hall. The class is taught once a week in the Intercultural and Diversity Center and aims to teach sophomore students about leadership, diversity and being involved in their community and on campus.

Residents of Red Jacket wait for the shuttle back to their dorm Thursday morning after spending the night in Alumni Arena due to a power outage.

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Power outage forces 500 UB students from Red Jacket

By Tom Dinki | Feb. 19, 2015

Approximately 500 students were forced out of Red Jacket Hall, one of the six quadrangles in the Ellicott Complex, Wednesday after a frozen sprinkler head caused a power outage.

Will Gadd celebrating on top of the frozen section of ice on Horseshoe Falls he climbed on Jan. 27, 2015.

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Pair of climbers make historic ascent of Niagara Falls

By CHARLES W. SCHAAB | Feb. 19, 2015

Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken became the first people to ice climb Niagara Falls on Jan. 27. The pair of ice climbers ascended 148 feet up overhanging ice that formed on the left side of Horseshoe Falls.