UB has proven itself unable to schedule final exams and a commencement ceremony. This year, Winter Session disrupted the regularly routine scheduling process that the Office of Special Events and Faculty Senate conduct.
As the question of the Bills' future in Buffalo grows more urgent, opinions across the city are as passionate as they are divided. The Spectrum's editorial board is no different.
Trayvon Martin. Jonathan Ferrell. Renisha McBride. Jordan Davis. It's not a list anyone would want to join.
Trayvon Martin. Jonathan Ferrell. Renisha McBride. Jordan Davis. It's not a list anyone would want to join.
As the question of the Bills' future in Buffalo grows more urgent, opinions across the city are as passionate as they are divided. The Spectrum's editorial board is no different.
As the question of the Bills' future in Buffalo grows more urgent, opinions across the city are as passionate as they are divided. The Spectrum's editorial board is no different.
University inattention echoed loudly through frigid offices left without heat and above classrooms disrupted by construction. A well-intentioned effort to replace the aging heating system in Millard Fillmore Academic Center, of Ellicott Complex, is revealing the importance of careful consideration. The construction has caused several professors' offices to be left without central heat; they have been kept warm by space heaters.
New research reveals college graduates are far more robust against the effects of the recession, even with debt, injecting some much needed optimism into a topic often bogged by anxiety. What is made even clearer, however, is who gets left behind, and how far. A new report by Pew Research reveals the cost of not attending (or completing) college is far higher than the reverse.
Loneliness surged through me one warm night in July. I sat on my couch with questions stirring in my mind.
A complicated report from a hardly known congressional office, an almost humorously divided congress, and a public prone to being just as polarized all conflated last week to the expected result. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the impact of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, on that other political buzzword, jobs, was released last Tuesday.
Over four in 10 sexually active UB students have never been tested for STIs. Our survey of 1,003 UB students on sexual behavior revealed a series of startling statistics, but none as worrisome as this lack of testing. The results are particularly condemning toward those who identified as male - over half of sexually active respondents stated they have never been tested. It is important to remind students that STIs are often more than just a temporary nuisance.
You're far from any salvation.
Loneliness surged through me one warm night in July. I sat on my couch with questions stirring in my mind.
Dear Spectrum, I would like to applaud CVS' decision to eliminate tobacco sales. I believe this will benefit UB's campus greatly.
UB smokers will have a tougher time getting cigarettes starting Oct. 1, due to a CVS Pharmacy decision that has already bolstered the company's image. In an announcement Wednesday, CVS President and CEO Larry Merlo said the company's over 7,600 stores will no longer sell tobacco products starting in October.
An advertisement by an American corporate icon meant to mark the cultural diversity that has made this nation great has brought out the ugliest of American xenophobia. The commercial ran during the Super Bowl and featured a multilingual rendition of "America the Beautiful," accompanying a disparate series of vacuous videos - people running and smiling, dancing, drinking coke.
Following a tumultuous year, rife with political suppression, prejudicial legislation and threats of terrorism, the Olympic Games - intended to unify the world in a joyous cacophony of (almost) sportsmanlike jeering - begin Friday. They couldn't come sooner.
An otherwise practical effort at dealing with the realities of college partying habits has turned into a political football game for the administration. Through an agreement more secretive than necessary, the UB Stampede will now stop at Maple Ridge plaza on (Thirsty) Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.
I had my first pack of cigarettes at age 6. Granted, it was a plastic sleeve filled with sugar sticks that I bought from the soda and sweets shop down the block.
A dishonest company, a deficit of oversight and a history of negligence conflated Friday into an explosive mix, culminating in a plume of smoke and fears, as homes and nerves were rattled. Tonawanda Coke is disgracing local headlines once again as the explosion at the plant revealed that issues plaguing the company are far from over. The problems this most recent transgression will pose for the troubled company is not the primary concern.
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