Chris Clune, director of UBIT customer service, and Diana Tuorto, UBIT Communications Specialist, discussed UB’s Wi-Fi boost, libraries, public computing sites and printing issues with the Assembly in the Student Union Wednesday night.
Tickets will cost $9 instead of $8 – and the vouchers will not be valid for any Disney, Marvel or Lucasfilm release. It’s a new policy this year started by Disney Corporation, which owns all three studios, requiring any Disney Franchise film to be paid for with cash, not a voucher.
The Student Association controls a budget of approximately $4 million made up of the $104.75 mandatory student activity fee that nearly every student pays each semester.
This semester, the Student Association switched to giving out AMC movie ticket vouchers to students from the previous SA film series that showed movies in Student Union theater.
This week UB announced that plans to purchase McCarley Gardens, a low-income housing complex, have been ceased.
This week in Spectrum 360, the team breaks down the dean of the law school's resignation, the passage of an increased student activity fee, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood's visit to UB and the Bulls' victory against Miami Ohio.
Sade Cadle keeps her mom?s influences in mind and at heart as she takes on her position as SA treasurer to manage finances, assist clubs and help the people around her. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Sade Cadle remembers the day her mother turned off all the lights in their New York City home. Cadle?s mother, Stephanie Cadle Osoba, was devising a surprise for the gaggle of children ? Cadle and her brothers and cousins ? who were about to return from a day of playing. White powder covered Stephanie?s face as she jumped out and screamed, teasingly terrorizing the kids.
On Sept. 24-26, UB undergraduate students voted in the SU on whether they wanted to keep the mandatory student activity fee and whether they agreed to the $10 increase in fee.
This week, Law school Dean Makau Mutua resigned from his position, saying it was the ?right time? for him to leave because he?s accomplished what he set out to do as dean.
Sade Cadle keeps her mom?s influences in mind and at heart as she takes on her position as SA treasurer to manage finances, assist clubs and help the people around her. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Sade Cadle remembers the day her mother turned off all the lights in their New York City home. Cadle?s mother, Stephanie Cadle Osoba, was devising a surprise for the gaggle of children ? Cadle and her brothers and cousins ? who were about to return from a day of playing. White powder covered Stephanie?s face as she jumped out and screamed, teasingly terrorizing the kids.
The Student Association wants students to spend $10 more each semester to support the organization. Every two years, SA holds a vote on whether the mandatory student activity fee, which funds the student-run organization, should continue.
Student Association Vice President Evan Chen helped out at SA?s Fall Fest Saturday. Chen is a member of more than 20 clubs.
As part of West Coast hip-hop crew ?Black Hippy,? the bucket-hat trend starting artist recently released his latest album, Oxymoron
Spectrum File Photo The University at Buffalo has roughly 20,000 undergraduates. Making every single student happy with a music festival featuring only two or three acts is impossible. A democratic system in which every student of the University votes for their desired ?fest? artists would be a logistical nightmare.
Spectrum File Photo The colorful ink flashing from flyers that speckle bulletin boards in the Student Union advertising events, films and open apartments only merit a glance as I?m on the hunt for decent coffee.
The Student Association will be led by Vice President Evan Chen, Treasurer Sade Cadle and President James Ingram (photographed left to right) this coming school year.
The Student Association had an eventful 2013-14. From multiple resignations to constitutional amendments, SA has implemented structural changes and gone through controversy that started almost immediately.
Students walking into the voting booth next year will see fewer names on the ballot and vote for each executive board member separately. On Wednesday night, the Student Association Senate and Assembly passed two changes to the election process.
On Wednesday, the Student Association Assembly voted to change election guidelines to have presidential and vice presidential candidates running on separate ballots. During an impromptu Senate meeting on the same night, the SA Senate passed an amendment allowing the SA president to appoint the SUNY delegates. The Assembly also voted Melissa Kathan, a sophomore political science major, to be Speaker of the Assembly for the second year in a row. The previous election system required the presidential and vice presidential candidate to be elected together.
On Wednesday, the Student Association Assembly voted to change election guidelines to have presidential and vice presidential candidates running on separate ballots. During an impromptu Senate meeting on the same night, the SA Senate passed an amendment allowing the SA president to appoint the SUNY delegates. The Assembly also voted Melissa Kathan, a sophomore political science major, to be speaker of the Assembly for the second year in a row. The previous election system required the presidential and vice presidential candidate to be elected together.
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