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UB Engineers Ride into France

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 23, 2004

A group of engineering students and their custom-built moped will be heading to France this May to perform in a high-tech bicycle race.Eleven of the 20 engineering students who make up UB Solex, a Student Association club recently formed by engineering students, will design and customize a motorized bicycle that they will ride in circles for hours on end in two marathon races in France this May.

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"At UB, Grade Inflation a Non-Issue"

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 21, 2004

Princeton University may soon limit the number of "A" grades it permits its professors to issue, but don't look for it to happen here at UB anytime soon, said administration and faculty officials.Princeton is polling its teachers to find out if they support establishing a quota that would cap the number of A's they grant at 35 percent of total grades, down from the 46 percent currently being given.

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Teachers Go Back to School

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 19, 2004

It might have resembled a student's dream. A room full of professors paying attention and keeping notes, trying to keep up with a student's lecture on how to teach effectively.It wasn't a dream, though.

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Coming Out

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 16, 2004

Let me voice few words about the recent "coming out" disagreement, in which the College Republicans promoted a "Coming Out Conservative Day," which drew an emotional protest from some campus gays, lesbians and their supporters.I know a thing or two about "coming out." Last Oct.

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UB Students Join in a Plan to March on D.C.

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 14, 2004

Don't underestimate Sarah Heynen's commitment to attend the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C.

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UB's Tiniest Students Get V.I.P. Treatment at Child Care Center

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 9, 2004

The smallest members of the UB community are living large. They have two personal gyms, custom bathroom fixtures, walls with original artwork, fresh greenery in the centerpieces of their custom dining room tables and a two-hour midday siesta.It's a small wonder that there are 150 parents of toddlers on the waiting list.

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Business Scandals Prompt Development of New Ethics Course

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Apr. 7, 2004

Grumbling may be heard this fall around the Jacobs Management Center as UB's Masters of Business Administration students mutter curses about the likes of John Rigas, Martha Stewart and Dennis Kozlowski.Fall 2005 is the target date for the beginning of a new, mandatory course in business ethics currently being developed by the School of Management's MBA program, mainly as a response to the business scandals that have cropped up in the news recently."It comes out of this round of corporate problems, harking back to Enron as sort of the initial blow-out," said David Frasier, assistant dean of the business school and its director of MBA programs.There are no requirements for the business school to have an ethics course, but Frasier believes the current headlines have demonstrated the need for one."My personal opinion is that if we have adequate depth in personal ethics, then there is no need for corporate ethics.

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"Health Screenings Might Be Necessary for All Athletes, Officials Say"

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Mar. 24, 2004

Health officials in the U.S. have launched a war on obesity, encouraging people to develop better eating habits and exercise regularly, and hardly anyone gets more exercise than teenagers and young adults who participate in sports and play on teams.

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Cultural Classroom

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Mar. 5, 2004

A man with a gold tooth stood by as UB student David Turnbull plunged 180 feet off of the South African bridge, shrieking all the way.

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UB's Ballroom Dancing Club Steps in the Name of Fun

By ALYSSA HILLGER | Feb. 20, 2004

"Slow...slow...quick quick quick."Richard Yeh's directions rang through the Flag Room in UB's Student Union this past Thursday.