GRANT ASHLEY

Grant Ashley is an assistant features editor for The Spectrum. He is a political science major and a (mediocre) Spanish minor. He enjoys taking long bike rides and recreating Bob Ross paintings in crayon.

Colleges and universities testing at least 25% of their on-campus population will only be required to suspend in person activity if the on-campus COVID-19 rate surpasses 5%, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a press release on Friday.

NEWS

Cuomo changes shutdown threshold guidelines for colleges and universities

By GRANT ASHLEY | Feb. 19

Colleges and universities in New York State that are testing at least 25% of their total on-campus students, faculty and staff per week will only be required to suspend in-person classes and activities if the positivity rate of their on-campus population reaches 5% over a rolling 14-day period, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday in a press release.

UB will be accepting nominations for the renaming of Porter Quadrangle, after the UB Council voted unanimously in August to rename it.

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President Tripathi requests nominations for Porter Quadrangle’s new name

By GRANT ASHLEY | Feb. 18

UB will be accepting nominations for the renaming of Porter Quadrangle, an Ellicott Complex residence hall, through March 22, President Satish Tripathi announced in an email to the UB community Monday.

OPINION

The Bills didn’t make the Super Bowl this year; Buffalo should be grateful

By GRANT ASHLEY | Feb. 7

This year was The Year. Sure, every year is The Year if you ask Bills Mafia, but this year was The Year. The Bills, who hadn’t made it beyond the wild card round since 1995, were finally on the brink of going to the Super Bowl!

UB's once busy bus stops are now largely vacant, especially at night.

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UB intensifies testing and quarantine regulations but still draws union criticism

By GRANT ASHLEY | Feb. 1

Members of the UB community are split on whether the university’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during the fall semester was “successful” or “inexcusable.” Either way, the university returned to hybrid learning for the spring semester on Monday.

People vote in Amherst Baptist Church on Election Day

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Mail-in or in-person? For first-time voters, deciding how to vote was a tough decision

By ELIZABETH NAPOLITANO and GRANT ASHLEY | Nov. 8

Mail-in voting practices, which date back to the Civil War, were also the target of myriad social media attacks alleging fraudulent ballot counting and ballot burning in key swing states. The allegations, compounded with the stresses and uncertainties of first-time voting, left many students wondering whether their voices would be heard.

GRANT ASHLEY

Cuomo changes shutdown threshold guidelines for colleges and universities

President Tripathi requests nominations for Porter Quadrangle’s new name

The Bills didn’t make the Super Bowl this year; Buffalo should be grateful

UB intensifies testing and quarantine regulations but still draws union criticism

Mail-in or in-person? For first-time voters, deciding how to vote was a tough decision

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