Having grown up in a family of baseball fans in New Hampshire, professor Timothy Johnson has combined his interest as a baseball lover with his passion for music.
It was a personal brush with suicide that motivated Chris Barr's somber performance art project, which he hopes will raise awareness of one of the biggest killers of young people in America.In February 2003, Barr's younger brother Tony took his own life, leaving behind only a letter saying that he could be found at a tree where he and his father had carved their names.
After many months of hard work, the Gender Institute will be showcasing a variety of films at this year's 10th annual Women's Film Festival, which are created and directed by women filmmakers from all over the globe.The festival will take place from January 19 to March 2 at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, beginning at 7 p.m.Barbara Bono, co-director of the Gender Institute and associate professor of English, stated that the importance and purpose of the festival is to help the U.S population understand more about the experiences of women around the globe.The film festival, which filmmakers and members of the Gender Institute work vigorously towards each year, first began during the days of the Chippewa revival and has flourished to a yearly event,According to Andrea Spain, the graduate assistant to the Gender Institute, it is very difficult to get all of the films to be showcased at this event due to participation from large U.S movie distributors."I've been involved in the ground up process of the festival and what most people don't know is that these films are very difficult to find to be shown in the U.S.
Do you have fond memories of yellow 'cheese buses'? Seat belts? Bus aides? Spitballs? Hot green vinyl seats?UB transportation officials hope your answer is "Yes."A group of about 20 yellow buses made their appearance on campus this week, and soon will take over the whole fleet as part of UB's new transportation contract with the security and transportation company Cognisa.John Grela - the director of public safety, parking, transportation, the university police, and the emergency response system - stated that the newly purchased buses might not be what students and faculty expected to see cruising the university's roadways."We signed a contract with a new company that is really well known in Texas for their accuracy," said Grela.
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