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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
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REBECCA BRATEK and SARA DINATALE


NEWS

Fracking discussion continues

Protesters holding hot pink signs stood outside UB's Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday at the Center for Tomorrow at 3 p.m. Members of UB's Coalition for Leading Ethically in Academic Research (UBCLEAR) handed out materials to the incoming faculty senators, calling for "academic integrity and transparency." UBCLEAR has been requesting the university fully disclose the founding, funding and governance of UB's controversial Shale Institute since August, when UBCLEAR wrote a letter against the institute endorsed by 83 faculty members.


NEWS

Tattoo Column Goes Viral

Fifty-nine thousand people visited The Spectrum website in the past two days. Almost 23,000 people clicked on Lisa Khoury's column against tattoos. Six hundred forty-four comments came from readers around the globe ? in nations like Australia, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand ? and that's on the website alone. Countless blogs have shared her column, and she's received 827 response emails before press time. The Spectrum has gone viral. On Monday, the newspaper published two columns ? one in defense of tattoos and the other, a counterpoint, against body art.


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