Former associate professor Kathleen McCormick claims that she was unfairly denied tenure at UB in 2005 because she is a woman.?
Tempers flared lTuesday when numerous members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee accused President John B.
A suspect led transit police on foot from the University Metro-Rail Station bus loop through South Campus parking lots Monday afternoon, in a chase that ended on the school's lawn.
The UB Mock Trial club, which specializes in acting out fictional hearings and cases, is suffering from fiscal problems that are anything but moot.Although funded by the Student Association, under the Special Interest Service and Hobbies Council, many club members say the real difficulty is not competing against Ivy League teams or making it all the way to Nationals - which the team has done consistently for the past three years - but that the greatest trial is receiving enough funds to compete.According to Carrie Zimbardi, a team captain and junior legal studies major, the budget for UB Mock Trial at the start of this year was $1,900.
While most students use winter break as an opportunity to kick back and relax, one group of UB students is rebuilding a city.Nathaniel Cornman, a junior architecture major, is one of 23 UB students who are going to Louisiana between semesters to help relief efforts in New Orleans.The jewel city of the Mississippi delta is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which caused $80 billion in damage, making it the costliest hurricane ever recorded in the United States.
UB Students Against Sweatshops is targeting an issue in its latest campaign that many in the UB community see on a daily basis, though rarely recognize.After a successful push to affiliate the university with a sweatshop watchdog, the group says there are other injustices right here against UB's behind-the-scene employees: the janitors and custodians who keep campus buildings clean.At "Justice for Janitors" on Thursday night, UBSAS members unveiled their next campaign, talking to students and community members about the importance of raising the pay for all of UB's custodial staff to that which they define as a "living wage," or $10.75 per hour, accompanied by benefits.Unionized state employees make up some of the custodial staff at UB, but a great deal of staff is contracted by private companies, namely OneSource and ABM.According to UBSAS, these private companies offer very little in the way of compensation to their employees.
To study and conduct research on the cutting edge of sub-atomic string theory, it takes a very smart person.
Despite all the talk of tuition hikes and rational plans, the cost of attending a SUNY school could quite possibly remain the same through 2007.In the latest budget proposal on the table, SUNY is proposing increasing funding for the statewide system in the 2006-2007 school year without increasing tuition.If it goes through, the money for SUNY schools would go up by $211.3 million, raising the total funding to $2.3 billion, for the next fiscal year.
A makeover for one of North Campus's most recognizable buildings is taking longer than expected.O'Brian Hall, home to the law school, was stripped of its uniquely slanted brick wall last October for safety reasons.
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