Some departments at UB - such as biology and chemistry - offer courses instructed by more than one professor each semester, through the use of team-teaching.
The professor could spontaneously combust in class, destroying the midterm exam you forgot to study for.
Last weekend in Baldy Hall a maiden attempted to marry into nobility. She wore a long, flowing gown and was blessed by the pope, nobles and a minister, among others.
In the face of hard questioning at Tuesday's Student Association-sponsored club endorsement meetings, the UB Students' Party struggled to hold itself up when pinned against their opponent, the incumbent Results Party.The meetings, which took place at 4 p.m.
The UB men's swimming team finished in last place at the MAC Championships over the weekend, earning 133 points during the three-day meet in Athens, Ohio.
Tensions were high at the first open forum for Student Association and New York State Student Assembly candidates, which pitted the incumbent Results Party against the UB Students' Party challengers.During the nearly two-and-a-half-hour meeting, candidates addressed a gathering of about 40 students, the majority of whom were representatives from academic and engineering clubs.While the Results Party seemed at ease fielding softball questions concerning recent successes and future goals, the UB Students' candidates were heavily questioned, forcing them to defend their platform."Half those in attendance work with the staff currently running," said Erica Diaz, treasurer for UB's Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers chapter.
Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2001, is a day I am likely never to forget. That is the day of my first life-changing experience - the day my stepfather died.
In a small corner of the Capen library is an unassuming room that, despite its obscurity, is a treasure chest of literature.The fourth floor of the Capen library houses The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, a shining jewel among the university's historical acquisitions.
The Bowling Green Falcons go the way their superstar guard Keith McLeod goes. For the Golden Flashes of Kent State, shutting down the MAC Player of the Year would mean another conference championship.Mission accomplished.Kent State held McLeod to just four points in the second half thanks to the tenacity of MAC Defensive Player of the Year Demetric Shaw, and Tournament MVP Trevor Huffman.
March 11The Student Association will host question-and-answer sessions with candidates seeking election to SA e-board and NYSSA offices for the 2002-2003 school year at 4 p.m.
The Ball State Cardinals were up by five with a little over 12 minutes to play, their dream of winning their first ever MAC women's basketball championship was within reach.In a blink of an eye, or six minutes of play, the Cardinals were down by nine, watching the Kent State Golden Flashes run away with the title.
The race for the Student Association executive board and New York State Student Assembly delegation was less than a day old when controversy arose.Jason Litwak, the presidential candidate from the UB Students' Party, filed a complaint against the SA Elections and Credentials Committee last Friday after learning that Yesenia Diaz, a NYSSA candidate from the Results Party, was placed on the ballot despite her absence from a candidate meeting Thursday, March 7.
If there's one thing we hate to see inside The Spectrum, it's white space. We take great care to fill all the other space, but this one is reserved for you, the greater UB community.
The Sept. 11 terrorists were certainly misguided. Instead of hitting the World Trade Center, they should have crashed into the Mall of America.If they really wanted to hit us where it hurts, they would have avoided the WTC altogether and flown straight to Minnesota, or if that were too far, Fifth Avenue.
You've got two glow sticks, a pacifier, gum, water, Vick's (vapo-rub and inhaler), pockets full of lollipops and two pills.
Cries of "What's disgusting? Union Busting!" rang throughout North Campus last Wednesday as a group of approximately 150 protestors marched from Alumni Arena to the academic spine in a mass display of dissatisfaction with the activities of the New Era cap company.Striking workers from the Derby, N.Y.
Every year The Spectrum editorial board invites candidates for Student Association executive board and NYSSA delegate positions for interviews to determine the best among them.
Graduate student teaching assistants, so rarely honored publicly, were given kudos Friday by UB's Graduate School and the Graduate Student Association.
To The Editor:I refer to Stephanie Alaimo's article "Fees on the Rise," [Editor's Note: The article is titled "Comprehensive Fee Hike Increases Cost of Attending UB"] from Feb.
For several mid-major team's, such as the MAC's Ball State, Butler from the Horizon and Utah State from the Big West, Sunday represented a day of March sadness; the day their bubbles burst and they were voted off the island and exiled to the NCAA's version of basketball purgatory, otherwise known as the NIT.
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