Pro-Palestine protester Jazmine Frazier was arraigned on one count of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and one count of loitering, a violation, in Amherst Town Court last Wednesday, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s office.
The Faculty Senate unanimously voted last week to support the closure of the Nuclear Medicine Department due to “substantial debt, aging equipment, the lack of available capital to replace the equipment, decreased volume and an unsustainable business mode.”
“I’ve got the writing bug,” is what I said a few weeks into my time as an editor. I couldn’t stop pursuing stories and writing articles for The Spectrum.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students clashed with each other and with Student Association (SA) President Becky Paul-Odionhin for more than an hour at a tense and sometimes fiery SA Senate meeting Wednesday evening. Attendees argued over experiences of hate and discrimination at UB, and over Paul-Odionhin’s continued blockage of a vote on a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed resolution.
On Friday, protesters gathered in Founders Plaza at 3 p.m. and circled the campus before stopping in the grassy lawn outside of Hochstetter Hall where Wednesday’s attempted encampment, and many of the arrests, occurred.
UB is focusing on phasing out single-use plastics on its campuses, in part due to an updated SUNY policy. UB Chief Sustainability Officer Ryan McPherson said that UB played “a key role” in developing that policy.
Police arrested “approximately 16” pro-Palestine protesters on North Campus Wednesday evening, a UB spokesperson said. The arrests come after dozens of demonstrators attempted to form an encampment in a grassy area near Hochstetter Hall.
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) faculty will vote in confidence referenda on CAS Dean Robin Schulze, UB President Satish Tripathi and Provost A. Scott Weber, after voting faculty approved the referenda in a special Zoom meeting last Tuesday, April 26. The vote comes after an April 16 meeting with the same purpose failed to reach its quorum, the minimum number of members needed to hold a meeting.
Of 855 total votes, Turton received 387, a 165-vote lead over Jack Walsh and a 167-vote lead over Cameron Kiner.
The resolution was proposed by UB’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and was backed by several senators. Paul-Odionhin said the resolution could endanger SA if passed.
SA Senate meetings broken down by meeting length and number of supplemental funding requests.
Solutions by The State News
