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The good work ahead

Tell me what you think when you hear the phrase "Parking at UB."It's miserable? It sucks? It makes you hate the world?Well, what if I told you that when you come to campus tomorrow morning, you will neither "battle" for a spot nor "trek" from the lots to the buildings?No.


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A company of friends

This is the final story in a series on the late Robert Creeley, an eminent poet who taught at UB from 1964 to 2002.A moment of beauty, writes scholar Elaine Scarry, picks you up in the air and moves the ground beneath you, so when you land, you see the world in a different way, revealing an essence of life.For decades, millions of readers have found such epiphanies in Robert Creeley's elegant, spare and emotionally direct verse.But Creeley is remembered with a unique affection in Buffalo, the city that became his home.


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Classes cancelled due to weather hazards

University officials advised students to "stay home" on Monday following a weekend of harsh winter weather that downed power lines and coated local roads with ice.An announcement posted online late Sunday night stated all classes on Monday, including evening classes, would be cancelled.The closure marks a change in policy for UB, which is notorious for not closing due to weather, even through major blizzards, ice storms and natural disasters."The unforeseen and hazardous weather events of this weekend present a treacherous situation for all University at Buffalo students," President John Simpson said in the announcement.


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College Republican gets laid

As he began to "tussle" with a freshman girl on the floor of his dorm room Saturday night, sophomore political science major Herve Villechaize knew he was making history.Less than one minute later, it was official - Villechaize had become the first member of the UB College Republicans, since the group was founded 25 years ago, to get laid."Yeah!


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A 'thank you' overdue

No memory lives in a deeper and more miserable corner of Buffalo Bills fans' minds than Scott Norwood's wide right kick as the clock ran out on Super Bowl XXV.The highlight reel is always reminding us just what it was like.


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Fan section frenzy

CLEVELAND - Five hundred UB students, a writhing blue and white mass, packed two sections of the upper deck Thursday at Cleveland's Gund Arena.The crowd of students stood for the whole game, cheering the Bulls' players by name and raining off-color chants on referees and Toledo Rockets.The students set the tone in the minutes before the game, when the Rockets' cheerleaders ran onto the court.


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An evolving legacy

This is the final story in a three-part series that looks back on the events of the spring of 1970 at UB.City police, pushing iron gates, herded crowds of protesters into vans.


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Spring of chaos

This is the first story in a three-part series that looks back on the events of the spring of 1970 at UB.When he first unpacked his bags at UB in the fall of 1968, Ian DeWaal was flush with high hopes, just like the university that would become his home.


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