For many students who aren't natives of Western New York, the prerogative is getting home as soon as possible when exam week rolls around.For those who hail from outside the area, travel options from campus have become more plentiful, affordable and efficient.
The harsh reality of winter in Buffalo can be summed up in one four-letter word: snow.In places where the white stuff is rare, a little dusting can be cause for catastrophe.
It's now December, and I feel that it's a good time to think about conclusions. Every journey comes to a close just as every book has a last page.
For UB, recycling means more than taking care of the planet -- it also means cold hard cash.UB now recycles 34 percent of its total refuse, and that increased recycling helps UB to cut costs, according to Erin Cala, environmental educator for UB Green, the environmental division of the office of university facilities.UB pays the Lewiston-based Modern Disposal Corporation for normal garbage pickup by the ton.
We get harpooned for it all the time - at the dinner table back home, on television, by suits wearing power ties and even in The Spectrum.I speak, naturally, of apathy.No one votes less than us, no one is less politically involved, and to make matters worse, it's not like we're collectively losing any sleep over it.
When he moves into the presidential suite on the fifth floor of Capen Hall in January, John B. Simpson will inherit the most lucrative pay package in the State University of New York system.According to state officials, Simpson's annual compensation - which includes a base salary, an Amherst mansion and benefits from the UB Foundation - totals $400,000.
When I was an Orientation Aide, we had a skit in which a guy referred to an offensive incident as "gay," a common statement of negativity.
Provost Elizabeth D. Capaldi will soon be leaving her position after three-and-a half years to take the job of State University of New York Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff at state university headquarters in Albany.Capaldi will, however, remain at UB as provost during the transition from outgoing President William R.
As John B. Simpson prepares to move from his house in Santa Cruz to the presidential mansion on Lebrun Road in Amherst, UB students are discussing what the transition of power will mean for the university.Some said the university's flaws -- many of which, they say, are quality of life issues -- will challenge Simpson.But for the most part, undergraduates and graduate students expressed optimism about the new president.
Like any good college student who sleeps far too little, I like to begin my day with coffee. It's like a tradition for me, even down to the way I take my coffee, black, just like my father.Coffee is a tradition for people like me across the industrialized world; in fact it's the most traded commodity on the international market today after oil.
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