John Mansfield knows how hard it is to get students to vote.As campaign manager for the UB Students Party during the 2002 Student Association general elections, he handed out flyers, posted signs and tried to stage a debate."We got about 700 people to come out and vote for us," Mansfield recalled.
Renowned literary critic, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Samuel L. Clemens Professor of English Leslie Fiedler died Wednesday afternoon in his Buffalo home.Fiedler, 85, battled Parkinson's Disease for the last several years.Often referred to as the "bad-boy of American letters," Fiedler served the last 39 years at UB and was the author of more than two dozen books, including "Love and Death in the American Novel," often considered his major work.
With President William R. Greiner's resignation less than two weeks old, the university is beginning the process for a nationwide search for the university's 14th president.According to Provost Elizabeth Capaldi, the selection process will be fairly complicated and rigorous.
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