Hannah Rashad is an assistant news editor.
University Police (UPD) are reminding students to lock their doors, roll up their windows and hide valuables when they park their cars after a recent spate of car break-ins and catalytic converter thefts on UB’s North Campus.
30,558 students — 19,117 matriculating undergraduates and 11,441 graduate students — enrolled at UB this fall, making it the sixth consecutive year that UB exceeded its enrollment goal of 30,000 students.
In a public alert Thursday morning, University Police reported that two UB students were robbed near Creekside Village at 12:40 a.m. by three men wearing ski masks.
Ten UB employees spent $209,187.65 in travel expenses during the ‘23-24 academic year, according to a travel expenditure spreadsheet acquired by The Spectrum. University Provost A. Scott Weber incurred $487.58 in costs while President Satish K. Tripathi did not have any recorded.
Rae Sremmurd, Saweetie and Cash Cobain will perform for this year’s Fall Fest on Sept. 27, according to an Instagram post the Student Association (SA) released yesterday.
UB will be operating 11 new 25-passenger shuttles and 20 refurbished 39-passenger transit buses under a new 10-year transportation contract with WeDriveU, a non-UB-affiliated transportation provider, to transition into fully-electrified Stampede bus fleets.
UB released drafts of new protest policies that reinforce the prohibition of encampments, restrict assemblies to outdoor areas and limit posters to bulletin boards. John Della Contrada said that the alterations are “partly” in response to the criticism regarding UB’s forceful arrests of 15 pro-Palestine protesters during the May 1 encampment
Many of the violations — which ranged from inadequate refrigeration facilitates to improper methods of thawing potentially hazardous foods — were corrected during the inspection.
Parking citations on UB’s campuses surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time this year, as more students returned to in-person classes and UB’s new electronic license plate recognition (LPR) system has made enforcement more efficient.
Faculty at UB are concerned about “overwhelming” clerical tasks, retention of teaching faculty, stability within their departments and shared governance, responses to a Faculty Senate survey obtained by The Spectrum show.
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