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NEWS

SA Senate passes next year’s budget

The Student Association Senate passed its $4.3 million budget for the upcoming school year, during the last meeting of the semester on Monday, a roughly $56,000 increase from last year’s $4.2 million budget.


Students standing in front of “Big Blue” food truck to order their lunch. The “Big Blue” and “Little Blue” food trucks are owned by the Faculty-Student Association and are the only trucks allowed to serve on UB’s campus.
NEWS

UB community weighs in on bringing food trucks to campus

Food truck vendors have the rare opportunity to pull onto North Campus Sunday for the Student Association’s Buffalo Untapped event. Over the last several years, food trucks have gained popularity in Buffalo with events like Food Truck Tuesdays at Larkin Square in downtown Buffalo, but the Faculty-Student Association relegates their presence on campus to the FSA-run Big Blue and Little Blue trucks.


SA Senate Chair Devashish Agarwal speaking on the phone with newly appointed Vice President Ben Harper at the Thursday night Senate Meeting.
NEWS

SA Senate elects new vice president

The Student Association appointed a new SA vice president on Thursday, after the SA Senate approved current Director of Club Services Benjamin Harper to take over the role. The position had been left vacant since Feb. 2.


OPINION

'Queer Eye' inspired me to buy a cork board

Netflix’s hit show “Queer Eye,” the reboot of the early 2000’s Emmy-winning reality television series “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” had me crying real tears after an eight episode binge-fest. The program stars the “Fab Five” — not the legendary 1991 University of Michigan men’s basketball recruiting class — but a collective of trendy homosexual men who help unstylish men become their best selves.


The Spectrum sat down with SNL writer Anna Drezen Friday night in between SA's Comedy Series shows.
ARTS

Q&A with SNL writer Anna Drezen

SNL writer Anna Drezen appreciates being called “funny,” but the former blogger turned SNL writer deserves distinction. Drezen started the blog “How May We Hate You?” about her time as a hotel concierge and leveraged its success into a book and television sitcom pilot in development by ABC. She writes for popular television show “Saturday Night Live” and is the editor-at-large for the satirical feminist website, Reductress.


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Tanja Stojanovska prepares to receive the serve. She hopes to upset on the second singles court as Buffalo takes on Northwestern in the NCAA tournament Friday.

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Recipients of the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence standing on stage during UB’s annual Celebration of Excellence. 

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Students wait in line to pay for food. Roughly 16 percent of student meals go unused, according to Campus Dining & Shops officials.

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Graduate student Alexa Russo stands in front of a model constructed from her affordable housing design. Russo designed the one-story row-house as a model for students to eventually build a home for a Buffalo family.

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SA Senate Chair Devashish Agarwal speaking on the phone with newly appointed Vice President Ben Harper at the Thursday night Senate Meeting.

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SA Senate Chair Devashish Agarwal speaking on the phone with newly appointed Vice President Ben Harper at the Thursday night Senate Meeting.

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SA announced Anyssa Evelyn, Gunnar Haberl and Tanahiry Escamilla as the 2018-2019 SA executive board. The R.E.A.L. Party candidates ran unopposed and will assume their positions in May. 

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UB students participating in the National School Walkout to protest gun violence on Wednesday. The protest lasted for 17 minutes to honor the 17 people killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

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Comedian and musician Weird Al Yankovic took to the CFA Tuesday night to play a string of original tracks and a medley of his most popular parodies.

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