When the Pentagon announced Wednesday the United States would be soon sending thousands more troops to Iraq, UB student Justin Haag was already getting ready to pack his bags."At the beginning of the war, we thought we'd be sent then.
As students pay closer attention to schoolwork in the last few weeks before exams, UB officials warn that they should also pay close attention to their personal belongings to protect themselves against larceny and burglary.Larceny is the most common campus crime, according to John Grela, UB's director of public safety.Grela said that larceny is public theft that happens when people leave their belongings lying about."This crime occurs mostly because people are careless," Grela said.
To Barbara Ehrenreich, the problem is obvious. There's something tremendously wrong with entertainers, athletes, and corrupt CEOs holding the majority of the wealth in our country.The third speaker in this year's Distinguished Speakers Series, Ehrenreich told audience members at Alumni Arena Wednesday night that they can help close the gap between the rich and poor, but first they must open their eyes to the economic problems that affect everyone.The author of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," Ehrenreich couldn't help but point out to the audience the irony of her participation in this year's Distinguished Speaker Series."This is the first thing I've ever shared with Donald Trump," Ehrenreich said of the man who is seemingly the antithesis to everything she stands for.
With hip-hop blaring, balloons drifting, and mounds of tootsie rolls and condoms up for grabs, the Student Union looked like a scene straight out of MTV on Monday.UB's Sex Ed Fair reeled in curious students with a variety of information tables set up to educate students about safer sex."Right now, it's not just at our university, but schools in general, where sexual education is constantly being compromised," said Eileen Marutiak, a senior communication major and part-time employee at Planned Parenthood."The focus is taken away from making healthy choices and placed on one choice, abstinence.
For many students, deciding on a major is a difficult task that can require taking a wide variety of classes in the process.But now, instead of chewing up credit hours, undecided students have another option.This semester, undecided students are being given a helping hand by Trends in Arts and Sciences, a class designed by the College of Arts and Sciences to help undecided students by bringing in a variety of department speakers and giving students a small taste of every major UB offers.Listed as CAS 101, the class is a two-credit course offered for pass or fail grading.
What do blueberries, smiles and El Capitan all have in common? According to Steven Squyres, they can all be found on Mars.Squyres, one of the principal investigators on NASA's Mars Explorer Rover project, spoke at Alumni Arena Wednesday night as the second speaker in UB's 18th annual Distinguished Speaker Series.Squyres focused the lecture on his mission's obstacles and successes on the quest to learn if Mars once had water on its surface, the remnants of which include rocks that appear to smile and rust spots that look like blueberries."Tonight there is the debates with Bush versus Kerry, and a Yankee versus the Red Sox game, and all of you came out to see me talk," he opened with a smile.Squyres quickly gained audience attention as he dove into the subject matter with an accompanying video depicting the rover blasting through the Earth's atmosphere and finally bouncing to a halt on the Martian surface protected by airbags.According to Squyres, NASA sent two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to Mars to discover the geological history of the planet.
The African Methodist Episcopal Campus Ministry is giving back to the Buffalo community this semester by giving less fortunate children a chance to better their education through Project HOPE.Project HOPE - which stands for Helping Our People Excel - exists to "construct bridges of hope by effectively mentoring one life at a time," according to the group's mission statement.Reverend Pedro Castro, Jr., founder of Project HOPE, said 12,000 students were enrolled in failing public schools in the Buffalo area last year, and only 5 percent were receiving the academic assistance they needed.Castro said that's exactly why he and the Cora P.
For the fourth consecutive year, UB's School of Management has been ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top business schools in the country, which officials said will help both draw more attention to the program and attract more students.Jacqueline Ghosen, director of communication for the School of Management, said the Wall Street Journal changed its rankings this year to categorize schools in a more useful way for students and college recruiters."In the past, all of the business schools were ranked as one group, leading to some apples-and-oranges comparisons," she said.UB fell into the publication's regional category because of the size of its MBA program and the reach of the recruiters, Goshen said.
Until students improve their printing habits by not printing long and pointless documents, UB libraries will continue to face print delays as long as three hours or more, according to UB officials.Although the average printer wait is about 30 minutes during high points of the day, it can be two to three hours, said Rick Lesniak, director of academic services for Computing and Information Technology.And when are these high points?"Anytime when the sun is up," said Kyle Jacobs, a CIT consultant in the Undergraduate Library in Capen Hall.
UB's plans to improve the university's overall appearance this fall include the remodeling of O'Brian Hall and the completion of the new Alfiero Center for the School of Management next to Park Hall.According to Gordon Love, manager of construction services and facilities planning and design for University Facilities, the ubiquitous slanted brick wall exterior of O'Brian Hall that overlooks the Spine has recently been removed."In May we noticed some courses of brick protruding from the wall, and we feared it would fail and that the brick would slide right off," Love said.Love said the problem is common with masonry, and dampness could have slipped through any cracks and gotten underneath the bricks.
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