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Near sellout expected for Spring Fest

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Apr. 21, 2006

The lineup for Friday's Spring Fest concert is set, and with half of the available public tickets already sold, Student Association officials are expecting the night to be a big one.Headlining the annual concert are alternative rockers Our Lady Peace, with soul-funk's Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Live, and Battle of the Bands winner Kick Williams.As of Thursday night, 721 of the 1,500 available public tickets had already been sold through the Alumni Arena box office and the Tickets.com Web site, according to Mark Rosenblitt, SA entertainment coordinator.

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E-mail and dorm violations alleged by both parties

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Mar. 31, 2006

This year's Student Association elections have been filled with questionable campaign tactics, and as the elections came to a close on Thursday, both the UB Advocates and Progress party continued to level allegations of dirty politics.Following Tuesday's reports of an e-mail from Viqar Hussain that was sent to the UB athletes listserv, Progress party candidates have alleged that the UB Advocates were "dorm-storming," or distributing campaign flyers throughout the residence halls and slipping them underneath dorm room doors.If UB Advocates did personally slip flyers into dorm rooms, that would be a violation of Residence Halls policy."Tuesday I got out of the shower and saw the flyers underneath my residents' doors, and they were under my door," said Ashonte Stills, a junior academic assistant and Progress candidate for SUNY SA.

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UB honored for use of wind power

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Mar. 22, 2006

The Environmental Protection Agency recognized UB for its extensive use of wind power to meet electricity needs, according to a March 15 article in The Buffalo News.The EPA has named UB as one of the largest green power purchasers in the higher-education sector.

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Staff cuts alter look of women's studies

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Mar. 22, 2006

Recent decisions to alter the UB women's studies program - specifically phasing out adjunct professors that teach many of its popular classes - have reignited arguments that have long plagued the department.Women's studies is an educational discipline that, more so than most traditional college programs, is under constant scrutiny.

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"Straight, but so what?"

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Mar. 8, 2006

Freshman year, by definition, is a time for new experiences: life without parental supervision, sharing space with a roommate, fraternity parties, your first blunt, and then, in a category all on its own, drunken homoerotic encounters.And while many students might balk at the last item on that list, experimenting with members of the same sex is not so uncommon for college students, especially for those in their first year away from home.So why would seemingly heterosexual students start making out with members of the same sex?

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The face value of Facebook

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Feb. 1, 2006

Any rational person wouldn't walk around wearing a sandwich board broadcasting their full name, address, phone number, e-mail address and screen name.

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Reach for the stars? As if

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Jan. 30, 2006

Music has always been something in which I could find solace or celebration, an expression of whatever sorrow, anger, elation or other emotion I might be feeling.

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"Molly's Pub gives up license, could reopen"

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Jan. 23, 2006

The owners of Molly's Pub, a popular Main Street bar shut down after a Dec. 15 raid for serving minors, have agreed to a liquor license cancellation and forfeiture of the bar's $1,000 bond, according to The Buffalo News.State Liquor Authority commissioners, meeting in New York City, accepted the conditional no-contest plea Wednesday on behalf of the bar's license holder, WAM Corp., and its principal, William W.

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FSA puts campus cash back in cabs

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Jan. 23, 2006

After terminating its contract with Liberty Cab in May spending the entire fall semester without an affiliated cab company, the Faculty Student Association has announced that Buffalo Transportation, Inc. will provide flat-rate taxi service to UB students to and from popular locations around both campuses.Effective Jan.

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Muslim-Americans lose border case

By SIOBHAN COUNIHAN | Jan. 20, 2006

The start of winter break was an exciting moment for Hassan Shibly, and not just because he didn't have to go to classes.