After having students sign raindrop-shaped pledges to take a stand against sexual assault and violence and handing out flyers in the Student Union, volunteers for UB's first celebration of RAINN Day took to the promenade to rally their cause.
When the Student Association election polls opened Tuesday at 10 a.m., the Progress party's candidates for president and vice president had it easy - they were the only top job hopefuls on the ballot.The Greater Tomorrow party's duo, Robert Mercurio and Scott Swamback, vying for president and vice president respectively, resigned from the race on Monday.Christopher Mendoza, the leader of UB Redefine, was also absent from the field of candidates, but not by choice.
Voting polls for the 2007 Student Association elections open tomorrow, and while candidates may be holding their breath for a few days, undergraduate students should be taking in a collective sigh of relief, as this year's candidate pool seems stronger than it has been in years.With that being said, The Spectrum's editorial board recently met with the candidates to see whom this publication would be endorsing.
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Ph. D., and Barbara Nevergold, Ph. D., are making a full-time effort to expose underappreciated truths.
Their project, "Uncrowned Queens," is a historical focus on the overlooked contributions of African American women to history.
The Graduate Student Association Senate decided by two-thirds vote to remove the remaining two-thirds of the GSA's executive board in a meeting this past Wednesday, in addition to electing Catalina Crespo as president for the rest of the semester.Adhering to the suggestions of an inquiry committee formed in light of a controversy over "misappropriated funds," the Senate voted to both impeach and remove Vice President Jillian Flood and Treasurer Sakeet Varma.Former President Aubrey Balcom resigned in a December senate meeting where he faced impeachment and removal from office for overspending on a Seattle conference trip he had taken with Vice President Jillian Flood."I will not slink away like a coward and resign," Flood replied in tears to senators who asked why she ignored an opportunity to resign before the impeachment and removal proceedings took place - despite admitting wrongdoing during and following the incident."If it outweighs the good and the hard work I've done for this office," Flood said, "then I don't want to take that away from you guys."Balcom requested $2,177.78 as reimbursement for restaurant, hotel and rental car charges, in addition to other expenses that he and Flood had incurred on a trip with an approved budget of only $500.
OIn Living ColorO comedian resurrects dead yet memorable persona
One of the hardest adjustments for me to make since leaving home a few, short semesters ago has not been adjusting to college-level academics or the pressure to combine drugs, alcohol and promiscuous sex.I needed to make a much harder adjustment.I had to start recovering from an addiction that's been affecting aspects of my personal, professional and social lives for much longer than I'd like to remember.
Underground repair work in the North Campus Promenade is taking longer than expected due to an "unusual" delay, according to Keith Tramp of University Facilities.Tramp explained that the university's air conditioning system is comprised of a series of chilled water lines, or pipes carrying chemically treated water around campus."That's how all the buildings are cooled on North Campus," he said.According to Tramp, the muddy chasm dug in the Promenade between Lockwood Library and the Student Union was for a repair job of leaking pipes carrying chilled water to each academic building's individual air conditioning system."The chilled water line system is currently turned off for the winter, and they're going to repave the whole Founder's Plaza soon," he said.
Jeffrey Ross's greatest claim to fame might be making fun of celebrities.As Roastmaster General of the Friar's Club and creator of the animated MTV2 program "Where My Dogs At?" Ross has laid enough Hollywood impersonations on television audiences to make other late-night comedy shows look like "20/20" with Barbara Walters.However, Ross showed that he had not lost his standup touch last Thursday night, as he kept a packed crowd roaring in the Center for the Arts Mainstage Theater.He even went so far as to give UB students some life advice."In the words of John Kerry: 'stay in school, or else you'll end up stuck in Iraq,'" he joked.Ross avoided his trademark celebrity mocking for most of the night, but came prepared with insults for everyone else.He entered stage at the end of a string of event staff, which he then lined up for abuse."You're a big guy," he told one staff member.
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