Beginning in the Fall of next year (2006), UB and the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) will be working together to offer discounted access to the Metro bus and rail systems.
Under the program, students would only pay $50 an academic year for unlimited access to the Metro bus and rail systems, which could save students up to $544 annually.
There’s an open forum in 330 Student Union Monday from 3-4 pm discussing this addition.
Opinions vary on campus about the publishing of cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
The controversy recently spread to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
“This has gotten crazy,” said Gorton [publisher of The Daily Illini], who decided to run six of the 12 cartoons even though he said he found them “bigoted and insensitive,” according to the Times. Gorton said he received calls for his resignation, but quite a bit of praise as well, including comments of support from students as he walked on campus. “We did this to raise a healthy dialogue about an important issue that is in the news and so that people would learn more about Islam. Now, I’m basically fired.”
Nobody seems to know what position to take on the issue. What do you think?
PJ Bottoms and Molly’s Pub, two local bars notorious for underage drinking, were shut down over winter break after a Dec. 15 raid that resulted in charges against 20 minors and three bartenders.
Most students don’t seem to be too worried about it, although it seems that other locations may grow a little more crowded as a result.