Spring cleaning, on campus and off
Since this year’s Kegs & Eggs incident, there have been two neighborhood clean-ups in the Pine Hills area. But Pine Hills isn’t spotless yet, and neither is campus. The Pine Hills Neighborhood...
View ArticleSee it for yourself: SA’s internal budget for 2011-12
The SA budget from last year is not on SA’s website, but you can click here to view the internal budget for 2011-12. The spreadsheet includes figures from the past two years as well. Overall, the...
View ArticleSA external budget passes with 10K to spare
After about six hours of debating, the Student Association external budget for 2011-2012 passed with over $10,000 remaining. As of now, the budget is not on the SA’s website, but we’ve got it for you...
View ArticleMagic Johnson possibility for Fall Speaker Series
The Knickerbocker Ledger, a news blog maintained by former Student Association Programming Director Joe Bonilla and SA Senate Vice Chair Jaqi Cohen, reported today that the SA is “considering” Magic...
View ArticleBorders goes out of business just in time for fall semester
So Borders, the second largest book chain in the nation, went under. They’re going out of business. I can’t believe it, I’ve been obsessed with Borders since I was about 9. I went there at midnight to...
View ArticleMandated health insurance in the works for Fall 2012
Starting Fall 2012, all undergraduate students at UAlbany will be mandated to have health insurance. The university will be adopting a health insurance program that students may buy into if they don’t...
View ArticleA new social network?
This morning I logged on to Facebook to find an invitation to UASocial.com, a new social network for UAlbany students only. You need an @albany.edu address to sign up. The site was created by Mike...
View ArticleSouth End bear shot and killed on campus
The same bear that was found in Albany’s south end on May 2 was shot and killed on UAlbany’s campus this afternoon, the Department of Environmental Conservation has confirmed. The 2-year-old, 175 pound...
View ArticleHere are your 2012-13 SA senators
In last week’s paper, we quoted a student asking, “What’s SA?” Here’s a quick intro. SA is the Student Association, the student government on campus. It’s structured something like the US government,...
View ArticleStephen Colbert shouts out to ATV’s Chit Chat
“Welcome to ChitChat, where we girls sit around and talk to each other,” Stephen Colbert said with a toss of his imaginary long locks as he opened Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report last night. Ashley...
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