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Neighborhood story evokes nostalgia
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I very much enjoyed the article on the South Campus and its environs (“Welcome to the neighborhood,” fall 2008). I earned both my degrees on the Main Street campus; to me the South Campus is UB. I was a student who commuted, and my commute was so long that it precluded participation in campus activities. I owe the pleasures of campus life to the homes that directly bordered the campus where my friends had apartments. These homes provided a place where we could relax between classes and talk about courses, professors and ideas. Just the word “Winspear” in your report flooded me with nostalgia.
Pamela Woehr,
MSW ’80 & BS ’68
New York, NY
Bulls’ achievements come full circle
The 2008 UB Bulls football season provided all the action, drama and tension one can dream of. The 1958 team’s story has been chronicled nicely. Now it has come full circle with Turner Gill’s 2008 team being granted a bowl game. The significance of these two teams should not be overlooked. Coach Gill said right after clinching the Eastern Division title, “I just thank God, I thank God. A favor was done here, no question about it.” A favor has been granted. The final script is yet to be determined at this writing, but for now the circle is finally complete. We have come a long way as a university community. Now it’s time to celebrate and to cherish this miracle.
I am proud of my university and grateful for all that it has accomplished, both on the field of play and in the display of conscience and character, in 1958 and today. I am a former UB football player—and a forever UB Bull.
Tom Brill, BS ’82
Amherst, NY
Editor's Note
When the 2008 Bulls football team won the MAC Championship and appeared in the International Bowl, they did so on the 50th anniversary of the remarkable Lambert Cup team. In 1958, UB received a bid to the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, FL, but turned it down when confronted with racial discrimination. To read ESPN’s account of these events, go to sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=buffalo58.
Correction
The publisher of Shades of Justice, a 2008 memoir by Paul Krehbiel, MS ’79 & BA ’75, was misstated in our last issue. It is Autumn Leaf Press.
UB in the News
USA Today interviews UB accounting professor on Eastman Kodak's bankruptcy filing
An article in USA Today on Eastman Kodak?s bankruptcy filing, which has caused huge cuts to pay, benefits and insurance coverage for retirees and employees, quotes Martha Salzman, assistant professor of accounting and law in the UBSchool of Management.
NPR interviews UB professor on Pres. Obama?s plan to reduce gun violence
Steven Dubovsky, chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, was interviewed live on NPR?s ?Here & Now,? which airs on 170 NPR affiliates nationwide, about President Barack Obama?s $500 million plan to reduce gun violence.
Buffalo News front-page story features UB study on use of stem cells in MS
A front-page story in the Buffalo News reports on a new study soon to be underway at UB and two other upstate medical centers to test a procedure that infuses stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis to repair damage to their central nervous systems. The article quotes Bianca Guttman-Weinstock, co-principal investigator on the study. ?Expectations have to be kept under control,? she said. ?You?re not going to implant stem cells in people and suddenly see them running around.?