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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
New York Times
SUNY weighs the value of Division I sports
An article in the New York Times looks at the advantages and disadvantages SUNY schools have encountered as they upgrade their athletic programs to compete with other major public institutions at the Division I level. UB is mentioned as having led the way to Division I in 1991 and the football team played a bowl game for the first time in January, but the path has not been as smooth for other SUNY campuses. The article quotes former UB president William H. Greiner and UB athletic director Warde Manuel.
New York Times
UB photographer says a rephotograph lifts the illusion that time stops
UB's Doug Levere, photographer in University Communications, is quoted in a New York Times article about the changing urban landscape of New York City.
USA Today
Government downsizing may result in a dangerous concentration of power, expert says
An article in USA Today about efforts in Western New York to downsize local governments and the wave of national frustration over big government that was illustrated this year by raucous town-hall style meeting over health care reports a study by UB's Regional Institute concluded that if every municipality in Erie County cut two legislators, the savings would be "negligible," less than $4 per person a year in most cases. The article quotes Kathryn Foster, director of the Regional Institute.