Reporter

<base href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n09/"> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt=" " width="2" height="2" border="0"> </td> <td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 29, NUMBER 9</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1997</b></font> </td></tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr><td><img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n09/Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="210" alt=""></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">Academic Tradition</font> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Procession led by a bag piper and flag bearers snakes its way through the Spine on the North Campus Oct. 15 during the universityšs third annual convocation. <p> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt="" width="2" height="2"> </font> </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Convocation: stressing academic unity; Ceremony's speakers, awards focus on sense of community for modern university </b> </font><br> Amace bearer and a host of flag bearers extended a 650-year-old academic tradition last Wednesday when they led UB deans, faculty members, staff, students and community members along the North Campus Spine and into the Center for the Arts for the university's third annual convocation.<p> <br> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Project triples high-tech classrooms </b></font><br> In a swift response to faculty and student needs, 26 new "technology classrooms" are up and running this semester, more than tripling the number of high-technology classrooms at the university.<p> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p>  <a name="Top_Stories"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Top Stories...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="n1.html">Four to be inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">Photodynamic therapy effective against Karposišs sarcoma lesions </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">PSS gets update on academic plan </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Pioneering law clinics have a history of service Students gain real-world skills, experience, along with academic training </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">Designing hotels in space </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Terminal will withstand quakes, analysis shows </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <center> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> <a href="front.html" target="Right">Front Page</a> | <a href="front.html#Top_Stories" target="Right">Top Stories</a> | <a href="briefly.html" target="Right">Briefly</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Calendar.html" target="Right">Events</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n09/eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n09/transitions.html" target="Right">Transitions</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n09/obit.html" target="Right">Obituary</a> | <a href="sports.html" target="Right">Sports</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent">Current Issue</a> | <a href="mailto:reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu" target="Right">Comments?</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Archives.html" target="Right">Archives</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Search.html" target="Right">Search</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/index.html" target="_parent">UB Home</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/index.html" target="_parent">UB News Services</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/index.html" target="_parent"><i>UB Today</i></a> </font> </center> <br> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <font size="2"> The Reporter is a campus community newspaper published by the Division of University Services, State University of New York at Buffalo. Editorial offices are located at <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/" target="_parent"><b>UB News Services</b></a>, 136 Crofts Hall, Amherst, NY, 14260, 716-645-2626. <br><br> The Reporter publishes in print and online every Thursday during the academic year.<br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Director of News Services:</b></font> Arthur Page<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Director of News Services:</b></font> Sue Wuetcher<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Editor:</b></font> Christine Vidal<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Editor:</b></font> Joan Danzig<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Art Director:</b></font> Becky Farnham<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>News Services Editors:</b></font> Lois Baker, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, Mary Beth Spina<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Online Publisher:</b></font> Benjamin Edelman </font> </td></tr> </table> </body>