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Ken West students to exhibit in Anderson Gallery
An exhibition of work by students from Kenmore West High School will open in the UB Anderson Gallery with a public reception from 7-9 p.m. tomorrow in the gallery's arts education classroom.
The exhibition of paintings, photos, prints and sculpture was selected from more than 250 submissions from students in grades 9-12. It will be on view through June 7.
UB Anderson Gallery, One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore avenues, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.
NFTA withdraws unlimited ride program
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) has withdrawn its sponsorship of a pilot program through which interested UB students could have purchased a pass for unlimited rides on the NFTA Metro Rail and bus system for a discount rate of $25 per semester.
The University Unlimited Ride program had been proposed to UB by the NFTA, and a pilot rollout to 3,000 interested undergraduate and graduate students was to have begun in the fall.
However, the NFTA had sought a future commitment from UB to purchase passes for every undergraduate student, an annual campus investment of $800,000.
An assessment of student need and demand, coupled with the continuous improvement of UB's bus and transit-system service in and around campus, "make it clear that a mandated bus-pass program would not be cost effective or acceptable to UB students or the university as a whole," according to a press release from the Office of Student Affairs.
Campus Parking and Transportation Services currently provides shuttles to shopping venues near campus. Students wishing to travel downtown or elsewhere in the Buffalo area continue to have easy access to NFTA buses and Metro Rail from campus, the press statement says.
"UB will continue to work to improve student access to the community through improved transportation options and regrets the NFTA's unexpected reversal of its position," it says.